--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Premanand" <premanandp...@...> wrote: > > Word2000 is also on the first disc of Works Suite 2000
FYI, anyone interesting in seeing whether a program can install successfully from a simple copy of the CD/DVD can try it themselves on their existing mach- ines. Copy the program to the hard disk, open it in Windows Explorer or DOS, and look for either an autorun.inf file or a setup.exe. (Running the former invokes the latter.) If it successfully installs on your current machine, chances are it will on your proposed new machine. The above is true of software more than 5-8 years :-) old, in my experience, installing against newer OS's. Newer than that, and the software geeks got smarter about their copy protection and authorization schemes, as well as monitoring license IDs over the Net. So interestingly you might be able to get away with installing and successfully running Office/Word 2000 from a simple disk image, but you might run into problems if you tried the same thing with Offive/Word 2003 and you would definitely FAIL big-time if you tried it with Office/Word 2007. If there are programs in your life that work the way you need them to, and you really have no need for any subsequent upgrades (I feel this way about Snagit 6 and Paint Shop Pro 7), the concept of "Gotta support legacy software" prevalent in the industry actually works in your favor. If the OS is smart enough to support your legacy software, chances are it is also dumb enough not to recognize any of its built-in software protection schemes.
