points by haunter 3 days ago | 0 comments
Installed MS Office 2.0 some months ago with it just for fun. It actually works pretty well apart from the dictionary files, for some reason those are not recognized
https://files.catbox.moe/dy4bqy.png
I’ve used it for a week just I was curious:
1, is it good enough for modern day to day word processing (mostly emails)? Yes it is
2, can the modern word processors (Office 365, LibreOffice, Google Docs) recognize and open the files created with it? (doc, rtf anything but plain text) Yes they can
[–] ant6n 2 days ago
[–] pjmlp 3 days ago
For work, not due to other requirements, however for personal documents I fully agree with your first point, MS Office 2.0 is good enough to type in some snail letters, school reports or CVs.
[–] haunter 3 days ago
Also there is security. I think, I just guess, these old 16bit file formats are all exploitable to some extent
[–] pjmlp 3 days ago
Yes, however if you are only using them privately as a modern typewriter for stuff that is anyway going to be sent on paper, there is less of a concern.
Now sharing files with others is another matter, and I fully agree.
[–] londons_explore 3 days ago
Doubt you'd be storing important ssh keys on the same VM
[–] ale42 2 days ago
It's not a VM, as far as I understand. Possibly OTVDM.
[–] pjmlp 3 days ago
You would be surprised on how some offshoring projects go, which anyway has zero to do with what I was talking about.
[–] spider-mario 3 days ago
And a refreshingly straightforward UI compared to modern behemoths.
But the functionally most use would be mostly there with office 95 at the latest (except for syncing).
Why does software nowadays use 1000x the resources of software 25 years ago, but only provides minimally more useful features.