compatibility

I have a new Dell XPS on the way with vista ultimate. I am concerned as I
haven't heard much good about Vista so far. My question pertains to office xp
pro and if it is going to work with vista.

So why not order a Dell PC with Winxp installed?
OfficeXp works okay in Vista, there are problems with Outlook though

"renefig" <renefig@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BC36E66B-1B7E-411C-8A2F-322A7FE4B2A6@microsoft.com...
>I have a new Dell XPS on the way with vista ultimate. I am concerned as I
> haven't heard much good about Vista so far. My question pertains to office
> xp
> pro and if it is going to work with vista.

Thank you, yes I agree and my new desktop has xp pro, however the laptop
brings with it a blu-ray burner and Dell says you need Vista . Go figure

"DL" wrote:

> So why not order a Dell PC with Winxp installed?
> OfficeXp works okay in Vista, there are problems with Outlook though
>
> "renefig" <renefig@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:BC36E66B-1B7E-411C-8A2F-322A7FE4B2A6@microsoft.com...
> >I have a new Dell XPS on the way with vista ultimate. I am concerned as I
> > haven't heard much good about Vista so far. My question pertains to office
> > xp
> > pro and if it is going to work with vista.
>
>
>

Microsoft Office 2000, Microsoft Office XP, and Microsoft Office 2003
are all supported on Windows Vista.

Ref: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932087/en-us

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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"renefig" wrote:

I have a new Dell XPS on the way with vista ultimate. I am concerned as I
haven't heard much good about Vista so far. My question pertains to office xp
pro and if it is going to work with vista.

"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@nospamgmail.com> wrote in message
news:FEDD4104-8CD8-4109-BD4F-5515A8493078@microsoft.com...
> Microsoft Office 2000, Microsoft Office XP, and Microsoft Office 2003
> are all supported on Windows Vista.
>
> Ref: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932087/en-us
>

And what that article doesn't say, is that there ARE issues with at least
one of the older versions of Outlook running on Vista.....

Makes me laugh actually, the page says "The 2007 Office suites were
extensively tested on Windows Vista for best compatibility"

Surely if Office 2007 is written by MS, as is Vista, there should be 100%
compatibility.......more un-joined-up thinking.....
And talking about un-joined-up programming, Excel 2007 STILL doesn't use the
Regional Setting for negative numbers in Windows, unlike Lotus - I CANNOT
BELIEVE that MS STILL hasn't implemented that......