Installing Microsoft Office 4.2 on the $5 Windows 98 PC!

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Office 4.0 was noteworthy for being the last major version to support Windows 3.x. Today, we travel back to 1994 to install and explore Office 4.2!

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[johncgh]

An idea, make a power point presentation in Power Point 4.2 and see if you can still open it in new versions, and check what stays and what not, like the saga for Windows 1.0 to Windows 7

[BasementBerean]

I am a retired IT professional. I remember when Office 95 was released. I went to a Microsoft event in downtown Seattle, and they gave me a stack of software in boxes, including this I think. So, they loaded me up with a stack of software, and I asked them if they had bags, and they said no! So I left with an awkward-to-carry stack of software wondering what to do, and thinking that this was typical of Microsoft not thinking the end user experience all the way through.

[superknuxisaid]

15:56 "Printer Ink - $900, 000.00"
Michael is a comedic genius, as always.

[judgewest]

my first tech job was in '96 when i was 16 years old. i had this installed on top of windows 3.11 on a bunch of diskless workstations in a high school in the UK and just remembered thinking, it cannot get any better than this...

[marcp.]

The artworks they used during the installation process just were so nice !

[EllaBee]

I know a LOT of people who would love to get pop-up "How To" windows like in 1994 just so they could properly learn how to use their computer. Even the click once or click twice is hard to comprehend for some.

[SleepyMechanic]

I remember my school was huge on teaching computer typing. They gave us a floppy disk to save documents on and spent a few weeks learning EVERY feature of office. This brought back so many memories

[PhilipExperience]

Actually having some applications on the top of the screen would be quite useful in Windows 3.1, For quick access to things back then before the Start Menu.

[SupraBlack-dpzz]

I totally forgot about that bar on the top of the screen when installing that older version of Office. Flashback!

[richiesmeckgeckscas]

Seeing that PowerPoint presentation you made looked very nostalgic to me, and I didn't even grow up with this version of Office. I think I grew up with Office 2003

Still, it was interesting to look at what Microsoft Office was like back then!

[shana_dmr]

This brought back my PTSD of reinstalling Windows 3.1 and Office 4.2 in school lab full of 386 SX computers from big pile of dodgy """backup""" floppies. You started the installation process on one computer then just passed along to the next one disk by disk. There had been at least two times I drove home on bike to snatch my private """copies""" because disk 14 or so failed and school was too cheap to buy few packs of spare floppies (and in all honesty even if they did nobody would make these backups, there's always something more important to do) :)

[DryPaperHammerBro]

PowerPoint was actually a Classic Macintosh application from 1987! It was originally called "Presenter" and was developed by Forethought

[theforerunnerreclaimer]

The $5 windows 98 PC is the staple of this channel

[airfixer]

Great one Michael, right up my alley. Interesting to tell people : Office 4.3 Professional is the same thing but with an extra! 4.3 Prof. was initially released with Access 1.1 and a coupon for a free upgrade towards Access 2.0 when that was released some time later. (Ms tried to discourage users to buy competitors products by announcing new releases of Ms products like Access 2.0 although they weren't ready at the time they released this package. Well done Michael...🙂

[BrunovskyPlays]

This is so nostalgic, I remember using this app launcher back in Windows 95 and maybe 98, I loved to customize it with other applications! Great video!

[Eyetrauma]

6:09 I didn’t realize that so many installers from this era modified their own install disks. I’ve been checking out a bunch of Mac Garden stuff lately and it’s crazy how many tainted disk images are the only versions available. Netware installers also. Most people can live with the pre-filled registration data of course but from a preservation standpoint…

[visassess]

This is actually pretty cool to see. My earliest computer memories were playing WW2 flight sims on a big tan desktop with my dad on Windows XP. Interesting to look back on some of this stuff that I wasn't around for.

[computerkid]

It's amazing how little some of these programs have actually changed over the years.

[tinyostechs]

The Best comeback of the 98PC, great video (As Always)!

[alexj.f.kennedy]

Guess I have that installed on my Windows 95 Laptop, unless there was a sepcial 6.0 release for businesses back in the day. The Word program I have on there is 6.0, still nice to see how old it actually is!