Vista DOWNgrade

[acrobat]

Seen this?

http://news.cnet.co.uk/software/0,39...9292967,00.htm

*rolls eyes at Microsoft*


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Theres also this hehe.

[speardane]

I think they're getting smarter!

I've just upgraded two of my XP machines.
Thanks - you've just found me some wallpaper that will go nicely with Ubuntu....

[dangel]

This is nothing new - we bought XP and downgraded it to Win2k for some customers who wouldn't only run that on their corporate network. MS has always had a system like this in place.

[Splash]

yeah, it's been staple policy on pretty much any corporate orders when a new OS comes out for some time.

[menthel]

Sounds sensible to me!

[Lucio]

Darn, hope my MD doesn't find out about this, was hoping to get a handful of new PC's ordered (including an upgrade for me!) ordered on the basis XP stops becoming available early next year

[MadduckUK]

thats changed to June now methinks

[IAmATeaf]

It's a very shrewd move by MS, why? because they've had the money for Vista and more importantly it adds to the overall Vista tally.

[Splash]

Again, it's nothing new. In much the same way as businesses buying XP machines could install 2000.

[IAmATeaf]

Again, it's nothing new. In much the same way as businesses buying XP machines could install 2000.

Well it sort of is as MS are saying you can downgrade from Vista to XP providing you've paid for Vista, so no extra cost.

[chrestomanci]

I wanted to do that with a boxed retail version when I built a PC about 6 months ago. At the time I emailed Microsoft, and they said that it was not allowed.

[Zak33]

it's why Dell Business PC's sell.....cos you can have XP on them

[DrATty]

Excellent!
I'm due surgery today. I'm glad I saw this before I had stitches to burst.

[Splash]

As people seem not to want to read the artcle have a quote

"That's going to help out small- and medium-size businesses," Fujitsu marketing manager Brandon Farris told CNET.co.uk's sister site News.com.

It's for businesses, you can only do it through the OEM (HP, Fujitsu etc etc etc)

Imateaf - this is EXACTLY the same deal that you could get when you bought an XP machine at XP's launch. Hence there were so many HP machines at the company I work with a dual XP and 2000 license (one time choice only) when XP was launched.

[young_one]

Well it sort of is as MS are saying you can downgrade from Vista to XP providing you've paid for Vista, so no extra cost.

It isnt, you could buy XP and downgrade to 2000 in exactly the same way, for free, assuming you get a OEM version.

This is nothing new, at the seminars about Vista before its release microsoft made it clear that this policy still stood in the new EULA.

Our new machine policy was/is to buy Vista Business and use the XP image for restore since the first day Vista was released.

[nichomach]

Same here, once we'd ascertained that the deal still held. We deployed our first Win2K machines w/NT4, our first XP machines w/2K and so on.