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Well, in any regard, sounds to me like an implementation trick, NOT a file
format advantage. And, like you said, not meticulously checking the format at load time could lead to some interesting attack vectors.
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Credit where due  Yagotta B. Kidding | 05/25/06
Good question  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 05/25/06
Come on John, try to make an argument here. Or is your last name really  DonnieBoy | 05/25/06
Learn to read...  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 05/25/06
Agreed  nucrash | 05/25/06
Story has been updated to link to me  georgeou | 05/26/06
This is such rubbish  mosborne | 05/26/06
What annoyed me about George's test...  bportlock | 05/27/06
Atypical tests  INGOTIAN | 05/29/06
M$ criminal lies & FUD  Linux Geek | 05/25/06
To Microsoft: Vista is too slow.  DonnieBoy | 05/25/06
What exactly (with a GUI) is swift on the recommended minimums  JoeMama_z | 05/25/06
Yes MS thinks the speed of ODF is important, but want you to overlook Vista  DonnieBoy | 05/25/06
eh who's to say....  JoeMama_z | 05/25/06
save/load time  Scott W | 05/27/06
Lier !!  not of this world | 05/25/06
The key word is "optimized". I am sure that the performance of reading and  DonnieBoy | 05/25/06
Well-known  Yagotta B. Kidding | 05/25/06
Sounds more like MS used a trick implementation to make it faster, the same  DonnieBoy | 05/25/06
You misunderstand  Yagotta B. Kidding | 05/25/06
Well, in any regard, sounds to me like an implementation trick, NOT a file  DonnieBoy | 05/25/06
You are more cracked than Mike Cox  nucrash | 05/25/06
And, again, tell us how the file format can make for faster load and save  DonnieBoy | 05/25/06
ODF is a relatively pure XML implementation Microsoft XML is not.  stevey_d | 05/27/06
MS is really strugling to describe what is wrong with ODF. Funny to listen  DonnieBoy | 05/25/06
Ask me a hard one  Yagotta B. Kidding | 05/25/06
LMAO  enduser_z | 05/25/06
Bad word files too  maxo_z | 05/25/06
I think I said that  Yagotta B. Kidding | 05/25/06
My experience with StarOffice  PB_z | 05/25/06
Slow graphs in OOo  johnay | 05/26/06
Yes but OpenOffice isn't the only tool using ODF  stevey_d | 05/27/06
Wasn't talking about large files, or Excel.  johnay | 05/30/06
Perhaps you should  Update victim | 05/26/06
But it was at the same age level as ODF. (NT)  Update victim | 05/26/06
About a million years ago  specialk_z | 05/25/06
What we suspected from George in the very beginning...  Richard Flude | 05/25/06
This is a load of bull.  DemonX | 05/25/06
George's specialty: Irrelevant statistics  Chad_z | 05/26/06
OO2 is slow with large files  stevey_d | 05/27/06
And another thing.  DemonX | 05/25/06
Didn't they also say Open Source was a Cancer??? (nt)  Plain Logic | 05/25/06
MSFT references George Ou "research"  Chad_z | 05/26/06
Its JUST a format  Roger Ramjet | 05/26/06
There are those who will and those who won't  fwood_4@... | 05/26/06
well I like microsoft office, but this isn't doing microsoft any favours  stevey_d | 05/27/06
To each their own  Boot_Agnostic | 05/27/06
A format can't be slow  Mechano | 05/28/06
A FORMAT CAN BE SLOW  zdnet@... | 05/29/06
I don't buy it  fireball74 | 05/29/06
Buy it.  dave.leigh@... | 05/29/06
asn.1 and binary xml  stevey_d | 05/29/06
And MS software is the epitome of speed and efficiency?  INGOTIAN | 05/29/06
Pot calling the kettle black...  Ratzmandious | 05/29/06
Too slow?  code_flogger | 05/29/06
Who is Microsoft kidding?!  Leria | 05/29/06
OpenDocument is NOT an application  jdeisenberg | 05/30/06
An application can make something run slow  Boot_Agnostic | 05/31/06
ODF is just as fast as MS's offering.  libertyaikido | 06/01/06

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