Microsoft KB Archive/210437

= OFF2000: Products That Qualify for the Microsoft Office Upgrade =

Article ID: 210437

Article Last Modified on 7/18/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q210437





SUMMARY
Microsoft Office is available in two versions, a non-upgrade version that you can install on any compatible computer, and an upgrade version that requires that a qualifying product be installed on your computer or that disk 1 from the qualifying product be available when you run the Setup program.

This article lists the products that qualify you to use the upgrade version of Office. The non-upgrade version does not require a qualifying product.

This applies to all packages of Office including Premium, Professional, Small Business, Standard, and Developer.

In additon, there are three products that qualify you to use the upgrade version of Office Developer.

NOTE: The retail upgrade version of Office 2000 may not upgrade Works 6.0 or Works Suite 2001. Please contact Microsoft Technical Support and reference this article.



MORE INFORMATION
If you purchase Microsoft Office 2000 Premium, Professional, Small Business, Standard, or Developer through a retail outlet or through volume-licensing programs such as Open or Select, and you are legally licensed for one of the following products, you qualify to purchase the upgrade product.

Qualifying product names are listed on the left, and their version numbers are listed on the right in the following table.

  Product                                Version ---                               ---

Office Suites:

Microsoft Office Professional,     Version 4.0 or later for Small Business, Standard,          Microsoft Windows Developer, and Value Added         and Windows NT Workstation. Reseller (VAR) edition.

Microsoft Works, Works Deluxe,     Version 3.0 or later for MS-DOS- and Works Suite. based computers, Windows and Windows NT Workstation. This includes Microsoft Works 6.0 and Microsoft Works Suite 2001. If the upgrade version of                                         Office 2000 does not recognize one of these products, please contact Microsoft Technical Support.

NOTE: For volume licensing purchases of Microsoft Office 2000, Microsoft Works qualifies for Academic Select License and Academic Open License customers only.

Word Processors:

Microsoft Word                     Version 6.0 or later for MS-DOS- based computers, Windows, and Windows NT Workstation.

WordPerfect                        Versions 4.0 to 5.1 for MS-DOS- based computers and versions 5.1 to 6.1 for Windows.*

*Office productivity suites from Novell and Corel, which contain WordPerfect 4.0 to 5.1 for MS-DOS-based computers or WordPerfect 5.1 to 6.1 for Windows, also qualify as an upgrade to Office.

Spreadsheets:

Microsoft Excel                    Version 5.0 or later for Windows and Windows NT Workstation.

Lotus 1-2-3                        Version 2.01 to 3.4 for MS-DOS- based computers and versions 1.0 to 4.01 for Windows.*

*Office productivity suites from Lotus, which contain Lotus 1-2-3 version 2.01 to 3.4 for MS-DOS-based computers and versions 1.0 to       4.01 for Windows, also qualify as an upgrade to Office.

Presentation Graphics:

Microsoft PowerPoint               Version 4.0 or later for Windows and Windows NT Workstation.

Databases:

Microsoft Access                   Version 2.0 or later for Windows and Windows NT Workstation.

Project Management:

Microsoft Project                  Version 4.0 or later for MS-DOS- based computers, Windows, and Windows NT Workstation. If Office Setup does not detect a product that qualifies you to use the upgrade version, you receive the following messages:

Setup failed to locate a valid qualifying product on your machine. Please select the drive where a qualifying product can be found.

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Error 1608. Could not find any previously installed compliant products on the machine for installing this product.

If you purchase Microsoft Office 2000 Developer through a retail outlet or through volume-licensing programs such as Open or Select, and you are legally licensed for one of the following products, you qualify to purchase the upgrade product.

Qualifying product names are listed on the left, and their version numbers are listed on the right in the following table.

Product                               Version ---                               --- Microsoft Visual Studio Professional, Enterprise                            Version 97 or later for Windows and Windows NT Workstation.

Microsoft Visual Basic Professional, Enterprise                            Version 4.0 or later for Windows                                           and Windows NT or later

Microsoft FoxPro                      Version 2.6 or later for MS-DOS- based computers, Windows, and Windows NT Workstation.

Microsoft Visual FoxPro               Version 3.0 or later for Windows and Windows NT Workstation.

Additional query words: OFF2000 qualifying sr1patch sr1 sr-1 patch

Keywords: kbinfo kbsetup KB210437

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