office 2003 & windows 7 having a fit

I tried installing office 2003 onto windows 7 RC 64 bit. It went crazy. Any time I press say IE, the will ask for installation CD. Even if I give in to its fit and give it the CD, it will then go into another fit where the taskbar tab will jitter continually until I can manage to close it. Anyone have problems?

I cant do anything and have to uninstall office 2003.

 

Can't you upgrade to Office '07?

 

no because i actually purposely like office 2003 more. thats not the point tho, it should work

 

Somehow IE was looking to invoke MS Office each time you open it. Don't know much about disabling this option on the top of my head, but you can try uninstall and reinstall IE.

cheers ...

 

I've read that 2K3 works in both 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows 7. Did you try installing in compatiblity mode? Have you considered reinstalling Windows 7 RC1, installing your drivers/system software, and installing 2K3 again?

 

There is a service pack for Office 2003 (I think it's on SP3 now)... see if that update shows up on Windows Update (you'll have to enable the Microsoft Update feature as well to get it).

Edit: Or you can manually download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...49-3E13-433B-B9D2-5E3C1132F206&displaylang=en

 

It's up to SP3 now with 2k3, not that it added a whole lot from SP2.

 

A 6 year old peice of software should just work on an unreleased operating system? Interesting look at the opposite of reality.

I should have tried my copy. Because I dont use it for alot i switched to openoffice.org I was already using it under linux. Does what I need it todo but there are plenty of people who will need to stick to office. I didnt care for the 07 beta that much.

 

What are you saying, six years isn't enough time to ensure compatibility?

Seriously, many people and businesses continue to use that software since it gets the required job done on existing licenses. These days companies have more important things to spend money on than Office 2007 licenses and training.

If Office 2003 doesn't work properly on Windows 7 there's an issue.

 

well, the companies that want to stay on existing licenses and don't want to train office 2007, those same companies ... uhm.. will continue to use windows xp. no? yes, they do.

and no, there is no need to guarantee compatibility for 2003, as it got surpassed with office 2007, and office 2010 underway. if you want 2003, use xp. if you want 2007, use vista/win7.

yep, a 6 year old piece of software on an unreleased piece of os does not need to work.


and besides, office 2007 is great once you get used to it. it's faster, allows you to more quickly get your work done, and is in general very nice (i love the excel and access updates, they are awesome. word doesn't really have some new stuff, but the new version still allows much more rapid styling and refactoring of existing big documents).

office 2007 is 1.5 years old. should have been enough time to adapt, not? i suggest you do, it's worth it (and the new .docx format is great, too)

 

To be clear, I use Office 2007 for personal and school use and do like most of the updates. I switched on my personal system over a year ago.

Work, however, is a different story. We remain on Office 2003. Licensing, training, and support costs keep the corporate standard at 2003. Yes in an ideal world it would be different and people should upgrade. In the real world though, most users barely scratch the surface of 2003's capabilities and there's simply no gain in productivity to be had from switching to 2007.

I think we'll just have to differ in our opinions of whether Office 2003 should work on Win7. If it truly does not work and MS does not fix the incompatibility, then that will add a further impediment to corporate adoption of Win7.

All this is moot however until someone shows that Office 2003 is truly not supported by Win7. We do have one instance of a problem, but do we know if that is an isolated case or is widespread?

 

if you can't move on with the office package, but can move on with the os package, then you're in a quite unlucky situation imho. your it guy really had to mess this one up, then.

but yes, one situation where it doesn't work doesn't mean it does not work in general. then again, everytime i see xp mode presented, it gets presented with office 2003

 

The issue in a corporate world is not IT as much as finance. i.e. cost of upgrade licenses and cost of support/training. Anyone familiar with large corporate IT should comprehend this and how it's different from a small tech company or a developer group. Of course if there are true incompatibilities then IT would not advance Win7 and/or would require anyone moving to Win7 to also upgrade their Office license(s). That's common sense.

This discussion is moot though since indications from a brief google search suggest that this is an isolated incident and others have no substantive issues with win7 and office2003.

 

I have having bigtime troubles with windows 7 for a variety of reasons but hopefully its all because its a cheap RC version. I made my preorder already.

i tried downloading this xp compatibility mode which surprisingly isnt included in windows 7 ultimate RC (again hopefulyl cause its a cheap version of RC) but i get a new compatibility tab now in properties like in vista but nothing to choose from?

Also my apologizes, a slight error, mine is actually office XP (so office 2002), but thats besides the point I guess cause they are very similar with close release dates. anyhow I have tried a million times and it doesnt work. I even activated admin account to install and same thing.

 

I can't really suggest anything helpful except to offer that I did a clean install of Win7 RC and it's been rock solid for me. I've had no significant issues or incompatibilities.

 

Hmm...I installed Office 2003 Professional (Admin point based volume license) on a Home Basic Win7 build today. Worked fine.

 

We had the same problem with XP and Office 2003. All it needed was to stick the Office CD into the drive because some file had become corupt. It worked fine after that.

 

so it works for office xp for u?