[mdlug] What Intel Giveth, Microsoft Taketh Away

[Aaron Kulkis]

Jeff Hanson wrote:
> 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

On the other hand, Open Office opens OpenOffice spreadsheets
quite quickly.  Any clue why that is?