Microsoft Office 2000 (version 9.0) is a release of

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developed and distributed by

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for the

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s. Office 2000 was

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on March 29, 1999, and was made available to retail on June 7, 1999. A Mac OS equivalent, Microsoft Office 2001, was released on October 11, 2000. Office 2000 is compatible with

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through

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and

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. It is the last version of Microsoft Office to support Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 SP3–SP5. Microsoft released three

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s for Office 2000 throughout its life cycle. The first update was called Service Release 1 (SR-1), while subsequent updates were referred to as service packs. Support for Office 2000 ended on July 14, 2009.

New features

New features in Office 2000 include

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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

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that utilizes Microsoft Agent, improved compliance with the

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, and interface improvements including personalized

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s that omit infrequently used commands from view. Office 2000 introduces PhotoDraw, a raster and

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imaging program, as well as

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. It is also the first version of Office to use

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for the installation process. It also comes with Internet Explorer 5 and uses its technologies as well.

Editions

Microsoft released five main editions of Office 2000 globally: Standard, Small Business, Professional, Premium, and Developer. An additional Personal edition with Word, Excel, and Outlook exclusive to

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was also released. A similar Basic edition would later be released for Office 2003 to all markets. All retail editions sold in

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, and

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, as well as academic copies sold in

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and the

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, required the user to activate the product via the

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. Microsoft extended this requirement to retail editions sold in Canada and the United States with the availability of Office 2000 Service Release 1. Product activation would become a requirement for all editions of Office from Office XP onward. MapPoint,

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, Visio and Vizact also used the Microsoft Office 2000 brand, but they were only available as standalone programs.

System requirements

Default font

The default font was Times New Roman, 10 pt.

Notes

References

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Office 2000 Windows-only proprietary software Products and services discontinued in 2009