Star Benchmarking Microsoft Word From 95 To 2007
Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Wed 23rd Jul 2008 14:32 UTC, submitted by ahz1
Benchmarks Andrew Ziem takes a close look at Microsoft Word performance in a benchmark with 4500 measurements in 5 categories covering 6 versions and 12 years of releases to determine whether Word has become slower or faster over the years.
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RE: Nothing to see here.
by lemur2 on Wed 23rd Jul 2008 15:55 UTC in reply to "Nothing to see here."
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MS Word 2007 functions at approximately the same speed as OOo Writer. I only find that interesting because that is one of (but not the only) chief complaints I hear when people complain about OOo is how much slower it is than MS Office.


If people are saying to you that OO.org is slow compared with MS Office, then clearly they aren't up with the times.

Current version MS Office (which is Office 2007) in conjunction with current version Windows (which is Vista) is a fair bit slower on the same hardware than current version Linux and OO.org (say Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and OO.org 2.4).

Tell them they have it exactly the wrong way around.

Edited 2008-07-23 15:56 UTC

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