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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."
You're comparing one of the *worst pieces of bloatware* to OpenOffice.org? How CRUEL of you!
Global warming is a cube.
A slashdot post where you actually HAVE to read TFA?
This is a first, no information about the results or specifics were put in the post! We'll probably still have idiots who make posts without actually reading it though.
I did read TFA by the way and found the results to be the opposite of my experiences. I know what that means though, you'll understand if you RTFA! Muahahahahaha!
From TFA:
My computer is slow (a 2.2 GHz Celeron with 512 MB RAM)
By that definition, my 500 MHz laptop positively crawls.
I wrongly assumed that since I paid for it, it must be better
Nope, it's just the same as the warez version. That's the whole point of warez!
...after he admitted to voluntarily using MS Works.
Apple switches to x86.
Debian releases a new stable version.
OpenOffice.org is "fast".
So does anyone know any good "hell freezes over" jokes?
A year ago I purchased a "dog" from the pet store. Since I paid money for this, I assumed it would perform better. I decided to test it against my cat.
First, I chained the dog using a 5 foot leash. I then spent the next hour trying to get the cat into a leash. Then I tested "fetch" by throwing a stick 10 feet away. Funny, neither cat nor dog returned with the stick.
I'll post the rest of my results later.
That's so weird that he's had so many problems happen lately!
Dell's 'Business' machines aren't made to be highly efficient. They are made to be highly reliable.
Why the hell is this even on Slashdot in the first place? Who is this guy? Is he anyone I should know? Is he known to be an authority on anything?
Does any dumb fuck get Slashdot coverage if they write something that's anti-MS? FUCK.
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And notepad is even faster. What's his point?
The Internet is full. Go Away!!!
I am learning or want to learn:
C++
Java
Python
Pearl
Javascript
I know:
HTML
Please do not ask me to make any programs.
did he really mean Pearl there? looks like that should be Perl. what is Pearl
Too bad he didn't use the built in spell checker on either one of them when he wrote his review
An employee suggested to me that we hire Contrarian Slashdot Poster to give us feedback on certain products. I was skeptical at first but he explained the benefits of using it product evaluation. So I decided to let him write us some reports on operating systems/software/technology that might be fine. Besides, he seemed to be posting quite regularly on Slashdot, why not give him a try?
Once we'd got him a desk and a PC, we sat him down to write some product reports. At first it seemed fine, with him producing reports and lots of content.
Alas it did not stay that way. After a few days, I had lost count of the number of complaints received from users who found that his reports were basically dupes based on a template and that we weren't getting any value. The final straw came when someone switched on the Clue filter, and we realised we'd been completely hoodwinked by a troll.
Needless to say, I fired the guy, and let's just say that I'm no longer with the organisation.
Ok, that's a bit offtopic, but the review reminded me a thing that happened a couple months ago at work.
Premitted that I use Windows and MS Office only at work, and that I'm there only from three months (so I don't know much of Word) a funny thing happened to me, and I would like to know who is the genius at MS that programmed the new autospellchecking and correction function.
I'm Italian, and hence the dictionary used by default is the Italian one. A pity that, in the official italian (intended as language), there is no word to properly translate to click. People usually use the verb cliccare, which is commonly recognized but, as I said, not considered an italian word. Anyway, my boss had to write down a little administrator manual for a site we designed (our customer ain't exactly a geek, quite the opposite). In this manual, every two line he was like "click here, click there" and so he wrote a paper which contained a fair amount of cliccare.
But Word 2003, without giving anyone some sort of advice (my boss said he hasn't activated the feature, and he ain't a geek himself, so I think this comes activated when you install Office) decided that cliccare was wrong, and corrected it automatically (with absolutely no warnings! Neither a lil flashy icon) with ciccare (in English, to spit).
My boss saved the doc and suddenly mailed them to our customer. I'll let the reader imagine what kind of phone call I received from our customer, who seemed pretty shocked that he had to humiliate his brand new 19'' inch monitor in order to use our site.
So, if uncle Bill reads this (yes, Mr William Gates III, I'm talking with you), I would like to ask him to fire the idiot that added such a function.
nbody2002:If you can read this you may be addicted to the internet
I'm trying to figure out why I trust Slashdot to report unbiased news. This "article" is so atrocious that I'm amazed anybody can defend it or even link to it.
The author says "recently I have noticed that [Office] seems slow." So... did he reinstall it? Surely he didn't just install OpenOffice and run his tests... Oh wait. Yeah, he did. I thought we all knew that Windows speed tests are useless unless run on fresh installations...
Honestly, this test is completely meaningless. He didn't establish that Office's performance degrades over time (I'm not saying it doesn't, btw). And he didn't establish that OO's performance doesn't degrade. He would have had to do BOTH of these things for his comparison to be even remotely valid or useful.
Let me guess: he also used IE for a few years. He didn't maintain it and now he has a spyware-ridden computer. Then he thinks, "Gosh, IE seems slow." So he downloads FireFox and LJKSDF it's fast! Wow, IE is SO SLOW! *rolls eyes*
Honestly, I recognize that experiences will differ from computer to computer and I really don't care which you use. But don't go around spouting this pseudo-scientific crap as evidence that one is superior to the other. That goes for both OO/Office and FF/IE.
Yes, the "dark data" part is missing. Computer scientists have never directly observed dark data, but they have inferred its existence by careful measurements of .DOC files, such as typical 3-page memos that consume 200 kilobytes of disk space. Information theorists have determined that such memos only contain around 15 kilobytes of actual information, and they are currently baffled as to the nature and source of this dark data, yet they are convinced that it does in fact exist.