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Re:Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye by worble on Thursday August 08, 2019 @07:28AM (#20643492)
Why do you need a VM? I'm still running 2k3 office natively on Windows 10, no problems at all.
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Re:Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye by wila on Thursday August 08, 2019 @08:38AM (#20643936)
Running 2k3 office outside of a container, vm or otherwise, is not recommended as it hasn't seen security patches in about a decade. Where you see no problems i can only think "Eeeks".
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Re:Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye by Crinus on Thursday August 08, 2019 @10:39AM (#20644994)
What sort of security issues do you expect Office 2003 to have that will affect you nowadays?
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Re:Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye by hdfbdtbcdg on Thursday August 08, 2019 @01:06PM (#20646306)
Loads. Simply loads. Office Macros execute by default in 2003 right?

Hopefully no one is using the outlook from then as their mail client at least...

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Re:Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye by wila on Thursday August 08, 2019 @02:47PM (#20647363)
Quite a few of what you can see in this list [1].

[1] https://www.cvedetails.com/product/320/Microsoft-Office.html...

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Re:Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye by Crinus on Friday August 09, 2019 @10:50AM (#20654874)
Yes but which of those apply specifically to Office 2003, on Windows 10 and will be exploited today in 2019?
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Re:Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye by hdfbdtbcdg on Thursday August 08, 2019 @09:29AM (#20644320)
Because I don't want to run windows as my main OS?
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