At work I’m stuck with Microsoft Office XP Professional. My previous workstation was one that belonged in a museum (and now luckily is) and had no problems activating Office XP. With my new and shiny workstation (running Windows 7 Professional 64-bit), activating the software was impossible.

After some googling I found a [forum][1] with a post suggesting to [contact Microsoft Support][2] via chat. The following is my conversation with *”Herbert”* from Microsoft support…

[1]: http://windowssecrets.com/forums/showthread.php/138785-OFFICE-XP-%282002%29-Activation-Problem
[2]: http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/?ws=search&ln=en-us#

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