[mdlug] What Intel Giveth, Microsoft Taketh Away

[Jeff Hanson]

On Nov 17, 2007 4:57 PM, Clinton V. Weiss <cvweiss at gmail.com> wrote:
> Excel would open the spreadsheet and calculate all formulas in just
> shy of 10 seconds, meanwhile displaying a progress meter such that it
> was obvious to the user that it was "working."  OpenOffice, however,
> would open with a solid white screen.  After several seconds a
> progress meter would somewhat display near the bottom and the user
> could see OO crawling through the formulas.  Finally, after about 60
> seconds, OO would finish and the rest of the screen would catch up.

I had a similar experience a few years ago.  I haven't tested it since
but I suspect it's a lot better.
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=23172