In reply to a post by broadband66:

Do you have an issue with older OSs and software? If an older version works for a particular user then why pay more just to keep up with a trend?

Somewhat. It's old, why get old software when you can get the new and improved version for the same price. If it is not new and improved then fair enough but Office 2016 is definately improved over 2007, 2010, 2013 I assure you!

But not at the same price; much less an annual fee.

Edited by XRaySpeX (Mon 18-Jan-16 21:34:18)

CP/M WordStar would still do all I want or need from a word processor. Similarly Supercalc for spreadsheets.

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In reply to a post by Pipexer:

As for obtaining Office 2016 - check eBay.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

CP/M WordStar would still do all I want or need from a word processor. Similarly Supercalc for spreadsheets.

Wordstar, now that is a thing from the past, lots of formatting commands.

So, presumably, that's what you use?

CP/M programs don't run well on Windows. For some strange reason they didn't even run well on MSDOS .

I had some great DR DOS (CP/M86 I think it was called) (DRS 300, remember that?) utilities that ran all the way up to Vista but I had to jettison them from Win 8 onwards cuz of 64-bit.

Edited by XRaySpeX (Tue 19-Jan-16 00:01:26)

So those programs wouldn't do all you want after all. (Number one requirement is that the program runs on your OS.)

I suspect you would also want to use devices (e.g. printers) not supported by WordStar (unless you have an LX200).

DR-DOS and CP/M-86 were different operating systems. I don't think that any CP/M program would run natively on MS-DOS, let alone any version of Windows.