MS Office 2003 on Win8?

[mikeymikec]

I understood from the general talk on the Internet that MSO2k3 isn't compatible with Windows 8, but I've just seen screenshots on the Wikipedia page for Office 2002/XP of it running on Win8.

Has anyone here tried running MSO2k3 on Win8?

I know that there are bugs in Office 2002/XP that make it difficult to use on Vista or anything newer (the Protected Storage system that was removed after XP is used by Outlook XP to store passwords, for example), but it would be good to know what the score is with Microsoft Office 2003 and Win8.

 

[boochi]

Run it in compatibility mode. Seriously any of the free major open source office suites would be better than running 11 year old software.

 

[Whisper2]

I used Office Pro 2003 win Win 8 x64 for 4 or 5 months. I do not recall having any issues or having to do anything special to install it. I do not know if it matters but I did not install all the apps. I installed Outlook, Excel, Word & PowerPoint.

I upgraded to 2010 early this year primarily because I thought it may be the last "non-touch" version MS offered.

 

[mikeymikec]

I used Office Pro 2003 win Win 8 x64 for 4 or 5 months. I do not recall having any issues or having to do anything special to install it. I do not know if it matters but I did not install all the apps. I installed Outlook, Excel, Word & PowerPoint.

I upgraded to 2010 early this year primarily because I thought it may be the last "non-touch" version MS offered.

Admittedly there's a heck of a lot of things that could be wrong with an unsupported version of Office, but considering that most people use a tiny subset of its total features, it's probably a safe bet that it's OK 🙂

Thanks for your input.

 

[MontyAC]

One of my Win8 machine is running Office 2003 with no problems.