Microsoft Office 2000 (version 9.0) is a release of
Microsoft Office
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, an
office suite
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developed and distributed by
Microsoft
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for the
Windows
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family of
operating system
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s. Office 2000 was
released to manufacturing
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on March 29, 1999,
and was made
available to retail on June 7, 1999.
It is the successor to
Office 97
Microsoft Office 97 (version 8.0) is the fifth major release for Windows of Microsoft Office, released by Microsoft on November 19, 1996. It succeeded Microsoft Office 95 and was replaced by Microsoft Office 2000 in 1999. A Mac OS equivalent, Mi ...
and the predecessor to
Office XP
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. A Mac OS equivalent,
Microsoft Office 2001
Microsoft Office 2001 is a suite of productivity software for Mac OS 8, Mac OS 9, or the Classic environment in Mac OS X. It is the Mac equivalent of Office 2000. It was developed by Microsoft and announced on September 13, 2000 before its relea ...
, was released on October 11, 2000.
Office 2000 is incompatible with
Windows NT 3.51 and earlier versions of Windows. Office 2000 requires
Windows 95
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or
Windows NT 4.0
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SP3 at the minimum.
It is not officially supported on
Windows Vista
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or later versions of Windows.
It is the last version of Microsoft Office to support
Windows 95
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and
Windows NT 4.0
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service packs 3–5; as the following version,
Microsoft Office XP
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only supports
Windows NT 4.0
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SP6 or later.
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.
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
HTML
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document creation and publishing,
Internet collaboration features such as integration with
NetMeeting
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,
roaming user profile
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support,
COM add-in support; an updated version of the
Office Assistant that utilizes
Microsoft Agent
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, improved compliance with the
year 2000
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, and interface improvements including personalized
menu
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s and
toolbar
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s that omit infrequently used commands from view. Office 2000 introduces
PhotoDraw, a
raster and
vector
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Mathematic ...
imaging program, as well as
Web Components
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Primary technologies used to create them include:
* Custom Elements: APIs to ...
. It is also the first version of Office to use
Windows Installer
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for the installation process.
It also comes with
Internet Explorer 5
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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
Japan was also released.
A similar Basic edition for Office 2003 would later be released to all markets.
All retail editions sold in
Australia,
Brazil
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,
China,
France
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, and
New Zealand
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, as well as academic copies sold in
Canada
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and the
United States
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, required the user to
activate the product via the
Internet
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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,
Project,
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