Can Office 2007 be installed on W2K machine?

[SeismicGuy]

I've seen answers both yes and no. I tried to install and could not
get past the initial setup screen when I was bluntly informed that I
needed a more recent version of Windows (I have W2K SP4 on my
machine).

Is there any way to get even some of the Office components to install
(e.g., just Access or just Word)?

Thanks,

Doug

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Doug,

The minimum requirement for Office 2007 is Windows XP with Service Pack 2.

==============I've seen answers both yes and no. I tried to install and could not
get past the initial setup screen when I was bluntly informed that I
needed a more recent version of Windows (I have W2K SP4 on my
machine).

Is there any way to get even some of the Office components to install
(e.g., just Access or just Word)?

Thanks,

Doug>>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[SeismicGuy]

Hi Doug,

The minimum requirement for Office 2007 is Windows XP with Service Pack 2.

==============
I've seen answers both yes and no. I tried to install and could not
get past the initial setup screen when I was bluntly informed that I
needed a more recent version of Windows (I have W2K SP4 on my
machine).

Is there any way to get even some of the Office components to install
(e.g., just Access or just Word)?

Thanks,

Doug>>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

What about using Orca to modify the msi installer file to permit the
setup to proceed. I have read that this worked for other programs.

Doug

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Doug,

The minimum requirements won't change
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/HA101668651033.aspx
Some of the Office 2007 features rely on parts of Windows XP that are not in Windows 2000. Any modification you would use to do the
installation would put Office in an unsupported installation state. If you're not wanting to upgrade Windows 2000 to Windows XP on
a machine due to the machine/resource spec then Office 2007 will likely disappoint you as it uses a lot of resources.

If you can run a Virtual PC emulator on Windows 2000 that can run a Windows XP installation mimic for you, that might work, but it's
an awful lot of work for what might not be much of a gain.

If you only need to be able to read/write Office 2007 files in an earlier version of Office, Microsoft does provide the Office 2007
compatibility pack that supports Office 2000 through 2003 and will do so on Windows 2000 SP4.

==============
What about using Orca to modify the msi installer file to permit the
setup to proceed. I have read that this worked for other programs.

Doug>>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[SeismicGuy]

Hi Doug,

The minimum requirements won't change
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/HA101668651033.aspx
Some of the Office 2007 features rely on parts of Windows XP that are not in Windows 2000. Any modification you would use to do the
installation would put Office in an unsupported installation state. If you're not wanting to upgrade Windows 2000 to Windows XP on
a machine due to the machine/resource spec then Office 2007 will likely disappoint you as it uses a lot of resources.

If you can run a Virtual PC emulator on Windows 2000 that can run a Windows XP installation mimic for you, that might work, but it's
an awful lot of work for what might not be much of a gain.

If you only need to be able to read/write Office 2007 files in an earlier version of Office, Microsoft does provide the Office 2007
compatibility pack that supports Office 2000 through 2003 and will do so on Windows 2000 SP4.

==============
What about using Orca to modify the msi installer file to permit the
setup to proceed. I have read that this worked for other programs.

Doug>>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Or I suppose I can bite the bullet and upgrade the machine(s) to XP or
install XP on a separate partition and create a dual boot system.
Then I suppose I can load Office 2007 on the XP partition.

Doug