Office 2000 versions confusion

[SeanKav]

Can someone point me to a web page or document tha explains the difference
between office versions? In Add/Remove programs on different PC's I see the
following:

Microsoft Office Pro 2000 SR-1 - SBE ??
Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1 Professional -???
Microsoft Office 2000 Premium -???
Microsoft Office 2000 Professional -2000 Pro I assume

Thanks for any help

 

['69 Camaro]

Hi, Sean.

Can someone point me to a web page or document tha explains the difference
between office versions?

I'm not sure there are any Web pages explaining that anymore.

In Add/Remove programs on different PC's I see the
following:

Microsoft Office 2000 Professional contains the Office 2000 versions of the
following products: Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher,
and Microsoft Small Business Tools. It also includes Microsoft Office
Server Extensions, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0, and shared clip art.

Microsoft Office Pro 2000 SR-1 and Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1 Professional
are where Service Release 1 (or 1a) has been applied to the Microsoft Office
2000 Professional installation. Each Office 2000 installation requires all
three service packs (1, 2, and 3), because that particular version of Office
was rather buggy.

Microsoft Office 2000 Premium edition includes the Office 2000 versions of
Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access, FrontPage, Publisher, PhotoDraw,
and Microsoft Office Small Business Tools. It doesn't yet include any of
the required service packs.

HTH.
Gunny

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[Pieter Wijnen]

don't get me stared on office 95 <g>

Pieter

Hi, Sean.


I'm not sure there are any Web pages explaining that anymore.


Microsoft Office 2000 Professional contains the Office 2000 versions of
the following products: Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access,
Publisher, and Microsoft Small Business Tools. It also includes Microsoft
Office Server Extensions, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0, and shared clip
art.

Microsoft Office Pro 2000 SR-1 and Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1 Professional
are where Service Release 1 (or 1a) has been applied to the Microsoft
Office 2000 Professional installation. Each Office 2000 installation
requires all three service packs (1, 2, and 3), because that particular
version of Office was rather buggy.

Microsoft Office 2000 Premium edition includes the Office 2000 versions of
Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access, FrontPage, Publisher, PhotoDraw,
and Microsoft Office Small Business Tools. It doesn't yet include any of
the required service packs.

HTH.
Gunny

See http://www.QBuilt.com for all your database needs.
See http://www.Access.QBuilt.com for Microsoft Access tips and tutorials.
Blogs: www.DataDevilDog.BlogSpot.com, www.DatabaseTips.BlogSpot.com
http://www.Access.QBuilt.com/html/expert_contributors2.html for contact
info.

 

[SeanKav]

Thanks for your reply Gunny. This does help clarify the history of Office.
Am I correct in assuming the difference between:
A) Microsoft Office Pro 2000 SR-1
B) Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1 Professional
is just a different service pack applied to 2000 Pro?

Or are they service packs applied to:
A) Office Pro 2000 and
B) Office 2000 SBE

I'm trying to tie original licenses with these string identifiers. It
appears some users have service packs applied, some don't. Although we have
Pro and SBE licenses, 'SBE' doesn't emerge in any product identifying string.

Nice car by the way... Thanks, sean

 

['69 Camaro]

don't get me started on office 95 <g>

Access 95 still a dirty word in some parts. ;-)

Gunny

 

['69 Camaro]

Hi, Sean.

Am I correct in assuming the difference between:
A) Microsoft Office Pro 2000 SR-1
B) Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1 Professional
is just a different service pack applied to 2000 Pro?

They're both service release 1 for Office 2000 Professional. However, both
SR-1 and SR-1a were released, so the difference you see in the naming
convention may possibly be due to one of them being SR-1a.

Or are they service packs applied to:
A) Office Pro 2000 and
B) Office 2000 SBE

I haven't personally seen any installations of Office 2000 SBE, so I can't
comment about that with any confidence.

I'm trying to tie original licenses with these string identifiers.

That can be difficult. How about just checking the file version numbers to
determine which service pack of Office is applied? I think I've got the URL
for all of the file version numbes in the products of Office 2000 from SR-1
to SP-3, but I don't have one for the SBE. I expect you can find that in
Microsoft's Knowledge Base.

Nice car by the way...

Thanks.

HTH.
Gunny

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See http://www.Access.QBuilt.com for Microsoft Access tips and tutorials.
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http://www.Access.QBuilt.com/html/expert_contributors2.html for contact
info.

 

['69 Camaro]

Hi, Sean.

Please see the tip, "How to determine which version of MS Office is
installed," on the following Web page for the list of file version numbers
for the Office 2000 products:

http://www.access.qbuilt.com/html/fix_its.html

HTH.
Gunny

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See http://www.Access.QBuilt.com for Microsoft Access tips and tutorials.
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http://www.Access.QBuilt.com/html/expert_contributors2.html for contact
info.

 

[Larry Linson]

Access 95 still a dirty word in some parts. ;-)

And, in other parts, it is just beneath notice (except to contrast to other
releases, as in "when first released Access 2000 was in a neck-and-neck race
with Access 95 to be the worst Access release of all time, but now, with
three SPs, Access 2000 is much more stable.")

I only did one customer project with Access 95... one of the things I was
supposed to do was to create an app that would allow distributing just
changed/new objects, and apply them to the full database. To our chagrin,
we discovered that importing worked for all but one or two types of objects
and exporting worked for all but one or two. Thus the approach used to
accomplish an "updater" in Access 2.0 no longer would work, and, as there
was never a Service Pack for Office 95, it was the next version, Access 97,
before it worked again.

Interestingly, many experienced Access users believe that Access 97 was the
_best-ever_ version... even so, there were two Service Releases... and with
those, it was very stable and solid.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP