Accept the Windows 7 Software License Terms.Purchase a PC preinstalled with Windows 7.Don't bother calling Microsoft it won't provide installation media, and will instead direct you to your reseller. In some cases, discs are shipped with the PCs in others, users must request them. For example, in this Vista downgrade rights document (download PDF) targeting resellers, the company said "media is provided by the customer."Ī few months ago, however, Microsoft relaxed, and began allowing resellers to provide Windows XP setup CDs to customers buying Vista Business- and Ultimate-equipped PCs. Where do I get the XP install disc? Until this summer, Microsoft put the responsibility on the end users' shoulders. The rep is supposed to walk you through the rest. You'll likely end up talking with a live rep tell him that you're downgrading from Vista to XP, and give him the Vista product key. How do I downgrade? Install a copy of Windows XP Professional with the product key that came with the copy, and then when you hit the activation screen - which is near the end of the installation process - select the activate by phone option rather than the online method.
Those who aren't: All users of Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium, and anyone who upgraded to Vista using a retail edition of any of the operating system's SKUs. Only the OEM editions qualify for a downgrade, so if you purchased a new PC with either Business or Ultimate preinstalled, you're in like Flynn. So, what downgrades does Microsoft allow? Owners of the OEM editions of Vista Business and Vista Ultimate can downgrade to Windows XP Professional, including Tablet PC Edition and 圆4 Edition. In that case, it simply means dumping Vista and returning to XP. To the vast bulk of users, though, "downgrade" is a synonym for reverting to an older version. By Microsoft's end-user licensing agreement (EULA), you can't have both the Vista and its downgraded XP installed at the same time on the same or different machines.
Think of it as a swap, Vista for XP, not as an extra license. In effect, the license for Vista is transferred to XP. Specifically, these downgrade rights lets owners of some versions of Vista replace it with Windows XP without having to pay for another license. Downgrade doesn't mean the process for rolling back Windows from Vista to XP, since there isn't such a procedure, not in the generally accepted use of "upgrade." In an older-to-newer move, developers usually make it possible to retain all the digital detritus on the drive, from already-installed applications and Word documents to iTunes tracks and family photos, while updating the system files. What is a downgrade? To Microsoft, "downgrade" describes the licensing rights it grants to older operating systems.
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