Vista and Norton, MS office 2003 compatibility questions?

[Sweed]

My son's laptop died this morning and he has decided to get a new one, of course that means Vista.

He has MS Office 2003 and I have 1 license left on a 3 license Norton 2007 AV that he will want to install on his vista machine. Guy at Best Buy pretty much told us anything we try to install ourselves on visa will be met with vista spinning the disc and spitting it out and not doing the install. Of course I can get Norton from the BB salesman (which by happenstance their techs can install) along with office 2007 which is of course vista compatible.


I figured either he was full of it or at the least there had to be workarounds to get them to install (but maybe I'm wrong?). Did a google and found both office 2003 and norton 2007 have programs for d'load that will make them vista compatible.

Anyone here running office 2003 or norton 2007 on their vista machines?
Did the apps install ok and just need to be "upgraded" with the free compatibility programs?

Appreciate any advice you can to give on getting these two programs to work
with vista?

[gstelmack]

I did not have any problems with Office 2003 on my wife's box, and I just put Norton 360 (which has the 2007 versions of AntiVirus on it) just fine. I don't think you are really going to have any issues. You can check support for both programs and see what they have to say on installing on Vista (there might be some specific instructions you need to follow).

[jeff061]

I do know Symantec 10.1.5 does not work with Vista, they released 10.2 which only installs on Vista. Don't know if there is any parallel to Norton.

Not aware of any Office 2003 issues. Pretty sure I had that running pior to upgrading to 2007.

[Sweed]

Originally Posted by gstelmack

I did not have any problems with Office 2003 on my wife's box, and I just put Norton 360 (which has the 2007 versions of AntiVirus on it) just fine. I don't think you are really going to have any issues. You can check support for both programs and see what they have to say on installing on Vista (there might be some specific instructions you need to follow).

Thanks for the reply. After the BB spiel I thought I'd at least check here before trying the installation. After googling and your reply I don't think there should be any real problems.

Thanks again.
Sweed

[Sweed]

Originally Posted by jeff061

I do know Symantec 10.1.5 does not work with Vista, they released 10.2 which only installs on Vista. Don't know if there is any parallel to Norton.

Not aware of any Office 2003 issues. Pretty sure I had that running pior to upgrading to 2007.

Thanks for the reply. You posted while I was replying to gstelmack.

[MizzouRah]

I had both on my pc when upgrading, Norton d/l an update automatically and office 2003 is working fine.