Outlook 98 dead for reinstalls? Is MS forcing an Office 2000 buy if you have to reinstall?

[dougjnn]

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??

 

[Pauli]

I tried to do this about six months ago and ran into the same problem as you - MS just does not have it available any more. I spent hours on a web search looking for it to no avail. Luckily, the server at work still had it available, so I burned it to CD. It's about 100MB or so. I'd be willing to give you a copy if there were some way to easily transfer it.

 

[dougjnn]

Well, I would love to get that.

I don't suppose you could burn a copy of the CD, and I could paypal you your cd/priority mail expenses, could you?

I have a plenty fast cable connection, but I know zero about ftp.

I've never tried an email attachment of that sort of size. it would be perfectly feasible for me to get it, but I don't know if it would be for you to send it (do you have cable or dsl?), or whether email attachments of that size will move through the mailbox systems. I rather suspect they won't.

Does anyone know???

 

[dougjnn]

ttt

 

[Pauli]

Forget email, most accounts won't allow an attachement that large. Anyone out there have an FTP server that I could upload to and dougjnn can download from? The files total 108MB.

 

[dougjnn]

An available ftp for a half day or something would be wonderful, if anyone has.

(Or does anyone have a link to some site or freeware which could teach me how to turn myself into a temporary ftp???) I'm totally ignorant in that area. Do have a cable connect however, behind a linksys router.