Comments on: Just how slow the Microsoft Office 2008 is

By: Joshua

Joshua — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:28:07 +0000

Wow.. I just ordered Office 2008. I am currently running Office 2007 in XP Pro in Parallels and the launch time for Word and Excel is almost negligible. I was hoping that I would be able to stop using virtualization when 2K8 arrived.

By: maxintech

maxintech — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:19:45 +0000

It’s right. Office still slow. But, when I open a 89Mb Word 2003 Document, with a tons of embedded graphics, Word 2008 is twice or three times more faster to open this document than Pages ’08 . In addition, Pages isn’t 100% compatible with Word documents. I work with many Word documents from my clients that Pages can’t render pretty well.

I like Pages, but, I still need the slow, annoying and expensive Word.
8*(

By: Christopher Vigliotti

Christopher Vigliotti — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:46:14 +0000

*cough* neo office *cough* free *cough*

By: Lisa Melnick

Lisa Melnick — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:44:04 +0000

Hey Mike,
I haven’t played around with office 2008 much. i’ve have it on my machine and use it sometimes. As a former windows user, I can tell you that office 2007 on windows is slow too. That is just microsoft for ya.
Now that I am a mac girl, I just try to do everything mac and am loving it. Just got a macbook too!

I like pages, too. The fact that pages opens up word docs and lets you save items as doc files is great. Really no need for office, I suppose, but I have it anyway.
There are some things one will do that the other doesn’t.

By: Paul H

Paul H — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:30:35 +0000

I agree Office 08 is slow, but I’m going to accept it as I have currently taken an entire day to write a paragraph of my essay, and I can now use the slow loading as an excuse. Thanks :)

By: MacGoog

MacGoog — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:14:30 +0000

Word 2004 takes 35 seconds to open on my 1.67ghz G4 and about 6 seconds to reload. This includes pressing the enter key in the project gallery.
Maybe a new MS philosophy…. make things run slower.