Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Wed 23rd Jul 2008 14:32 UTC, submitted by ahz1
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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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
RE[2]: Nothing to see here.
by Bending Unit on Wed 23rd Jul 2008 17:27
in reply to "RE: Nothing to see here."
Member since:2005-07-06
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.
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.
Linux? You are changing the operating system? Why? Those results are invalid. Benchmarking MS Office 2007 and Openoffice 2.4 on Vista, that is valid and quite interesting.
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2005-09-11
Really, I don't think anyone that has used MS Word 2007 would be surprised by those results. What I do find interesting is something that isn't addressed directly in the review. 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.