Windows Updates is offering MS Office 2007 updates -> but I have Office 2000 installed (?)

"BillW50" wrote in message
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glee wrote:

"BillW50" wrote in message
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What is so hard to understand? If you go to Windows updates or
Office
updates and if you have Office 2000 SR-1, Microsoft will show you
*no* updates for Office 2000 at all. No matter how unpatched your
Office 2000 is. The reason is because that Microsoft has drop
support for Office 2000 and also removed the Office 2000 patches.

So when I try to help the guy out, you have to play mind games with
people and act foolish. Don't you have other people to bother
instead? Wife, brother, kids, dog, or something?

smh. One-track mind. The question was not at any point "how do I
find Office 2000 updates". Yes, the support cycle is over for Office
2000. Once support has ended for any product, automatic updates are
no longer available, updates must be obtained through the Download
Center. So, you want to give the OP info about the unavailability of
Office
2000 updates via automatic updates... all well and good. My point is
that you never once addressed the original question, not once.

Oh and you *want* to tell him the same line that everybody else told
him? And how does that help him Glen? I am waiting! I am trying to
help them by telling them what they need to update Office 2000 because
they are very unlikely to find it any place else except from me.

Bwahahahaha! No one but you can supply that simple information? You've
GOT to be joking! It's readily available info all over the web... any
search engine will bring you to the info in seconds.

Just for clarity, your reference to Windows Update and to Office
Update sites for Office updates of any kind, is incorrect. At NO
time could you ever get Office Updates from "Windows Update". There
have not been automatic updates available from Office Update site for
a few years, and they were never available from Windows Update.
Automatic updates for supported versions of Office are only available
from Microsoft Update, which is a different service than Windows
Update. Office Update transferred its updating to Microsoft Update
some time ago. FYI

For starters I can only speak about the Office Update site for Office
2000. I don't have 2003 or later so I wouldn't know how that works
except the part about 2007 Compatibility Pack, which I too have seen.
And prior to Office 2000, Office updates were done through Windows
Update. And since 2005, Windows and Office updates can be had through
the single Microsoft Update site.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micros...ice_Update

Office Updates were never done through Windows Update for any version,
that I have seen, going back to office 95 and 97. Windows Update did
not include Office products or updates Office was always kept
separate until the advent of Microsoft Update.

Glen Ventura
MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009
CompTIA A+

On Thu, 17 May 2012 14:15:45 -0500, "BillW50" wrote:

Oh and you *want* to tell him the same line that everybody else told
him? And how does that help him Glen? I am waiting! I am trying to help
them by telling them what they need to update Office 2000 because they
are very unlikely to find it any place else except from me.

In that case, we're extremely fortunate to have you as a resource.

On 5/17/2012 3:02 PM, glee wrote:

"BillW50" wrote in message
news:jp3j89$und$

In news:jp3fml$61i$,
glee wrote:

"BillW50" wrote in message
news:jp3ej4$tro$

What is so hard to understand? If you go to Windows updates or Office
updates and if you have Office 2000 SR-1, Microsoft will show you
*no* updates for Office 2000 at all. No matter how unpatched your
Office 2000 is. The reason is because that Microsoft has drop
support for Office 2000 and also removed the Office 2000 patches.

So when I try to help the guy out, you have to play mind games with
people and act foolish. Don't you have other people to bother
instead? Wife, brother, kids, dog, or something?

smh. One-track mind. The question was not at any point "how do I
find Office 2000 updates". Yes, the support cycle is over for Office
2000. Once support has ended for any product, automatic updates are
no longer available, updates must be obtained through the Download
Center. So, you want to give the OP info about the unavailability of
Office
2000 updates via automatic updates... all well and good. My point is
that you never once addressed the original question, not once.

Oh and you *want* to tell him the same line that everybody else told
him? And how does that help him Glen? I am waiting! I am trying to
help them by telling them what they need to update Office 2000 because
they are very unlikely to find it any place else except from me.

Bwahahahaha! No one but you can supply that simple information? You've
GOT to be joking! It's readily available info all over the web... any
search engine will bring you to the info in seconds.

Go for it Glen. Show us where all of the updates you need for Office
2000 SR1 is in one simple list. If you can prove it, we will believe
you. But in any case, we are calling your bluff!

Just for clarity, your reference to Windows Update and to Office
Update sites for Office updates of any kind, is incorrect. At NO
time could you ever get Office Updates from "Windows Update". There
have not been automatic updates available from Office Update site for
a few years, and they were never available from Windows Update.
Automatic updates for supported versions of Office are only available
from Microsoft Update, which is a different service than Windows
Update. Office Update transferred its updating to Microsoft Update
some time ago. FYI

For starters I can only speak about the Office Update site for Office
2000. I don't have 2003 or later so I wouldn't know how that works
except the part about 2007 Compatibility Pack, which I too have seen.
And prior to Office 2000, Office updates were done through Windows
Update. And since 2005, Windows and Office updates can be had through
the single Microsoft Update site.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micros...ice_Update

Office Updates were never done through Windows Update for any version,
that I have seen, going back to office 95 and 97. Windows Update did not
include Office products or updates Office was always kept separate
until the advent of Microsoft Update.

Really, refresh my memory where we got Office 95 and Office 97 updates
from? And Office Update is the wrong answer since they were never there.
And while my memory isn't 100% perfect, but Wikipedia's memory says the
same thing.

Also odd, this web site says to go to Windows Update to get Office 97
updates:

http://www.ehow.com/how_6396430_upd...ce-97.html

Now why on earth would they say that Glen? Could it be that you don't
know what you are talking about? Naw, that couldn't be, right Glen?

Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Thunderbird v12
Centrino Core Duo T2400 1.83GHz - 2GB - Windows XP SP3

On 5/17/2012 3:03 PM, Char Jackson wrote:

On Thu, 17 May 2012 14:15:45 -0500, "BillW50" wrote:

Oh and you *want* to tell him the same line that everybody else told
him? And how does that help him Glen? I am waiting! I am trying to help
them by telling them what they need to update Office 2000 because they
are very unlikely to find it any place else except from me.

In that case, we're extremely fortunate to have you as a resource.

What's the problem Char?

Assumptive 1: I assumed the OP wanted to know why they were being
offered Office 2007 update because they have Office 2000.

Assumption 2: I assumed the OP thought that Microsoft would keep their
Office 2000 updated.

So I cleared these two up if they had these misunderstandings. I kept
this list for myself and I have offered it to others who wants to know
how to manually update Office 2000, since there isn't any means to
automatically update Office 2000 anymore.

The people who needed to update Office 2000 so far has always thanked
me. And the bastards who could careless criticizes me for trying to help
others. You know like Glen, David, and yourself.

Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Thunderbird v12
Centrino Core Duo T2400 1.83GHz - 2GB - Windows XP SP3

On Thu, 17 May 2012 17:04:06 -0500, BillW50 wrote:

On 5/17/2012 3:03 PM, Char Jackson wrote:

On Thu, 17 May 2012 14:15:45 -0500, "BillW50" wrote:

Oh and you *want* to tell him the same line that everybody else told
him? And how does that help him Glen? I am waiting! I am trying to help
them by telling them what they need to update Office 2000 because they
are very unlikely to find it any place else except from me.

In that case, we're extremely fortunate to have you as a resource.

What's the problem Char?

Assumptive 1: I assumed the OP wanted to know why they were being
offered Office 2007 update because they have Office 2000.

Assumption 2: I assumed the OP thought that Microsoft would keep their
Office 2000 updated.

You know what happens when you assume, right?