Will Office 2003 work with Windows 8?

Send me the money to upgrade office and I'll consider it. Some folks don't have the unlimited expense account that apparently you have.

Send me the money to upgrade office and I'll consider it. Some folks don't have the unlimited expense account that apparently you have.

There is another solution if you are fed up with Microsoft's abandonment of Backward Compatibility for it;s programs that people have paid good money for -- just switch to freeware like Kingsoft Office and break the MS monopoly on Office Software! I did. 

I see these elitist attitudes frequently voiced by people who can afford overly expensive programs -- thank God there are lots of people out there who believe in Open Source on the web...and frankly -- God love the Chinese for consistently producing compatible software for free like Kingsoft Office.

It's ironic (if you saw the film "Jobs") that Bill Gates did that exact same thing to Steve Jobs & Apple (copied his technology and undercut him by producing cheaper technology that he knew the market would gobble up. Now the same thing is happening to Gates, but I don't see him suffering in the least bit. (Pun intended).

Sadly - what you are describing is a downgrade not an upgrade.  Something as simple as adding new documents from the context menu, printing to file or using my beloved picture manager have gone the way of the dinosaur.  To me these are all huge backward steps.  Why is Microsoft in suc a rush to move us backwards?  Time to go bac to Word Perfect or has Corel done the same?

Nate

So it 'mostly' works once I got past the EULA issue. Minor problem with Outlook which is that autocomplete of addresses does not work. Maybe I'm hallucinating but I swear it worked up until a couple of weeks ago then suddenly stopped. The autocomplete list of addresses still comes up but when you hit tab or enter or select an item you only get what you actually typed - i.e. the partial name. Anyone else see this? Anyone have a workaround?