interele Posted January 5, 2009 Posted January 5, 2009 Does anyone know if MS is going to get funny about buying XP on a schools agreement ( in April 2009 ). Are they still going to allow you to buy Vista licences and then downgrade to XP ? Ta M
ICTNUT Posted January 5, 2009 Posted January 5, 2009 I have just renewed mine and yes it is vista with a downgrade, I have heard nothing about them stopping this and I am sure that we would have by now if they were
featured_spectre Posted January 5, 2009 Posted January 5, 2009 a source of mine from microsoft said that in april you will ONLY be able to get vista with downgrade licences, and not xp licences on there own. I suppose the only good thing about that is that you dont pay for vista licences should you want vista on the machines.
Michael Posted January 5, 2009 Posted January 5, 2009 I think Microsoft have little choice but to offer downgrade licenses. Statistically it still works for them, so they can claim they've sold millions of copies of Vista, but no where do you see how many copies are actually used.
SYNACK Posted January 5, 2009 Posted January 5, 2009 If your under a schools aggreement it is just like normal volume liscencing, you get the liscences for the latest OS at the time and can run that or any of the prior products if you still have working volume keys for them. You could run NT workstation or 2000 if you really wanted to and had a volume key for it as they are also both previous product versions of Vista Business/Enterprise
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