{"id":209,"date":"2008-04-24T09:01:46","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T09:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2008\/04\/24\/as-windows-xp-deadline-looms-oems-turn-to-vista-downgrade-rights.aspx"},"modified":"2008-04-24T09:01:46","modified_gmt":"2008-04-24T09:01:46","slug":"as-windows-xp-deadline-looms-oems-turn-to-vista-downgrade-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=209","title":{"rendered":"As Windows XP Deadline Looms, OEMs Turn To Vista Downgrade Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft (NSDQ:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crn.com\/tools\/quotes\/index.jhtml?Page=QUOTE&#038;Ticker=MSFT\">MSFT<\/a>) may be preparing to discontinue sales of Windows XP, but some OEMs have found a way to circumvent the software giant&#8217;s June 30 deadline.  <\/p>\n<p>In yet another sign of the market&#8217;s resistance to Windows Vista, Dell (NSDQ:Dell) Computer, Hewlett Packard (NYSE:HPQ), and Sony on Wednesday all confirmed plans to exercise the downgrade rights Microsoft offers with OEM versions of Windows Vista Business and Vista Ultimate in order to continue offering XP-equipped PCs to their customers.  <\/p>\n<p>Downgrade rights, which Microsoft also offers to volume licensing customers, give users the ability to roll back to the previous version of the product they&#8217;re using. Downgrade rights have existed since 2001 for Windows, but many Microsoft partners say they&#8217;ve been seeing a recent uptick in the number of customers exercising downgrade rights to roll Vista back to XP Professional.  <\/p>\n<p>Full Article &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/www.crn.com\/software\/207401680?cid=customFeed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crn.com\/software\/207401680?cid=customFeed\">http:\/\/www.crn.com\/software\/207401680?cid=customFeed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) may be preparing to discontinue sales of Windows XP, but some OEMs have found a way to circumvent the software giant&#8217;s June 30 deadline. In yet another sign of the market&#8217;s resistance to Windows Vista, Dell (NSDQ:Dell) Computer, Hewlett Packard (NYSE:HPQ), and Sony on Wednesday all confirmed plans to exercise the downgrade rights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}