Office 2007 on Windows 2000
 

Hello,

Anybody tried running Office 2007 on Windows 2000?

I know it's not supported by Microsoft but has anybody tried it?

Re: Office 2007 on Windows 2000
 

Why on earth would you want to?

Re: Office 2007 on Windows 2000
 

Hi

Tried and failed

Imp

Re: Office 2007 on Windows 2000
 

Not me - a customer!

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For what reason - if you can remember? Thanks.

Re: Office 2007 on Windows 2000
 

Would more than likely kill the 2000 machine.

Re: Office 2007 on Windows 2000
 

In what way? I know it's resource intensive, but what if the Windows 2000 PC had a good CPU and RAM spec?

Re: Office 2007 on Windows 2000
 

Well.. from using it on XP it just causes a consant lock up - and my machine isnt exactly poor - Quad Core CPU etc.

Personally Id stick with Outlook 2003 - its probably better than 2007 anywho!

Re: Office 2007 on Windows 2000
 

Runs fine on XP here and it's a medium spec PC, and I don't really want to get into a discussion regarding what version is better as that was'nt my question - but anyway - back to the question...

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So in answer to the question, yes Ive tried it on 2000 and it killed it - was a p4 - 1gb ram - just killed the machine!

Re: Office 2007 on Windows 2000
 

OK - please define "killed" - it's not really a technical term!

Do you mean it just grabbed all the resources it could and ran very slowly...or it didn't run at all? Did you do any investigation as to what processes were being maxed out at the time?

Sorry - but I'm looking for a bit more of a technical explanation.

Re: Office 2007 on Windows 2000
 

Hmm

Anywho as you wish.

Outlook caused 80 % CPU usage. It caused constant lock up and freeze - it caused general slowness. So I removed it and the machine went back to normal, running relativly well and just ticked over.

Does this help?

Re: Office 2007 on Windows 2000
 

Why don't you install microsoft virtual machine 2007 - install win2k and try it for your yourself, you can get a better understanding of what's going on then :tu:

Re: Office 2007 on Windows 2000
 

Beacuse I thought I'd ask here first to try and get a heads up of what happens when you run the suite. :tu:

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Sort of...looks like I will be testing it myself to see what processes were hit....

Re: Office 2007 on Windows 2000
 

Yeah but you could have tried it for yourself in the time you've waited ;)

Me, I've got an install of win 95,98,ME,2k,XP and Vista ready with virtual pc to test out stuff for people.

Re: Office 2007 on Windows 2000
 

Not with the house move and working I couldn't have!

Yeah - I think I need to prep some images for this kinda thing....

Re: Office 2007 on Windows 2000
 

I would have thorught due to the how many years difference there would be major comp issues can I please ask why not use XP or Vista if the pc can handle those OS

Re: Office 2007 on Windows 2000
 

See post #4!

Re: Office 2007 on Windows 2000
 

I seem to remember when I tried the install on the one remaining Win2K PC here that the Office 2007 install actually told me it wouldn't install it because it couldn't be installed on Windows 2000.

Re: Office 2007 on Windows 2000
 

I am very interested in this as well. The exact error message is "The specified program requires a newer version of Windows."
I am running Windows 7 and Windows 2000/xp/2008 R2 and linux in Vmware.
I wanted a quick OS Windows based that did not require a lot of disk space.
The boot CD for W2k SP4 comes in at 374 mb and on my Core 2 Duo processor Windows 2000 SP4 flies!
The environment variable for both XP and Windows 2000 are the same "Windows_NT" so that is not the problem.
I will figure this out and report back when I get it working.

Re: Office 2007 on Windows 2000
 

It's not the environment variable that gets checked. The setup will use the version number (which is 5 for Windows 2000 and 5.1 for XP) and build number (which would give a good idea if any service packs were installed).

Re: Office 2007 on Windows 2000
 

Ok! Now we are getting somewhere. Thanks for the helpful nudge in the right direction!
Nb