Performance Update 1

The big items in our next release will be French localization and performance improvements. We are working on four areas in particular: application launch time, file open time, scrolling speed, and beachballs that appear when applying formatting and accessing menus. The last three items are most apparent when working with large documents. I’ve spent the last week (while most of our engineers were on vacation) profiling NWE to find out exactly the cause of the delays people are experiencing. So far nothing too hard to fix; I’m optimistic that the next release will be more speedy.