A similar Basic edition for Office 2003 would later be released to all markets. An additional Personal edition with Word, Excel, and Outlook exclusive to Japan was also released. Microsoft released five main editions of Office 2000 globally: Standard, Small Business, Professional, Premium, and Developer. It also comes with Internet Explorer 5 and uses its technologies as well. It is also the first version of Office to use Windows Installer for the installation process. Office 2000 introduces PhotoDraw, a raster and vector imaging program, as well as Web Components. New features in Office 2000 include HTML document creation and publishing, Internet collaboration features such as integration with NetMeeting, roaming user profile support, COM add-in support an updated version of the Office Assistant, improved compliance with the year 2000, and interface improvements including personalized menus and toolbars that omit infrequently used commands from view. Mainstream support for Office 2000 ended on June 30, 2004, and extended support ended on July 14, 2009.
MICROSOFT OFFICE 2000 TO 2010 UPDATE
The first update was called Service Release 1 (SR-1), while subsequent updates were referred to as service packs. Microsoft released three service packs for Office 2000 throughout its life cycle. It is the last version of Microsoft Office to support Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 versions below SP6, but above SP2 as the following version, Microsoft Office XP, will only support Windows NT 4.0 SP6 or later. It is not officially supported on Windows Vista or later versions of Windows. Office 2000 requires Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0 SP3 at the minimum. Office 2000 is incompatible with Windows NT 3.51 and earlier versions of Windows.
MICROSOFT OFFICE 2000 TO 2010 MAC OS
A Mac OS equivalent, Microsoft Office 2001, was released on October 11, 2000. It is the successor to Office 97 and the predecessor to Office XP. Office 2000 was released to manufacturing on March 29, 1999, and was made available to retail on June 7, 1999. 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.