Yes. However, I recommend OpenOffice as a more fully featured - and still free - word processing tool.
Yes.
A complex version of Notepad. Or a simplified version of Microsoft Word.
No. Microsoft Windows 2000 Pro and Windows Office are separate products.
Any text editor. Notepad and Wordpad both come as standard with Microsoft Windows.
You cannot change the color of the font on windows notepad but if you click Format then you click Font... you can change the Font Font Style and the Size. If you really want to change the color try Windows WordPad or Microsoft-Word.
Microsoft Windows 7 is compatible with Office 2000 but updating Office might not be possible. Outlook 2000's contact list will not work with Windows 7.
Microsoft Word is a full-featured word processor. Wordpad is much more limited in what it can do compared to Microsoft Word. For very simple documents you could use Wordpad. It has basic formatting such as fonts and colours and sizes. It does not have facilities like spell checkers or mail merge. It is better than a text editor, but not as good as a full word processor. It comes as part of Windows, whereas you have to buy Microsoft Word, which is part of Microsoft Office. Microsoft costs, because you can do so much with it, so it is much better to use as a wordprocessor than Wordpad.
Windows XP Professional is the successor to Windows 2000 Professional. Windows Server 2003 is the successor to Windows 2000 Server.
Microsoft DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7.
Windows XP :-)
As Microsoft has ended support of Windows 2000, you will have to find a third party to support your system. If you are a large business, Microsoft does have a paid option for limited support of Windows 2000.
No. Microsoft Producer 2003 requires Windows 2000 or later.
Notepad is a very rudimentary one that comes with Windows. WordPad comes on recent versions of Windows, and has a little more functionality. Microsoft Word and OpenOffice Write are full featured word processors.