Kai Ponte wrote:
Yes, they have. I have Office 97 on some machines and Office XP on this machine (under CX Office) and Office 2003 on a few machines, while I have that abomination Office 2007 on one test machine. (Yuck!)
They all appear to load faster than OOo because they - well - load in memory when the Window manager (XP/2k/2K3) loads. You can do the same thing with OOo on KDE.
I have the OpenOffice Quickstarter loaded on startup. It doesn't seem to take much in time to load overall and only takes about 30MB of RAM. On all my systems, I have at least 1GB or more of RAM so 30MB is not a big deal. (Still don't know what to do with all those 256K and 512K SIMM cards I have lying around...)
I just checked on my laptop and OOo Writer took three seconds to load.
Also, MS has made a habit of using hidden APIs with their apps, that give better performance than the competition can get with the published API. Borland found this out many years ago. Despite the fact that MS was prohibited from doing that, after losing a law suit, they are apparently still doing it, as recently revealed in the Iowa lawsuit. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org