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Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac is significantly faster than 2008/2004
The bods over at MacTech have been putting the Microsoft Business Unit's latest Mac offering, Office 2011, though its metaphorical paces, and have found that, on the whole, it's significantly faster than its previous siblings Office 2008 and 2004. App launches are around 70% faster from cold and 98% faster on relaunch, a noticeable and welcome improvement for the user. That's not all, common tasks in the big four applications, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, have also been streamlined giving an average speed up of between 36 and 129%.
The usual disclaimer is in force here -- measured by a stop watch, might not be accurate, etc -- but MacTech was adamant that on the face of it, the whole Office suite for Mac has seen real-world speed improvements that directly affect the user, something to which we can personally attest. Impressive stuff indeed, and when combined with ditching Entourage for Outlook, Office 2011 makes a worthy upgrade.
[via 9to5Mac]
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Subscribe to commentsangstwadNov 18th 2010 10:22AM
It certainly is much faster. Native app, fast! You know that a program was poorly designed when Office '07 for Windows runs faster from a Win 7 virtual machine than Office '08 for Mac. This update was long overdue - should be a free upgrade for those that suffered through the previous releases!
hazardNov 19th 2010 7:04AM
Maybe for speed Queens but I'm pretty happy with Word 2008 opening in less than a second on my iMac.
My-iFamily.comJan 22nd 2011 5:39PM
SO much faster! I pretty much gave up on Office and started to use iWork because it was so painfully slow. Office 2011 is still slower at startup than iWork, but the enhanced features over iWork makes it worth the slightly shorter wait.