alt Hacker News> Microsoft 30 years ago was the gold standard for bending over backwards for backward compatibility
And for reselling you the same office suite every couple of years.
(Full disclosure, I worked there in the 2000s... So if anything I should be biased the other way.)
Right, but if you bought office 2000 it was established that you would get to keep using office 2000 for as long as you wanted