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Business Winstone 2001
Business Winstone 2001 is a system-level, application-based benchmark that measures the overall
performance of a PC when running today’s top-selling Windows-based 32-bit applications on
Microsoft Windows 98 SE, Windows NT 4.0 (SP6 or later), Windows 2000, Windows Me or
Windows XP. Business Winstone 2001 does not mimic what these packages do. It runs real
applications through a series of scripted activities and measures the time a PC takes to complete
those activities to produce its performance scores. Higher scores mean better performance. When
Business Winstone 2001 runs the test, it runs at least a portion of each application through a script
that eTesting Labs developed. The script automatically executes commands within that
application with no input from the user.
Business Winstone 2001 uses the following applications in its tests:
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Norton Antivirus 2000 from Symantec
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WinZip 7.0
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Microsoft FrontPage® 2000
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Lotus Notes R5
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Microsoft Access 2000
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Microsoft Excel 2000
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Microsoft PowerPoint 2000
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Microsoft Project 98
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Microsoft Word 2000
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Netscape Communicator 4.73
Content Creation Winstone 2001
Content Creation Winstone is a system-level, application-based benchmark that measures a PC's
overall performance when it is running under a 32-bit OS, such as Windows 2000 or Windows
XP. Content Creation Winstone 2001 uses the following applications:
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Adobe Photoshop 5.5
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Adobe Premiere 5.1
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Macromedia Director 8.0
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Macromedia Dreamweaver 3.0
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Netscape Navigator 4.73
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Sonic Foundry Sound Forge 4.5
Following the lead of real users, Content Creation Winstone 2001 keeps multiple applications
open at once and switches amongst those applications. Content Creation Winstone 2001 is a
single large test that runs the above applications through a series of scripted activities and returns
a single score. Those activities focus on so called "hot spots," periods of activity that make your
PC really work—the times where you are likely to see an hourglass or a progress bar.
