On 3/18/2010 3:44 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-03-18 11:47, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:Andrei Popescu:Ron Johnson:Lastly, Excel, Word, IE & Lookout just launch faster than Calc, Write, FF & Tbird.That's too bad.The comparison is not quite fair, since the former are being preloaded in Windows.And yet me getting-old laptop is still snappy. I think it's more that MSO is written in absurdly-tuned C & assembler, whereas OOo is portable C++ & Java.
MS writes software in a myriad of different languages. Heavily, in ones that use Visual Studio.
They are largely eliminating as much Java as they can from OOo, (albeit very slowly) with the exception of the Base database app.