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Yes, you can run Office XP on just about any machine. Keep in mind that Office XP was like Windows ME..... it was a mistake..... that's why Office 2003 came out about 5 months later....You can buy Office 2003 pretty cheap right now - even Office 2000 is better than XP. I teach MS Office - all the programs work the same..... The office XP has bugs - but as far as running on Vista - Just about all software is "backwards compatible" so I haven't heard of any real issues..... it's the software itself that's the problem.