Re: In Case Anyone's Considering Vista...

[Paul Lagasse pglagasse@xxxxxxxx]

Patricia wrote:

(I'm hoping IBM's attempts to
let Lotus Symphony go open source--it's in beta, last I heard--will pan
out. 1-2-3 is my first, second, and third choice for a spreadsheet. but
all my copies of Millennium Suite are so old, I doubt they'll run under
Vista.)


I think it's out (I seemed to remember an announcement of its release),
but in any case see
http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.jspa; eudora="autourl">
http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.jspa


Apparently, in the comparison with XP, Vista did better with Office 2003
than Office 2007 (still lost to XP). I don't know enough about either
Office version to do anything except repeat that fact.


XP SP3 is also being touted in the same comparison for its 10% speed
improvement over  SP2. Which sounds big, until you express it as a 3
second improvement.


More than anything else, though, the benchmark testing was apparently
part of a public relations campaign for the outfit doing the
testing.






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