I may be wrong, but isn't the ability to "downgrade" Win7 to XP ending this autumn so that it's no longer legal at all under the Win7 license agreement (ie. effectively banning XP from new machines)? a
From: Mike Gill [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 9:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows Downgrade Circus 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? -- Mike Gill ************************************************************************************ WARNING: The information in this email and any attachments is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the named addressee, you must not use, copy or disclose this email (including any attachments) or the information in it save to the named addressee nor take any action in reliance on it. If you receive this email or any attachments in error, please notify the sender immediately and then delete the same and any copies. "CLS Services Ltd × Registered in England No 4132704 × Registered Office: Exchange Tower × One Harbour Exchange Square × London E14 9GE" ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
