Read this correction
"Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that
downgrade licenses would be sold for Windows 7 customers through the end
of its support cycle, which lasts until 2020. The downgrade license will
only be sold for two years after the end of the Windows 7 sales cycle,
which will end when Microsoft starts to sell a new version of Windows."
It won't be until 2020 but it will be for a while yet.
The operative word is "buy". It is so nice of Microsoft to ALLOW us pay
for Windows 7 and then PAY AGAIN for the "right" to "downgrade" to
Windows XP. Personally, I upgraded my Windows Vista computer to Ubuntu
over two years ago and don't miss Windows one little bit. And I didn't
have to pay for the "right" to do so.
Butch Wilson wrote:
http://money.cnn.com/2010/07/13/technology/windows_xp/index.htm?source=cnn_bin&hpt=Sbin
<http://money.cnn.com/2010/07/13/technology/windows_xp/index.htm?source=cnn_bin&hpt=Sbin>
“Microsoft (MSFT
<http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=MSFT&source=story_quote_link>,
Fortune 500
<http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2010/snapshots/3063.html?source=story_f500_link>)
announced late Monday that it would allow some Windows 7 customers to
buy Windows XP "downgrade" licenses until January 2020.”
Butch Wilson
MCSE/MCSA 2003 (Security +)
Hamilton Jefferson Counties Regional Office of Education #25,
Learning Technology Center Six North
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