RIP Office 2000
By Maggie Holland in Editorial
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As one door closes, another one opens. Or so they say. Exactly who they are remains a bit of a mystery, but I digress…
This week, Microsoft unveiled the technical preview of Office 2010, its shiny new all-singing, all-dancing Office Suite. I won’t go into the details of the goodies it contains in this post. Instead, you’ll have to take a look at our first look review.
Amid the fanfare at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference for the new arrival, a more muted goodbye tune was played for the Office of yesteryear. For today marked the final day of support for Office 2000.
You’d be hard pushed to find any businesses actually using this version of Office today. Mainstream support ended in June 2004 and, as of today, according to Microsoft’s Office product lifecycle FAQ page extended support is also off the menu. But, nonetheless, online self-help support is still available and, at the very least, we have our fond memories.
The software suite was officially launched on June 7 1999 by Steve Ballmer.
At the time, he said: “Office 2000 unleashes the power of the web work style, the most efficient way to work with business information and collaborate with others… The new Office web-collaboration services announced today will allow users in both large and small businesses to benefit from the web work style, regardless of their web server infrastructure.”
It was all part of Microsoft’s ‘Knowledge workers without limits’ vision. At the time it was quite innovative as the limits were a lot lower than they are today. And business users were certainly a lot less demanding of their software back then.
Office 2000, we bid you farewell.
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