Microsoft Office XP

Microsoft Office XP
Developer(s)Microsoft
Initial releaseMay 31, 2001; 23 years ago (2001-05-31)[1]
Final release
Service Pack 3 (10.0.6501.6626)[2] / March 30, 2004; 20 years ago (2004-03-30)[3]
Operating systemWindows NT 4.0 SP6 or later[4][5]
PlatformIA-32
PredecessorMicrosoft Office 2000 (1999)
SuccessorMicrosoft Office 2003 (2003)
Available in35 languages[6]
List of languages
Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese (Hong Kong SAR), Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish
TypeOffice suite
LicenseProprietary commercial software
WebsiteMicrosoft Office Home Page

Microsoft Office XP (codenamed Office 10[7]) is an office suite which was officially revealed in July 2000 by Microsoft for the Windows operating system. Office XP was released to manufacturing on March 5, 2001,[8] and was later made available to retail on May 31, 2001.[1] A Mac OS X equivalent, Microsoft Office v. X was released on November 19, 2001.

New features in Office XP include smart tags, a selection-based search feature that recognizes different types of text in a document so that users can perform additional actions; a task pane interface that consolidates popular menu bar commands on the right side of the screen to facilitate quick access to them; new document collaboration capabilities, support for MSN Groups and SharePoint; and integrated handwriting recognition and speech recognition capabilities. With Office XP, Microsoft incorporated several features to address reliability issues observed in previous versions of Office.[9] Office XP also introduces separate Document Imaging,[9] Document Scanning,[9] and Clip Organizer applications.[10] The Office Assistant (commonly known as "Clippy"), which was introduced in Office 97 and widely reviled by users, is disabled by default in Office XP; this change was a key element of Microsoft's promotional campaign for Office XP.[11]

Office XP is compatible with Windows NT 4.0 SP6 through Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 R2.[4][5][12][13] It is the last version of Microsoft Office to support Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98, Windows 2000 RTM–SP2 and Windows Me.[14]

Office XP received mostly positive reviews upon its release, with critics praising its collaboration features, document protection and recovery functionality, and smart tags; however, the suite's handwriting recognition and speech recognition capabilities were criticized and were mostly viewed as inferior to similar offerings from competitors. As of May 2002, over 60 million Office XP licenses had been sold.[15]

Microsoft released three service packs for Office XP during its lifetime.[2] Support for Office XP ended on July 12, 2011.[16]

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  10. ^ Dray, Jeff (May 20, 2003). "Give users a quick tutorial of Microsoft Office XP's Clip Organizer". TechRepublic. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on February 25, 2017. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
  11. ^ Wilcox, Joe (January 2, 2002). "Microsoft tool 'Clippy' gets pink slip". CNET. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on February 25, 2019. Retrieved July 25, 2019.
  12. ^ "Microsoft Office Version and Windows Version Compatibility Chart". Keynote Support. Archived from the original on January 30, 2019. Retrieved January 23, 2022.
  13. ^ Keizer, Gregg (July 22, 2003). "Microsoft Office XP Pro: Win98/ME/NT4/2K review". CNET. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on July 25, 2019. Retrieved July 25, 2019.
  14. ^ "Microsoft Office 2003 Editions Product Guide". Microsoft. September 2003. Archived from the original (DOC) on November 4, 2005. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
  15. ^ "Microsoft Office XP Licenses Exceed 60 Million Mark". News Center. Microsoft. May 13, 2002. Archived from the original on August 26, 2018. Retrieved July 25, 2019.
  16. ^ Oiaga, Marius (July 2, 2011). "Office XP Dies on July 11, 2011". Softpedia. Archived from the original on June 12, 2024. Retrieved June 12, 2024.