Upgrade In Progress...Soon

[calliopes_pen]

Due to the fact that support for Windows XP ends in April, I have been preparing to upgrade to Windows 7. Dad has 8 on his newer (his old one imploded at long last) laptop, but I think I would prefer Windows 7 Home Premium. So far, based on running Microsoft’s Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor*, everything should be okay.

So until I purchase an upgrade from Best Buy, Wal-Mart or Amazon, I’m reading up on all the changes that I can. Since I have Windows XP, I know that I’ll need to wipe out everything via reformatting the hard drive, and reinstall all my programs once I’ve got it in.

However, does anyone know if Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit would be able to run Windows Office 2000 Professional? Because I would like to be able to use that version of Microsoft Word, and not somehow mess up all my files. I’ve already read enough posts across several forums to know that Outlook Express wouldn’t work, and I’m fine with that. I’m just finding conflicting reports on people who were able to get Office up and running.

Windows Professional has XP Mode—however, as I would only need it for Word, I don’t have to have it. I can try to locate an older version of Office that still used the doc extention, and looked similar to 2000.

*I am honestly amused by the fact that my printer from 1997 is still compatible.

Comments

[raine]

From what I'm seeing online, if you're not using Outlook 2000, you should be fine running Office 2000; however, official support from Microsoft for Office 2000 ended July 2009, so running it under Win7 is considered "unsupported" at this point. I know there have been a ton of security and bug fixes since then so it may not even run. Not sure.

I hate the Ribbon interface, but I've gotten used to it. You can get add-ons that mimic the old look, or you can ditch Office entirely and go for LibreOffice or OpenOffice. :-)

[bktheirregular]

I don't know about Office 2000, but I do know that Office 2003 works with Windows 7 - my mother was using 2003 on a Windows 7 machine for several years without problems, until she upgraded this year. 2003 also predates the "ribbon interface", so it should hopefully provide an interface not to different from what you'd be used to.

OpenOffice, the last time I used it, was about ninety to ninety-five percent compatible with Microsoft Office; I suspect they've gotten closer in compatibility since then, and my troubles were with Excel, not Word.

[boosette.livejournal.com]

I've been able to successfully run word 97 on Windows 7, so I think you should be good.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

I used an older version when I first upgraded to W7, still use the old version of Excel. I have Word 2010 now and still convert some things to doc from docx because my betas can't read the files otherwise.

I still use Eudora for my mail from 2006 :D I'm so afraid Windows 9 won't support it :(