![]() Microsoft 365’s install rule is great news for virtual machines Windows Update will install security patches, just like regular Windows.Over time there will be increasing reminders to license Windows either by buying a product key or an existing Windows 8 or later key. These Windows installs need a valid license key, eventually.A Microsoft account login is optional which is the reverse of a standard Windows installation. tiny Windows defaults to making a local account login.Tiny10/11 are well regarded and have been around for a while with no reports of trouble. As with any external software, use at your own risk.Tiny11 (Windows 11) can be downloaded from īoth are. If you want to make virtual machines with Microsoft Office, it’s worth considering tiny11 or tiny10 to make a stable OS using less memory than a complete Windows VM. The same results should apply to Office 2021, Office 2019 and earlier versions of Office which, if anything, would put lower demands on computer resources. The apps might slow down with very large documents or many Outlook mailboxes but overall we were pleased by how well Microsoft Office worked. Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook all worked normally and surprisingly quickly given the setup. ![]() Installation and running Office apps worked quite normally and well, despite the very low memory. Officially, Microsoft 365 for Windows requires 4GB for 64-bit apps or 2GB 32-bit.įor both machines we installed Microsoft 365 for Windows 64-bit. (For comparison, my smartphone has 6GB and main computer 32GB of RAM). People have run either ‘tiny’ in even less memory than that. We made a tiny10 virtual machine with a mere 2GB of memory and tiny11 with just 4GB – both the minimum recommended. Yes, you can run Microsoft Office on either tiny10 or tiny11 and it works surprisingly well even with little memory. ![]() Windows 11 for Microsoft Office users Does tiny10 and tiny11 run Microsoft Office? Including a ‘step-by-step’ through making your first ‘VM’ using Hyper/V (comes with Pro versions of Windows) with Office software. Our Windows books for Microsoft Office users have a whole chapter devoted to explaining and using Virtual Machines. ![]() Anyone wanting to test Office or run multiple versions of Windows needs to use virtual machines. We’re interested in using the ‘tinys’ as virtual machines ( Hyper/V or VMware) for testing. ![]()
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