Which is the best version of MS Office in your opinion?

[Compa]

I use Office 2019 on Win7 and 8.1 since when i previously used older Office like 2010/2013, it clogged Windows Updates on 7 and 8.1 with random Office updates

I guess your too lazy to select them or not :p
(offtopic, thoughts on Neptunia? uwu)

[LuckyCryWinScenic]

I use Office 2019 on Win7 and 8.1 since when i previously used older Office like 2010/2013, it clogged Windows Updates on 7 and 8.1 with random Office updates

I guess your too lazy to select them or not :p
(offtopic, thoughts on Neptunia? uwu)

I partially like "Adult Neptune" but since i cannot easily change my waifu, it will take weeks to get used to it and i'm fine with Neptunia

UPDATE: fixed some typo

[Compa]

I use Office 2019 on Win7 and 8.1 since when i previously used older Office like 2010/2013, it clogged Windows Updates on 7 and 8.1 with random Office updates

I guess your too lazy to select them or not :p
(offtopic, thoughts on Neptunia? uwu)

I partially like "Adult Neptune" but since i cannot easily change my waifu, it will take weeks to get used to it and i'm fine with Neptunia

UPDATE: fixed some typo

aww ^^ personally I prefer lil Neppy because... idk, that look suits her better but yay you are a Nep fan too *hugs you tight*

[dastoopidfurrytwo]

It's mixed between 2010, 2013 and 2016 for me

[SkyeWeeb]

2010. No Microsoft Account bullshit in it, and the UI doesn't want to make me gouge my eyes out. Anything 95-2007 is also pretty good.

[dastoopidfurrytwo]

2010. No Microsoft Account bullshit in it, and the UI doesn't want to make me gouge my eyes out. Anything 95-2007 is also pretty good.

Now that proves that 2010 is the better of the Offices for me.

Something felt off with 2007 imo

[Win10-Hater]

Can anyone tell me how to download Office 2010 build 4006? Downloading from this link (https://archive.org/download/com.microsoft.office.14.0.4006.1000/Office%2014.0.4006.1000%20TP.iso)
gave me a dead ISO with a non-working setup.exe that says that "This program is not compatible with x86(32 bit) or x64 (64 bit) Windows."

[K4sum1]

Can anyone tell me how to download Office 2010 build 4006? Downloading from this link (https://archive.org/download/com.microsoft.office.14.0.4006.1000/Office%2014.0.4006.1000%20TP.iso)
gave me a dead ISO with a non-working setup.exe that says that "This program is not compatible with x86(32 bit) or x64 (64 bit) Windows."

http://the-eye.eu/BetaArchive/%28Beta%29%20Applications/PC/Microsoft%20Office%202010%20%28%27%27Office%2014%27%27%2014.0.4006.1010%29%20%28x64%20beta%29/media_iso.rar

[Compa]

2010. No Microsoft Account bullshit in it, and the UI doesn't want to make me gouge my eyes out. Anything 95-2007 is also pretty good.

Now that proves that 2010 is the better of the Offices for me.

Something felt off with 2007 imo

Gonna guess its the fact publisher 2007 doesn't have the ribbon UI?

@Win10-Hater

[dastoopidfurrytwo]

2010. No Microsoft Account bullshit in it, and the UI doesn't want to make me gouge my eyes out. Anything 95-2007 is also pretty good.

Now that proves that 2010 is the better of the Offices for me.

Something felt off with 2007 imo

Gonna guess its the fact publisher 2007 doesn't have the ribbon UI?

@Win10-Hater

Nah, the design in general. The diff between 2003 and 2007 was a bit un-needed. I felt like there was no budget for design

[Win10-Hater]

@Win10-Hater

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[Compa]

you mentioned 4006

audi9801 loves 4006

[dastoopidfurrytwo]

you mentioned 4006

audi9801 loves 4006

4006

[penis mf]

Office 2000 in my Opinion. It's just so Awesome for all stuffs (Fun fact: with that Converter Addon, it can even read Unencrypted Docx from office Trash 365). But for Modern stuff, I prefer Office 2007 or Office 2010.

[K4sum1]

Update: I've pretty much stopped using Office entirely, but if I have to use it, I would be using 2007, or 2003.

[TheMessengerVEVO]

For me personally, I used 2010 since I first had a Windows, and its honestly so good. The UI is both simple and efficient while looking nice, AND its skeuomorphism which I really like. They also have some pretty banger templates, especially Publisher. BTW I always think of this from time to time, but where did the online templates you could access from these went? are they archived anywhere? Just wondering...

[The-10-Pen]

Old thread, new member.
Up until about a year ago, I was on XP x64 and Office 2003.
Now that I'm on Win10 2016 LTSB, I run Office 2007.

[Niko]

Ngl I really love Office 97 for doing simple word processing stuff but for anything modern or school related I just love Office 2007. At school we exclusively use Office 2010 and it's also great. IMO everything after office 2013 is just bloated garbage. But yeah office 2007 would be my favourite since it's the fastest most stable and reliable version in my experience.

[Lappo]

even though i dont have a need for an office suite nowadays im surprised by the amount of people vouching for office 2010
honestly when office 2007 came out i was like WHATS THIS UI???? AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

[Niko]

even though i dont have a need for an office suite nowadays im surprised by the amount of people vouching for office 2010
honestly when office 2007 came out i was like WHATS THIS UI???? AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

No wonder tbh Office 2010 actually is amazing and the best version of a full fledge office suit. It is not too great on Windows 10/11 from my experience but it's still fully usable. I use it almost daily at school and I can't really imagine using the free alternatives like Libreoffice or Onlyoffice.

[xperceniol_sal]

...Office 2000 in my Opinion. It's just so Awesome for all stuffs (Fun fact: with that Converter Addon, it can even read Unencrypted Docx from office Trash 365)...

Agreed 100%

[UCyborg]

Business partner at work contacted us in recent times with the trouble he had with Excel spreadsheet he got from us for specific number conversions, said they don't work. He said he has Office 2007. The spreadsheet uses bit manipulation functions unknown to Excel 2007. Like, bruh, it's 2025, upgrade that old shit. Things like that are just waste of everyone's time.

[TSNH]

The spreadsheet uses bit manipulation functions unknown to Excel 2007. Like, bruh, it's 2025, upgrade that old shit. Things like that are just waste of everyone's time.

This means that the docx file created by a newer Office version was not compatible with the docx standard which was defined with 2007.

If Microsoft wants to make a new standard they by definition should create a new one like docy, this however is probably unnecessary as it hasn't changed so much since

So an ideal solution would be to include something like a polyfill in the new format file to allow it to run under Office 2007 or at the very least provide a warning to the user that this particular feature in not supported on this version of Office and may not work correctly.


You can't expect casual people to differentiate one docx file from another (often they don't even know which version of Office hey have). Microsoft has traditionally been very good about backwards compatibility and introducing incompatibilities like this one will likely put them (or your team in this case in a bad light)

Backwards compatibility has been one of the key advantages and one of the main success reasons of Windows vs Linux, cause only tech-savvy people can keep up with which new version they should be running to stay compatible with some docx.
And there are even some who deliberately don't