Office 2000 in Vista

[Chris]

Would that be a Student CD-R of Office 2K ran for a business? =P


Office XP works fine, as does Office 2003.


Office 2000 is now 8 years old...


Bill F.

 

[Jeff Gaines]

On 26/11/2006 in message <[email protected]>

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).

That could be good news for me

Have you applied SP1 & SP2? I got SP1 on fine but it bombed out with SP2
because it was trying to update the Marlett font and couldn't.

 

[David M Covey Sr.]

This is incorrect, you can in fact use up all of your activations on one
computer. All you have to do is repartition and reformat your hard drive
(or install a new one) and do a "fresh" install of your operating system and
software and it will appear as if you installed on a new machine. This is
because Microsoft obviously uses a root kit technique to examine the root
partition tables on your hard drive looking for a unique machine identifier.
If you have repartitioned and reformated your hard drive or installed a new
hard drive (which is NOT a major modification of your system) then your root
partition will contain a newly generated unique ID.

In this case Microsoft takes advantage of another technique called PIN
(Processor Identification Number) to identify a unique processor. But what
if you install a new processor (which I admit IS a major modification to
your system) then you now have what appears to be a new computer.

This is especially true with computers using an Intel processor. That's
because Intel has this built in "spy" feature called PIN that allows a
developer to write software that "identifies" the computer even if the root
partition tables have been removed from or changed on the hard drive.

So to sum up, if you are not using an Intel processor and you repartition
and reformat (or replace) your hard drive it WILL appear to Microsoft that
you are installing their software on a different machine thus using up yet
another one of your precious installs.

-David

 

[Alias]

I am implying nothing.

I'll let the readers decide that.

Alias

My statement was that with regard to any

 

[Robert wilkens]

FYI this was a known bug in office from msdn's keys prior to around 11/21 --
some of the office apps were using the same activation number.. So when I
activated Microsoft project that was an additional activation, when I
activated Visio, that was another activation, and I'm sure there were one or
two other installs besides the base office install which effected this.

-Rob

 

[Guest]

Office XP works fine, as does Office 2003.


Office 2000 is now 8 years old...
Please tell me how you got it to work? I have both Office XP and 2003 and when I tell it them to install they say incorrect OS installed and shut down. Since I did an upgrade to Vista my files are still there but I have to insert my Office CD to make anything work every time I look at an Office document.

Bill F.

 

[Bill Frisbee]

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?

So does my 1967 Mach1, but I don't expect support from Ford...

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

Alias

Coming from you this is hilarious.


Bill F.

 

[xfile]

Hi,

Using your 1967 Mach1 as an example although I'm not a car expert, the
question is more like this - can you drive it with today's gasoline?

He did not ask for support.

I like to play with new stuffs whenever possible (the only reason for me to
buy maybe one copy of Vista) but it's NOT a sound decision (for personal and
business) to blindly follow what vendors say - upgrade your hardware and
software because it's too OLD.

In fact, I think people are stupid for doing that without any other
justifications.

 

[Tom Lake]

Hi,

Using your 1967 Mach1 as an example although I'm not a car expert, the
question is more like this - can you drive it with today's gasoline?

The answer would be no. It took only leaded gas. If you buy a lead
additive
I suppose that would work.

Tom Lake

 

[xfile]

It would be fair to say that Microsoft are probably not really required to

provide "backward compatibility"

True - not "required" and nice to see it has but not required.

[...]usually taken out by corporates who[...]

Yes, but not for many SOHO's. So it's a reasonable expectation for them to
use what they've invested.

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.

 

[xfile]

This is especially true with computers using an Intel processor. That's

because Intel has this built in "spy" feature called PIN that allows a
developer to write software that "identifies" the computer[...]

I could be wrong but is it true that it can be disabled from BIOS?

 

[xfile]

Thanks for the response and answer.

The answer would be no. It took only leaded gas. If you buy a lead
additive
I suppose that would work.

Tom Lake

 

[Bill Frisbee]

Driving the car with today's gasoline would quickly kill the engine... I
highly recommend reading up on leaded gasoline and additivies for today's
fuels. It does get to be a pain in the butt, which further shows what I am
saying.


Microsoft has every right to say Office 2000 doesn't work with Vista. Why
should it?

They stopped mainstream support in 2004!

It's not stupid, it makes total sense, why make concessions to support
something that isn't supported?

Bill F.

 

[xfile]

Did I say it's stupid for stopping support it?

Why can't people expect to use any discontinued products or those without
any support?

Microsoft has every right to say Office 2000 doesn't work with Vista.

Office 2000 won't work with Vista - This will be sufficient enough for the
question.

They stopped mainstream support in 2004!

Pointless and doesn't make any difference even they are still under support.

 

[Daze N. Knights]

Actually, my experience is that Office 2000 works fine with Vista (RC2
Build 5744). I upgraded my XP SP2 system with Office 2000 to Vista, and
I am having no problems at all with Office 2000. It did ask for the
installation disk once when I first opened Word, but hasn't asked again.

 

[Alias]

So does my 1967 Mach1, but I don't expect support from Ford...

Support? Who cares about that? It works with XP and should work with
Vista. The only reason it doesn't is because MS wants us to buy a new
version of office.

Coming from you this is hilarious.


Bill F.

Can't help yourself, can you?

Alias

 

[xfile]

Hi,

Thanks for your kind sharing and hope it also works well with the final
retail versions, and those who are stilling using 2K version would be glad
to know.

 

[JIm]

I have run Office 2000 on all versions of Vista Betas & RC1 w/no problems.
I guess that makes me a troll?.... Geez...

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

As far as I know all versions of Office back to '97 work. There is an
earlier version that does not because of bitness.

 

[Jeff Gaines]

As far as I know all versions of Office back to '97 work. There is an
earlier version that does not because of bitness.

I have installed Office 97 and then applied SP1 OK. However, it won't
apply SP2 - looks from the log as if it is trying to move the Marlett font
and when it can't it rolls back. Pity because it meets my needs and I have
a lot of Access 97 databases.