One rendition of Wirth’s law states that “software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster”. Judge for yourself with some interesting benchmarks for OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Word.

I’m not a benchmarking expert. As an end user, my only comment on this is that I run OOo (currently 3.0beta2) on a daily basis on a diminitive Asus EEE PC under Linux and the performance is absolutely fine.

However, don’t take my word for it - download OpenOffice.org and try it yourself. If you like it, keep it for free. And suggest to Microsoft they let you do the same with MS-Office

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