[K12OSN] OpenOffice.org

[Terrell Prude', Jr.]

Two reasons.

1.)  Unlike MS Word, which performs one function, OO.o is one big 
monolithic application that does word processing, spreadsheets, 
presentations, and database access.  So, when you fire it up, from the 
perspective of a Microsoft Office user, you're essentially firing up 
four applications, or all of MS Office except for Outlook.  That's why 
OO.o Writer can directly open spreadsheets and presentations; it's all 
one big app.  Note that OO.o 1.1.0 is considerably better about this 
than 1.0.x or 1.1Beta, and the 1.1.1rc1 is yet faster to load.

2.)  Remember when Windows 98 came out, and the boot times were more 
than double that for Windows 95?  On a test machine several years ago, I 
clocked Windows 95 booting in just over 40 sec.  Win 98 on the same box 
took over two minutes.  However, Internet Exploder launched more quickly 
on Windows 98 than on '95.  Reason:  Win 98 included IE and pre-cached 
it non-pageable at boot time, thus giving the illusion to the user of 
faster browser startup times than Netscape, whom they were battling at 
the time.  Essentially, MS robbed Peter to pay Paul.  Turns out that 
recent versions of MS Office on, say, Windows 2000 and XP do the same 
thing.  The MS Office apps come up faster because Microsoft included 
code to pre-cache them at boot time, as you're logging in.  Yes, it is 
sneaky, but that's what happens when you own the OS and the office 
suite; you can do that.  The price is that it takes longer to boot and 
log in.

--TP

Kevin Boone wrote:

> does anyone know why OpenOffice.org writer takes forever to laod????
>