Once up and running it is significantly snappier than MS-Office, espesially when handling large documents The size of the produced documents is also much less than that of MS-Office.

I havn’t tried to do it yet, as frankly, 10s once a day isn’t that long time. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was similar gains to be made from in version 2.0. Now, keep in mind that OOo is still in beta and you can expect there are some debug code still left and it is probably not compiled with all optimizations possible turned on.Ī simple recompile of the OOo 1.1 with some more optimizations turned on changed the startup time from over 20s to about 6s. Once started, it opens new documents almost instantly. On my 500MHz Pentium III it starts in less than 10 seconds even if I have a lot of other rather hungry applications like Eclipse and some databases running at the same time. Perhaps OOo starts somewhat slower than MS-Office, but if you are staring at the splashscreen for 45 seconds you either need to check your machine for viruses or it is very old, probably from another century. When they spend 45 seconds gazing at the OOo splash screen as the disk crunches away, they’re not impressed. We need to give people incentives to switch.

Ms office on mac worse