However, some OEMs may charge for doing the downgrade or providing the downgrade media. The tussle over XP downgrade rights comes even as mainstream free support for XP is dwindling. Mainstream support will end next week on April Users can still buy extended support for XP, but that extended support offer will end on April 8, , according to a Microsoft support page. Kurt Mackie is senior news producer for Media's Converge group. So the idea of a typical home users knowing how to format, install XP, lay all the drivers down, and then setup the DVR equipment and software Again folks Do you have a direct rep at MS?
Or are you purchasing through wholesale channels like Ingram? Or do you just purchase through public vendors like the Egg or CDW? Stoly Supreme [H]ardness. Joined Jul 26, Messages 6, YeOldeStonecat said:. Click to expand Thank you Only over the past few months did the DVR hardware get support for Windows By using windows xp still i ensure my clients that i have hardware in stock that will be compatible.
Also, i used windows 7 on one DVR so far i needed a drive larger to 2TB, its a raid array and it is kinda quirky still, even though its supported its still new for the dvr hardware.
And also, no i don't sell to home users, i sell to business users. Also some of my clients i have ghost images setup for easy deployment and we put the cd keys in later. When I buy a client a dell machine, i usually go for the XP downgrade, but when i build a computer from scratch i now become an OEM because im building the pc and reselling it, so i need an xp downgrade. If i install Windows 7, great, i call MS and get a downgrade key or something, how do i then install XP The w7 key i get with a new OEM purchase??
Or is there a different key i have to call MS to get? Thats really my question. Stoly said:. Then the question would be, does it work with win7? If it does then by all means go with 7. That's up to their developers and their roadmap.
A lot of people that only have home computer experience Shouldnt matter SJConsultant 2[H]4U. Joined Jan 14, Messages 3, Here is some information for OEMs in regards to downgrade rights.
Adam, since you are an OEM and building machines, you should sign up at the Microsoft OEM system builder website if you haven't already. Somewhere in there is contact information that you can use to get the answers you seek. SJConsultant said:. Makes sense to me, but even MS calls it a downgrade on their new "terms" page about the whole xp rights thing and what not.
I liked buying from newegg, because we have a 20k terms account with them. But i also have terms with CDW so i'll see if they still sell xp. Joined Jan 1, Messages 10, Just a day before Microsoft Corp. The move is highly unusual.
In the past, Microsoft has terminated downgrade rights -- which let customers replace a newer version of Windows with an older edition without paying for two copies -- within months of introducing a new operating system. While few consumers may want to downgrade from Windows 7 to XP -- unlike when many mutinied against Vista three years ago -- businesses often want to standardize on a single operating system to simplify machine management.
Monday's announcement was the second Windows XP downgrade rights extension. Microsoft originally limited Windows 7-to-Windows XP downgrades to six months after Windows 7's release, but it backtracked in June after a Gartner Inc. In either scenario, XP downgrade rights would have expired sometime in , perhaps as early as April. On Monday, Microsoft again changed its mind.
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