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I'm willing to bet if you put modern SSDs in old computers people would prefer Office 2003 to modern Office.
by dharmab 2y ago
I'm willing to bet if you put modern SSDs in old computers people would prefer Office 2003 to modern Office.
- a2tech 2y agoOffice 2003 on spinning rust launches and completes tasks faster than modern Office on brand new machines with NVME drives. On that 733mhz machine with Office 2003, Excel will be open within a few seconds if I double click on it--if you move up to a 1ghz+ machine it opens up so fast it might as well be instant.
- joseda-hg 2y agoHow modern can you go with XP? Would you have to do weird adapters/emulators to get a full install working?
- a2tech 2y agoSomeone up thread mentioned that there's a WinXP image available that has a ton of back ported drivers and things baked in for NVME support and modern chipsets. So...pretty darn modern I think!
- bambax 2y agoThat's also my experience.
- Kwpolska 2y agoI certainly wouldn't, the ribbon has much better discoverability than tiny toolbars. And Office 2003 performed reasonably well with HDDs anyway.