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On 26 Apr 2018 21:00:45 GMT, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
wrote:

>On 2018-04-26, Gareth's Downstairs Computer
><headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> On 26/04/2018 21:09, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>>
>>> On Wednesday, April 25, 2018 at 7:50:28 PM UTC-4, J. Clarke wrote:
>>>
>>>> I can't see anyone in his right mind who has used a modern
>>>> spreadsheet wanting to use "an old version of Lotus". It runs
>>>> on my current machine just fine, but it's horribly limited.
>>> 
>>> It does everything my friend needs it to do.  Given that, why
>>> should he be forced to upgrade?
>
>"Better is the enemy of good enough."

How long are companies supposed to support competing products that
have not been sold in decades?

>>> My old MS-Word does everything I could ever want in a word processor.
>>> But obviously M/S isn't happy about that--they're not getting any
>>> new revenue from me.  So by planned obsolescence--which the I.T.
>>> community eagerly embraces--I'm forced to upgrade.  Not only that,
>>> but I understand the latest word is only licensed, not purchased,
>>> so I'll have to pay rent for years.  No more "home version" (e.g.
>>> Microsoft Works).  Plus, I don't think my old existing copy of
>>> MS-Works will work on a new machine.
>
>I always loved the idea that "Microsoft Works" was an oxymoron.
>Now it seems it's the literal truth.

It takes about 5 clicks to get to the page on the Microsoft site where
one can buy (one time purchase) Office Home & Student 2016 for PC for
$149.99.

<https://products.office.com/en-us/compare-all-microsoft-office-products?tab=1>

Of you can pay 10 bucks a month and get it for installation on up to
15 devices with 5 simultaneous users, 60 minutes a month of free
IPPhone service, and a terabyte of cloud storage.

>> Perhaps there is a demand for a thunk, veneer, call-it-what-you-will,
>> interface to allow Word 97 to run on latest machines?
>> There can't be that many system calls that need to be intercepted!
>
>How about installing an old version of Windows under VirtualBox?
>Sure, it takes a bit of work - but it might be less work than
>running on the M$ treadmill.

Yep, Word 97 runs fine in a virtual machine.

>Would LibreOffice work any better?

If it does what you need it's fine.