Cardian wrote:

> Does word and excel ever come bundled in XP professional? My employer
> seems to recall those two programs included with his version of XP.


No. Your employer is wrong.

Neither Windows XP, nor any other version of Windows, has ever included
Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, or any other significant application
software. Such programs have to be bought, either by themselves or as part
of Microsoft Office.

If your employer bought a computer which came with these, it was because the
vendor who sold it bundled it as part of the package he sold, not because
Windows came with it.

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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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