It goes really fast if you turn off the connected experiences like linked in, the AI crap, the splash screen, all the cloud shit and crack it with massgrave.
I was going to ask: How much faster would it be if it didn't have to communicate with Microsoft servers over the internet on start up.
It makes no sense that modern Office won't start faster than Office 97. Sure it has more features, it's bigger in any way, but it's also not running of a spinning hard drive and 32Mb of RAM.
Can Office even start up without an Internet connection, or does it just take even longer?
Like office 97 speed.
There's your problem.