if it's about system requirements... how about trying to run it on Linux using Wine / CrossOver? SysReqs could be lower than for Win7 I also would be pleased to run Office 2013 on pretty "old" UMPC where XP is just less battery hungry
you can try a VM Machine inside of windows XP, and the VM machine of course would have to be running one of the supported OSes, thats about the only way that i know of that would work.
No go. Visual Studio 2012 stopped supporting XP. It's only with an update that they added v110_xp target. So, if you compile your software with a compiler that uses libraries, which need at least NT 6.0, you are out of luck for XP. Anyhow, running a 2012 software on a 2001 OS seems 11 years out of place...