[plug] Word97 vs Openoffice

[Brad Campbell]

Just a mild point of observation/frustration.

Word97 under WINE vs Openoffice.org 1.1.1.

I have a 179 Page word document with lots of formatting / indexing.

Word97 loads from scratch (clean boot) and loads the document in about 5 seconds. Ooo takes about 30.

Word97 is using 24 Meg of ram total, Ooo is using 57.

Word97 crashes occasionally (but avoidably when you figure out what makes it crash). Ooo buggers up 
the index beyond repair.

Unfortunately for these documents I *have* to use Word as I need to be able to save the document in 
a format the guys in the office in Perth can use (Word 2000) and Ooo munges the Indexing to a point 
Word just chokes.

It's a good vs Evil thing really. Both have good and bad points.

While ranting about memory usage. Why the hell is thunderbird using 133MB ? It must load all the 
mailbox indexes/summaries into ram at once! Granted it's dealing with 1GB of mail on disk, but still.

Ok. I feel better now.

Brad