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MS Reportedly Adds 6 Months of Vista Downgrade

Posted by kdawson on from the charting-a-course-to-windows-7 dept.

LiteralKa sends in a poorly sourced Reg story claiming that Microsoft has granted OEMs six more months to sell PCs using Windows Vista with the support to downgrade to Windows XP. OEMs can now offer such arrangements until July 31, 2009 — the previous deadline was January 31, 2009. The article claims as source "a Reg reader" without further details. Neither Microsoft nor any OEM has confirmed the rumor, and only a few scattered bloggers have picked it up.

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  1. I'm going to email sean@windows.com and... by digitaldc · · Score: 1, Redundant

    ...and see how he feels about being 'downgraded' from Vista -- or maybe it is 'upgraded' to XP?

    I wonder if any of these people knew their whole world would become a confusing choice of operating systems when they decided to become 'Windows'

    --
    He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
  2. Re:Adding 6 months of.. by jo42 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    For the n+1th time:

    Going from XP to Vista is a DOWNgrade.

    Going from Vista to XP is an UPgrade.

    'nuff sed.