Office 2000 in Vista

[Guest]

Has anyone been able to fresh install vista n then install office xp?
I cant do it . dunno why.

 

[Guest]

it's time to upgrade

 

[Richard G. Harper]

Probably because Office 2000 simply is not compatible with Vista.

 

[Tom Lake]

Probably because Office 2000 simply is not compatible with Vista.

Is he talking about Office 2000 or Office XP? They're not the same.

Tom Lake

 

[Jeff Gaines]

Has anyone been able to fresh install vista n then install office xp?
I cant do it . dunno why.

Office XP installs OK, Office 97 installs (with the usual problem relating
to system.mdw) but won't install SP2 because of a problem with the Marlett
font (which it seems to want to replace).

 

[Richard G. Harper]

Got me, I read the subject and replied to that.

Is he talking about Office 2000 or Office XP? They're not the same.

Tom Lake

 

[Roy Coorne]

Has anyone been able to fresh install vista n then install office xp?
I cant do it . dunno why.

Yes - I successfully installed Office XP Professional (with Frontpage)
in Vista RC2 b. 5744... on several machines; with SP3 and further
updates provided by Vista Update.

Roy

 

[Alan]

So in order to use Office on Vista, everyone is expected to run out and
buy/update to Office 2007?

Whatever happened to Microsoft's promise of some semblance of backward
compatibility?

Alan

 

[Alias]

So in order to use Office on Vista, everyone is expected to run out and
buy/update to Office 2007?

You catch on quick.

Whatever happened to Microsoft's promise of some semblance of backward
compatibility?

Alan

It died when they rolled out Vista and proved without a shadow of a
doubt that not only don't they care about their paying customers, they
hold them in disdain. You gotta get everything new like a new, high end
computer that will run Vista and a new office that looks "cool" with Vista.

Alias

 

[Rick Lipkin]

Office 2003 works just fine as well.

Rick Lipkin

 

[Robert wilkens]

I can confirm that, I just installed Office 2003 this morning... Yes, I
have Office 2007, and installed it once already on RC2 vista (and used up
all 10 of my activations on one computer!), but my client (imagine that, an
MSDN customer that's developing software for someone) still runs office 2003
and I don't want to force them to upgrade for me, so I downgraded to 2003.

The only catch is, and I don't remember this on previous versions of
Windows... Every time, for example, that I open Microsoft Word, I am
presented with the license agreement which I have to accept before running
it. I accept it, but it asks me again later to re-accept it when I re-open
another office application.

-Rob

 

[Mike Brannigan]

So in order to use Office on Vista, everyone is expected to run out
and buy/update to Office 2007?

Whatever happened to Microsoft's promise of some semblance of
backward compatibility?

Alan

It would be fair to say that Microsoft are probably not really
required to provide "backward compatibility" as you put it for an
application that is over 2 years past the end of mainstream support
and is now only supported under a paid for extended/premier support
contract, usually taken out by corporates who will almost certainly
have moved on to either Office XP or Office 2003 and maybe are
planning their Office 2007 deployments.

 

[Bill Frisbee]

Office XP works fine, as does Office 2003.


Office 2000 is now 8 years old...


Bill F.

 

[Bill Frisbee]

Nevermind the fact that Office 2000 is EIGHT years old, and that mainstream
support ended June 30, 2004, which was more than TWO years ago.

I don't see Apple still supporting System8...

Don't let facts stand in your way troll.


Bill F.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

You cannot use up your ten activations on one computer unless you
drastically change the hardware after each and every activation. The ten
activations are for ten different computers. Once activated on a computer
you can reactivate on that computer without further reducing your reamining
activation count.

 

[Alias]

It would be fair to say that Microsoft are probably not really
required to provide "backward compatibility" as you put it for an
application that is over 2 years past the end of mainstream support
and is now only supported under a paid for extended/premier support
contract, usually taken out by corporates who will almost certainly
have moved on to either Office XP or Office 2003 and maybe are
planning their Office 2007 deployments.

A lot of people, yours truly for example, have Windows XP and Office
2000 and see no need for all the bells and whistles that the subsequent
versions of Office offered or the added price of a new copy of Office,
be it XP, 03 or 07 would add to "deploying" Vista. You're implying that
if you can't afford both Vista and a version of Office that is not "past
the end of mainstream support ...", MS isn't really interested in you
anymore.

Alias

 

[Alias]

Nevermind the fact that Office 2000 is EIGHT years old, and that
mainstream support ended June 30, 2004, which was more than TWO years ago.

Still works. No reason to stop it from working, is there, other than
pushing out new versions of Office. Office Update is still patching it
so I'm not sure what you mean by 'mainstream'. Poor folks?

I don't see Apple still supporting System8...

I don't do Apple, sorry.

Don't let facts stand in your way troll.


Bill F.

Don't let your conscience come in the way of insulting someone you've
never met on line.

Alias

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

*remaining

You cannot use up your ten activations on one computer unless you
drastically change the hardware after each and every activation. The ten
activations are for ten different computers. Once activated on a computer
you can reactivate on that computer without further reducing your
reamining activation count.

 

[Mike Brannigan]

A lot of people, yours truly for example, have Windows XP and Office
2000 and see no need for all the bells and whistles that the
subsequent versions of Office offered or the added price of a new
copy of Office, be it XP, 03 or 07 would add to "deploying" Vista.
You're implying that if you can't afford both Vista and a version of
Office that is not "past the end of mainstream support ...", MS
isn't really interested in you anymore.

Alias

I am implying nothing. My statement was that with regard to any
software vendor. There is usually only a good case to provide
backward compatibility for maybe current minus possibly a couple of
previous version of an app - and that Office 2000 is out of mainstream
support and has now been superseded by 3 further generations of Office
applications.

One of your other posts stated that you do not understand the concept
of mainstream and extended support from Microsoft.
Please see
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifecycle

 

[over]

Just reinstalled Office 97 on Vista x64 - it still works fine, as it did
in Win98, WinNT, Win2k, WinXP... (no, I didn't forget WinME, but would
like to).