MSO 2003 upgrade

[Cybersaint]

I have MSO Office 2000 Home Edition and would like to Upgrade to MSO Office
2003 Professional. Will an upgrade work or will I have to purchase the whole
package?

 

[Bob I]

Products that qualify for the Office 2003 upgrade
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;832288

 

[Peter Foldes]

Like Bob said it will qualify for an Upgrade. My personal thought is that it is always better to do a full clean install when changing Office Suites. This is only my opinion.

 

[JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]]

Umm, there is no such edition of Office as "Home Edition".

 

[Evadne Cake]

Umm, there is no such edition of Office as "Home Edition".

I reckon the OP meant Works or the Works Suite.

 

[Beth Melton]

I reckon the OP meant Works or the Works Suite.

Or perhaps Office 2000 and Windows XP Home Edition?

Or since they don't have Office 2000 Small Business Edition then they
must have the Home Edition. ;-)

~Beth Melton

 

[Evadne Cake]

Or perhaps Office 2000 and Windows XP Home Edition?

Or since they don't have Office 2000 Small Business Edition then they
must have the Home Edition. ;-)

Fun all this second-guessing, innit? ;o)

 

[Beth Melton]

Fun all this second-guessing, innit? ;o)

Yeah, it's fun to guess even though the 'edition' is irrelevant - any
flavor of Office 2000 it qualifies as an upgrade for Office 2003
Professional. ;-)

~Beth Melton

 

[Evadne Cake]

Yeah, it's fun to guess even though the 'edition' is irrelevant - any
flavor of Office 2000 it qualifies as an upgrade for Office 2003
Professional. ;-)

I my money's still on Works and I don't think that does - does it? I have
Works Suite 2000 and I didn't think it qualified. I can't remember what I
used to qualify for 2003. An MVP friend bought me 2004, because he was
concerned I'd miss Publisher (but VPC is nasty - I mean seriously evilly
nasty - I have a dual 2.7GHz G5 with 3GB and VPC will only utilise 512MB and
recognises one CPU and then only uses less than a fifth of it (500MHz).
Getting anything to run is torturous to put it mildly. I have a notation
application that will only run under Windows. It isn't resource hungry (I
have friends who are running it under 98 on 500MHz P3s with 128MB) but it
won't run properly under VPC (slow to initialise, slow note entry, slow
playback, etc). I've given up on VPC altogether (but I don't see the
alternative for those needing to run Windows applications on a Mac).

Right, VPC rant over. MS really need to pull their finger out if the next
incarnation is actually going to be usable. Utilising at least one CPU would
be a start - and why set the RAM ceiling at 512MB? Sure, Macs only come with
that amount as standard (crap if you ask me) but RAM is cheap enough (mine
came with 1GB and I bought another couple from Crucial for £140).

Right, I'm off to bed - it's nearly 1am! So much for the early night I
promised myself!

 

[Echo S]

I my money's still on Works and I don't think that does - does it? I have
Works Suite 2000 and I didn't think it qualified. I can't remember what I

Works is a qualifying product for Office 2003 Pro upgrade.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/editions/howtobuy/professional.mspx

(Know the feeling on that "can't remember" bit, though! <g>)

 

[Evadne Cake]

Works is a qualifying product for Office 2003 Pro upgrade.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/editions/howtobuy/professional.mspx

(Know the feeling on that "can't remember" bit, though! <g>)

OK, we're quits - one-all. ;o)