Microsoft Office 2000 (version 9.0) is a release of

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, an

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developed and distributed by

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for the

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family of

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s. Office 2000 was

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on March 29, 1999, and was made available to retail on June 7, 1999. It is the successor to

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and the predecessor to

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. A Mac OS equivalent,

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, was released on October 11, 2000. Office 2000 is incompatible with

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and earlier versions of Windows. Office 2000 requires

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SP3 at the minimum. It is not officially supported on

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or later versions of Windows. It is the last version of Microsoft Office to support

and

service packs 3–5; as the following version,

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only supports

SP6 or later. Microsoft released three

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s 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. Mainstream support for Office 2000 ended on June 30, 2004, and extended support ended on July 14, 2009.

New features

New features in Office 2000 include

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document creation and publishing, Internet collaboration features such as integration with

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support, COM add-in support; an updated version of the

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that utilizes

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, improved compliance with the

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, and interface improvements including personalized

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s and

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s that omit infrequently used commands from view. Office 2000 introduces PhotoDraw, a raster and

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imaging program, as well as

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. It is also the first version of Office to use

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for the installation process. It also comes with

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and uses its technologies as well.

Editions

Microsoft released five main editions of Office 2000 globally: Standard, Small Business, Professional, Premium, and Developer. An additional Personal edition with Word, Excel, and Outlook exclusive to

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was also released. A similar Basic edition for Office 2003 would later be released to all markets. All retail editions sold in Australia, Brazil, China, France, and

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, as well as academic copies sold in Canada and the

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, required the user to activate the product via the

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. Microsoft extended this requirement to retail editions sold in Canada and the United States with the availability of Office 2000 Service Release 1. However, product activation is no longer required as of April 15, 2003. Product activation would become a requirement for all editions of Office from Office XP onward. MapPoint,

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

System requirements

Notes

References

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Office 2000 Windows-only software Products and services discontinued in 2009