Subject: Re: New strategy
Maybe I was not clear. As I wrote many books about them I have them all: Office 2003 and XP and 2000; the normal versions, the developer versions, even still some beta versions. And, yes, I use 2003 on my desktop (a DualBoot iMac which I use as a Windows machine; Heresy, I know).

But: All those old Office versions are compiled for Intel CPU´s. My travel computer, a MS Surface Pro 11, though has a Snapdragon CPU, the ARM architecture used in Android smartphones/tablets. That CPU is far better suited for mobile computers than the Intel CPU´s Microsoft used in previous generations of their Surface computers. But older software, compiled for Intel CPU´s, runs emulated (Windows 11 has an emulation layer for ARM CPU´s).

That works very well with all my old software --- except MS Office. ALL Intel compiled Office versions of Excel crash. As Excel for me is the most important software at all I am therefore forced to use on this computer Office 2024/365, as this is the only MS Office available in a native ARM version.