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I still prefer 97, runs great in a VM, faster than LibreOffice, save the text with copy and paste into my blog with IE6. I can almost smell the shiny Plymouth H

I still prefer 97, runs great in a VM, faster than LibreOffice, save the text with copy and paste into my blog with IE6. I can almost smell the shiny Plymouth Horizon on the parking lot.

hu3 5y ago
And it looked so clean! https://i.imgur.com/u9U8VLm.png https://i.imgur.com/u9U8VLm.png
- GekkePrutser 5y ago
  Totally agree except the MDI (Multiple Document Interface) was a really dumb idea. Having windows inside of windows. Now that I see the double window controls I remember how bad and confusing that was. And so much work moving all these scroll bars trying to reach other scroll bars inside them. Yuck. Besides for MDI which a lot of MS apps suffered from, it was great.
  - lmm 5y ago
    > the MDI (Multiple Document Interface) was a really dumb idea. Having windows inside of windows. Funny, to me tabbed browsing has always seemed like a reinvention of the same concept.
    - vurpo 5y ago
      Tabbed browsing just has full-window tabs though. Was the ability to resize, move, and stack these windows within windows ever wanted by any significant amount of people, or is tabbed browsing just a better implementation of the same concept (multiple "documents" open within one window)?
    - antod 5y ago
      except without the "tile" or "cascade" or just drag and drop rearrangement of them
  - forgotmypw17 5y ago
    I loved MDI, and was actually frustrated with the somewhat watered down Office 97 version of it. It's like tabs, but you can also put dialogs side by side.
    - GekkePrutser 5y ago
      Well it did have its benefits yes. However it was a total PITA if you wanted to work in 2 documents on 2 different screens. You had to stretch the window across both screens and then position the sub-windows manually. You couldn't just plonk each on a display and maximise. And scrolling regions within scrolling regions really are awful IMO.
      - forgotmypw17 5y ago
        Well, you've got a point about multi-display. Once that came around, it lost its appeal.
WarOnPrivacy 5y ago
The invoice I bill with is from an Office 97 template. Thursday will be it's 25th birthday.
sys_64738 5y ago
Office 97 was their high point and I really didn’t see the value proposition trying others which seemed like attempts to refactor the GUI every few years. That and no product activation. From a time when owning software meant owning it.

I still prefer 97, runs great in a VM, faster than LibreOffice, save the text with copy and paste into my blog with IE6. I can almost smell the shiny Plymouth Horizon on the parking lot.

hu3 5y ago

And it looked so clean! https://i.imgur.com/u9U8VLm.png https://i.imgur.com/u9U8VLm.png

GekkePrutser 5y ago
Totally agree except the MDI (Multiple Document Interface) was a really dumb idea. Having windows inside of windows. Now that I see the double window controls I remember how bad and confusing that was. And so much work moving all these scroll bars trying to reach other scroll bars inside them. Yuck. Besides for MDI which a lot of MS apps suffered from, it was great.
- lmm 5y ago
  > the MDI (Multiple Document Interface) was a really dumb idea. Having windows inside of windows. Funny, to me tabbed browsing has always seemed like a reinvention of the same concept.
  - vurpo 5y ago
    Tabbed browsing just has full-window tabs though. Was the ability to resize, move, and stack these windows within windows ever wanted by any significant amount of people, or is tabbed browsing just a better implementation of the same concept (multiple "documents" open within one window)?
  - antod 5y ago
    except without the "tile" or "cascade" or just drag and drop rearrangement of them
- forgotmypw17 5y ago
  I loved MDI, and was actually frustrated with the somewhat watered down Office 97 version of it. It's like tabs, but you can also put dialogs side by side.
  - GekkePrutser 5y ago
    Well it did have its benefits yes. However it was a total PITA if you wanted to work in 2 documents on 2 different screens. You had to stretch the window across both screens and then position the sub-windows manually. You couldn't just plonk each on a display and maximise. And scrolling regions within scrolling regions really are awful IMO.
    - forgotmypw17 5y ago
      Well, you've got a point about multi-display. Once that came around, it lost its appeal.

WarOnPrivacy 5y ago

The invoice I bill with is from an Office 97 template. Thursday will be it's 25th birthday.

sys_64738 5y ago

Office 97 was their high point and I really didn’t see the value proposition trying others which seemed like attempts to refactor the GUI every few years. That and no product activation. From a time when owning software meant owning it.