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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Sorry Jim, but the title is simply hilarious. Do you REALLY think Microsnot would FIX something??

Geeze man, you KNOW itisn't YOUR printer drivers and that it is DEFINITELY a MS problem as it is with ALL your printers, unlesss they are all in cahoots with each otehr to **** off Microsnot.

Just hang tight my friend, NOvell's Linux for Desktops will resolve the need fo Office anyhow.

I've seen the first Novell Linux for desktops seminar and will be in Vancouver for the next leg next week.

Ms is gonna have to pull thier socks up or they are going to be losing market share, very slowly but surely.

Sorry to hear you predicament, I have NO resolve for you but thought your expectations sounded a little , make that a LOT, far fetched.

Oz

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According to the most recent list released by Microsoft, the discontinued products will include the following:

Office XP Developer; Visio 2000; BackOffice Server 2000; Office 2000 Developer; Office 2000 Tools; Office 2000 Multilingual; Office 2000 Premium SR-1; Office 2000 Service Pack 2; Outlook 2000, Project 2000; SQL Server 7; SQL Server 7 Service Pack 3; Embedded Visual Tools 3.0; Visual Studio 6 MSDE; IE 5.5; MapPoint 2002; Visual Studio 6.0 SP3 and SP5; Windows 98; Windows 98 Y2K; Windows 98 Resource Kit; Windows 98 SP1 (all Win98 except SE); Windows NT 4.0 (Terminal Server and Option Pack); and Visual Basic (Alpha Systems).

Link:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nf/20031209/bs_nf/22827

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From the sounds of this article, I'd say that MS is finished doing anything with Office 2000. (I'm not entirely sure, however, as this is just how I read the article.)

If enough people complain, Microsoft MIGHT release a fix.

Office 2000 is near the extended support phase.

There is 6 months left for a fix to arrive.

Office 2000 ? Microsoft will continue to offer mainstream hotfix support on Office 2000 through June 30, 2004. In addition, no-charge incident support and personal pay-per-incident support will continue through June 30, 2005. Office 2000?s extended support period will last from July 1, 2004 through June 30, 2006. The latest Office 2000 service pack is required for hotfix support

http://tinyurl.com/z0th

Chas

Jim, can I ask you a question on a different topic ?

We had so many printing problems with Office 2000 that we were unable to use it. Can you imagine having 400,000 documents and any underlines in a document would print like strikethrough text? Then MS told me there was a way to fix it, but I would have to fix each individual document. Of course, the real problem according to them was with the print driver. Guess what HP said the problem was?

We stayed with Office 97 and then upgraded to Office XP. The printing is much better - no more weird printing problems.

HP has a PCL 5E driver which has worked well.