# Contributions: MS Office 2003

DevFeed: [Contributions: MS Office 2003](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/contributions-ms-office-2003-32771.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://reactos.org/blogs/contributions-ms-office-2003/>)

Published: 2014-01-31T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Front Page on ReactOS Website](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/front-page-on-reactos-website.md>)

Topics: [ReactOS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reactos.md>), [Testing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/testing.md>), [Usability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/usability.md>), [Microsoft](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microsoft.md>)

Tags: [bug](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bug.md>), [free](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/free.md>), [microsoft](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/microsoft.md>), [office](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/office.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [os](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/os.md>), [react](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/react.md>), [reactos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reactos.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>), [usability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/usability.md>), [win32](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/win32.md>), [winapi](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/winapi.md>)

## AI overview

The article reports that ReactOS can run Microsoft Office 2003 in a decent state, while noting remaining visual glitches, potential hangs, and usability limitations. It also credits contributors whose testing helped demonstrate the progress.

## Source excerpt

This time a double-win. Not so long ago trying to run a whole office suite was almost a dream. Just launching an app was a success.There was just one complex suite almost working: "SoftMaker Office 2008". A nice, and mostly unknown, Microsoft Office clone. It was such a good Office clone that it is closed and non-free. From past experience you can find two kind of users out there: "