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Performance of OpenOffice.org and MS Office
m85476585 writes "I have used Microsoft Office since I purchased it a year ago. I wrongly assumed that since I paid for it, it must be better, but recently I have noticed that it seems slow, so I decided to try OpenOffice.org to see if it is faster. I compared Writer and Word to see which one is faster and consumes less resources. The results are posted on my website."
...and you don't make regular backups of your files?
Actually it's Microsoft Office that's not compatible.
I haven't used osa in ages, because I tend to remove stuff from the Windows startup sequence as much as possible.
If I were to guess I'd say osa makes about a second of difference in Office app load times. Word still loads in under three seconds flat. Writer still takes ~15-20 seconds (when not cached).
I love it when people around here fixate on an irrelevant aspect of the discussion, get modded up and everyone packs it up and calls it a day. "OMFG, TEH OFFICE IS TEH IN MEMORY!!1!"
That's why free software will never overtake commercial software, and it's a shame. Ya'll are more perked with whining about how Microsoft is supposedly "cheating" (flashes of "OMFG Firefox is slow becuase IE IS INTEGRATEDED INTO TEH KERNAL!!!!1!") and making software that just barely works instead of actually kicking some ass.
Web2.0: I love when people Flickr my cuil and digg my boingboing until my google is reddit and I start to yahoo
MS Office 2003 on Win XP doesn't require a restart?
No, it doesn't. As I stated earlier, it hasn't required a restart since Win2K.
I just installed it yesterday on somoene's computer, which was running Win XP Pro.
And are you saying it required a restart? I just want to be clear on this, since if that is what you are saying, that makes you a liar.
Perhaps people would take your lies more seriously if you didn't post anonymously...
And perhaps they wouldn't.
Regarding your insinuation regarding the age of Open Office versus the plus-one-year old M$ Office, I took your friendly advice and visited the OpenOffice website. Like to know what I found?
From The website:
Looks significantly younger to me (approx. 6 months). Nice try, though.
In conclusion, you are an idiot, and you should log off before you hurt yourself.
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