[Microsoft Office 2000 Portable
Melvin Amey
Microsoft Office 2000 (version 9.0) is a release of Microsoft Office, an office suite developed and distributed by Microsoft for the Windows family of operating systems. Office 2000 was released to manufacturing on March 29, 1999,[1] and was made available to retail on June 7, 1999.[5] It is the successor to Office 97 and the predecessor to Office XP. A Mac OS equivalent, Microsoft Office 2001, was released on October 11, 2000.
Office 2000 is incompatible with Windows NT 3.51 and earlier versions of Windows. Office 2000 requires Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0 SP3 at the minimum.[4] It is not officially supported on Windows Vista or later versions of Windows. It is the last version of Microsoft Office to support Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 SP3 as the following version, Microsoft Office XP only supports Windows NT 4.0 SP6 or later.[6]
Microsoft released three service packs for Office 2000 throughout its life cycle. The first update was called Service Release 1 (SR-1), while subsequent updates were referred to as service packs.[2] Mainstream support for Office 2000 ended on June 30, 2004, and extended support ended on July 14, 2009.[7]
New features in Office 2000 include HTML document creation and publishing, Internet collaboration features such as integration with NetMeeting, roaming user profile support, COM add-in support; an updated version of the Office Assistant that utilizes Microsoft Agent, improved compliance with the year 2000, and interface improvements including personalized menus and toolbars that omit infrequently used commands from view. Office 2000 introduces PhotoDraw, a raster and vector imaging program, as well as Web Components. It is also the first version of Office to use Windows Installer for the installation process.[8] It also comes with Internet Explorer 5 and uses its technologies as well.[9]
Microsoft released five main editions of Office 2000 globally: Standard, Small Business, Professional, Premium, and Developer.[10] An additional Personal edition with Word, Excel, and Outlook exclusive to Japan was also released.[11] A similar Basic edition for Office 2003 would later be released to all markets.[12]
All retail editions sold in Australia, Brazil, China, France, and New Zealand, as well as academic copies sold in Canada and the United States, required the user to activate the product via the Internet.[13] Microsoft extended this requirement to retail editions sold in Canada and the United States with the availability of Office 2000 Service Release 1.[14] However, product activation is no longer required as of April 15, 2003.[15] Product activation would become a requirement for all editions of Office from Office XP onward.
I'm not sure how to figure out which patches are available anymore, as they're no longer in the mbsa cab for scanning, and WU no longer lists them. Given it's 5 Office product cycles ago, it might not be worth investigating too heavily anyway.
I am uncertain whether an update patch different than that for the operating system is needed for Outlook 2000 to properly manage time (many Time Zone/Daylight Savings Time changes have occurred since the release of Office 2000 Service Pack 3)
All patches were detected with Office Update method at time, one day before EOL of the product, triple checked with WSUS Offline at the same time, two weeks earlier and one month later, again. Office 2000 Premium was fully fresh installed, Disc1 and Disc2 only, with all features running from hard disk, SR-1, then SP3 applied, on two different setups, XP and Vista.
The list of patches is complete for Office 2000 Premium Edition AND/OR Professional Edition. The only difference between the two editions is FrontPage 2000, included in Premium Edition only. There is no update or any patch available for FrontPage 2000, after SP3. So, these patches complete cover both editions, Premium AND Professional and, of course, Standard Edition and Small Business Edition. For each edition, install only what you need in the list.
There are not others non-obsolete post SP3 updates available for Office 2000. There will be not future updates. Office 2000 life ended July 14, 2009 (with last patches released in June 2009). So, this is the final setup for Office 2000.
Note that there are some security risks in using Office 2000 with patches several years old. but for day-to-day, plain usage, it will work very well, especially if you do pay attention where you click.
The "Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint File Formats" is working with Office 2000 and its components: Word, Excel and PowerPoint (SP3 required). If you'll install this pack, you'll be able to open AND save files in these new office formats: docx, xlsx, pptx etc AND receive future updates for this pack. So, you can download and install the Compatibility Pack and use the regular way to update or patch it, through WinUpdate. This way, the security risks shall be reduced. It is a good idea to download and install the "FileFormatConverters.exe" file published 1/6/2010 (38,808,920 bytes), it has SP2 for Office 2007 System included.
To save a file in Word, open or create a file, then just click Save As and pick the 2007 format OR right-click the file (do not open the file) and choose Save As from right click menu, then pick the 2007 format.
To save a file in Excel or PowerPoint there is one method only: right-click the file (do not open the file) and choose Save As from right click menu, then pick the 2007 format. You can not save an opened file with Save As, like in Word.
You may want or not to update the entire 2007 Compatibility Pack setup, it's your choise, but the above KB is mandatory for this Compatibility Pack to save 2007 format files with PowerPoint 2000. To open 2007 format files with PowerPoint 2000, you do not need this update, but you need it if you want to save files as pptx or pptm.
All patches were detected with Office Update method at time, one day before EOL of the product, triple checked with WSUS Offline at the same time, two weeks earlier and one month later, again. Office
I do note for others in this thread that it appears that you provided a list for Office 2000 Professional with Service Pack 3; Office 2000 Premium and Office 2000 Developer editions include software that are not available with Office 2000 Professional (such as Microsoft FrontPage 2000). Your list does not include updates for the Office 2000 Premium or Office 2000 Developer ed (nor is it expected that it should)
The list is an excellent starting point for users of Office 2000 (especially Premium and Developer editions). Microsoft offer of updates generated by Office Update did not include all available updates. For example, the office updates that were not made available as Windows Installer Patch Files (.MSP files), were not included in the update list. Hotfix updates also would not have been included in the list.
However, to do this correctly, I need to examine the different Office 2000 product installation files and media (or represented media). I have examined the retail version of Office 2000 Premium (the copy I have), but require discs or disc images of the following (in order of importance):
I would prefer retail or volume license media or their disc images (serials or product keys are not necessary). Although OEM media might have an installer for an OEM version of Office 2000 or an Office 2000 application, the contents of the media might not be consistent for different media for what should be the same software product. and, wherefore, I have a bias (for the purposes of this project) against it.
- The list of patches is for Office 2000 Premium Edition AND/OR Professional Edition. The only difference between the two editions is FrontPage 2000 (inluded in Premium Edition only, if we talk about Disc1 and Disc2 of Premium Edition). Well, for FrontPage 2000 there is no update or any patch available, after SP3. So, the list of patches completely cover both editions, Premium and Professional (and, of course, Standard Edition and Small Business Edition). The Developer Edition is another story.
I have uploaded my own collection of Office 2000 post SP3 hotfixes which includes all non-security hotfixes by request (HBR). It includes security updates in the root of the folder, and other stuff (non-security hotfixes, CD3 updates in other folders). I believe it will update everyone's Office 2000 to newest file version builds. I also have newest HBR for Office XP post SP3 and Office 97 post SP2 if anyone wants.
Not only were we five months late by the end of 1998, we also faced the lag time that would happen on the other side of our pending a holiday break. It became clear our end-of February completion date for Office9 was going to be a challenge.
At least we were on the glide path to completing the product before we left for the holidays. As far as the enterprise sales team was concerned, we were going to finish in the first quarter, which was important for customers buying or renewing volume license contracts. Office 2000 was shaping up to be a significant release for the end of the millennium. And yes, Office 2000 was Y2K ready.
While everything was the same organizationally, what was simply a title change in the Exchange address book was the start of being treated differently, particularly by those I did not yet know, especially in the field sales org, and, perhaps even more entertaining, by the various Microsoft systems and services.
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