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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The price is more on the order of $400.
The thing with Office is that when it was introduced, Word Processors by themselves used to cost $800. Microsoft can't lower consumer prices and then raise them easily without having everyone up in arms about anti-trust, so they probably don't take it lightly to ever lower their prices on anything.
For what it's worth, if you've got the needs of a student, you can usually get the Student+Teacher Edition for $150. At my University, Pro's available for $80. Office is generally used for businesses, so MSFT tries to charge what people are willing to pay.
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2006-10-10
The only thing obnoxious about MS Office is the price tag.
For $600 that thing better have the ability to be installed on every machine you own and also get the next two versions installed free.
Talk about a racket.