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Microsoft Claims OpenDocument is Too Slow
SirClicksalot writes "Microsoft claims that the OpenDocument Format (ODF) is too slow for easy use. They cite a study carried out by ZDNet.com that compared OpenOffice.org 2.0 with the XML formats in Microsoft Office 2003. This comes after the international standards body ISO approved ODF earlier this month." From the ZDNet article: "'The use of OpenDocument documents is slower to the point of not really being satisfactory,' Alan Yates, the general manager of Microsoft's information worker strategy, told ZDNet UK on Wednesday. 'The Open XML format is designed for performance. XML is fundamentally slower than binary formats so we have made sure that customers won't notice a big difference in performance.'"
It does when you are writing MS Office worms and viruses. :-)
Keep the Classic Slashdot.
I can just see Microsoft's new slogan for Office 12:
"Microsoft, saving your life, one microsecond at a time..."
...is impossible, due to the therblig frammisating thingumbob.
Well, actually, now that you mention it, a professor and his student did remove it, but you can't call it successful, because um, performance, sure, that's right, in our labs our very own scientific technical unbiased tests showed that because of ferthbernder sprocket-flange snap-toggle linkage, when you removed IE using the professor's techniques, it reduced Windows performance by a lot of percent. No user would accept this, any more than they would accept the reduced performance of WIndows on a year-old PC.
We will now show you just how severe this performance problem is.
Right here. In this very courtroom.
With a faked demo^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h a dramatic, animated illustration presented right on the screen of an actual PC.
"How to Do Nothing," kids activities, back in print!
I don't read ACs: If a post isn't worth so much as a nom de plume to its author then I wont bother either.
I mean, really. Is it such a shock that MS is trying to damage the reputation of a rival format? Actually, they're talking more about OpenOffice as an application rather than the ODF format, which is a very dishonest bit of FUD. I'm sure there will be more propaganda against ODF from the company we love to hate in the near future.
Perhaps next they'll claim that ODF is so slow that it's causing Vista to be late to market.
Transistors and Beer!!
WTF! Uh, so if I give you a free dog that pisses in your beer and eats your kids, it's better than any dog you paid for?
Look, OO is either better or worse than MSO (and "better" could cover a multitude of virtues), but the old "it's free, so don't complain" is a very stupid arguement that really, really should not be made anymore.
Really.
I don't drink or have children so your point is moo!
I wouldn't drink or have kids either if someone was there all the time, standing ready to urinate in my beverage or devour my children.
Good god man, open your eyes!
(This analogy is fun! We need more like this one.)