Personal note: I am not very knowledgeable on computers.
I have a new solid state drive after my old hard drive's Windows key apparently 'expired.'
The ssd is preloaded with Windows 10 because of familiarity and 'muh gaymes', but I do want to start getting away from Microsoft stuff (including the OS) on principle.
I know internet browser options are currently a bit "pick your poison." I've been satisfied with Brave and Waterfox, and previously Pale Moon (dropped for some website or add-in functionality I can't remember from years ago).
Besides that, I was thinking this might be a good opportunity to learn about current software/projects doing things properly.
So, I'll just share what programs I see among my hard drive files... 7zip, SumatraPDF, VLC, Audacity (which I recall seeing got bought), Steam, Dropbox, MusicBee (music player and manager), OpenOffice, and some game emulators for a Nintendo fanboomer.
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Office 2007 Enterprise Edition.
If we can be honest for a moment, no one would voluntarily install OpenOffice on their computer if Office didn't cost $$$$. Yes OpenOffice can export to PDF and Office for a long time couldn't. But now "Print to PDF" is built into Windows, so...
Office 2007 Enterprise (and only Enterprise) is the last version of Office to not require online activation and the first version to support the "modern" Office file formats (docx, xlsx, pptx). And it still works just fine on Win10 and doesn't cost $$$$ because it's no longer sold or supported by Microsoft.
Search for "KGFVY".
There are a lot of keys online, but a lot of them aren't Enterprise keys and will still ask you to activate. Of course it does this after you've installed everything.
That one is an Enterprise key, and it won't even let you try to activate Office.
For the ISO search for "c377a8ee2daf8eb6d8307801e9dc4888e281d50d". That's the hash for the official ISO that you would have downloaded from Microsoft back in the day. A lot of the ISOs you find have been modified in some way or another.
OneNote is an extremely under-rated piece of software. I received a free copy of the first version they released back in 2003 for attending some sort of Microsoft tech talk at my university. Been hooked ever since.