Microsoft Office 2000

Microsoft Office 2000
File:Office 2000 on Windows NT 4.0.png Microsoft Office 2000 core programs running with the Office Assistant present
Developer	Microsoft
Initial release	June 7, 1999 (1999-06-07)
Final release	Service Pack 3 (9.0.6926) / October 21, 2002 (2002-10-21)
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Engine
Operating system	Windows 95 or later
Platform	IA-32
Predecessor	Microsoft Office 97 (1996)
Successor	Microsoft Office XP (2001)
Type	Office suite
License	Proprietary commercial software
Website	Microsoft Office Home

Microsoft Office 2000 (version 9.0) is a release of Microsoft Office, an office suite developed and distributed by Microsoft for the Windows family of operating systems. Office 2000 was released to manufacturing on March 29, 1999, and was made available to retail on June 7, 1999. A Mac OS equivalent, Microsoft Office 2001, was released on October 11, 2000.

Office 2000 is compatible with Windows 95 through Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. It is the last version of Microsoft Office to support Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 SP3–SP5. 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. Support for Office 2000 ended on July 14, 2009.

New features

New features in Office 2000 include HTML document creation and publishing, Internet collaboration features such as integration with NetMeeting, roaming user profile support, COM add-in support; an updated version of the Office Assistant that utilizes Microsoft Agent, improved compliance with the year 2000, and interface improvements including personalized menus and toolbars that omit infrequently used commands from view. Office 2000 introduces PhotoDraw, a raster and vector imaging program, as well as Web Components. It is also the first version of Office to use Windows Installer for the installation process. It also comes with Internet Explorer 5 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 would later be released for Office 2003 to all markets.

All retail editions sold in Australia, Brazil, China, France, and New Zealand, as well as academic copies sold in Canada and the United States, required the user to activate the product via the Internet. Microsoft extended this requirement to retail editions sold in Canada and the United States with the availability of Office 2000 Service Release 1. Product activation would become a requirement for all editions of Office from Office XP onward.

Office programs	Standard	Small Business	Professional	Premium	Developer	Personal
Word	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Excel	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Outlook	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
PowerPoint	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Binder	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Publisher	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Small Business Tools	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Access	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
FrontPage	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
PhotoDraw	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Developer Tools and SDK	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
MapPoint	No	No	No	No	No	No
Project	No	No	No	No	No	No
Visio	No	No	No	No	No	No
Vizact	No	No	No	No	No	No

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

System requirements

Office 2000 system requirements

Requirement	Minimum	Recommended
Microsoft Windows
Operating system	Windows 95 or later
CPU	Intel Pentium 75 MHz Intel Pentium 166 MHz or higher required for PhotoDraw
Memory	16 MB (9x) 32 MB (NT) An additional 4 MB is required per each Office app running simultaneously (8 MB for Access, FrontPage, or Outlook; 16 MB for PhotoDraw)
Free space	189 MB (Standard) 360 MB (Small Business) 391 MB (Professional) 526 MB (Premium) 871 MB (Developer)
Media	A CD-ROM drive or compatible DVD-ROM drive is required to install Office 2000 from optical media
Graphics hardware	640x480 (VGA)	800×600 (SVGA) with 256 colors
Sound hardware	An audio output device is required for multimedia effects
Network	Certain advanced collaboration functionality in Outlook requires Exchange Server Internet access is required for online functionality
Input device(s)	Mouse and keyboard

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