<p>We have a new laptop in the house with Windows 8. It doesn’t have MS Office on it yet. Through work I can get Microsoft 2010 for under $10. Or I can get Microsoft 365 for $80. My use of Office is basic and the computer it would be on is a secondary computer. </p>
<p>Will MS Office 2010 work without any issues on Windows 8???</p>
<p>Silly question for the computer savvy, not a silly question for the software “challenged”. :)</p>
<p>No, it shouldn’t be an issue. Install Office 2010 and enjoy it. Unless you use intermediate/advanced features mainly intended for corporate/institutional presentations, you won’t need the latest and greatest version of Office.</p>
<p>Personally, I don’t see much value added for Office 2013/365 for myself and it seems many corporate/institutional users agree as they’re still running Office 2010 or sometimes even Office 2007.</p>
<p>Office 2010 should work ok and at $10 that’s the way to go.</p>
<p>Windows 8 and 8.1 are horrible. I would like to see every person involved in that piece of junk fired. Whoever invented “charms” should be beaten over the head with an Apple computer with the hope some sense will be beaten into that person’s head.</p>
<p>Thanks! I did a little searching and that seems to be the consensus - very little we’d be missing out with the '13 version. I’ll be happy to save the $70!</p>
<p>It should work fine, and to be honest, I haven’t seen anything really compelling in office upgrades in a while. If you run into problems with 2010 (which I doubt, usually MS products work well with new OS variants IME), they have a compatibility mode in windows 8 for older apps that might work if you do run into problems. </p>
<p>I upgraded to 8.1, it took forever (I have a very fast broadband connection), and when it finished I was like “what the heck”, so now they have a start button…that loads the main app window! Everything else seems to be the same, some upgrade. Fortunately I didn’t have to pay for it…</p>