Vista RIP?

[Alex McFarlane]

Dear All,
A little bird has told me that Microsoft are allowing owners of Vista
machines to "downgrade" to Win XP foc, i.e. the Vista authentifiaction codes
are being accepted during loading of XP. Apparently PC World are offering
this service free, in recognition that Vista is perhaps not the best OS that
Microsoft have released to date; this is being performed with offers of
money off when the next OS is released.

Is their any truth in this?

Regards

Alex McFarlane

 

[Colton]

Alex,

I have never heard of such. As far as I know, XP would not allow Vista
product keys, as it was created before Vista and the key encryption would
not be the same on input, causing it to become an invalid product key.
However, I could be wrong.

--

Colton, PHP/VB6/HTML/CSS/Javscript/IIS/Apache
OS: Vista Home Premium x86 SP1

- http://explosion.debug-inc.com
- (e-mail address removed)

 

[FBonWin7x32]

Dear All,
A little bird has told me that Microsoft are allowing owners of Vista
machines to "downgrade" to Win XP foc, i.e. the Vista authentifiaction
codes are being accepted during loading of XP. Apparently PC World are
offering this service free, in recognition that Vista is perhaps not the
best OS that Microsoft have released to date; this is being performed
with offers of money off when the next OS is released.

Is their any truth in this?

Regards

Alex McFarlane

You'd have to be out of your mind if you think XP is better than Vista
cause it isn't.

 

[Paul Smith]

Dear All,
A little bird has told me that Microsoft are allowing owners of Vista
machines to "downgrade" to Win XP foc, i.e. the Vista authentifiaction
codes are being accepted during loading of XP.

Hello Alex.

Windows Vista product keys do not work with Windows XP media.

However Microsoft have always allowed computer manufacturers to use the
previous two releases of Windows. For example if you're a large company
buying 5000 new machines, and your existing infrastructure is standardised
around Windows 2000, you can buy those 5000 machines with a Windows Vista
license and still use Windows 2000 on them.

This doesn't apply to end-users buying machines from an OEM, it would be for
the OEM to ship it with a previous version and not with Windows Vista.

Apparently PC World are offering this service free, in recognition that
Vista is perhaps not the best OS that Microsoft have released to date;

I don't think PC World would be in a position to do this, as they just
resell an OEM's machines.

this is being performed with offers of money off when the next OS is
released.

PC World and "money off" sounds suspicious to me.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience.
http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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[Rich]

A little bird has told me that ...

having your politics make you want something so badly that you begin hearing
little birds ...


I'd say, you should hose out that cowbarm of a psyche of yours and start
afresh.



Rich

 

[Richard G. Harper [MVP]]

Your little bird is either sadly mistaken or has been drinking from the
wrong fountain.

 

[Bill Yanaire]

Dear All,
A little bird has told me that Microsoft are allowing owners of Vista
machines to "downgrade" to Win XP foc, i.e. the Vista authentifiaction
codes are being accepted during loading of XP. Apparently PC World are
offering this service free, in recognition that Vista is perhaps not the
best OS that Microsoft have released to date; this is being performed with
offers of money off when the next OS is released.

Is their any truth in this?

Regards

Alex McFarlane

Better talk to that little bird and maybe it can give you some stock tips.

 

[Vista Cabal]

Dear All,
A little bird has told me that Microsoft are allowing owners of Vista machines
to "downgrade" to Win XP foc, i.e. the Vista authentifiaction codes are being
accepted during loading of XP. Apparently PC World are offering this service
free, in recognition that Vista is perhaps not the best OS that Microsoft have
released to date; this is being performed with offers of money off when the next
OS is released.

Is their any truth in this?

Regards

Alex McFarlane

Your little bird must not be all that old, Windows 95 first release was real bad.

- Vista Cabal

 

[Earle Horton]

The party line is that downgrade rights are available to purchasers of Vista
Business and Vista Ultimate, not to home versions.

http://oem.microsoft.com/downgrade

Cheers,

Earle

 

[FBonWin7x32]

uss sunken wrote:
---------------------------------

Ask that girl in the next cubicle to help you with Vista so that you
don't sound so stupid, ignorant and incompetent when you're on the help
line.
Or are you really as dumb and stupid as you seem?...LOL!

 

[Kerry Brown]

Paul

It doesn't matter if Vista is OEM or not. All Vista Business, Ultimate, or
Enterprise editions have downgrade rights to XP Pro (or Tablet) or 2000 Pro.
The channel they were acquired from doesn't matter. The end user or the OEM
can install the downgrade.

http://download.microsoft.com/downl...cbd-699b0c164182/royaltyoemreferencesheet.pdf

--
Kerry Brown
MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration
http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/
http://vistahelpca.blogspot.com/

 

[Carey Frisch]

No. Windows Vista is vastly superior to Windows XP in every respect.

 

[ulTRAX]

LOL... and just what does your claim mean? Is it superior in software
compatibility? I should stop there since that alone destroys your argument.
It makes me sick to think of the programs I could run under XP and not under
Vista. Hey... and what about that snazzy new Windows Explorer file
mismanagement system that took away the move/up level/copy buttons... as well
as removed them from the context menu. BRILLIANT!!!! I could go on but it's
not worth my time talking to a Vista fundie/fanboy.

 

[oscar]

Vista RIP? Absolute nonsense.

XP has been shown the exit door months ago by MS and most of the software
development program community because Vista is superior in performance to XP.

Return to XP? Not a chance.

oscar

....Right click is your very good friend...

 

[Not Even Me]

oh geez, I have yet to see anything Vista does better, and it is slower on
the same hardware.
My Q6600/4Gb/512MB PCIe/2x500GB SATA system dual boots Ultimate/XP Pro, I
can feel the difference in XP's performance over Ultimate.