en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_95
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Windows NT 3.51 or later
Office 95 was not limited to Windows NT. Microsoft's own minimum requirements say Office 7.0 runs on either Windows 95 or Windows NT Workstation 3.51 or later.
Full reasoning
This infobox claim is incomplete in a way that changes the meaning: it implies Microsoft Office 95 only ran on Windows NT 3.51 or later. Microsoft’s published minimum system requirements for Microsoft Office version 7.0 for Windows 95 say the supported operating systems were "Microsoft Windows 95 operating system or Microsoft Windows NT Workstation operating system version 3.51 or later." That directly contradicts the article text, which omits Windows 95 entirely.
So the correct statement is that Office 95 supported Windows 95 and Windows NT Workstation 3.51 or later, not just Windows NT 3.51 or later.
1 source
- OFF95: Minimum System Requirements for Running Office 7.0 (131173)
Microsoft Windows 95 operating system or Microsoft Windows NT Workstation operating system version 3.51 or later (will not run on earlier versions of Windows)
Windows NT 3.51 for typical use
Microsoft's system requirements do not say Office 95 required only Windows NT 3.51. They list Windows 95 or Windows NT Workstation 3.51 or later.
Full reasoning
The article’s system-requirements sentence says Office 95 requires "Windows NT 3.51 for typical use," but Microsoft’s own minimum-requirements document for Office 7.0 says otherwise. The operating-system requirement is either Windows 95 or Windows NT Workstation 3.51 or later.
Microsoft’s requirements also match the rest of the sentence’s hardware figures (386DX CPU, 8 MB RAM, 28 MB compact / 55 MB typical disk space), which makes the omission of Windows 95 stand out as an error in this specific clause rather than a different requirements table. The same Microsoft document says:
- "Microsoft Windows 95 operating system or Microsoft Windows NT Workstation operating system version 3.51 or later"
That directly contradicts the article’s narrower claim.
1 source
- OFF95: Minimum System Requirements for Running Office 7.0 (131173)
Microsoft Windows 95 operating system or Microsoft Windows NT Workstation operating system version 3.51 or later (will not run on earlier versions of Windows)
8 MB of RAM, and Windows NT 3.51 for typical use
Microsoft's requirements split RAM by operating system: 8 MB was for Windows 95, while Windows NT Workstation needed 16 MB to run two Office programs.
Full reasoning
This claim combines the wrong RAM figure with the NT requirement. Microsoft’s published minimum requirements for Office 7.0 say:
- Windows 95: 8 MB of memory to run two programs
- Windows NT Workstation: 16 MB of memory to run two programs
So 8 MB was not the stated requirement for Windows NT 3.51. Microsoft’s own requirements document also says the software requirement was Windows 95 or Windows NT Workstation 3.51 or later, not NT alone.
That means the article’s phrasing is inaccurate on both counts: it attributes the 8 MB figure to the NT case, and it omits Windows 95 from the operating-system requirement.
2 sources
- OFF95: Minimum System Requirements for Running Office 7.0 (131173)
8 MB of memory to run two programs on Windows 95; 16 MB of memory to run two programs on Windows NT Workstation; more memory recommended to run three or more programs simultaneously on Windows 95 or Windows NT Workstation
- OFF95: Minimum System Requirements for Running Office 7.0 (131173)
Microsoft Windows 95 operating system or Microsoft Windows NT Workstation operating system version 3.51 or later