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Re: Is Office 2007 a Pig or What?

Nate Nead — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:13:02 -0000

I couldn't agree more. I've had several blurbs while running it, and the incompatibility is annoying.

Re: Is Office 2007 a Pig or What?

Jonathan — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:41:30 -0000

Why pay for MS Office if you can run NeoOffice for free?

Re: Is Office 2007 a Pig or What?

Phil Windley — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:01:02 -0000

Amen.

Re: Is Office 2007 a Pig or What?

LwEEs — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:49:03 -0000

I was about to complaint about the same thing, I feel that Office 2004 for Mac is way faster than the New Office 2008. I'm a blogger and I use MS Word a lot because of the Spelling feature, as English is my second language. I haven't been able to find any other tool that spell check as good as MS Word, therefore I'm stock.

Re: Is Office 2007 a Pig or What?

stacey — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:35:06 -0000

Office 2008 is a fat, ugly pig... It must be written in Java and not objective C. ;) I use iWorks '08 to read and write most all the *.doc's, *.xls, and *.ppt's I get and produce. I just use Office 2008 to convert the occasional, bloated Office 2007/XML file to its older office format. If someone writes a nice converter/filter or iWorks starts reading the Office 2007 format then my Office 2008 will be removed from my system and the media will be burned so no one else will have to suffer from it.

Re: Is Office 2007 a Pig or What?

Phil Windley — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:03:03 -0000

Re: Is Office 2007 a Pig or What?

Jockm — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:27:55 -0000

I am not trying to convince you differently. And I acknowledge that people I know are having the same kind of complaints as you. I think that sucks. All I was trying to say is that some folk -- such as myself (and others I know) -- don't see the same problems.

I am not trying to defend MS on this one, nor am I suggesting you give Office 2008 another try, I was just trying to say that the issue is weirder then people realize.

Re: Is Office 2007 a Pig or What?

Phil Windley — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:20:02 -0000

I see no appreciable difference in speed. Last night, I was even
watching memory to make sure it wasn't a memory issue. There was
still plenty left (and I should say that I think Office 2008 *is*
better with memory). That said, it's still slow. :-)

Re: Is Office 2007 a Pig or What?

Jockm — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:24:29 -0000

Its Office 2008 on OS X, just to call it by it's name.

I suspect this may be a YMMV, you aren't the first person I have heard make complaints like this; but I haven't experienced anything like this. I have been using it for a bit now, and while it doesn't feel an order of magnitude faster than the PPC version it is 2-3 times faster for me.

However with Parallels integration into the finder, so you can have Office docs automatically open in Windows; it isn't a bad option either.