In fact, I was able to successfully install Office 2003 on a fully up-to-date Windows 10. Generally, I’d expect the failure to happen immediately when you first encountered Windows 10. It concerns me that Office 2003 worked in Win10 until after an update to Windows 10. That’s what I worry about.Īnd, unfortunately, getting that one update will likely require installing all the updates you’ve been avoiding up to that point. Then you’ll be stuck.Īs a matter of practicality, what you allude to is probably correct: most Windows 10 updates aren’t pragmatically critical, and you can easily wait them out - until there’s one that’s truly important. This kind of thing has happened in the past, and it’ll happen again in the future, I’m convinced. It’ll probably be some kind of security issue that is rampant in the wild, and for which your machine will be vulnerable until you take an update. The scenario that comes to mind is an issue that’s discovered for which you really, really, want the fix. Not just one of those “it would be nice” kind of needs (though you’ll have those as well, I suspect), but more of an “oh man, I really need this” need. The problem with avoiding Windows 10 updates is that someday you’ll need one.

I’ll address the pragmatic reality of avoiding updates, and I’ll also review what I see as your alternatives with respect to Windows 10 and Office 2003. I know you like it, I get that, but Office 2003 + Windows 10 is a match made … well, somewhere other than heaven. How about installing Ms Office 2007 in Windows Vista? I think it’s same as above way.Honestly, it doesn’t surprise me that Windows 10 might not be compatible with 14-year-old software. By default office 2007 will produce docx extension, choose Word97-2003 Document for compability Click Close, Pop up appear, I choose Noġ0. Installation progress, I took around 15 minutes to completeĦ. Choose Upgrade since I already have Office 2003ĥ. Operating system : Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or laterīrowser : Internet Explorer 6.0 or later, 32-bit browser onlyįor quick overview how to upgrade from MS Office 2003 to Office 2007 I make a few screenshots :Ģ. Monitor : Monitor capable of 1024×768 resolution Hard drive space : 2GB free hard drive space for installation final amount used depends on which features are installed No more question and delay time to upgrade to Office 2007 😉īefore upgrade here’s the requirementsÂ (taken from here) : Other component of Office 2007 are great too. I choose playing chess 🙂Īfter taking little team meeting I decide to upgrade to Office 2007 and I’m wrong again. Wow, very good tool, all task can be synchronized using groove. Until all team complete he show about MS Groove, about how collaboration looks like using groove. Sigh, I think it just another new version of MS Office. He said that he will make presentation of Office 2007.

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