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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RE: My wife had trouble using OOO
by trenchsol on Tue 1st May 2007 02:29
in reply to "My wife had trouble using OOO"
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Your problem is not common one. I think that there is something wrong with the font your wife has chosen. My advice might sound strange, but the common Windows TT fonts work very well when imported to OO. You can use spadmin to import them.
There are different fonts found in Linux distributions, some are good, some not. Some are not UNICODE, some have problems with subscripts and superscripts, and some are just ok.
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2007-04-30
Sorry man... It looks like word, can do most of the stuff... But when she had to send a document composed on Ubuntu/OOO to a colleague. Well, the font metrics were all messed up and spacing was wrong. This was not even a really complicated document.
Given that you can not tell other people what to use, well, it has to just work, and it does not work adequately, since everyone else uses MSO.
Word actually starts faster on Ubuntu with Code Weavers CX office 6.0 than OOO. Go figure.