According to internal Microsoft documents, the company will pull Office 2000 Service Release 1 (SR-1) from the market and re-release a fixed version called Office 2000 SR-1a. The company recommends that customers running Office 2000 on Windows 2000 systems that have been upgraded from Windows NT 4.0 not install SR-1 at all until the SR-1a update is released. Such systems have had Internet Explorer-related problems with searching and hyperlinking. And when you add this issue to the problems with SR-1 previously discussed in WinInfo, it´s pretty clear that the Office team has done it again: SR-1 is simply of unacceptable quality for production environments.

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