Windows 7 End of Support

Brds7t7 · 08 Aug 2019

jjr said:

Why should I buy again as I already own a working earlier version?

If all you use is Word and you don't want to pay MS over-inflated prices, you could try the free libreoffice:
Home | LibreOffice - Free Office Suite - Fun Project - Fantastic People

I was using office 2007 for years, but I've ditched it now and use libreoffice. It does everything I used MS office for.

There's a learning curve, but it's free to try though, so you could always install it alongside MS Office and give it a try. If it doesn't suit your needs then just uninstall it and go back to MS office.

The only MS products I still use are Windows and one Hotmail account, which I've had for about 20 years, and will need for the foreseeable future. I can still get everything done exactly the same as I did with MS products. Obviously that's different for every user though.

Melchior · 08 Aug 2019

I use Libreoffice too... lol

michael diemer · 08 Aug 2019

There are several other free Office suites. Not saying Libre is bad, but it's not the best. I recently switched to Free Office. Then I upgraded to the paid version, because they offered it to me at 28.00, a huge savings, which was all my wife needed to say "Buy it." Me, I was happy with the free version...It is a bit leaner, only has three parts, a text editor, spreadsheet and presentation app. Libre has at least 2 more but all most people use are the text editor and spreadsheet. Of the various choices, Free Office looks the most like MS Office, if that is important.

Lady Fitzgerald · 08 Aug 2019

Brds7t7 said:

If all you use is Word and you don't want to pay MS over-inflated prices, you could try the free libreoffice:
Home | LibreOffice - Free Office Suite - Fun Project - Fantastic People

I was using office 2007 for years, but I've ditched it now and use libreoffice. It does everything I used MS office for.

There's a learning curve, but it's free to try though, so you could always install it alongside MS Office and give it a try. If it doesn't suit your needs then just uninstall it and go back to MS office.

The only MS products I still use are Windows and one Hotmail account, which I've had for about 20 years, and will need for the foreseeable future. I can still get everything done exactly the same as I did with MS products. Obviously that's different for every user though.

Melchior said:

I use Libreoffice too... lol

Me three. I actually prefer it to MS Office.I haven't used my copy of MS Office 2010 in a couple of years now even though I still have it installed.

As Brds7t7 said, there is a learning curve for Libre Office but it's usable from the get go.

blue skies · 08 Aug 2019

Melchior said:

I use Libreoffice too... lol

When I switched to Windows 7 way back in 2010, I was so upset that it didn't include basic Word. I ended up using Open Office, and then later LibreOffice, and have always been extremely happy with them. (I also switched to free and open source Thunderbird email client back then too, because Microsoft discontinued Outlook Express... and years of using those free and open source MS replacements made it particularly easy for me to switch to Linux now that they are dumping the awesome Windows 7.)

IIRC, last time I installed LibreOffice on Windows I was able to choose to install whichever parts I wanted -- Writer, the word processing program and Calc, the Excel type program. If that isn't an option and/or you want to try a different word processing program... AbiWord still gets very positive reviews, I think.

townsbg · 08 Aug 2019

Since when did Windows come with Word? It might have been slapped on by the vendor as a trial but it isn't part of Windows and to my knowledge has never come with it. Are you referring to wordpad? If so that's different. Oh Wordpad does come with 7.

Lady Fitzgerald · 09 Aug 2019

townsbg said:

Since when did Windows come with Word? It might have been slapped on by the vendor as a trial but it isn't part of Windows and to my knowledge has never come with it. Are you referring to wordpad? If so that's different. Oh Wordpad does come with 7.

XP came with a basic version of MS Word (not just Wordpad) as part of its Works Suite.

TechnoMage2016 · 09 Aug 2019

Again, you said it....Word was a part of Works, not an integral part of Windows.
Works was a real POC!

I've spent hours, converting Works files to MS Word format, for a little old lady, who was getting rid of her old PC and getting a new one, without Works.

Today we have a viable choice, for a replacement for MS Office. I gave up on office back in 2007, and I now use only "Open Office" for my spreadsheet work. It's FREE!

Cheers Mates,

michael diemer · 09 Aug 2019

Word as well as Works came with Windows 98. Or, at least they were part of the package I got when we got our first computer. It came with a boatload of CD, including Word and Works. (I personally liked Works, and used it as my text editor). We paid 2,000.00 for that sucker. Real money back then...

z3r010 · 09 Aug 2019

That wasn't standard with 98.