Office XP - 20th anniversary

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On this day 20 years ago, few months before Windows XP Microsoft released Office XP. This was the first version of Office to include mandatory product activation, task panes, smart tags and so on. This version was the last that could be installed on Windows NT 4.0 (SP6a required)/98 (SE)/Me, as Office 2003 requires Windows 2000 with SP3/XP or newer.

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Actually, the first version to require activation was Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1.

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Actually, the first version to require activation was Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1.

Office 2000 SR-1 doesn't require activation since 15th April of 2003.