On 2010-03-18 15:55, Dotan Cohen wrote:
And yet me getting-old laptop is still snappy. I think it's more that MSO
is written in absurdly-tuned C & assembler, whereas OOo is portable C++ &
Java.
Actually, MSO is written in a high-level language. I forget which, but
it's not .NET. They do that because there are a lot of bugs, and their
It sure can't be .NET, since I run the 7(8?) year old MSO XP.
support contracts with large firms means that they have to address
those bugs. There was a great article on it on some MSDN blog about a
year or two ago. Also, I vaguely remember Joel on Software talking
about the anatomy of a Word bug.
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