Windows 7 users can downgrade to XP
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversMicrosoft and its PC partners are going to allow Windows 7 users to downgrade not just to Windows Vista, but also to Windows XP, Microsoft officials are confirming.
Some company watchers have been wondering about the downgrade rights that Microsoft will offer when Windows 7 ships. When AppleInsider reported this weekend that HP was going to offer Windows 7 users the ability to downgrade to XP, I asked Microsoft about the story.
Here’s what a spokesperson representing the company’s Windows client division told me via e-mail on April 5:
MJF: Does Microsoft have downgrade rights for Windows XP planned as part of Windows 7?
Microsoft spokesperson: Yes. This is not the first time that Microsoft has offered downgrade rights to a version other than its immediate predecessor and our Software Assurance volume-license customers can always downgrade to any previous version of Windows. (Note: Microsoft changed the statement from “Software Assurance” to “volume license” Monday afternoon.)
(The spokesperson clarified later that downgrade rights allow users to install previous versions of Windows, not just the most recent predecessor. In other words, a Software-Assurance-covered volume-license user who wanted to downgrade from Vista could, technically, go back to Windows 2000 or even Windows 95, not just XP. Who knew?)
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Comments(3)
what a waste of money
if you don't like it don't buy a laptop or desktop with an
os
that’s my opinion
thanks
you are right and that's just what i've been doing for years. i will only buy a pc or
laptop if i can buy it with no operating system installed. it takes all of this
complaining out of the transaction. buy the pc and install the os that you want to run.
no rocket science involved in that.
you know, as i see the truth is that almost everyone i know who bought laptop without os
installs windows(or downgrades vista to xp) from other, legal or not, sources... i bet
i'm not the only one who see such thing? then, it's so dumb to complain about it.
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Why man
By mhar on 07.04.2009 - 03:04