Vista RIP?

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

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.

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"Alex McFarlane" <> wrote in message
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> 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

Alex McFarlane wrote:
> 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.

"Alex McFarlane" <> wrote in message
news:17338D38-828E-4411-B28F-...
> 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/
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> 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

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

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"Alex McFarlane" <> wrote in message
news:17338D38-828E-4411-B28F-...
> 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.

"Alex McFarlane" <> wrote in message
news:17338D38-828E-4411-B28F-...
> 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.

"Alex McFarlane" <> wrote in message
news:17338D38-828E-4411-B28F-...
> 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

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

"Alex McFarlane" <> wrote in message
news:17338D38-828E-4411-B28F-...
> 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

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!