Tuesday, April 7th 2009
Microsoft Windows 7 Will Allow Downgrades too
Even though there's still some time left before the official release of Windows 7, Microsoft - the creator of this OS - confirmed today that just like some Windows Vista distributions could be downgraded to Windows XP with ease, the same will apply to Windows 7. General users of Windows 7 will be given the option of downgrading right over Vista to Windows XP, a Microsoft spokesperson has confirmed.
"This is not the first time that Microsoft has offered downgrade rights to a version other than its immediate predecessor," the spokesperson told Betanews, "and our Software Assurance customers can always downgrade to any previous version of Windows."
Microsoft hasn't detailed exactly how downgrade rights will work with Windows 7 - for now we know that Windows 7 will be downgradable to either Windows Vista or Windows XP - the rest of the details remain unclear.
Source:
Betanews
"This is not the first time that Microsoft has offered downgrade rights to a version other than its immediate predecessor," the spokesperson told Betanews, "and our Software Assurance customers can always downgrade to any previous version of Windows."
Microsoft hasn't detailed exactly how downgrade rights will work with Windows 7 - for now we know that Windows 7 will be downgradable to either Windows Vista or Windows XP - the rest of the details remain unclear.
59 Comments on Microsoft Windows 7 Will Allow Downgrades too
And wow, finally an upgrade it feels like.
Its faster, its not annoying, and the start menu finally had a developer go "you PR guys are F****** morons, heres how it should be done..."
I don't think there will be much need to downgrade back to windows xp from windows 7.
Vista is a perfectly fine OS since SP1 was released (just like XP was when SP1 came out for it), and 7 will be just fine after it's first service pack gets released.
Why are we going to go through this crap every time a new OS gets released?
:laugh:
Though I got to say that Windows XP still is the only OS from them that, under the right circumstances, will not BSOD.
Vista gave me problems during idle use, ie music would pause/cut off, game sound would pause/ cut off, movies would stutter/pause/ sound cut off.
You get the picture? I still need to test movies with Windows 7, but the music is working great even during a graphics installation. And before you say it was my sound drivers, I am using the exact say sound driver for win XP/ vista/ windows 7.
I've seen tooo many 7's though for today: Please wait seven minutes... your pc will restart several times.... Windows 7 is configuring... LOL
Sorry, I guess that was a bit off topic. Anyway, the reason for doing this is because people are indeed still buying XP, and this gives Microsoft a way of getting new keys for people since they had run out using the older method.
I also used a raid controller from 1998, and a awe 32 isa card
Microsoft needs to CONTINUE cleaning up the OS, not just leave it as it though, or else a lot of consumers are going to be screaming "RAPE!" from their wallets, because it doesnt look much different.
Windows 7
Intel Core i7
I know the number, 7, is often considered lucky in Asia, but I am not sure what the number 7 means in those two instances.
Though I think I read somewhere on the net that Intel said it had no real meaning.