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Like many of us, retirement is thundering at us like a freight train... Today, I am searching for an Office installation DVD, because Microsoft just makes it so elephanting stupid. I'll wager $50 that there are no useful features in Word added since 200x. Nevertheless, off I went to "I left that $%$^^ dvd somewhere" search to avoid having to subscribe to Microsoft's bull$hit.
I just tossed 50+ dvds of old drivers and os' and what not. I'm getting ready to go on round #2 and 3. It's so easy to accumulate this garbage thinking you might need it.
Any one need 24+ power cords? You pay shipping 
Charlie Gilley
βThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.β BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: Like many of us, retirement is thundering at us like a freight train...
I'll most likely work until I drop. If there's one thing that has consistently gotten me out of bed in the morning since I was 8, it's coding, and I don't see that changing. I enjoy it too much. It's part of who I am.
I don't even work for the money. I mean I need money, but if I didn't love what I do I'd make the worst employee imaginable. I don't work for the paycheck. I work because of the need to create and build, and the paycheck is a side effect.
If I die at my desk I'll die with a smile.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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I still use Office 2003 at home and it does everything I need it too. You can probably find it cheaply on fleabay if you need too. There are also places that re-sell OEM versions very inexpensively. They have MSoffice and a lot of other software. I have used them to buy Win10 for 10 to 15 bucks and I've no issues at all. If you want to see what they have and get a bit of a price break, visit this site : www.guru3d.com[^] and scroll down a bit until you see their advert. BTW - that's a pretty good site for computer hardware reviews. I visit it almost daily.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Rick York wrote: I still use Office 2003 at home and it does everything I need it too.
Me too! 
/ravi
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If I recall correctly, it came with a computer I bought.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I hear ya. I have spindles and spindles and spindles of cds from running a computer shop for the last 30 years. I have just less of a year left on my lease then am calling it quits as in the commercial IT biz, the inmates are running the asylum and it's no fun anymore. I threw out some 30 pin simms and still have a wfw cd and windows 95 - I don't know.
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If wfw is windows for Workgroups, the best feature in that OS was multiplayer Hearts.
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I still use Office 2013, but, hey, it is ONLY ten years old!
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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I use LibreOffice does everything I need and a whole lot more.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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charlieg wrote: I am searching for an Office installation DVD
I can't remember throwing them out, so I may still have the 30+ floppy disks to install Office 4.2, if that helps! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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charlieg wrote: I just tossed 50+ dvds of old drivers and os' and what not
Disk space is cheap. Ridiculously cheap.
I did a massive purge of physical media myself years ago, but not before I converted everything to .ISO files. Mostly MSDN CDs and DVDs.
This is my current Office folder:
12/20/2018 11:15 PM <DIR> 2000
12/22/2018 10:50 AM <DIR> 2003
12/04/2013 12:38 PM <DIR> 2007
12/15/2014 11:50 AM <DIR> 2010
03/20/2018 01:52 PM <DIR> 2013
06/09/2018 07:28 AM <DIR> 2016
11/23/2018 01:00 PM <DIR> 2019
10/07/2021 03:41 PM <DIR> 2021
03/02/2014 01:25 PM <DIR> 4.3 Professional
12/04/2013 12:42 PM <DIR> 95
12/20/2018 11:19 PM <DIR> 97
03/02/2014 01:01 PM <DIR> XP
...which reminds me, I never bothered looking for anything newer than 2021, since my employer is now providing me with the subscription-based version.
[Edit]
Doesn't look like there is an Office 2023.
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charlieg wrote: Any one need 24+ power cords? You pay shipping 
No thanks. They'd be US type and I have my own collection of unused UK ones!
I've also got a collection of Ethernet patch cables and a 16-port Gigabit switch which your message prompted me to check and find that it had 1 active device, apart from the router, and there was a spare port on the router!
charlieg wrote: It's so easy to accumulate this garbage thinking you might need it.
And, of course, when you need it, you can't find it!
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I've been doing an attic cleanout for the last couple of months, as my daughter planned to come get all of her stuff. I threw out two 30 gallon trash bags of cables. None of the discarded cables were for a connection technology I'm still using. Coax (cable TV), RCA audio plugs, SVHS video, early USB, RS-232, Centronics parallel. Probably came to over $5,000 when originally purchased, and now not even useful for garroting politicians.
Software Zen: delete this;
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Four go in the furnace, but kiss and make up (7)
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Yes indeed. You're up tomorrow!
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Oh dear, oh dear! What did I get myself into 
Mircea
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General context - nothing new but we get an assortment of rants on the Lounge about the latest debacle update from MS. For the life of me, I can't find the latest rant... I'm looking for the least pain to experience
I have to lift VC6++ code from 20 years ago to .. well today. I know from VC6++ to today we have compiler improvements as well as the IDE. I'm okay with the compiler enhancements, I'll pound through that. But I really don't want to go out to the tip of MS's latest release to help them debug.
Avoiding Visual Studio 2022 version 17.7.5 - the tip, is there any earlier version that would be more stable? I've worked with 2015 and 17 a little.
Advice?
Charlie Gilley
βThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.β BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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We have a number of products we still maintain using Visual Studio 2008. We have a new product being developed using VS2019, which we will probably move to VS2022 in the near future.
I do have a suggestion. Given the age of your code, I recommend using the New Project wizard in whatever version you decide to use to create the initial project(s) in the solution for your application. Import your current source one piece at a time, cleaning up issues as you go. As you move through the process this will go faster as you learn the patterns in the old code that need changed. This approach is a lot less painful than going through an upgrade process all at once (VC6 to VS2008 to VS2019 is one path I've tried).
Software Zen: delete this;
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Suggestion noted. I've done this in the past, but mainly involving CE to wec7 which forced us to go from EVC++ (yeah THAT old) to VS2008. 2008 has been pretty good, but it still has some evil in it. I'll start with 2019 and see how it goes.
Thanks
Charlie Gilley
βThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.β BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I think VS2022 is noticeably better than 2019, specially Intellisense. Compiler is the same or very similar. I went from VS2019 to 2022 last year and never looked back.
Mircea
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Hmm, okay. Maybe I can find the rant about MS screwing up the latest then.
It's not a big issue, I make a snapshot of my VM and if it goes sideways I revert. Appreciate the feedback.
Charlie Gilley
βThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.β BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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when I used Visual Studio 2019 to open a VC++6.0 project, after convert the project I compiled it. most warnings are related with project parameters settings and macro definitions.
After fix these items, my projects are compiled successfully.
diligent hands rule....
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