My IS department denied my request to trial a Tablet PC, so I am going to take the leap and purchase one myself. I have prettty much settled on the Acer TavelMate C301XCi model (found one with 1.6G/1G Ram/60G HD/802.11b/g and Bluetooth for $2300!! @ CDW-G). However, I have some concerns:
1) I need the MS Office Suite, which will add another $400 bucks to the price. My company is still using the Office 2000 suite - will I be able to have our IS dept. load their older, licensed version onto my Tablet PC? Any known incompatibilities with the Tablet PC OS?
2) On a similiar note: the company may be upgrading to Office 2003 by mid-year. Any issues with loading this after purchase? I do not completely understand the whole OEM concept, so I am not sure if the Office software has to be installed at time of purchase.
3) If I MUST purchase the 2003 Office suite with the PC, will there be issues trying to sync Outlook 2003 with Outlook 2000?

"Doug M" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> 1) I need the MS Office Suite, which will add another $400 bucks to the
> price. My company is still using the Office 2000 suite - will I be able
> to have our IS dept. load their older, licensed version onto my Tablet PC?
> Any known incompatibilities with the Tablet PC OS?

No, but you will get NO Tablet/ink-awareness. The Add-in Pack only supports
Office XP, and Office 2003 has native awareness.

> 2) On a similiar note: the company may be upgrading to Office 2003 by
> mid-year. Any issues with loading this after purchase? I do not
> completely understand the whole OEM concept, so I am not sure if the
> Office software has to be installed at time of purchase.

Office can be installed at any time.

> 3) If I MUST purchase the 2003 Office suite with the PC, will there be
> issues trying to sync Outlook 2003 with Outlook 2000?

Probably some issues, but you should ask those questions on a Outlook
newsgroup as the Tablet environment is not relevant to the issue.

An important issue about he compatibility between Office 2003 and 2000 is
that the latter cannot use the default .pst file of 2003; you have to use
the older version, the one compatible with office 2000 and XP.
The main limitations of the old format are that the folder size has a 2GB
limit and it is in ANSI format while the 2003 one is, by default, in Unicode
format.
Regards
Stefano Colasanti
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/


"Doug M" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> My IS department denied my request to trial a Tablet PC, so I am going to
> take the leap and purchase one myself. I have prettty much settled on the
> Acer TavelMate C301XCi model (found one with 1.6G/1G Ram/60G HD/802.11b/g
> and Bluetooth for $2300!! @ CDW-G). However, I have some concerns:
> 1) I need the MS Office Suite, which will add another $400 bucks to the
> price. My company is still using the Office 2000 suite - will I be able
> to have our IS dept. load their older, licensed version onto my Tablet PC?
> Any known incompatibilities with the Tablet PC OS?
> 2) On a similiar note: the company may be upgrading to Office 2003 by
> mid-year. Any issues with loading this after purchase? I do not
> completely understand the whole OEM concept, so I am not sure if the
> Office software has to be installed at time of purchase.
> 3) If I MUST purchase the 2003 Office suite with the PC, will there be
> issues trying to sync Outlook 2003 with Outlook 2000?

"Office 200"?? Wow, you need to upgrade!!! :) You're gonna love the
ability to edit your papyrus or parchment without having to use a knife.
And the new right-click function....

Brian


"Mike Williams [MVP]" <mikew[removeme]@mvps.org> wrote in message
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>
> "Doug M" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E2FFE83C-CA0F-4027-A762-A84BFA93256A@microsoft.com...
> > 1) I need the MS Office Suite, which will add another $400 bucks to the
> > price. My company is still using the Office 2000 suite - will I be able
> > to have our IS dept. load their older, licensed version onto my Tablet
PC?
> > Any known incompatibilities with the Tablet PC OS?
>
> No, but you will get NO Tablet/ink-awareness. The Add-in Pack only
supports
> Office XP, and Office 2003 has native awareness.
>
> > 2) On a similiar note: the company may be upgrading to Office 2003 by
> > mid-year. Any issues with loading this after purchase? I do not
> > completely understand the whole OEM concept, so I am not sure if the
> > Office software has to be installed at time of purchase.
>
> Office can be installed at any time.
>
> > 3) If I MUST purchase the 2003 Office suite with the PC, will there be
> > issues trying to sync Outlook 2003 with Outlook 2000?
>
> Probably some issues, but you should ask those questions on a Outlook
> newsgroup as the Tablet environment is not relevant to the issue.
>
>
>