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My formative experience of their backwards compatibility was being unable to open old word docs in newer versions of word. Open office could. Go figure.

As for how long their tech lasts, I used XNA for a game jam in 2012, and had an alright experience. I could no longer download and use XNA by the time the 2013 game jam came around.

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> My formative experience of their backwards compatibility was being unable to open old word docs in newer versions of word.

From experience: Word's still dropping support for older documents, and LibreOffice still supports them. (The only LO incompatibility I know is missing Math formulae sometimes, and that might have been fixed; if not, it's a fairly straightforward code change, since OOXML Math tags contain textboxes.)

you can still download it https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=237...

It requires VS 2010. Got a link to that?

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