Can Office 2000 be installed on XP os?

[Kevin Byers]

Quick question:

Can Office 2000 be installed on XP os?

 

[DL]

Yes

 

[Thomas Dietrich]

Yes, but under what circumstances? Only on alternate Thursdays with a full moon in the month of February during a leap year with a presidential election

It seems like that question covers most others in this newsgroup. Why can't I install Office 2000 on Win XP? I've tried it on several different PC's, with many different versions of Office, and I've never been successful. I've always been forced to install Office XP. Now I'm not a big conspiracy theorist or anything, but it seems awfully odd that so many people have so many problems installing such a popular software package on the XP OS. Like I said, I've tried many different PC's, with many versions of XP, and many different versions of Office 2000 (Standard, Standard SP1, Pro, Pro SP1, SBE), and I've not been successful yet..
and I'm an MCSE, MCP, MCSA, A+, APS, HP SP, CSP, Intel certified dude!

 

[Frank]

This has to do with branded OEM installs of the OS.

Yes, but under what circumstances? Only on alternate Thursdays with

a full moon in the month of February during a leap year with a
presidential election?

It seems like that question covers most others in this newsgroup.

Why can't I install Office 2000 on Win XP? I've tried it on several
different PC's, with many different versions of Office, and I've never
been successful. I've always been forced to install Office XP. Now
I'm not a big conspiracy theorist or anything, but it seems awfully
odd that so many people have so many problems installing such a
popular software package on the XP OS. Like I said, I've tried many
different PC's, with many versions of XP, and many different versions
of Office 2000 (Standard, Standard SP1, Pro, Pro SP1, SBE), and I've
not been successful yet...

and I'm an MCSE, MCP, MCSA, A+, APS, HP SP, CSP, Intel certified

dude!

 

[Chris Schatte]

In our experience, retail copies purchased for our business, {2000 OR XP} without oem or license, re-install or install fine on Win XP retail copies.

 

[Barry]

Conspiracy or not conspiracy, I cannot say, but it seems that when Microsoft
created Windows XP, they changed a lot of things so that programs (and that
includes Microsoft programs as well) that USED TO WORK in previous Windows
versions no longer work in XP. For these programs, you need to buy an
upgrade from their manufacturers.

 

[Grumpy Aero Guy]

I don't know what the big fuss is about. I installed O2000 on xp, and it ran
flawlessly.

I have O2000 Premium. Installed it, opened it, used it.

?????

Worked good for me.


....and I'm an MCSE, MCP, MCSA, A+, APS, HP SP, CSP, Intel certified

dude!

I've seen folks with certifications coming out of their ears that I ended up
kicking off my servers because logging on stretched their brains too much.

I've had folks whose only certification was from the school of hard knocks
who were pure magicians on a network, firewall, cisco router, you name it.

Certifications....well.... it's the old "necessary" versus "sufficient"
argument. To be competent, certifications are neither of those (necessary OR
sufficient)

 

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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Grumpy Aero Guy
asked:

| I don't know what the big fuss is about. I installed O2000 on xp, and
| it ran flawlessly.
|
| I have O2000 Premium. Installed it, opened it, used it.
|
| ?????
|
| Worked good for me.
|
|
| ...and I'm an MCSE, MCP, MCSA, A+, APS, HP SP, CSP, Intel certified
|| dude!
|
| I've seen folks with certifications coming out of their ears that I
| ended up kicking off my servers because logging on stretched their
| brains too much.
|
| I've had folks whose only certification was from the school of hard
| knocks who were pure magicians on a network, firewall, cisco router,
| you name it.
|
| Certifications....well.... it's the old "necessary" versus
| "sufficient" argument. To be competent, certifications are neither of
| those (necessary OR sufficient)
|
|
|
| || Conspiracy or not conspiracy, I cannot say, but it seems that when
|| Microsoft created Windows XP, they changed a lot of things so that
|| programs (and that includes Microsoft programs as well) that USED TO
|| WORK in previous Windows versions no longer work in XP. For these
|| programs, you need to buy an upgrade from their manufacturers.
||
||
|| ||| This has to do with branded OEM installs of the OS.
|||
||| |||| Yes, but under what circumstances? Only on alternate Thursdays
|||| with
||| a full moon in the month of February during a leap year with a
||| presidential election?
||||
|||| It seems like that question covers most others in this newsgroup.
||| Why can't I install Office 2000 on Win XP? I've tried it on several
||| different PC's, with many different versions of Office, and I've
||| never been successful. I've always been forced to install Office
||| XP. Now I'm not a big conspiracy theorist or anything, but it
||| seems awfully
||| odd that so many people have so many problems installing such a
||| popular software package on the XP OS. Like I said, I've tried many
||| different PC's, with many versions of XP, and many different
||| versions of Office 2000 (Standard, Standard SP1, Pro, Pro SP1,
||| SBE), and I've not been successful yet...
|||| and I'm an MCSE, MCP, MCSA, A+, APS, HP SP, CSP, Intel certified
|||| dude!