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I've been using Windows 2000 Professional for several months now as my primary OS now and it works great. With kernel modifications, I even have Office 2007 working seamlessly. The problem is I really need Office 2010, the best and really the oldest usable version of Office, and I've been getting away with running it in a Server 2003 VM until now. But that adds overhead. Still, W2K is incredibly stable and fast. So if people can use W2K 20 years after it was released, then W7 should be at least as usable ten years from now, probably still more usable. At this point, I'm considering using Windows 7 and/or Windows Vista Ultimate as a secondary OS to handle things like Office 2010, which Windows 2000 is just not ideal for. That way, Windows 10 can be completely avoided, since Vista and 7 are modern enough to do what I can't do in Windows 2000 (which is really not a lot).

I'm not a TV user, so I had missed this unfortunate development... I went earlier on the official site to fetch and archive an installer of the last Vista compatible TV version, where I found the following notice: https://community.teamviewer.com/t5/Knowledge-Base/Which-operating-systems-are-supported/ta-p/24141 Unfortunately, the latest version is v15 (15.2.2756 to be exact) and I have confirmed it doesn't launch under Vista (due to missing function calls in Vista's system files... ); so, the last Vista compatible version, v14.2.x, can't be used anymore with a free licence... But even if you pay for a commercial licence, there are limitations: Sunsetting active servicing of operating systems That previous link suggests going to https://www.teamviewer.com/en/download/previous-versions/ for a v14 download; v14.7.13736 is displayed there (???); I am using NM28 and my UA does advertise my Vista OS (NT 6.0); the link to the installer is https://download.teamviewer.com/download/version_14x/TeamViewer_Setup.exe Upon clicking that, it redirects to https://dl.teamviewer.com/download/version_14x/14.2.56673/TeamViewer_Setup.exe which suggests a v14.2.56673 is the last Vista compatible TV version; however, it is impossible for me to complete the download, the browser generates an error, the wording is "The page doesn't redirect correctly" (translated from Greek); what gives? The portable download link https://download.teamviewer.com/download/version_14x/TeamViewerPortable.zip simply fetches v14.7.13736, which I confirmed doesn't launch under Vista... ; at last, I was successful in fetching the portable version of TV v14.2.56673 via the following, manually composed, link: https://dl.teamviewer.com/download/version_14x/14.2.56673/TeamViewerPortable.zip ... and I confirmed v14.2.56673 (portable) does successfully launch here (be it only after a considerable while since the main executable is double-clicked): ... But, the installer of v14.2.56673 is still a no-go for me... ... And do you want to know how I ended up getting that one? By requesting version 14.2.8352 (!) ; yes, the link (manually composed): https://dl.teamviewer.com/download/version_14x/14.2.8352/TeamViewer_Setup.exe will fetch: How MAD has this world become?