Hello,
I found this article:
Microsoft Stops Shipping XP to OEMs on Windows 7's First Birthday
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2371392,00.asp
which discusses how downgrade rights might come into play. That will
probably allow some businesses to keep using Windows XP.
A quick bit of searching for this page of end-of-life information for
various Microsoft products:
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifeselect
Perhaps you will find it of use.
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky
At 09:00 AM 11/6/2010, you wrote:
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Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 23:50:19 -0500
From: "Matt" <[email protected]>
Subject: [Thinkpad] XP Pro from OEMs - over?
To: "Thinkpad list" <[email protected]>
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Is it really official? Had a brief conversation with a rep this
afternoon while ordering hardware - told me he couldn't ship pc's
with downgrades to XP preinstalled any longer. Claims MS told the
major OEMs it was a no-no after November 1st.
Really?
Still tons of SMB users on Pro out there replacing the worn out
stuff piece by piece, but not willing to spend & upgrade the
infrastructure as a whole, let alone train staff on what a newer
version of Office looks like.
Matt
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