Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 29th Apr 2007 21:58 UTC, submitted by andrewg
George Ou compares Microsoft Office 2007 to OpenOffice 2.2 in memory and CPU usage using the OOXML and ODF file formats. The conclusion according to Ou: "We can see that the OpenOffice.org ODF XML parser (while vastly improved) is still about 5 times slower than Microsoft's OOXML parser. OpenOffice.org also seems to consume nearly 4 times the amount of RAM to hold the same data. While OpenOffice.org continues to have fewer features than Microsoft Office, it continues to consume far more resources than Microsoft."
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2006-07-30
Abiword kept crashing when I last used it.
Imo it's not really meant to replace OO. They're both for different tasks.
What I like about OO is the very good copy&paste between its different parts.
What I dislike is the startup time of approx. 10s on my "ancient" 3000+ :-(
Oh, and when I enter an equation the box always pops up in the wrong place so that I cannot see what I'm typing but it still moves the text around in an annoying way.
I would like to see a comparison of Koffice and OO.
Could be interesting to see if the cleaner code base gives Koffice a speed advantage...