Microsoft Office 2000

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,^[1] and was made available to retail on June 7, 1999.^[5] A Mac OS equivalent, Microsoft Office 2001, was released on October 11, 2000.

Microsoft Office 2000

Microsoft Office 2000 core programs running with the Office Assistant present
Developer(s)	Microsoft
Initial release	June 7, 1999; 25 years ago (1999-06-07)[1]
Final release	Service Pack 3 (9.0.6926)[2] / October 21, 2002; 21 years ago (2002-10-21)[3]
Operating system	Windows 95 or later[4]
Platform	IA-32
Predecessor	Microsoft Office 97 (1996)
Successor	Microsoft Office XP (2001)
Type	Office suite
License	Proprietary commercial software
Website	Microsoft Office Home

Office 2000 is compatible with Windows 95 through Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.^[4] It is the last version of Microsoft Office to support Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 SP3–SP5.^[6]

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.^[2] Support for Office 2000 ended on July 14, 2009.^[7]

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.^[8] It also comes with Internet Explorer 5 and uses its technologies as well.^[9]

Editions

Microsoft released five main editions of Office 2000 globally: Standard, Small Business, Professional, Premium, and Developer.^[10] An additional Personal edition with Word, Excel, and Outlook exclusive to Japan was also released.^[11] A similar Basic edition would later be released for Office 2003 to all markets.^[12]

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.^[13] Microsoft extended this requirement to retail editions sold in Canada and the United States with the availability of Office 2000 Service Release 1.^[14][15] Product activation would become a requirement for all editions of Office from Office XP onward.

Office programs	Standard	Small Business	Professional	Premium	Developer
Word 2000	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Excel 2000	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Outlook 2000	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
PowerPoint 2000	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Binder 2000	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Publisher 2000	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Small Business Tools [lower-alpha 1]	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Access 2000	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
FrontPage 2000	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
PhotoDraw 2000[lower-alpha 2]	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Developer Tools and SDK[16]	No	No	No	No	Yes
MapPoint 2000	No	No	No	No	No
Project 2000	No	No	No	No	No
Visio 2000	No	No	No	No	No
Vizact 2000	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^[4]

	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

Default font

The default font was Times New Roman, 10 pt.^[17]

Notes

1. Includes Small Business Customer Manager, Business Planner, Direct Mail Manager and Small Business Financial Manager
2. Office 2000 SR-1 Premium retail version includes PhotoDraw 2000 v2

References

1. "Microsoft Office 2000 Released to Manufacturing With Enterprise Customers Ready to Deploy". News Center. Microsoft. March 29, 1999. Archived from the original on February 26, 2017.
2. "How to determine the version of your Office 2000 program". Support. Microsoft. Archived from the original on October 20, 2004. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
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6. "System Requirements". Support. Microsoft. May 30, 2001. Archived from the original on December 1, 2002. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
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9. Schnoll, Scott (2000). "Internet Explorer is Microsoft". Computer Science. Duke University. Archived from the original on 8 November 2020. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
10. "Office 2000 Suites: Which Is Right For You?". Support. Microsoft. Archived from the original on February 29, 2000. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
11. "Microsoft Office 2000 Personal". Support. Microsoft. Archived from the original on February 8, 2007. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
12. Thurrott, Paul (August 12, 2003). "Microsoft Office 2003 Editions Compared". Windows IT Pro. Penton. Archived from the original on January 2, 2018. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
13. "Microsoft Extends Anti-Piracy Features in Office 2000". News Center. Microsoft. December 9, 1998. Archived from the original on April 13, 2016. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
14. "Microsoft Incorporates New Anti-Piracy Technologies In Windows 2000, Office 2000". News Center. Microsoft. February 10, 2000. Archived from the original on August 12, 2016. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
15. "Frequently asked questions about a problem that may cause Office 2000 prompts you to register after April 15, 2003". Support. Microsoft. Archived from the original on January 29, 2008. Retrieved January 2, 2018. Code is written in the Office 2000 product so that users are not prompted to register after April 15, 2003
16. "Office 2000 Developer Features Overview". Support. Microsoft. Archived from the original on November 17, 2000. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
17. "Word 2000 Beginner's Guide". www.csun.edu. Retrieved 2024-01-29.