Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 Benchmarks Show Huge Speed Improvements

MacTech has put Office 2011 through its paces on Snow Leopard 10.6.4, running 1,000 tests to determine its performance.

The results show that Office 2011 performs much faster than Office 2008 and massively faster than Office 2004.


App launches are between 70% to 98% faster than the 2008 edition and when compared to their prior releases MacTech found that:
● Word performs 36% faster
● Excel performs 129% faster
● PowerPoint performs 66% faster
● Outlook performs 17% faster.

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