hi all, *Performance comparison of OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 and Microsoft Office 2003* http://www.matt13.com/computer/open_office_or_ms_office/index.html ______ excerpt:
For a long time I have been using Microsoft Office. It didn't come with the computer that I currently use but I purchased it a year ago (I was using Microsoft Works before). Since then, I have switched from Internet Explorer to Maxthon <http://www.maxthon.com>, and then to Firefox. After switching to Firefox I switched form Outlook to Thunderbird and uninstalled Outlook. I knew about OpenOffice.org (not when I purchased MS Office) for a while, but for some reason I did not want to use it instead of MS Office. I don't like Microsoft, but I assumed that since I paid for MS Office, it must be better. As I read more and more about Open Source Software (OSS), I thought that I should give OO.o a try for a few reasons. The number one reason being that I am tired of waiting 30 seconds for Word to load just to spellcheck a blog entry. My computer is relatively slow (a 2.2 GHz Celeron with 512 MB RAM and a slow drive (5400 RPM)), so I wanted to make sure that OO.o is faster if I am going to use it.
I only tested the word processing software (Writer in OO.o and Word in MS Office) in each suite because that is what I use most often. I didn't look at the features at all for this review because 1, I know they are nearly identical and 2, I know OO.o 2.0 is coming out soon (I didn't want to test it in beta). I tried to make this comparison as fair as possible, and although I don't like Microsoft, I still use MS Office (for now).
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