Office on Windows XP

[Howard Kaikow]

MSFT KB article 932087 provides a "Description of the versions of Office
that are supported on Windows Vista".

Is there a corresponding article for Office on Windows XP?

 

[DL]

I dont know specifically of such a KB but I do know, from experience that
Office2k through Office 2007 runs without issues

 

[Howard Kaikow]

I dont know specifically of such a KB but I do know, from experience that
Office2k through Office 2007 runs without issues

Thanx.

I expect so, but I'd like to see MSFT's official statement on this.

 

[Bob I]

Thanx.

I expect so, but I'd like to see MSFT's official statement on this.

That was quite awhile ago. Like 7-8 years! At that point in time
Microsoft would have tested the current Office Suites. Office 2000 and
Office XP would have been supported then, of course after Office 2003
came out and Office 2000 fell off the supported listing, you have
applied Service Packs to Windows XP and changed the operating system. So
once you do that, the "official statement" would be rendered obslete and
invalid.

 

[Alias]

Thanx.

I expect so, but I'd like to see MSFT's official statement on this.

You're in the wrong place for MSFT official *anything*. This is a
peer-to-peer newsgroup and MS employees do not hang out here.

Alias

 

[Howard Kaikow]

MSFT KB article 932087 provides a "Description of the versions of Office
that are supported on Windows Vista".

Is there a corresponding article for Office on Windows XP?

Since the KB article states that Vista supports Office 2000, XP, and 2003.
I am guessing that it is safe to ASSuME that so does Windows XP.

Not that anyone should still be using Office 97, but I sometimes compile
apps so folkes using Office 97 will be able to use them.

Currently, I have Office 97 on a Windows 2000 system.
I was wondering what would happen if my Windows 2000 system went belly up,
and I was not able to install Windows 2000 on new hardware.

 

[Bob I]

Since the KB article states that Vista supports Office 2000, XP, and 2003.
I am guessing that it is safe to ASSuME that so does Windows XP.

Not that anyone should still be using Office 97, but I sometimes compile
apps so folkes using Office 97 will be able to use them.

Currently, I have Office 97 on a Windows 2000 system.
I was wondering what would happen if my Windows 2000 system went belly up,
and I was not able to install Windows 2000 on new hardware.

I think the phrase "Microsoft Office 2000, Microsoft Office XP,
Microsoft Office 2003, and the 2007 Microsoft Office suites are all
supported on Windows Vista." is misleading at best.

If you read the "rest of the article"

"Because Office 2000 and Office XP are in Extended Support, there have
been no fixes for issues that occur when these products are run on
Windows Vista."

And to that end, I have installed Office 97 on Vista, but the little
niggles that arise belong solely to me!

So what is it you are really asking? Will Office 97 install on Windows
XP? If so, then the answer is yes. Is it "supported", the answer is no.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Currently, I have Office 97 on a Windows 2000 system.

I was wondering what would happen if my Windows 2000 system went belly up,
and I was not able to install Windows 2000 on new hardware.

You could always install Win2K in a virtual machine.

Office 2000, btw, works fine in XP (Home or Professional).

 

[Howard Kaikow]

I think the phrase "Microsoft Office 2000, Microsoft Office XP,
Microsoft Office 2003, and the 2007 Microsoft Office suites are all
supported on Windows Vista." is misleading at best.

If you read the "rest of the article"

"Because Office 2000 and Office XP are in Extended Support, there have
been no fixes for issues that occur when these products are run on
Windows Vista."

And to that end, I have installed Office 97 on Vista, but the little
niggles that arise belong solely to me!

So what is it you are really asking? Will Office 97 install on Windows
XP? If so, then the answer is yes. Is it "supported", the answer is no.

Yes, but getting past the install is the 1st step.
If I encounter unsupported issues, then either I would find a way to program
around them, or I would drop support within that OS, for my software.

 

[Howard Kaikow]

You could always install Win2K in a virtual machine.

Office 2000, btw, works fine in XP (Home or Professional).

If Win 2000 installs in a VM, would it not also install on the hardware?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

If Win 2000 installs in a VM, would it not also install on the hardware?

Your original question presupposes that it wouldn't:

"I was wondering what would happen if my Windows 2000 system went belly
up, and I was not able to install Windows 2000 on new hardware."

But to turn it around: If Win 2000 won't install on your hardware, would
it install in a VM?

Certainly yes if you're using either Virtual PC or VMWare. The virtual
machines that these programs present are very vanilla boxes so any needed
drivers are either supplied by the Windows installer or added later via
the VM software's tools. I've got everything from NT4 and Win98 through
VISTA running in VMWare VMs.

Apart from that, it's a lot simpler, faster and cheaper to fire up VMs as
needed than to maintain multiple boot partitions or separate PCs for each
OS you want to test with.