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Re: [News] [Rival] Benchmark: Office 2007 is a Resource Pig, Very Slow Compared to Predecessors

* Timo Pirinen peremptorily fired off this memo:

> DFS wrote:
>
>> That's because OO is a slow piece of outdated, unpolished, less-functional, 
>> less-interoperable junk when compared to Office 2003 or Office 2007.

Another fscking set of lies from DFS.  Outdated, unpolished, and less
interoperable?

Bullshit.  Even if some functionality is missing from it, at bottom OO
uses an easy-to-parse XML format, opening up a whole world of UNIX
text-processing tools.

> Not. The Finnish computer magazine Tietokone has compared the speeds of 
> OpenOffice and Microsoft Office 2007 etc in their current number 
> (7-8/2008, pages 62-69). The results show that opening Microsoft Office 
> 2007 takes twice as long as opening OpenOffice 2.4.
>
> Scanned table showing the results from the app-opening test is here:
> http://pirisisi.pp.fi/temp/slow-microsoft-office.png

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