#DOWNGRADE WINDOWS 7 TO XP UPGRADE#

'The new policy is 18 months or SP1 delivery, whichever is sooner,' he said.

Silver said his problem is with the possible 'out' that Microsoft gave itself. They have changed licensing decisions in response to customer demand before, and hopefully they will do it again, because this is still not great.' 'It proves that Microsoft listens to their customers. 'This is good,' said Silver of Microsoft's new plan. 'Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate customers will have the option to downgrade to Windows XP Professional from PCs that ship within 18 months following the general availability of Windows 7 or until the release of a Windows 7 service pack, whichever is sooner, and if a service pack is developed,' a company spokeswoman said in an e-mail. Hours after Silver blasted the plan, however, Microsoft backed off the six-month limit, and confirmed a new policy.

#DOWNGRADE WINDOWS 7 TO XP UPGRADE#

Later, those companies would have to buy an upgrade license from XP to Windows 7, essentially paying twice. The alternative, said Silver: After April 2010, companies that wanted to stick with XP for a while longer would have to buy new PCs with Vista Business or Vista Ultimate, which do have downgrade rights to XP, then downgrade to the old OS. ' since a lot of organizations won't be ready for Windows 7 until later in 2010 or even early 2011, any PCs they buy from Apon, and until they are ready to deploy Windows 7, would need an upgrade license or to allow them to run Windows XP temporarily, and upgrade to Windows 7 later on,' he said. 'For an organization that's trying to skip Vista, that means they really need to buy new PCs that they need to run on XP, and want to upgrade later to Windows 7, by April 21, 2010,' Silver said. That policy put enterprises in a bind, Silver argued yesterday. 22 launch date, the six-month cap meant that OEMs would have to stop shipping PCs 'downgraded' from Windows 7 Professional or Windows 7 Ultimate to Windows XP Professional at or around April 22, 2010.

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