Along with our previous announcement regarding the Microsoft Windows XP operating system, Adobe will soon be ending support of Office 2003 with Acrobat Standard X and XI and Acrobat Pro X and XI. This is in conjunction with Microsoft ending their support of Office 2003 on April 8, 2014. The next official quarterly update for these Acrobat versions (which is expected May 2014) will be the last ones tested on and released for Office 2003. Once that quarterly update is released, Adobe’s official support for Office 2003 will come to an end too.
As with Windows XP, you can continue to install and/or use Acrobat with Office 2003 if you wish to, even after the official support ends. But again, this means that any updates or patches for Adobe Acrobat will no longer be tested or supported with Office 2003. In addition, Adobe will not provide technical support for problems specific to running Acrobat with Office 2003. This is also applicable to our enterprise customers who have purchased maintenance/upgrade and support plans, and/or have a contract that entitles them to maintenance/upgrade and support from Adobe.
You can find information on Microsoft’s Office lifecycle here. Or if you have questions for us or the wider community of users and experts, you can post those to the community forums for Adobe Acrobat. Adobe Acrobat continues to integrate with Microsoft software in many useful and powerful ways. If you’d like to check on which versions of Microsoft Office your installation of Acrobat works with, head on over to the compatibility matrices here.
