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Microsoft has decided to enhance the End User downgrade facilitation options available to OEMs for downgrading systems with Windows Vista Business or Ultimate editions to Windows XP Professional. In addition, Microsoft will allow limited End User downgrade rights from Windows 7 Professional or Ultimate editions to either Windows Vista Business or Window XP Professional.

Yes, it’s a lowercase confusing, so we are here today to lay it all out for you. As usual, our intrepid maker at Microsoft has given us the full info of the Windows 7 Downgrade Rights. Let’s take a look at what these newborn Downgrade Rights entail. As usual, we will update this article as and when we receive newborn information, so be sure to check back often!

Windows Vista Business and Windows Vista Ultimate remain the only Windows Vista editions that have End User downgrade rights. However, Microsoft is enhancing the End User downgrade facilitation options for downgrading Windows Vista Business or Windows Vista Ultimate systems to Windows XP Professional.

OEMs may now choose to install Windows XP Professional or Windows XP Professional Tablet PC or Windows XP Professional X64 editions instead of Windows Vista Business Ultimate, provided they meet the following additional requirements :

* Each system staleness be distributed with a Windows Vista Business or Windows Vista Ultimate Certificate of Authenticity (COA) and staleness have the appropriate activation markers for both OA (OEM Activation) 2.X and OA 1.0.

* OEMs are required to distribute physical feat media in the system packaging for the Windows Vista Business or Ultimate edition that corresponds to the COA. If the system does not include an optical drive, then the OEM is required to provide a hard drive-based feat solution for that edition of Windows Vista software.

In constituent to the required Windows Vista feat media, OEMs may also choose to provide a feat solution for the preinstalled edition of Windows XP. This may be hard drive-based or on physical feat media provided in the system packaging or to an End User of such systems upon request.a

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