We have 64 bit multi-core CPUs unconstrained by clock speeds, RAM, bus bottlenecks, instructions sets, addressing modes, registers, or storage speeds. Monitors are beyond visual resolution, graphics are pumped out at a rate of zillions and gazillions of 32 bit pixels per second. How can any software be anything less than instantaneous these days? How can this modern bloated AI-dreamt high-level sludge code be as slow as my Commodore 64 booting GEOS from a 5.25" floppy?

The mouse button shouldn't even have time to bounce up from my finger releasing it and the screen should already be loaded.

So what does this version of office actually do that my ancient copy of office 2003 doesn't, besides bog things down?

So their AI can't fix this issue?

Remember the other day when Microsoft boasted that 40% of their code is written by AI?

I switched to LibreOffice more than a decade ago and I never missed Microsoft Office 🤷‍♀️

(EDIT: I don't mean this dogmatically, there are plenty of times I have had to compromise and go back to proprietary software, but LibreOffice really has successfully replaced Microsoft Office for me - it's just as feature-rich and reliable with a similar UI. Google Sheets has a few features that I like and which aren't in LibreOffice or MS Office, but I only use that for work when I need a collaborative sheet.)

But now windows takes longer to boot and is too slow because ms office is always running in the background. +1 for reasons to use linux.

It is so weird, I remember Office 97 loading very fast on Intel Pentium 3. Now suddenly it needs preloading on startup with 4-6 core PCs...

And this is how adding code to Word 97 for 28 years without refactoring works.

Its horrendous, my work windows laptop the amount of crap just loading at startup is getting stupid.

Don't use Windows? Use Linux instead.

Just a thought.

I’m having flashbacks to Word 6 for Mac, when everyone downgraded back to Word 5.1.

Coming soon to your neck of the woods... Copilot OS! Now with no Windows, only Copilot and a shitty embedded MS Edge. Everything you know as Windows is hidden behind an enforced Microsoft account which you cannot bypass or opt-out! Oh—and don't forget—you now need a PC with 64GB DDR6789 RAM, RBG+ chipset with tiny peener cache, 2 BRAIN TRACING GPUs, SUPER SECURE BOOT, TrustClock, Lie Detector, Bio-metric reader created by NSA, and their secret time bomb tracker that will secretly ghost all your data at a moments notice and require you to purchase the subscription to ALL STAR MEGA SUPER SONIC ULTRA CLOUD DATA WAREHOUSE. Oh, but hey, at least it's software upgradable....

I'm forced to use Windows due to work and damn is it slow. File explorer feels so sluggish compared to Dolphin

I vaguely remember that they were already preloading the Office DLLs way back in Windows 95 or XP days.

Looks like you got unsaved changes....

Save as...Untitled.docx.....Very Complex Naming Convention that my company came up with.docx save!

OK what's the name of the file? Here's a random location could you rename the file once more and tell us where to save it in one drive?

Of course it's slow, it's full of telemetry, spyware and built-in AI junk, it couldn't be any different

I remember when I was tasked with fixing up a personal/work PC of my colleague who was our lead artist. I was a bit shocked to see WinXP there, when win10 was already the norm, and with quite a bunch of severely outdated software on it. At the time, I thought "well, at least it does the job well enough for him to be still employed". Now I understand that he was probably 2onto something...

Obligatory

i'm just surprised HOW they are able to make text editor apps so heavy and slow. seriously, HOW??

They shouldn't have made it so bloated then. The 2003 version opened fairly quickly, even on a late 90's computer.

Windows already takes far to long to load. I turn on my Linux PC and by time I stand up to get a coffee it's ready to go, then I remember it's Saturday and I won't be using Windows 11 all blessed day!