Has anyone here downgraded their (qualifying) Vista or 7 license to XP? Meaning, you bought the parts for a new computer, of which consisted of a Windows 7 Pro or Ultimate license and media, with the purpose of installing XP. I've bought machines from larger OEM's with downgrade rights whereas the machine arrived with the media for both, and XP was installed. But for this machine, I'm the builder. I thought I would use my own media for XP and get the key from MS to activate it. After talking with three MS people, they said they would send me XP media with a key for $30. I said that wouldn't work, and he suggested I use the XP key from another machine and just call into the activation center and they would just override it. I said "But the same product key would be in use on two machines." He said "yeah." Wow. Nobody does this or what?
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