I installed Office ‘97 for work I think two summers ago. We had an old access database that I had to import into a new postgres-based system and it installed just fine on Windows 10. It was hilarious that clippy still tries to take over the desktop but it looks a little funny because borderless windows don’t work quite the same as they used to.
Yes that makes sense. Microsoft entirely eliminated Internet Explorer on February 14th, 2023 and with it any software that has any dependency on it will fail to work: