{"id":572,"date":"2009-06-21T18:33:01","date_gmt":"2009-06-21T18:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2009\/06\/21\/microsoft-puts-an-18-month-cap-on-windows-7-to-xp-downgrades.aspx"},"modified":"2009-06-21T18:33:01","modified_gmt":"2009-06-21T18:33:01","slug":"microsoft-puts-an-18-month-cap-on-windows-7-to-xp-downgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=572","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft puts an 18-month cap on Windows 7 to XP downgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has gone public with a piece of its Windows 7 to XP downgrade guarantee that it refused to&#160; make official until yesterday: The end date.<\/p>\n<p>Volume licensees who buy Windows are provided automatically with guaranteed downgrade rights to previous versions of Windows. A Windows 7 volume licensee has the right to downgrade to Vista, Windows XP or other previous versions of Windows, according to Microsoft\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s policies.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Microsoft officials refused to confirm a report which claimed that the company planned to limit the length of time it would allow users to downgrade from Windows 7 to XP to six months after Windows 7 shipped. The leaked memo pegged that date at April 2010, which both Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard (the OEM mentioned in the memo) declined to confirm.<\/p>\n<p>Full Article &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/microsoft\/?p=3104\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/microsoft\/?p=3104\">http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/microsoft\/?p=3104<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has gone public with a piece of its Windows 7 to XP downgrade guarantee that it refused to&#160; make official until yesterday: The end date. Volume licensees who buy Windows are provided automatically with guaranteed downgrade rights to previous versions of Windows. A Windows 7 volume licensee has the right to downgrade to Vista, [&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-572","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\/572","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=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}