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NeoOffice Performance Comparison
From NeoWiki
N.B. Initial editing is still in progress
N.B. This page compares NeoOffice 2.2.4 to OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta and Microsoft Office 2004 .
The advantages of NeoOffice over other office suites, particularly Microsoft's, are legion. Most importantly, NeoOffice is free and open source software, relieving you of costly licensing fees. There is also a strong community support forum that is frequented by the developers at http://trinity.neooffice.org/
At the same time, other office suites also contain features missing in NeoOffice which may be indispensable to your work, and your purchase of commercial software generally assures the software has passed professional quality assurance and typically entitles you to professional technical support.
This page attempts to provide a balanced, but by no means complete, comparison of NeoOffice's performance with two comparable office suites, Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org, to help you make a more informed decision when evaluating office software. Some other software developers have similar comparison pages; those we are aware of are linked below.
NeoOffice vs. vs. OpenOffice.org vs. Microsoft Office
Apart from these benefits, NeoOffice 2.2.4 has features that outshine Microsoft Office:
| Feature | NeoOffice | MS Office 2008 for Mac | |
|---|---|---|---|
| General: | |||
| Price (standard edition) | $0.00 | $399.95 | |
| Runs on Intel-based Macs | Natively | Natively | |
| Universal Binary (single application that works on both PPC and Intel Macs) |  |  | |
| Document contents searchable by Spotlight | | | |
| Type ahead word-completion (optional), similar to features found in mobile phones | | | |
| Support for magnify and swipe gestures on multi-touch trackpads | | | |
| A logical, safe and suite-wide system for templates, so these are never accidentally updated | | | |
| Clean HTML code export (compliant with international web standards) | | | |
| Support for international standard ISO 26300 OpenDocument file formats | | | |
| Support for Microsoft Office 2007 (OpenXML) file formats | * | | |
| Support for voice-dictation and similar software | | (?) | |
| Unified User Interface, reducing learning time and costs | | | |
| Media browser, providing easy access to iLife images, sounds, and video | | (?) | |
| Localized user interface and help files (number of languages) | 58†| 11†| |
| International spelling checkers | 88‡ | 12‡ | |
| Support for text entry in non-Roman scripts including South Asian, East Asian, right-to-left and complex text layout scripts | | Some [1] | |
| Supported scripts or languages: | |||
| Arabic | | | |
| Armenian | | | |
| Cyrillic | | | |
| Cherokee | | | |
| Chinese (Simplified) | | | |
| Chinese (Traditional) | | | |
| Devanagari & Gujarati (Indic languages) | | | |
| Greek | | | |
| Hebrew | | | |
| Inuktitut | | | |
| Japanese | | | |
| Korean | | | |
| Roman (Western and Eastern European languages) | | | |
| Roman (Hawaiian, Northern Sami) | | | |
| Roman (Vietnamese) | | | |
| Tamil | | | |
| Thai | | | |
| Other | Likely** | Unknown | |
| Writer (word processor): | |||
| A logical style system that does not invent styles based on your layout choices | | | |
| Functional bullet/list numbering | | | |
| The ability to import WordPerfect documents (thanks to the libwpd project) | | | |
| The ability to import Microsoft Works word processing documents (thanks to the libwps and ooo-build projects) | ††| | |
| Calc (spreadsheet): | |||
| More conditional layout options for cells | | | |
| Style-enabled layout system for text and cells | | | |
| Support for linear programming extensions for spreadsheets (thanks to the ooo-build project) | | ‡‡ | |
| Support for Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros (thanks to the ooo-build project) | ††| | |
| Impress (presentation): | |||
| The ability to export to Flash animation | | | |
| Superior (3D) font art possibilities. | | | |
| Support for playing QuickTime-supported audio and video | *** | | |
| Notes: | |||
| * First note. | |||
| †second note. | |||
| ‡ Third note. | |||
Other Comparisons
Additional performance (and feature) comparisons between selected office suites and word processors are available at Mellel: Competitive Comparison (redlers.com; compares Mellel 2.0 with Microsoft Office 2004, OpenOffice.org 2.0.x, and Nisus Writer Express 2.7, but not NeoOffice) and Word-Alternativen: Der Test (apfelwiki.de; compares AbiWord 2.4.5, Mellel 2.2.7, NeoOffice 2.2.1, Nisus Writer Pro 1.0, and Apple's Pages 3.0 [de]).
