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

["M.W. Poirier" poirmw@xxxxxxxx]

 Speaking of spreadsheets, what I would like to see go open
 source, or just made available, period, is Lotus Improv.

 M.W. Poirier

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On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Patricia M. Godfrey wrote:

> Paul Lagasse wrote:
> > For instance, notebooks running Vista SP1 took more than 80 seconds to
> > complete a series of Office tasks in the OfficeBench test suite, while
> > notebooks running Windows XP SP2 completed the tasks in just over 40
> > seconds.
>
> BUT--much virtue in a but--all benchmarking is done with Office. And it
> is, I think, well known that the Office developers and the opsys
> developers at Redmond do not always communicate as one would expect.
> (Wasn't there an XP patch that broke Office majorly a while back?) I
> don't use M$ Office; Open Office is pretty much of a memory hog itself,
> but I only use it when I have to. (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.)
>
> Anyway, abstract benchmarking is just that, abstract. How does it do
> what you need to do? is the question. And so far (knock wood), not too bad.
>
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> Patricia M. Godfrey
> priscameg@xxxxxxxx
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