Microsoft Office 2000

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Microsoft Office 2000
Developer(s) Microsoft
Initial releaseJune 7, 1999;25 years ago (1999-06-07) [1]
Final release
Service Pack 3 (9.0.6926) [2] / October 21, 2002;22 years ago (2002-10-21) [3]
Operating system Windows 95 or later [4]
Platform IA-32
Predecessor Microsoft Office 97 (1996)
Successor Microsoft Office XP (2001)
Type Office suite
License Proprietary commercial software
Website Microsoft Office Home

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] A Mac OS equivalent, Microsoft Office 2001, was released on October 11, 2000.

Contents

Office 2000 is compatible with Windows 95 through Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. [4] It is the last version of Microsoft Office to support Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 SP3–SP5. [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] Support for Office 2000 ended on July 14, 2009. [7]

New features

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]

Editions

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 would later be released for Office 2003 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] [15] Product activation would become a requirement for all editions of Office from Office XP onward.

Office programsStandardSmall BusinessProfessionalPremiumDeveloper
Word 2000 YesYesYesYesYes
Excel 2000 YesYesYesYesYes
Outlook 2000 YesYesYesYesYes
PowerPoint 2000 YesNoYesYesYes
Binder 2000 YesNoYesYesYes
Publisher 2000 NoYesYesYesYes
Small Business Tools [a] NoYesYesYesYes
Access 2000 NoNoYesYesYes
FrontPage 2000 NoNoNoYesYes
PhotoDraw 2000 [b] NoNoNoYesYes
Developer Tools and SDK [16] NoNoNoNoYes
MapPoint 2000 NoNoNoNoNo
Project 2000 NoNoNoNoNo
Visio 2000 NoNoNoNoNo
Vizact 2000 NoNoNoNoNo

MapPoint, Project, Visio and Vizact also used the Microsoft Office 2000 brand, but they were only available as standalone programs.

System requirements

Office 2000 system requirements [4]
MinimumRecommended
Microsoft Windows
Operating systemWindows 95 or later
CPU Intel Pentium 75 MHz
Intel Pentium 166 MHz or higher required for PhotoDraw
Memory16 MB (9x)
32 MB (NT)
An additional 4 MB is required per each Office app running simultaneously (8 MB for Access, FrontPage, or Outlook; 16 MB for PhotoDraw)
Free space189 MB (Standard)
360 MB (Small Business)
391 MB (Professional)
526 MB (Premium)
871 MB (Developer)
MediaA CD-ROM drive or compatible DVD-ROM drive is required to install Office 2000 from optical media
Graphics hardware 640x480 (VGA) 800×600 (SVGA) with 256 colors
Sound hardwareAn audio output device is required for multimedia effects
NetworkCertain advanced collaboration functionality in Outlook requires Exchange Server
Internet access is required for online functionality
Input device(s) Mouse and keyboard

Default font

The default font was Times New Roman, 10 pt. [17]

Notes

  1. ↑ Includes Small Business Customer Manager, Business Planner, Direct Mail Manager and Small Business Financial Manager
  2. ↑ Office 2000 SR-1 Premium retail version includes PhotoDraw 2000 v2

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