Free Microsoft Office XP SP2 CD

[Pshawn5]

taken from anandtech:

Microsoft Office XP Standard service pack 2 (SP2) has just been released today and you can order a CD with the SP on it from MS for FREE!!! From what I can tell on their site the CD became avaliable at around 2pm today. There is no shipping to pay or anything, just sit back and wait for it to arrive.
Order Page is here (http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/xp/journ/Oxpsp2cd.html)

If you want to download it:

Regular OfficeXP Standard sp2 installer (http://download.microsoft.com/download/officexpstandard/sp/oxpsp2/w98nt42kmexp/en-us/oxpsp2.exe)

Admin install OfficeXP Standard sp2 installer (http://download.microsoft.com/download/officexpstandard/sp/oxpsp2/w98nt42kmexp/EN-us/oxpsp2a.exe)

[Pshawn5]

Step by step slipstream instructions:

1. Put your office xp CD in your cd-rom drive.

2. Click Start -> Run...

3. Type "X:\setup /a" X is your CD Drive!(This will install a VALID ADMINISTRATIVE POINT INSTALLATION)

4. Specifiy the Origanization/CD-Key/Location.
(For the sake of these instructions, leave it at C:\Office)

5. Let it install -- this will take a while

6. Extract the oxpsp2a.exe to C:\SP2

7. Click Start -> Run...

8. Type "msiexec /p C:\SP2\MAINSP2ff.msp /a C:\Office\proplus.msi" No Quotation marks
Do not change any information during this part. Just let it continue.
Let it proceed. This may take some time to continue.

9. Click Start -> Run...

10. Type "msiexec /p C:\SP2\Owc10SP2ff.msp /a C:\Office\owc10.msi" No Quotation marks
Do not change any information during this part. Just let it continue.
Let it proceed. This may take some time to continue.

11. Click Start -> Run...

12. Type "msiexec /i C:\Office\proplus.msi REINSTALL=ALL REINSTALLMODE=vomus" No Quotation marks
Let it proceed. This may take some time to continue.

13. Congratulations! You now have upgraded to Microsoft office xp SP2!
Please confirm by loading any install Office application (relating to
office xp) and checking the about box. It should state 'SP2' and the
version number should end with '4219'.

14. You may now delete C:\SP2 and C:\Office. The contents of
C:\Office may be burned to a CD for a direct updated version.

[madfish]

wth is slip stream?

[Mntsnow]

thanks PShawn for the info

Mad. Slip streaming is where you "embed" the service pack so that when you install the Application it is already patched to that service pack level :)

[BBA]

The links you posted were for the OXP standard patch.

If I find the OXP SP2 for Pro I will post the link...but I haven't looked yet.

[Pshawn5]

whoops did not know there was a professional version... thx bba