Development status Discontinued | ||
Initial release June 7, 1999; 17 years ago (1999-06-07) Last release Service Pack 3 (SP3) / October 21, 2002; 14 years ago (2002-10-21) Operating system | ||
Microsoft Office 2000 is a release of Microsoft Office, an office suite developed 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. It is the successor to Office 97 and the predecessor to Office XP.
New features in Office 2000 include HTML document creation and publishing; Internet collaboration features such as integration with NetMeeting; roaming user profile support; an updated version of the Office Assistant; and new interface improvements including personalized menus and toolbars that omit infrequently used commands from the interface. Additionally, Office 2000 introduces PhotoDraw, a raster and vector imaging program; and Web Components. Office 2000 offers improved compliance with the year 2000 and is the first version of Office to use Windows Installer for the installation process.
Microsoft globally released five main editions of Office 2000: Standard, Small Business, Professional, Premium, and Developer. An additional Personal edition exclusive to Japan was also released. All retail editions of Office 2000 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.
Office 2000 supports Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0 SP3, Windows 98, and Windows Me. It is the last version of Office to support Windows 95 as its successor, Office XP, is not compatible.
Microsoft released a total of three service packs for Office 2000 throughout its lifecycle. 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.
Editions
Five different editions of Office 2000 were available:
Microsoft Office 2000 Personal was an additional SKU, solely designed for the Japanese market, that included Word 2000, Excel 2000 and Outlook 2000. This compilation would later become widespread as Microsoft Office 2003 Basic.