re 1: Slow - compared to google docs? Are you serious? I can't speak for the poster above yours, but I would be serious. In my experience, on the startup time,

re 1: Slow - compared to google docs? Are you serious? I can't speak for the poster above yours, but I would be serious. In my experience, on the startup time, google docs way out performs open office. It's open in single digit seconds, open office is 10s+ I still prefer offline software, but the bloat can be awful. At least web tech is designed with web browsing latency expectation. I find most desktop software these days has a much larger start and use latency by far.