OpenOffice 2, on the other hand, supports Windows 98 but does not open DOCX file. It is known that Open Office only began supporting Office 2007 documents since version 3, which does not work on Windows 98 without installing things such as KernelEx and introducing instabilities into the system. I concluded that Microsoft Office was not the solution and proceeded to find better alternatives. DOCX documents will result in raw binary contents being displayed in the Microsoft Word window. With this, the compatibility pack installed successfully but attempting to open any.

Because the compatibility pack refused to install on Windows 98, I extracted the MSI from the setup files using 7Zip and use ORCA to modify the installer to remove the OS version check. On my old but trusted Windows 98 laptop, which is used mostly for DOS and early Windows games, there is an occasional need to view Office 2007 documents such as DOCX. The last version of Microsoft Office that supports Windows 98 is Office XP, which is supported by Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack, also know as File Format Converter.

Openoffice versus microsoft office 2007