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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
16 bit software stopped running "out of the box" with Windows 7 64 bit.
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Those very few people who have a need to run 16-bit software can still run 32-bit versions of Windows 7 or 8, or can run a 32-bit VM under 64-bit Windows. There comes a point at which it's impractical to continue supporting a feature which only a tiny number of people use. It's 20 years since the first 32-bit version of Windows (Windows 95) appeared; you can't go on supporting ancient software forever.
Word 97 runs absolutely fine under 64-bit Windows 10. Word 6, released in 1993, was the first 32-bit version of Word.