delphi 7, released in august 2002, became the standard version used by more delphi developers than any other single version. it is one of the most successful ides created by borland because of its stability, speed and low hardware requirements, and remains in active use as of 2017. delphi 7 added support for windows xp themes, and added more support for building web applications. it was the last version of delphi that did not require mandatory software activation.