Microsoft Office 97

Microsoft Office 97
Developer(s)Microsoft
Initial releaseNovember 19, 1996; 27 years ago (1996-11-19)
Final release
Service Release 2B (8.0.5903) / October 7, 1999; 24 years ago (1999-10-07)[1]
Operating systemWindows NT 3.51 SP5 or later[2]
PlatformIA-32, DEC Alpha (partial)
PredecessorMicrosoft Office 95 (1995)
SuccessorMicrosoft Office 2000 (1999)
TypeOffice suite
LicenseProprietary commercial software
Websiteweb.archive.org/web/20090923223858/http://support.microsoft.com/gp/ofw97 Edit this on Wikidata

Microsoft Office 97 (version 8.0) is the fifth major release for Windows of Microsoft Office, released by Microsoft on November 19, 1996.[3] A Mac OS equivalent, Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition, was released on January 6, 1998. Microsoft Office 97 became a major milestone release for introducing new features and improvements over its predecessor.

The suite is officially compatible with Windows NT 3.51 SP5 through Windows Me.[a] It is the last version of Microsoft Office to support Windows NT 3.51 SP5 and Windows NT 4.0 RTM–SP2.

Two Service Releases (SR-1 and SR-2) have been released for Office 97; SR-2 solves the year 2000 problem in Office 97.[4]

Hotfix support for Office 97 ended on February 28, 2002, while assisted support options and security updates ended on January 16, 2004.[5]

  1. ^ Thurrott, Paul (October 7, 1999). "Microsoft Quietly Issues New Version of Office 97 SR2". ITProToday. Archived from the original on August 4, 2020. Retrieved March 24, 2020.
  2. ^ "Chapter 5 - System Requirements for MS Office". Microsoft Office 97 Resource Kit. Microsoft. June 14, 2017. ISBN 9781572313293. Retrieved August 16, 2019.
  3. ^ "Microsoft Office 97 Released to Manufacturing". News Center. Las Vegas: Microsoft. November 19, 1996. Archived from the original on November 25, 2014.
  4. ^ "MS Office 97 Service Release 2B (SR-2B)". TechNet. Microsoft. October 1999. Archived from the original on October 16, 2013. Retrieved April 2, 2016.
  5. ^ "Microsoft Office Family Product Support Lifecycle FAQ". Microsoft Support. Microsoft. Archived from the original on March 12, 2016. Retrieved April 2, 2016.


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