In this section we discuss the applicability of our findings to productivity suites other than Office. For this discussion we assume that modern office productivity suites support roughly the same features (embedding, images, etc.) and that document design is driven largely by user needs.
While the average size of documents of different productivity suites is likely to be dependent on the specifics of the applications, the data suggest that the shape of the size distribution of documents would be similar for other productivity suites. We base this claim on the similarities we observed in the size distribution of Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents. Although each application has a different file format (both for OLE archives and XML), the size of their documents follow the power-law distribution closely.
The breakdowns of document sizes are likely to be similar among productivity suites. While the specifics of how data is divided between images and components might change (e.g., a productivity suite might implement all images as components), the increasing contribution of images and components to document size as documents grow is likely to hold true. Likewise, document design being driven by user needs, the structure of the documents (i.e., the number of pages, slides, etc), the number of embedded components found in documents, and the popularity of images as the most common non-text type of content are likely to be similar.