

We saw similar performance boosts when running the various other applications of OpenOffice 3.1. It used to take about 12 seconds to launch Writer now it takes just over 6 seconds. This was especially clear on when we ran it on a Windows XP system. What really caught our attention after a few minutes of using the various apps was how much faster this version is than version 3.0. We tested the OpenOffice 3.1 suite on a Windows XP system and one running MEPIS 8, a Debian-based Linux distribution.


(You can see examples at Sun's engineering blog.) Thanks to its use of anti-aliasing, the program menus, letters and images it displays are sharper and clearer. The first thing you'll notice about the new OpenOffice 3.1 is that it just looks better.
