[ipcress_file]

I liked Windows 3.1 so much that I used it as my main OS until 2003. The combination of Windows 3.1 and MS Office 4.0 was great. I don't think there's been a significant improvement in Word or Excel since then.

If pressed, I'd say that the greatest changes for general office use in the last twenty years (for me) involve multiple monitor support and touchscreens.

[brassattax]

And no modern OS does those two things consistently or correctly.

[ipcress_file]

I don't know about correctly, but I do find that there is some mildly buggy behaviour with multiple monitors on Windows 10. I haven't had great trouble with my touchscreen either, but you're right that there are occasional hiccups.

That being said, I'm much happier with those features than without them!

[avidphantasm]

Would NT 3.51 be a sweet spot for you then? Unless you play DOS games, it should run everything Windows 3.1 will run but without crashing.

[ipcress_file]

I didn't experience a lot of crashes (though I do remember the General Protection Fault screen).

Today, I'm happily using Windows 10 with Open Shell at work and Debian/LXDE at home.

I don't have the option of doing anything too out of the ordinary at work, because they've adopted MS Teams, rely on our calendars for scheduling, etc. I also make extensive use of a touchscreen and pen combination for annotating PDFs and I doubt (but you never know!) that any of the old OSes could handle that well.

[hulitu]

Word 97 seems to be the peak of office development.