I decided to verify this and came up short. I went through the installation procedure which did work but required changing some workgroup settings and running the application as administrator... not ideal but understandable. However, when I tried to run it, no good. I get an error about missing files. I then went through the process of finding some of these missing files and installing them but ultimately ran up against the final fatal error that will not allow me to proceed.
Access 97 depends on some Internet Explorer components and Microsoft has made it all but impossible to install Internet Explorer on the most recent Windows 10 and Window 11.
Apart from that I also tried getting Minesweeper and SkiFree to work on Windows 10 and Windows 10 just straight up refuses to run them with the message "This app can't run on your PC."
I installed Office ‘97 for work I think two summers ago. We had an old access database that I had to import into a new postgres-based system and it installed just fine on Windows 10. It was hilarious that clippy still tries to take over the desktop but it looks a little funny because borderless windows don’t work quite the same as they used to.
Yes that makes sense. Microsoft entirely eliminated Internet Explorer on February 14th, 2023 and with it any software that has any dependency on it will fail to work:
Access 97 depends on some Internet Explorer components and Microsoft has made it all but impossible to install Internet Explorer on the most recent Windows 10 and Window 11.
Apart from that I also tried getting Minesweeper and SkiFree to work on Windows 10 and Windows 10 just straight up refuses to run them with the message "This app can't run on your PC."