Will Office 2000 run on Windows Vista?

Question

A customer wants to install their old copy of Microsoft Office 2000 on a brand new Windows Vista laptop. Has anybody tried this? Is anybody running Office 2000 on a Vista machine?
1) Does it work?
2) How well does it work? (i.e., is it slow)

Answer 1

This is pretty well documented- Office 2000 can be installed on Vista- everything EXCEPT Outlook works fine. Microsoft changed how the address book works with Vista.

Some people have eliminated the error messages by manually copying .dll files, but I haven't heard of anything that allows the old messages/contacts to be imported. Office 2003 and 2007 don't have this issue.

Answer 2

Windows Office 2000

Answer 3

Almost ALL Microsoft software run on Vista platform (Business Strategy). And a machine running vista can surely run Office 2000 like a charm. Go ahead ask ur customer to install office 2000. But i must say, office 2000 is regarded as the stone-age office suite, its better to upgrade to 2003 or 2007 or there is always OpenOffice.org its free and way better than office 2000.
download it from here
http://www.openoffice.org/

Answer 4

Most programs are backward-mobile.
You shouldn't have any problem running Office 2000.
If any arise while you are working, document it and go to Microsoft Assistance for help. They may have a fix for it already - if not, I'm sure they will work on it or at least have a suggestion for you.

Any problems - go here.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/results.aspx?qu=Vista

Answer 5

Theroretically, it should work just fine. Though there may be a few compatibility issues.

Vista has an in built function that will tell you when you install if there will be any issues.

Answer 6

It works, sort of. Office 2003 is better. Personnally I would not do that