I had a hard time finding earlier StarOffices too, you'd think an officially free download would be nicely recirculated. Had to resort to ftp searches for "so5" etc

I have version 3.1 and whit some luck version 4 from evilbay.

From version 5 i could only find SUN versions.

But i'm thinking to install Corel Office 2000 (I must have that one somewhere in my data junk...)

Moved to "Milliways". This is a business suite discussion, not games discussion, so does not belong in "Windows" (which is short for "Windows Games").

I was a happy Office XP user for many years, and would probably still be using it if not for the Great Switch to Linux. Office XP has a no-nonsense user interface, solid feature set, and broad OS compatibility, and it behaves well on low-spec machines. I now use LibreOffice, which is more than capable of filling Office XP's shoes. LibreOffice certainly has a larger memory footprint, and support for older Windows versions was dropped some time ago. However, it runs well enough on any machine made in the last ~13 years, provided that the OS is supported.

If you're looking for older / more obscure office suites, I just found an awesome repository the other day

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(Moderators - please remove the above link if it violates any abandonware policies.)

I'm sure I've got old versions of StarOffice 5.2a for OS/2, Windows and Linux on CD somewhere. It was more an integrated desktop unlike later versions.

You might also consider looking at Microsoft Works if you don't need or want the overhead required by the Visual BASIC for Applications/Visual BASIC support in Microsoft Office. As is the case with Microsoft Office, there are a number of versions spanning many years, so you can probably find one for whatever real or virtual OS environment you prefer. See this link for additional info on the suite:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Works

Of course there's always BreadBox Ensemble http://www.breadbox.com/ or earlier GeoWorks versions. You don't even need Windows of any sort, just dos.

For just basic Windows stuff I normally slap on Abiword for word processing. Though support has for Windows has been dropped Gnumeric might do for basic spread sheets.

There was Windows versions of Koffice as well https://windows.kde.org/news.php

I still have Office 98 loaded on a lot of my old Macs.

There is the longstanding giveaway of Ashampoo Office 2010
http://www.mostiwant.com/blog/ashampoo-office … ith-serial-key/
It IS legit - the page too register free is direct from Softmaker (it's a rebrand of Softmaker) http://www.softmaker.de/reg/ash10_en.htm

Alternatively, there is a more recent, free but less featured version http://www.freeoffice.com/en/

Not forgetting
http://www.wps.com/windows/ - WPS office (free version available0 - formerly Kingsoft Office

And finally:
http://www.ssuitesoft.com/
http://www.ssuitesoft.com/freedownloads.htm
There are several different bundles and individual apps, also versions tuned for different screen sizes - http://www.ssuitesoft.com/apps/blog/show/4023 … -to-your-screen
Can't even find this version except by google link http://www.ssuitesoft.com/galaxyclass.htm
Ah, this page appears to have links to more info & content of each suite
http://www.ssuitesoft.com/bestfreeofficesuites.htm

Their site is a bit of a mess!

I got 2 versions of Star Office 4 now for 1 Euro each on evilbay. I will report when they are in.

Further more I decided to use Windows 2000 as OS. Will install MS Office 2002 on it for the time being.