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by ifeeltriedboss 1307 days ago
And what would be the alternative? LibreOffice with its 90s UI/UX?
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I wish I had ms office with its 90s UI/UX instead of whatever garbage it evolved into.
Office 95 works on Windows 11: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jSfIroiFdA

So you can buy a copy of your favourite old Office version on eBay or whatever and use that.

going from obscure binary to zipped xml was the one good improvement one would miss out on.
It's available to download at libreoffice.org
Ms office is available to download 'at libreoffice.org'?
They're joking that LibreOffice looks like MS Office in the 90's
I prefer LibreOffice Calc to Excel thanks to the sane 90s UI/UX as well.
LibreOffice has a ribbon these days. There are several ways to run it in the cloud with simultaneous editing. I don't know what the default UI settings are like these days, but the UI design is quite comparable to Office.

I suppose Office went "everything is flat and coloured rectangles" but I don't think that's necessarily a good thing.

For many people even the Windows 3.1 versions would suffice.