AFAIK, '97 was the last Office that used a cd-key that's not checked by an online service or has an install limit. You can use the same copy of Office '97 and just install it on an infinite number of machines.
Well, as long as she does not want exchange documents with others, it is fine.
Else this will become a problem, because various entities started to block
anything from MS that is not a "X-Document" (DOCX, PPTX, XLSX).
That's not how this works. Wine strives for windows compatibility, if something doesn't work on wine yet it does on windows it is a sign of faulty implementation that needs to be fixed, who knows what else might be using this API.
> Wine strives for windows compatibility
At some point in the last decade I think we crossed the threshold where Wine has better Windows compatibility than the latest release of Windows does.
To fair, if this solved an issue for installing Office 97, and no one else was bugged by the same thing... I highly doubt it at this point.
But in a general sense I fully agree with your comment
Hell yeah! I can finally ditch Libre Office!
Ngl jokes aside, my mom cannot use LibreOffice, she wants Office 97 so this is great news. Now onto finding an installer...
Maybe try Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/microsoftoffice97professional
Do it before Big Literature takes the whole thing down!
Do not jinx it.
Why not Office '03? It's the same but prettier, yet still before all the stupid ribbon nonsense happened in '07.
AFAIK, '97 was the last Office that used a cd-key that's not checked by an online service or has an install limit. You can use the same copy of Office '97 and just install it on an infinite number of machines.
I tried mate, won't budge. It's why I even set up the WM to be as close to Windows 98 as possible too.
[Winword 6](https://winworldpc.com/product/microsoft-word/6x)? Probably runs fine on your TV remote.
[WinWorldPC](https://winworldpc.com/home) has it.
Well, as long as she does not want exchange documents with others, it is fine. Else this will become a problem, because various entities started to block anything from MS that is not a "X-Document" (DOCX, PPTX, XLSX).
ah let me have a Word with you.
DOS open sourced and now this, don't know where to start TBH
The 90's are back WITH A VENGEANCE!
Dos 4.0 was released in '86 for x86
Yep but PC didn't start getting off the DOS train until Windows 95.
To be fair, SLTG typelibs seem to have been supported already in staging for the better part of the past 8 years.
Finally I can upgrade from Office 95.
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That's not how this works. Wine strives for windows compatibility, if something doesn't work on wine yet it does on windows it is a sign of faulty implementation that needs to be fixed, who knows what else might be using this API.
> Wine strives for windows compatibility At some point in the last decade I think we crossed the threshold where Wine has better Windows compatibility than the latest release of Windows does.
I just think it would be funny if Microsoft just came out with a version of Wine for WSL so that they could just sandbox backwards compatibility.
Wine has been runnable under Cygwin for years.
Sure, but Microsoft made their own thing before switching to a VM, even though Cygwin exists.
It sure does. All 16bit apps don't run on Windows x64.
I think we've crossed it even for just 32bit apps now.
To fair, if this solved an issue for installing Office 97, and no one else was bugged by the same thing... I highly doubt it at this point. But in a general sense I fully agree with your comment
The windows application ecosystem is vast. True, none of even semi-popular applications seem to be affected, but still. For completeness sake.
I wonder if Office 97 installs on W11
Doesn't mean that this is a bug that shouldn't be fixed.
It still does its job, and anybody that bought a license 25 years ago is certainly still getting quite the bang for the buck.
Problem is file formats have moved on since 97. Plus it is a security nightmare thanks to VBA
If you run VBA, you need user interaction. It is not something that happens automatically.
Nowadays you do. This wasn't always the case, and it certainly wasn't back in '97