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."
lemur2
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2007-02-17

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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RE[2]: Nothing to see here.
by Bending Unit on Wed 23rd Jul 2008 17:27 in reply to "RE: Nothing to see here."
Bending Unit 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.

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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RE[3]: Nothing to see here.
by WorknMan on Wed 23rd Jul 2008 18:16 in reply to "RE[2]: Nothing to see here."
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2005-11-13

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.


I just fired up Word 2007 on an XP machine (Intel E6550 @ 2.33ghz) and it started in less than a second. I dunno if you can get much faster than that ;)

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RE[3]: Nothing to see here.
by lemur2 on Wed 23rd Jul 2008 23:54 in reply to "RE[2]: Nothing to see here."
lemur2 Member since:
2007-02-17

"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.
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. "

But why would you want to take a couple of reasonable productivity applications such as MS Office and OpenOffice and cripple their performance with Vista?

If you want the best performance out of an application ... not running it on Vista is a great start. Running it on Linux where you don't need to concurrently run anti-malware resident scanners and such is also a great improvement beyond that ... and inexpensive (because you don't have to buy the anti-malware software or subscribe to updates for it).

The best approach by far then is to get modest bog-standard hardware, preferably without an OS or with Linux pre-installed (perhaps from Dell), and then choose and run the best-of-breed open source applications on it. You are then way, way out in front in terms of value-for-money.

PS: BTW, getting Linux pre-installed means that it will work on your hardware without hassle, and it doesn't in any way involve "changing the operating system".

Edited 2008-07-23 23:58 UTC

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