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| Developer(s) | Microsoft |
| Initial release | 1999-06-07 [1] |
| Stable release | 9.0 (Service Pack 3) [2] / 2002-10-21 [3] |
| Operating system | Windows 95 and later |
| Platform | Microsoft Windows |
| Type | Office suite |
| License | Proprietary EULA |
| Website | Microsoft Office Online Home Page |
Microsoft Office 2000, a successor to Microsoft Office 97, was designed as a fully 32-bit and Y2K compliant version[citation needed] to match Windows 2000 features. All the Office 2000 applications have OLE 2 capacity, which allows moving data automatically between various programs. Microsoft Office XP is a successor of Office 2000. The most comprehensive Office 2000 suite is Office 2000 Developer. Office 2000 RTM is the last Microsoft Office edition which does not include Product Activation, although SR-1 updated editions of Office 2000 had product activation in copies sold in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Hong Kong, New Zealand and the United States except their volume license editions. They required the user to activate the product via the Internet.
Mainstream support for Office 2000 ended on June 30, 2004[4], and extended support ended on July 14, 2009[4].
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Editions
Office 2000 was available in five suites[5]:
| Office programs | Standard suite | Small Business suite | Professional suite | Premium suite | Developer suite |
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| Word 2000 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Excel 2000 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Outlook 2000 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| PowerPoint 2000 | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Publisher 2000 | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Small Business Tools | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Access 2000 | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| FrontPage 2000 | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| PhotoDraw 2000 | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Developer Tools and SDK [6] | No | No | No | No | Yes |
The standard suite consisted of the word processor Word 2000, the spreadsheet program Excel 2000, the personal information manager Outlook 2000, and the presentation program PowerPoint 2000. The professional suite contained all items in the standard suite plus the desktop publishing program Publisher 2000 and the relational database Access 2000. The premium suite added the HTML editor FrontPage 2000 and the vector graphics and raster graphics program PhotoDraw 2000.
The application version descriptors were changed from Microsoft's previous version numbering scheme to highlight their Y2K compliance. The previous applications had numbers 97/98; 2000 was chosen for all the new versions. Word 97, Excel 97, PowerPoint 97, Outlook 98, Access 97, Publisher 98 and FrontPage 98 were the predecessors to Office 2000's applications. PhotoDraw's predecessor was Picture It!.
Easter eggs in Office 2000
Microsoft Excel contained a hidden game called Dev Hunter, Microsoft Access had a hidden 8 ball toy, and Microsoft Word had team development credits.
Contemporary components
- Microsoft MapPoint 2000
- Microsoft Project 2000
- Microsoft Visio 2000
- Microsoft Vizact 2000
References
External links
- Office 2000 Solution Center
- Downloads for Office 2000 - Downloads - Microsoft Office Online
- Microsoft Office Programs (original Microsoft site archived by Internet Archive)
- Office 2000 Suites (original Microsoft site archived by Internet Archive)
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