The comparison was obviously unfair for Word: as you can see in the screenshots there was third party add-on loaded in Word ("TI Tools") and there could be another ones (not all add-ons add top level menus). Many third party add-ons for Word slow down it a lot, mostly because they are written in slow VBA (Microsoft kinda fixed it with support for C# add-ons, however most of developers did not moved to C# yet). And all slowness of Word in that test is easily explained by the presense of the add-on: 1. slow start up 2. slow shut down 3. slow spell check and repagination (if add-on dynamically accesses document text)
So, for fair comparison it should be either clean installation of Word (or OpenOffice.org should have several Java add-ons installed). And don't get me started about Java performance...
On my old Pentium 3 800 and XP SP1: Word - loads is about 3-5 seconds OpenOffice - loads in about 20-25 seconds
And with some add-ons installed: Word - 15 seconds OpenOffice - about 1 minute In general - for me Word was always faster. Face it - OpenOffice is slow.
And rant: OpenOffice is following global Open Source trend - it copies existing commercial software (and shareware). There are very few real innovations in OpenOffice. Damn, one of the main new thingies in OpenOffice 2 is GUI which is kinda similar to MS OfficeXP - not that it even completely similar! I mean, Microsoft already has Office 2003 with better GUI, so why copy old one? Why copy only parts? Why copy at all?
One of the features of OO.org that is especially promoted by it's authors is PDF export. Ahem... Did anyone really tried it? I mean, did anyone who really needs PDF support tried it? I bet - no! It is so basic - it is useless for those who really need PDF support. Yes, there are no built-in support for PDF in MS Word, but there are third-party solutions (and these are better then built-in crap in OO). Thus Microsoft creates markets and OO loses...
The comparison was obviously unfair for Word: as you can see in the screenshots there was third party add-on loaded in Word ("TI Tools") and there could be another ones (not all add-ons add top level menus).
Many third party add-ons for Word slow down it a lot, mostly because they are written in slow VBA (Microsoft kinda fixed it with support for C# add-ons, however most of developers did not moved to C# yet).
And all slowness of Word in that test is easily explained by the presense of the add-on:
1. slow start up
2. slow shut down
3. slow spell check and repagination (if add-on dynamically accesses document text)
So, for fair comparison it should be either clean installation of Word (or OpenOffice.org should have several Java add-ons installed). And don't get me started about Java performance...
On my old Pentium 3 800 and XP SP1:
Word - loads is about 3-5 seconds
OpenOffice - loads in about 20-25 seconds
And with some add-ons installed:
Word - 15 seconds
OpenOffice - about 1 minute
In general - for me Word was always faster. Face it - OpenOffice is slow.
And rant: OpenOffice is following global Open Source trend - it copies existing commercial software (and shareware).
There are very few real innovations in OpenOffice. Damn, one of the main new thingies in OpenOffice 2 is GUI which is kinda similar to MS OfficeXP - not that it even completely similar! I mean, Microsoft already has Office 2003 with better GUI, so why copy old one? Why copy only parts? Why copy at all?
One of the features of OO.org that is especially promoted by it's authors is PDF export. Ahem... Did anyone really tried it? I mean, did anyone who really needs PDF support tried it? I bet - no! It is so basic - it is useless for those who really need PDF support.
Yes, there are no built-in support for PDF in MS Word, but there are third-party solutions (and these are better then built-in crap in OO). Thus Microsoft creates markets and OO loses...
Argh. I definitely need to sleep.
This is a result of "former-superforce" sympthom. We were strong (and ugly) and everyone was scared of us. And now nobody gives a damn about us. It is sometimes scary to see, how many people in Russia think that the main thing for us is too kick the world's ass again (and totally forget about such "small" things as broken economy, personal wealth and Putin's regime).
I'm Russian myself, but sometimes I'm so ashamed of beeing one:-(
And some facts... 1. Majority of best russian programmers / hackers now work abroad (mostly in US and Europe). 2. Quality of Russian education degraded terribly in the past 5-8 years, so there will be no NEW good programmers. Go figure...
This is a result of "former-superforce" sympthom. We were strong (and ugly) and everyone was scared of us. And now nobody gives a damn. It is sometimes scary to see, how many people in Russia think that the main thing for us is too kick the world's ass again (and totally forget about such "small" things as broken economy, personal wealth and Putin's regime).
I'm Russian myself, but sometimes I'm so ashamed of beeing one:-(
And some facts
1. Majority of best russian programmers / hackers now work abroad (mostly in US and Europe).
2. Quality of Russian education degraded terribly in the past 5-8 years, so there will be no NEW good programmers.
Go figure...
At least they did not recast original characters!
And I think after "Firefly" movie will be a HUGE success - "Babylon 5" will also be revived (B5 has huge DVD sales, even for cancelled spin off - "Crusade").
There is a bug in Fedora Core 2 that causes the hard disk geometry as reported in the partition table to be altered during installation.
The Windows *installer* does not have anything with this. It is Fedora installer that breaks things.
Oh, I love those *NIX kiddies:-)
My message based on my personal experiences with Mandrake (9.1, 9.2, 10.0) and Fedora. Boot loader thing was quite covered by press BTW.
I never even touched VB. Now get back to your AWK scripts.
This is damn low number for every operating system. Not to mention that changes in XP SP2 are huge.
Also a lot of companies fixed this compatibility issues before SP2 release!
If you care to enable "Internet Connection Firewall" on WindowsXP or WindowsXPsp1 OR "Windows Firewall" on WindowsXPsp2 - then you are safe. The only bad thing here is that this thingy was disabled in early releases of WindowsXP.
Such bug does NOT mean that all writes to USB devices are failing - only on some specific device under special conditions.
Usually any functionality in Windows never *completely* broken - unlike Linux where you can get respected distro with non-working DSL support or 50%-failure rate boot loader.
As I wrote: SlashDot is deep into blind anti-MS propaganda... shame on you!
And what so special about list of bugfixes? Have you seen Debian or Mandrake change logs recently? (and in case of XP SP2 it is list for 2 years! two!)
This "article" is yet another example of pointless anti-Microsoft bashing. I'm becoming more and more dissappointed with Slashdot. Not to mention that somehow I manage to read most of the news days before they appear on/.
The first things I did with my Dell:
1. got latest drivers from Internet
2. configured BIOS
3. formatted hard-drive and installed my own OS (XP, but not customized Dell one)
No more bundled shit;-)
What's so new about Rendezvous? YOu can do the same on Windows with ICMP or similar things...
Not to mention that Windows Plug-n-PrPlay is about hardware, not services - so I don't think we can compare it with Rendezvous.
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I suspect that results for XP SP2 would be much better!
P.S. Sophos is the shittiest antivirus I've ever seen!
Native translucency in Windows is supported since Windows2000 Beta 1 released in 1998 (it was Windows NT 5.0 back then)... go figure.
Sorry for the lack of line feeds!
The comparison was obviously unfair for Word: as you can see in the screenshots there was third party add-on loaded in Word ("TI Tools") and there could be another ones (not all add-ons add top level menus). Many third party add-ons for Word slow down it a lot, mostly because they are written in slow VBA (Microsoft kinda fixed it with support for C# add-ons, however most of developers did not moved to C# yet).
And all slowness of Word in that test is easily explained by the presense of the add-on:
1. slow start up
2. slow shut down
3. slow spell check and repagination (if add-on dynamically accesses document text)
So, for fair comparison it should be either clean installation of Word (or OpenOffice.org should have several Java add-ons installed). And don't get me started about Java performance...
On my old Pentium 3 800 and XP SP1:
Word - loads is about 3-5 seconds
OpenOffice - loads in about 20-25 seconds
And with some add-ons installed:
Word - 15 seconds
OpenOffice - about 1 minute
In general - for me Word was always faster. Face it - OpenOffice is slow.
And rant: OpenOffice is following global Open Source trend - it copies existing commercial software (and shareware). There are very few real innovations in OpenOffice. Damn, one of the main new thingies in OpenOffice 2 is GUI which is kinda similar to MS OfficeXP - not that it even completely similar! I mean, Microsoft already has Office 2003 with better GUI, so why copy old one? Why copy only parts? Why copy at all?
One of the features of OO.org that is especially promoted by it's authors is PDF export. Ahem... Did anyone really tried it? I mean, did anyone who really needs PDF support tried it? I bet - no! It is so basic - it is useless for those who really need PDF support. Yes, there are no built-in support for PDF in MS Word, but there are third-party solutions (and these are better then built-in crap in OO). Thus Microsoft creates markets and OO loses...
Argh. I definitely need to sleep.
The comparison was obviously unfair for Word: as you can see in the screenshots there was third party add-on loaded in Word ("TI Tools") and there could be another ones (not all add-ons add top level menus). Many third party add-ons for Word slow down it a lot, mostly because they are written in slow VBA (Microsoft kinda fixed it with support for C# add-ons, however most of developers did not moved to C# yet). And all slowness of Word in that test is easily explained by the presense of the add-on: 1. slow start up 2. slow shut down 3. slow spell check and repagination (if add-on dynamically accesses document text) So, for fair comparison it should be either clean installation of Word (or OpenOffice.org should have several Java add-ons installed). And don't get me started about Java performance... On my old Pentium 3 800 and XP SP1: Word - loads is about 3-5 seconds OpenOffice - loads in about 20-25 seconds And with some add-ons installed: Word - 15 seconds OpenOffice - about 1 minute In general - for me Word was always faster. Face it - OpenOffice is slow. And rant: OpenOffice is following global Open Source trend - it copies existing commercial software (and shareware). There are very few real innovations in OpenOffice. Damn, one of the main new thingies in OpenOffice 2 is GUI which is kinda similar to MS OfficeXP - not that it even completely similar! I mean, Microsoft already has Office 2003 with better GUI, so why copy old one? Why copy only parts? Why copy at all? One of the features of OO.org that is especially promoted by it's authors is PDF export. Ahem... Did anyone really tried it? I mean, did anyone who really needs PDF support tried it? I bet - no! It is so basic - it is useless for those who really need PDF support. Yes, there are no built-in support for PDF in MS Word, but there are third-party solutions (and these are better then built-in crap in OO). Thus Microsoft creates markets and OO loses... Argh. I definitely need to sleep.
So predictable!
So, since I'm Russian I should shut up and forget about any kind of criticism to my country? This is of course very Russian way of "solving" problems.
Sorry, formatting got lost in previous message...
:-(
This is a result of "former-superforce" sympthom. We were strong (and ugly) and everyone was scared of us. And now nobody gives a damn about us. It is sometimes scary to see, how many people in Russia think that the main thing for us is too kick the world's ass again (and totally forget about such "small" things as broken economy, personal wealth and Putin's regime).
I'm Russian myself, but sometimes I'm so ashamed of beeing one
And some facts...
1. Majority of best russian programmers / hackers now work abroad (mostly in US and Europe).
2. Quality of Russian education degraded terribly in the past 5-8 years, so there will be no NEW good programmers.
Go figure...
This is a result of "former-superforce" sympthom. We were strong (and ugly) and everyone was scared of us. And now nobody gives a damn. It is sometimes scary to see, how many people in Russia think that the main thing for us is too kick the world's ass again (and totally forget about such "small" things as broken economy, personal wealth and Putin's regime). I'm Russian myself, but sometimes I'm so ashamed of beeing one :-(
And some facts
1. Majority of best russian programmers / hackers now work abroad (mostly in US and Europe).
2. Quality of Russian education degraded terribly in the past 5-8 years, so there will be no NEW good programmers.
Go figure...
At least they did not recast original characters! And I think after "Firefly" movie will be a HUGE success - "Babylon 5" will also be revived (B5 has huge DVD sales, even for cancelled spin off - "Crusade").
The only way for Linux to be a success is to lock people in it's platform. Open source goal contradicts with definition of open source actually.
There is a bug in Fedora Core 2 that causes the hard disk geometry as reported in the partition table to be altered during installation. The Windows *installer* does not have anything with this. It is Fedora installer that breaks things.
Oh, I love those *NIX kiddies :-)
My message based on my personal experiences with Mandrake (9.1, 9.2, 10.0) and Fedora. Boot loader thing was quite covered by press BTW.
I never even touched VB. Now get back to your AWK scripts.
This is damn low number for every operating system. Not to mention that changes in XP SP2 are huge. Also a lot of companies fixed this compatibility issues before SP2 release!
If you care to enable "Internet Connection Firewall" on WindowsXP or WindowsXPsp1 OR "Windows Firewall" on WindowsXPsp2 - then you are safe. The only bad thing here is that this thingy was disabled in early releases of WindowsXP.
Such bug does NOT mean that all writes to USB devices are failing - only on some specific device under special conditions. Usually any functionality in Windows never *completely* broken - unlike Linux where you can get respected distro with non-working DSL support or 50%-failure rate boot loader. As I wrote: SlashDot is deep into blind anti-MS propaganda... shame on you! And what so special about list of bugfixes? Have you seen Debian or Mandrake change logs recently? (and in case of XP SP2 it is list for 2 years! two!)
Ah... daily dose of Microsoft bashing on SlashDot... shweet...
This "article" is yet another example of pointless anti-Microsoft bashing. I'm becoming more and more dissappointed with Slashdot. Not to mention that somehow I manage to read most of the news days before they appear on /.
I knew that Mozilla overbloated (kitchen sink anyone?), but including Oracle DB is a bit overkill I think...
The first things I did with my Dell: 1. got latest drivers from Internet 2. configured BIOS 3. formatted hard-drive and installed my own OS (XP, but not customized Dell one) No more bundled shit ;-)
Yes, you're blind only for 66% :-)
Joking ;-)
It's all about the choice :-D
M-m-m-m... cool design... yeah... Then again 50 cent in video for "P.I.M.P." used iPod - and since I have rap, so no iPods for me ;-)
Reaarange you playlist moving 2 songs or adding 1 second silence MP3 at the end - and you can burn 10 more times :-D
QuickTime in first place is a movie technology. In fact it is basement for MPEG4 video part (if I remember correctly).
What's so new about Rendezvous? YOu can do the same on Windows with ICMP or similar things... Not to mention that Windows Plug-n-PrPlay is about hardware, not services - so I don't think we can compare it with Rendezvous.