JimboNo disrespect but this is a sledgehammer to crack a nut. Note - there's no email client so you'll need to find one if you use email - I like Thunderbird as you can run loads of accounts and also connect to exchange servers but there are loads of other ones out there depending on your needs. It's 99.9% compatible with Ms Office - seems to be -even EXCEL although no VBA stuff - most people don't use VBA in their EXCEL work anyway.įree Office Software, Kingsoft Office Suite Free 2012
A typical modern laptop can easily run some VM's these days.Īs far as an office clone is concerned - try WPS Office - works far better as an Ms Office clone than Libre Office and is FREE as well and works on Windows 10. If you have no experience of VM's - it's a great learning curve anyway so you should have a bit of fun setting it up.
I would advise against running an older version of W10 as a VM because it's quite hard to stop the wretched thing updating itself - updates are good for typical users but if you want to run legacy (i.e old or discontinued) software you need a stable environment that doesn't automatically update. If you don't like XP run VISTA or W7 as VM's. Why not run those old legacy apps as a Virtual Machine -you could even run them on an XP VM - just give the XP machine 768MB (yes less than 1GB) of RAM and it will fly on modern machines.
