The Office versions are much more compatible than the Windows versions. As an example, the 2010 version of this office suite will continue to receive updates until October 2020 and the 2013 version until 2023.
Microsoft cannot remove software that is still supported on the web anyway. Therefore, although they are difficult to find, it is still workable to download the installers for these older versions, provided you keep a copy of the original product key.
Advantages and disadvantages of using older versions of Office
The first thing to keep in mind here before getting to the heart of the matter is that the same thing happens with Office and with the rest of the programs. With this, what we want to tell you is that, as their developers point out, it is always advisable to use the most recent version of them. Anyway, with a continuation of the importance and Office costThis is not always feasible. Not everyone is predisposed to migrate to a newer version every time the company launches it, that's obvious. With everything and with that, in the same version, what you can do is keep up to date with the latest updates than those of Redmond send for the same.
Apart from this, although we focus on the previous versions of the productivity package, in many cases they still meet the needs of the users. This is precisely why, if we still have the corresponding official product key, we can download and continue using the old versions of Office, as we will see. Of course, we have to bear in mind that they will not have any Interface users as modern as today. At the same time, they lack some of the most advanced and modern features and options, but it all depends on how we use the programs.
At the same time, at the same time it is true that all these deficiencies to which we refer result in a more fluid operation. This is something that becomes fundamentally evident if we have old equipment or with somewhat limited internal specifications.
Download Office 2010
Microsoft has a page from which it will allow us download older versions of Office to install them in Windows 10. From following link We can access the 2010 versions of the office suite for Windows and the 2011 version for macOS.
To do this, simply enter the product key in the box that appears on the site and click "Control". The Microsoft website will validate the Office license and, if so, will allow us to choose the language and download the installer for Office 2010 or 2011 (in the case of macOS) on our computer.
Once the installer has been downloaded, we will run it and follow it until we install this version of Microsoft's office suite on our computer.
Terms
The minimum requirements that we must meet to install this version are:
- 500 MHz processor.
- 256 MB of RAM.
- 3 GB of free hard disk space.
- 1024 x 578 pixel screen resolution.
This version is compatible with all versions of Windows, from XP to Windows 10.
Download Office 2013 or 2016
Unlike the 2010 version, the 2013 and 2016 versions were linked to our Microsoft account. Therefore, it is much easier and faster to download these versions to install them on the Windows like in Mac OS.
To do this, we need to access the following link from our Microsoft account. On this page, click the link "Install on pc" from the top, and we will look for the version of Office that we want. We will choose the language and version (32 or 64 bits) and download the installer to our computer.
Once downloaded, we will only have to install it on the PC. Since it is linked to our Microsoft account, it will be activated automatically.
The default installer is an online installer, in other words, it will download the latest version available. But if you prefer, at the same time you can download an offline installer to install the office suite on multiple computers at the same time.
Terms
The requirements to be able to use Office 2013 are the following:
- 1 GHz 32-bit or 64-bit processor supporting SSE2 instructions.
- 2 GB of RAM memory (in the 64-bit version).
- 3 GB of free hard disk space.
- 1024 x 578 pixel screen resolution and DirectX 10 support.
This version is compatible with Windows 7 and all later versions of the operating system. It is not compatible with Windows XP.
How to download 2007 and earlier versions
These versions are no longer supported by Microsoft. Therefore, it is impossible to find and download the official installers. If at the time we kept the CD or installers of these versions, we can install it from them.
At the same time we can risk downloading these older versions of Office from third-party websites, although we run the risk of downloading a version that contains malware that could endanger our PC. At the same time to do something illegal. And keep in mind that when downloading these somewhat outdated versions of Windows, for whatever reason, many cases are called software piracy. These third-party websites that we are talking about offer in many cases illicit copies paid programs, such as Office or Windows itself. For all these reasons, we have many reasons to avoid it.
Or, as we mentioned, for problems related to piracy and the legal problems that this can cause, apart from this, are security. We are commenting on this because unnecessarily in most cases these applications may contain some type of hidden malware that we will end up installing on the PC. So it can become a serious problem for the rest of the system and its installed applications. And at the same time everything to install a program, no matter how paid, that has more than a decade.
