Hi, I am pleased to announce that with Ge's patch to fix Exception handling and Brandon and Thomas's work on the pagefile it is now possible to install Office 2000 on the trunk. You will get quite a few errrors at the end of the install due to missing dlls from MDAC/ADO that Office2000 expects a Windows 2000 system to ship with, which we of course do not have stubbed at this time. Thanks to Eric Kohls work on services msiexec is mostly happy installing Office2000 if started from the command line like the following
msiexec /i data1.msi
There is still issues with setup.exe properly working althogh I think this is more due to version numbers we report.
We are still unable to run Office applications at this time due to unhandled exceptions which look like they are due to COM errors as well as some problems due to the amount of memory we are reporting. Both Winword and Access display message boxes saying that there is not enough memory to run the application. Also even if we do get those issues fixed we are currently blocked by the registry instablity.
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