'LibreOffice 3.5 faster on Windows than Excel'
LibreOffice 3.5 will beat Excel in speed on certain tasks. The upcoming first beta of the free office suite will perform better than Excel as the result of community work, thus showing the real advantage of open source software. At December 28 and 29 there will be a big international bug-hunting session with the beta release of 3.5.0. LibreOffice 3.5.0 beta1 will be on the servers in the next days. Where previously Calc, the spreadsheet component of LibreOffice, was not rewarded for high performance, the new version will bring some good news. This has been made possible by the true open source character of the project, where various developers, volunteers and full time, cooperated to improve the speed when opening documents with a large amount of named ranges, sheets and formulas. This can be read from a blog from Kohei Yoshida , one of Calcs leading developers and a major LibreOffice contributor right from the beginning of the project. Various speed tests were posted there, and one s...