Microsoft Office 2000

Microsoft Office 2000
Developer(s)Microsoft
Initial releaseJune 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 systemWindows 95 or later[4]
PlatformIA-32
PredecessorMicrosoft Office 97 (1996)
SuccessorMicrosoft Office XP (2001)
TypeOffice suite
LicenseProprietary commercial software
WebsiteMicrosoft Office Home

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.

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]

  1. ^ a b "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. ^ a b "How to determine the version of your Office 2000 program". Support. Microsoft. Archived from the original on October 20, 2004. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
  3. ^ Sharick, Paula (November 18, 2002). "Microsoft Releases Office 2000 SP3". Windows IT Pro. Penton. Archived from the original on October 5, 2017. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
  4. ^ a b "Description of the system requirements for all editions of Office 2000". Support. Microsoft. November 6, 2007. Archived from the original on July 15, 2015. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
  5. ^ "Industry Leaders Team With Microsoft To Deliver Office 2000-Based Small Business Solutions". News Center. Microsoft. June 7, 1999. Archived from the original on February 26, 2017. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
  6. ^ "System Requirements". Support. Microsoft. May 30, 2001. Archived from the original on December 1, 2002. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  7. ^ "Microsoft support lifecycle - Office 2000". Support. Microsoft. Archived from the original on March 7, 2017. Retrieved January 2, 2018.