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Neat tool! On a related note while I love LibreOffice and the like, I recently wanted to make some authentic Word Art so I grabbed a copy of Office 97 from arch
by thot_experiment 3y ago
Neat tool! On a related note while I love LibreOffice and the like, I recently wanted to make some authentic Word Art so I grabbed a copy of Office 97 from archive.org. I was beyond pleasantly surprised, not only did it install without issue on Win 10 LTSC, it does everything instantly and the whole thing is 140mb. What the fuck have we been doing for the last quarter century?
- outofpaper 3y agoIf you think office 97 is fun at 140mb you should give Geoworks' Ensemble a look.
- thot_experiment 3y agoThanks for the suggestion I hadn't heard of it before! I may check it out for funsies, thought in 2024 i think it requires a VM while Office 97 runs natively on modern windows.
- zoom6628 3y agoMarketing and adding features to eke out more sales in a space where tiny edge case populations are last remnants of growth it would seem. I have been amazed over the years how much I can do of everyday work using simple lightweight alternatives. This is good example. Wordpad and Write were fine for quick docs or editing. I used ONLYOffice until found out was Russian based business . Must admit though that office365 online editions now are "good enough" for everyday work and desktop quality of office tooling needed rarely in my work.
- Underphil 3y agoI can only speak anecdotally but it certainly feels to me that 99% of users regularly only use 1% of the features of modern Office applications, and that there is still a place for these lightweight applications.
- Gormo 3y ago> What the fuck have we been doing for the last quarter century? Mostly looking for ways to keep selling people the same product over and over again.