Removing the ability to customize has been a common theme with Office-2003 was the last that had fully customizable menus and I am still most productive with it.
You are not even able to customize the installation of 2016 though (well, without editing a file on the DVD itself), so setup full-installs all applications on the DVD. While not common, 2016 is available on DVDs and presumably the next version 2019 will be as well because not everyone has broadband. Office 2003 was the last that came on CD, while 2007 and later actually came on DVDs. Elsewhere, the research points out that 17% of businesses are currently using Google’s G Suite instead of Microsoft’s alternatives. The online productivity suite is a more compelling option for businesses thanks to its always up-to-date nature. According to its survey, 17% of businesses are hoping to move to Microsoft's cloud-based Office 365 suite by 2019. The IT company noted that it's not a completely dire outlook for Microsoft. Shipping firm Maersk declared that the malware may end up costing it $300 million. For example, NotPetya, a ransomware malware, was behind mass service outages during May and June. Vulnerability in the aforementioned softwares can inflict significant financial blows to companies. Over the years, there have been hundreds of vulnerabilities identified in Microsoft Office.”
Once an OS no longer receives updates, it's a security liability.
Just like any software or system in use, productivity suites need to be patched for security reasons. "Although they might not grab as many headlines as end-of-support OSes, Office suites that are past their prime are susceptible to danger, similar to their OS cousins. mpd databases will have to be converted to stand-alone files or stored in Project Server if you want to continue working with them.Either way, according to Tsai, organizations should bear in mind that their budget-saving methods can expose them to much larger financial damage: It can read from ODBC but not write back to it. Project 2007 can read from all versions back to Project 98, but can only write back in Proj 2000 or later.
It is important to note that Project 2003 knows nothing about 2007 so you should always install 2003 before you install 2007 or 2003 may overwrite the 2007 installation or do other bad things.
This applies to both Project Professional and Project Server. One nod that Microsoft made to ease the pain was that they did make it possible to install the 2003 version and 2007 version side by side on the same machine. This means that compatibility between the two versions was broken completely ODBC was abandoned in favor of Web services. These changes included changes to the database schema and to the method that data is transferred. Project 2007 was redesigned in a number of ways to make it more efficient and improve performance. Project Professional 2007 connects to Project Server 2007.Project Professional 2003 connects to Project Server 2003 and Project Server 2002.Project 2002 connects to Project Server 2002.Project 2000 connects to Project Central.There are many questions about which versions of Microsoft Project and Microsoft Project server are compatible.