Depending on what you do in Office, Office 2000 is going to give you problems in Vista. Office 2003 runs fine in Vista from my experience and Office 2007 does as well. I have run Office 2007 in Windows7 fine but haven't tried Office 2003 yet.
Which Office Programs do you use in 2000?
If you were my client, this is what we would probably do.
1. Buy a new laptop with Vista Ultimate x64.
2. Boot it up and create Recovery Discs
3. Install Windows 7 on it
4. Install Office 2007 on it
5. Download and install Search Commands for Office 2007 as well as Save as a PDF for OFfice 2007
6. Run Windows Update on Windows 7 and switch to download for all Microsoft Products
7. Restart and Repeat step 6 until all critical and what we want for optional and driver updates are done
8. Install WIndows XP Mode (Basically a virtual machine of XP for backwards compatibility)
9. Install Office 2000 and 2003 in XP compatibility mode
10. Download and install Updates for them
At this point in time, I would not put any energy into Vista. I am not a Vista basher, it ran alright for me, but Windows 7 looks very strong and you might as well jump right to it and iron out any issues rather than learn Vista and then have to learn Windows 7 right away.
If you're in a rush and don't want to wait until Oct 22/09 for Windows7 availability, you could buy a laptop with Windows Vista Home X64 on it, Download and install Windows7 RTM on it. (non-upgrade) and then wait 30 days to activate it (can actually be extended 3x for a total of 120 days), at which point you will have to buy a retail copy of Windows 7 x64 Ultimate and then use that key to activate it. This option will cost more, but if you are needing a computer right away, still allows you to skip VIsta.
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by: KCTSPosted on 2009-10-07 at 08:30:06ID: 25516593
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Windows 7 is the NEW OS from microsoft, it replaces Vista and is already in use by many Volume licence users, it goes on general sale on 22nd Oct
As with Vista - Win7 comes in several flavours, Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate which offer different functionality
The ultimate version is the most expensive all-singing, all-dancing version
Both Vista and Win7 also come in 32bit and 64bit versions
Details of the tWin7 versions here http://windows.microsoft.c
and the Vista ones here http://www.microsoft.com/w
Note that to upgrade you can only upgrade a 32bit Vista to a 32bit Win7
or a 64bit Vista to 64bit Win7
also you can only upgrade from Vista to the equivilent for higher Win7 version
No Cross-Upgrades.