Long story so will not bore you with it, but will MS Works run on Windows 8?
One of my Mum's friends needs it installed on her new PC, guess who's doing it?
As a guide, any version of MS Office prior to 2003 will not work on Win 7 and as Win 8 is merely a tweaked version (SP2?) of Win 7 with a diabolical UI tacked on, that's likely the same case.