Vista and Office 2003 Incompatible??

Is it alright or not advisable to deinstall Office 2007 on a Hewlett-Packard
PC with Windows Vista Home version so that Office 2003 Professional version
can be installed for a few months? After that time period, Office 2007 would
be reinstalled. I have heard mostlycons. Is Vista Home incompatible with
Office 2003?

Description of the versions of Office that are supported on Windows Vista:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932087/en-us

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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"dianecl1" wrote:

Is it alright or not advisable to deinstall Office 2007 on a Hewlett-Packard
PC with Windows Vista Home version so that Office 2003 Professional version
can be installed for a few months? After that time period, Office 2007 would
be reinstalled. I have heard mostlycons. Is Vista Home incompatible with
Office 2003?

"dianecl1" <> wrote in message
news:133830C6-6B18-4FC0-A64B-...
> Is it alright or not advisable to deinstall Office 2007 on a
> Hewlett-Packard
> PC with Windows Vista Home version so that Office 2003 Professional
> version
> can be installed for a few months? After that time period, Office 2007
> would
> be reinstalled. I have heard mostlycons. Is Vista Home incompatible with
> Office 2003?


Nope. Office 2003 will run perfectly well on Vista....

Probly not the best thing to do but I did.

I have Office 2002 SP3 on my vista home basic which came with 60 day trial
of office 07.

I didn't even remove 07 first, I let the install of 02 do it.

However, you do see me here asking for help on some small things! Other than
that works to get the job done until my boss buys me 07.



"dianecl1" <> wrote in message
news:133830C6-6B18-4FC0-A64B-...
> Is it alright or not advisable to deinstall Office 2007 on a
> Hewlett-Packard
> PC with Windows Vista Home version so that Office 2003 Professional
> version
> can be installed for a few months? After that time period, Office 2007
> would
> be reinstalled. I have heard mostlycons. Is Vista Home incompatible with
> Office 2003?

Gordon wrote:
> "dianecl1" <> wrote in message
> news:133830C6-6B18-4FC0-A64B-...
>> Is it alright or not advisable to deinstall Office 2007 on a
>> Hewlett-Packard
>> PC with Windows Vista Home version so that Office 2003 Professional
>> version
>> can be installed for a few months? After that time period, Office 2007
>> would
>> be reinstalled. I have heard mostlycons. Is Vista Home incompatible with
>> Office 2003?
>
>
> Nope. Office 2003 will run perfectly well on Vista....
>
>

Yeah, if you enjoy having to put in your password every time you open
Outlook. I think that was done by design to force users to buy Office 2007.

Alias

Guess that answers a question I was going to ask in the Outlook forum. I
normally leave it running all day anyway and like you said, it only asks for
it (wont keep it in the properties even though you check the box) at start
up and will error out. but hit send and receive or let the auto send and
receive however long you have it set for and it works and continues until
you close and restart.

I have to type my password in every time on web mail so that little bit
isn't too much of an issue.

My perspective but thanks for the heads up.

"Alias" <> wrote in message
news:%23%...
> Gordon wrote:
>> "dianecl1" <> wrote in message
>> news:133830C6-6B18-4FC0-A64B-...
>>> Is it alright or not advisable to deinstall Office 2007 on a
>>> Hewlett-Packard
>>> PC with Windows Vista Home version so that Office 2003 Professional
>>> version
>>> can be installed for a few months? After that time period, Office 2007
>>> would
>>> be reinstalled. I have heard mostlycons. Is Vista Home incompatible with
>>> Office 2003?
>>
>>
>> Nope. Office 2003 will run perfectly well on Vista....
>
> Yeah, if you enjoy having to put in your password every time you open
> Outlook. I think that was done by design to force users to buy Office
> 2007.
>
> Alias

I've been running Vista with Office 2003 (with Outlook) and I've never had to
put in any password when I open Outlook or any other part of the Office suite.

Can you elaborate or provide a source of this (mis)information?

"Alias" wrote:

> Gordon wrote:
> > "dianecl1" <> wrote in message
> > news:133830C6-6B18-4FC0-A64B-...
> >> Is it alright or not advisable to deinstall Office 2007 on a
> >> Hewlett-Packard
> >> PC with Windows Vista Home version so that Office 2003 Professional
> >> version
> >> can be installed for a few months? After that time period, Office 2007
> >> would
> >> be reinstalled. I have heard mostlycons. Is Vista Home incompatible with
> >> Office 2003?
> >
> >
> > Nope. Office 2003 will run perfectly well on Vista....
> >
> >
>
> Yeah, if you enjoy having to put in your password every time you open
> Outlook. I think that was done by design to force users to buy Office 2007.
>
> Alias
>

"Alias" <> wrote in message
news:%23%...
> Gordon wrote:
>> "dianecl1" <> wrote in message
>> news:133830C6-6B18-4FC0-A64B-...
>>> Is it alright or not advisable to deinstall Office 2007 on a
>>> Hewlett-Packard
>>> PC with Windows Vista Home version so that Office 2003 Professional
>>> version
>>> can be installed for a few months? After that time period, Office 2007
>>> would
>>> be reinstalled. I have heard mostlycons. Is Vista Home incompatible with
>>> Office 2003?
>>
>>
>> Nope. Office 2003 will run perfectly well on Vista....
>
> Yeah, if you enjoy having to put in your password every time you open
> Outlook. I think that was done by design to force users to buy Office
> 2007.
>
> Alias


That's a fault with Outlook 2002, not 2003 AFAIK...

"Gordon" <> wrote in message
news:...
> "Alias" <> wrote in message
> news:%23%...
>> Gordon wrote:
>>> "dianecl1" <> wrote in message
>>> news:133830C6-6B18-4FC0-A64B-...
>>>> Is it alright or not advisable to deinstall Office 2007 on a
>>>> Hewlett-Packard
>>>> PC with Windows Vista Home version so that Office 2003 Professional
>>>> version
>>>> can be installed for a few months? After that time period, Office 2007
>>>> would
>>>> be reinstalled. I have heard mostlycons. Is Vista Home incompatible
>>>> with
>>>> Office 2003?
>>>
>>>
>>> Nope. Office 2003 will run perfectly well on Vista....
>>
>> Yeah, if you enjoy having to put in your password every time you open
>> Outlook. I think that was done by design to force users to buy Office
>> 2007.
>>
>> Alias
>
>
> That's a fault with Outlook 2002, not 2003 AFAIK...
>


I agree I had the problem with 2002. I no longer have it with 2003.

--
Steve

Steve Rainbird wrote:
>
>
> "Gordon" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> "Alias" <> wrote in message
>> news:%23%...
>>> Gordon wrote:
>>>> "dianecl1" <> wrote in message
>>>> news:133830C6-6B18-4FC0-A64B-...
>>>>> Is it alright or not advisable to deinstall Office 2007 on a
>>>>> Hewlett-Packard
>>>>> PC with Windows Vista Home version so that Office 2003 Professional
>>>>> version
>>>>> can be installed for a few months? After that time period, Office
>>>>> 2007 would
>>>>> be reinstalled. I have heard mostlycons. Is Vista Home incompatible
>>>>> with
>>>>> Office 2003?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Nope. Office 2003 will run perfectly well on Vista....
>>>
>>> Yeah, if you enjoy having to put in your password every time you open
>>> Outlook. I think that was done by design to force users to buy Office
>>> 2007.
>>>
>>> Alias
>>
>>
>> That's a fault with Outlook 2002, not 2003 AFAIK...
>>
>
>
> I agree I had the problem with 2002. I no longer have it with 2003.
>

Oops, my bad. I thought it applied to 03 as well.

Alias