Office 2000 was fine but Office 2003 was a nice update to office 2000. And yes, everybody forget about the disastrous office xp. :-/
End of an era for Office 2000
Summary
Support for Office 2000 expired on Tuesday, ten years after Steve Ballmer announced Microsoft wanted to launch a web-based version of the productivity suite.
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Support for Microsoft Office 2000 finally ended on Tuesday, 10 years after the productivity suite was launched.
Office 2000 had mainstream support until mid-2004, when its extended support period began. It is that extended support period that has now ended, according to Microsoft's road map for the product.
At its launch in 1999, Microsoft president Steve Ballmer said Office 2000, which retailed at a recommended price of $799 (around £500 at the time), "unleashes the power of the web work style, the most efficient way to work with business information and collaborate with others".
Later that year, Microsoft announced Office Online, a web-based version of the application suite. However, Office Online ended up becoming a resource site for Office users, rather than a software-as-a-service (SaaS) portal.
On Monday, Microsoft announced web-based versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, although the company did not give a technology preview of the online applications. The announcement came at the same time as that of the Technical Preview for Office 2010.
This article was originally posted on ZDNet UK.
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magallanes15th Jul 2009 -
Re: Lol.
Office XP was disatrous? Why was that exactly?
pkmartin8215th Jul 2009 -
RE: End of an era for Office 2000
Hmm.
My place of employment is still using Office '97 (except for Outlook).
I kid you not.
cynic815th Jul 2009 -
Up in smoke
Well, I guess their O2K upgrade plan just went to hell
mcgonegal17th Jul 2009 -
RE: End of an era for Office 2000
Oh well, sad to see it go.pkmartin8215th Jul 2009 -
RE: End of an era for Office 2000
Still using Office 97 here also. Get Open Office if you need an office suite. Just more planned obsolescence from rich and stingy Billy.
intrigue42-2298232859891629457651842129440215th Jul 2009 -
Office 97 anyone?
I second the motion. I still use Office 97 Professional on XP. As long as this box with xp runs, I will continue to use Office 97.
jmd8421r15th Jul 2009 -
Office 97 anyone?
Ha, ha, ha...
It is funny, you are still using this!!! But it was a good office bundle (at 90's of course).
Is anyone using Office 95? Perhaps, he, he, he.
SCBright15th Jul 2009 -
office 2000: best
i use 2003 but i really think 2000 was the best.
_fast_
not many new features appeared in 2003 and word xp was filled with style bugs (that ms could not solve for me--they gave up trying and we weren't doing much complex).
i am hoping that 2010, with a customizable ribbon, will be a good version. i had to dump 2007.
hansonjb15th Jul 2009 -
Microsoft is in desperation
The guys at Microsoft are desperate, with Google Chrome
OS and Google Docs, they realizing the end of the
monopoly. im glad.
PurpleLizzard15th Jul 2009 -
The beginning of the end
Indeed the past few weeks have shown the cracks in what is Microsoft to be widening. The introduction of Google Chrome OS as well as the success of Linux distros, open source productivity suites and the move to open source software has the software giant up in arms. For too long has it held onto its non-open source software and patents in an attempt to monopolize the market but with the move of Apple to Intel processors and with the likes of Ubuntu Linux making Linux more user friendly than ever, Microsoft is starting to feel the strain. In mobile markets, it's loosing share to Nokia's Symbian and Google's Android operating systems. In terms of search engines, they'll keep trying to produce the next big thing up until the last day before they finally close their doors. Already we have seen Microsoft closing some of it's gaming studios. How long until they close their doors for good? Only time will tell.
neelsmostert@...17th Jul 2009 -
Why not Office for Linux?
If Microsoft ported the incredibly cool Office 2007 (or the new 2010) to Linux, they would probably KILL OpenOffice. I have OOo3 on my machines now. Although it does the job, it still seems like a child's toy next to Office 2007. I gotta say, I love the ribbon!!
barence77320th Jul 2009 -
Office vs. Office
I'll agree with the general thread that Office 2000 for Windows was
the overall best version of Office for Windows that has ever shipped.
More stable in my experience than either 97 or 2003, it was the last
version of Office for Windows that did not jump the featuritis shark.
I have, for about a year now, made regular use of Office 2008 for Mac
- which, as the first version of Office for Mac that I have used in
nearly 20 years, continues to be a revelation. My understanding is that
there is zero code overlap between Office:Win and Office:Mac,
and I can easily believe that. However, that also throws a bit of a
spanner into Microsoft's longstanding claim that 'nobody can make a
system that will 100% faithfully render and save our document
formats"; MacBU is doing it.
I have iWork '09, which I use mostly for Keynote (which is to
PowerPoint as Beethoven's Eroica is to Chopsticks). I also
have OpenOffice 3.1, since I support several Linux shops that use it.
But Word is still the word-processing software I fire up 80% of the
time - a complete reversal from when I 'lived' in Windows.
Jeff Dickey21st Jul 2009
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