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Performance of OpenOffice.org and MS Office

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the case-by-case dept.

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."

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  1. Faster, yes... not necessarily better... by mister_llah · · Score: 5, Informative

    I have used Open Office for the last semester (16 weeks for those non-students out there) ... and yes, Open Office is faster than MS Office... however... since Open Office isn't widely used, I wind up exporting to DOC, and the formatting has been screwed up in a couple of situations (often at inconvenient times, like when I need to turn a paper in and I find out in the lab, I learned quickly after the 1st one) ...

    In speed and resources, Open Office comes out ahead, but the issues I have stem more from compatability (and exporting, mostly)

    It is a good office suiteif you are going to be using it on your system and never sharing your files with, say, a company or professor (who will likely not be using Open Office)

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  2. Re:Garbage. by LMCBoy · · Score: 5, Informative

    His machine is a 2.2 GHz celeron. What you are quoting is the "minimum system requirements" according to MS, which he included as part of his comparison.

    It may very well be true that only an idiot would try to run MS Office with a pentium 233; however, if so then it must also be true that MS thinks its customers are idiots, since that's what they recommend.

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  3. Microsoft disagree with you by dustmite · · Score: 5, Informative

    There has never been a utility to keep Office in ram

    I call BS.

    From Microsoft's own site: "What Are the Advantages of Running the Osa.exe File?" "When you use the Osa.exe file to initialize shared code, the Office XP programs start faster."

    Voila - that's why Word loads so fast, and you don't need to take my word for it.

  4. Re:This sounds wrong by rmjohnso · · Score: 5, Informative

    I also have Prefetching turned off and the C:\Windows\Prefetch directory is empty.

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