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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Member since:2007-02-17
{And so you have just confirmed it: you are spreading lies because your info is 4 years old... Oh well...}
Excuse me?
What did I post about osa.exe that was in any way inaccurate?
I modded you down for your unwarranted insult.
Here is the question I answered:
Can you provide details: what is the process name?
And here was my answer:
There is a fair amount of MS Office functionality built right in the the core of Windows, but if you want a reference for a specific-to-Office preloader, then the name of that is "Office Startup Assistant".
Program name is osa.exe
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826318
Where is the lie?
Edited 2007-05-01 10:38
Member since:2005-07-06
First of all, OSA doesn't start up with Windows anymore and hasn't in almost 5 years.
Second, you've provided no proof that "MS Office functionality [is] built right in the core of Windows".
Third, OSA.exe is only a preloader in the sense that it works like Mozilla plans for XUL runner to work -- for apps using the same framework to share all the code it can through a common "runtime".
What point exactly were you trying to make? I thought it was that Office starts up faster because of a "preloader", which hasn't been true in almost 5 years. So again, what was your point?
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2005-06-29
And so you have just confirmed it: you are spreading lies because your info is 4 years old... Oh well...