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Does the activation still work for these are do you have to use a hack to get them running? I still have a TON of older Office 2003 licenses, I'd love to go bac

by vt240 2mo ago

Does the activation still work for these are do you have to use a hack to get them running? I still have a TON of older Office 2003 licenses, I'd love to go back. I've hated modern Office with the ribbon for half my life now.

ranger_danger 2mo ago
Please don't. There are so many unpatched exploits for old Office... opening any document could trash your whole system or silently steal information from you.
- M95D 2mo ago
  Just like a current Office does?
- emeril 2mo ago
  maybe so but that would imply the end user is opening sketchy files - most of the time these products are for low risk files
kevin_thibedeau 2mo ago
The product keys still work. You can skip online activation. Only annoyance is needing to run once as admin to make the EULA acceptance write to the registry. I have a stockpile of patches that I preserved a while back that are not readily available today.