[jeromeof]

I remember testing a protocol called DDE back in the Windows 3.1 days, and we couldn't figure out what Excel behaved so much faster than Lotus 123. Then we dug into the code and found that Windows 3.1 would free up all available memory as it launched Excel. A sneaky trick which I guess meant that users would find Excel much more responsive that 123 and ultimately help Microsoft get Office domination that it has today.

[brookst]

Someone else in this thread who worked on Wine said there was no evidence for such a thing since the faster launch times also occurred in Wine. What forensics did you use to determine this?

[toast0]

I don't believe the context of the Wine related comment was Win 3.1. OpenOffice wasn't around to compare launch times. Internet Explorer was around, a bit, but was competing with Netscape, not Mozilla.