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Microsoft Office XP

2001 — 2011 · Microsoft
retired Reported · 2011

“Smart tags, task panes, and a decade of documents: rest easy, Office 10.”

Microsoft Office XP, codenamed Office 10, arrived for Windows in 2001 after development wrapped on March 2 — a date the team hit from the very start, a small miracle of project management in its own right. It brought smart tags that recognized text and suggested actions, a task pane that put popular commands within easy reach, and new collaboration support for MSN Groups and SharePoint. Microsoft also took reliabilit

After a long run that began with its release to manufacturing in March 2001 and retail availability that May, Office XP was discontinued in 2011. It even had a Mac cousin, Microsoft Office v. X, released that November for OS X. A decade of spreadsheets, memos, and last-minute term papers passed through its hands before it quietly stepped aside.

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