Getting Win XP via downgrade

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Howard Kaikow

MSFT is encouraging folkes to move to Vista by offering a downgrade to XP.

If one installs the downgrade, runs XP and then decides to move to Vista on
the same hardware, does one have to remove the XP installation, or install
Vista over XP?

Or may one install vista to create a dual boot, using the single license
that came with the hardware?
 
Howard said:
MSFT is encouraging folkes to move to Vista by offering a downgrade to XP.

If one installs the downgrade, runs XP and then decides to move to Vista on
the same hardware, does one have to remove the XP installation, or install
Vista over XP?

Or may one install vista to create a dual boot, using the single license
that came with the hardware?
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You have only a single OS license to use with either WinXP *or* Vista,
not both both simultaneously. You'd have to remove (or overwrite) the
WinXP.


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Howard said:
MSFT is encouraging folkes to move to Vista by offering a downgrade
to XP.
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I don't know what you mean but I've never heard of MS saying anything
like that. I suspect it came from somewhere other than MS.
If one installs the downgrade, runs XP and then decides to move to
Vista on the same hardware, does one have to remove the XP
installation, or install Vista over XP?
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Remove XP: No.
Install over XP? Yes. Vista will wipe out XP just as installing any
version of windows will.
Or may one install vista to create a dual boot, using the single
license that came with the hardware?
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The license that came with the hardware will be for the windows
operating system installed at the time of delivery and not for anything
else. Vista has its own license, same as XP does. To run both, you have
to have both licenses.

If this is a case of a Vista capable machine being delivered with XP on
it and the ability to upgrade to Vista which they also supplied,
indluding disks, and you have the disks for both, then you have paid for
both licenses.

Your post is confusing; that's the best I can do.

HTH,

Twayne
 
Technically, MS has extended its policy of allowing OEMs to sell Vista PCs
with a downgrade option (which costs more).

Should one downgrade a Vista PC to WinXP and later wish to revert to Vista,
WinXP is replaced by Vista.
 
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