Depends on the use case. MS Office is just reskinning of older versions, so yeah an older version is fine, you can do okay if you are a music maker too I suppo

Depends on the use case. MS Office is just reskinning of older versions, so yeah an older version is fine, you can do okay if you are a music maker too I suppose. But when it comes to say video editing, you do need the new stuff. A perfect use case for old hardware and software today is banks, some in my country still use XP and IE 6. It just works, and it is not connected to the public internet so there is no issue of security.