Star Microsoft Axes Works, Introduces Office 2010 Starter with Ads
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 8th Oct 2009 22:04 UTC
Microsoft Are you familiar with Microsoft Works? It's sort of a My First Office Suite kind of thing which includes support for Microsoft Word and Excel documents. It is usually not sold separately, but instead comes pre-installed on new OEM machines. Well, Microsoft has announced today that it will kill Microsoft Works, and replace it with Microsoft Office 2010 Starter - an ad-supported version of Office 2010.
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RE[2]: Crapware
by Bobthearch on Fri 9th Oct 2009 02:45 UTC in reply to "RE: Crapware"
Bobthearch
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2006-01-27

I've used Open Office quite a bit, both on Linux and Windows. Features are impressive, but it just doesn't feel as 'snappy' as Office 2000.

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RE[3]: Crapware
by lemur2 on Fri 9th Oct 2009 04:38 in reply to "RE[2]: Crapware"
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2007-02-17

I've used Open Office quite a bit, both on Linux and Windows. Features are impressive, but it just doesn't feel as 'snappy' as Office 2000.


OpenOffice has improved a great deal speed-wise in recent versions.

Vista and Windows 7 both use a feature called "Prefetch" or "Superfetch" which pre-loads oft-used software. This can considerably reduce the start-up time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefetcher

To get the same functionality in Linux, install the daemon called "preload".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preload_(software)

Start-up time of applications is most often what people are judging when they speak of "snappiness".

In general use, after startup, the OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office programs will be equally as responsive, depending on the resources used by other applications and the underlying OS. In general, Vista is quite noticeably slower on the same hardware than any version of Linux.

Compared to Linux machines, Windows machines quite often have extra processing overhead such as background virus scanning, or multiple different update monitors, to perform.

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