Outlook 98 dead for reinstalls? Is MS forcing an Office 2000 buy if you have to reinstall?
Oh, oh. Now I'm running into a problem with Outlook 98.
Have any of you tried to migrate Outlook 98 to a new, upgraded computer? Or do a re-install? I tried and it looks like the (free) upgrade from Windows 98 (1) only partly saved to disk when I told it to (the installer program), and (2) the update site from which the rest of the upgrade was handled "live" while connected has been changed and perhaps shut down. Has anyone else run into this??? I'm now remembering that about the time Office 2000 came out, Microsoft stopped offering the free Outlook 98 upgrade. (Outlook 97 you understand is widely considered a complete POS, and got those sorts of reviews, whereas Outlook 98 was a vast improvement. Outlook 2000 seems to not be very different from Outlook 98).
This seems like a real "gotcha" by Microsoft to me, if there isn't a way around it.
Unlike some, but probably like most Anandtech regulars, I always save all my downloaded upgrades, new programs (free or charged for) in their original compressed form in a root file called 9Downloads, in an organized way. It becomes part of the data I back up. That way I can re-install them without hunting all over the internet, and forgetting what I have, if I have to do a windows re-install -- or if I migrate to a new computer.
I did that with the two big service releases to Office 97, the removal of the identifier key in all Office 97 documents, etc. I also thought I did that with the upgrade to Outlook 97, so that I could supplement the reinstalls from my purchased disk of Office 97 together with the install key, of course.
Has anyone else run into this??
Oh, oh. Now I'm running into a problem with Outlook 98.
Have any of you tried to migrate Outlook 98 to a new, upgraded computer? Or do a re-install? I tried and it looks like the (free) upgrade from Windows 98 (1) only partly saved to disk when I told it to (the installer program), and (2) the update site from which the rest of the upgrade was handled "live" while connected has been changed and perhaps shut down. Has anyone else run into this??? I'm now remembering that about the time Office 2000 came out, Microsoft stopped offering the free Outlook 98 upgrade. (Outlook 97 you understand is widely considered a complete POS, and got those sorts of reviews, whereas Outlook 98 was a vast improvement. Outlook 2000 seems to not be very different from Outlook 98).
This seems like a real "gotcha" by Microsoft to me, if there isn't a way around it.
Unlike some, but probably like most Anandtech regulars, I always save all my downloaded upgrades, new programs (free or charged for) in their original compressed form in a root file called 9Downloads, in an organized way. It becomes part of the data I back up. That way I can re-install them without hunting all over the internet, and forgetting what I have, if I have to do a windows re-install -- or if I migrate to a new computer.
I did that with the two big service releases to Office 97, the removal of the identifier key in all Office 97 documents, etc. I also thought I did that with the upgrade to Outlook 97, so that I could supplement the reinstalls from my purchased disk of Office 97 together with the install key, of course.
Has anyone else run into this??