In mid February, Computerworld cited Michael Silver, an analyst with Gartner, as saying, "Downgrade rights are hugely important for Windows 7. Will Microsoft offer downgrades [from Windows 7] to XP? They've not answered that question yet. But it's really important. HP's internal communique answers that question in the affirmative, at least for the company's business customers.
No formal announcement has been made on the General Availability date for Win 7. However, you can anticipate that business desktops, notebooks and workstations will take advantage of this with the release of Win 7 in the October timeframe to allow our customers maximum headroom as they transition away from XP Pro OS.
Whether Microsoft will allow home users and other licensees apart from HP the right to sell new PCs with the bundled restore media to install a pre-Vista version of Windows still remains to be seen. If Microsoft does not, it may face pressure from PC makers and even push them to begin shipping Ubuntu or their own customized edition of Linux on new PCs, as Acer, Dell, HP, and others have already begun doing in the netbook market.
The inability of Windows Vista to run on netbooks forced Microsoft to offer very low cost licenses for Windows XP to kill off the threat of Linux finding a foothold on low cost hardware. Microsoft has promised that forthcoming versions of Windows 7 would run acceptably on netbooks, but has yet to offer full specifics of how, or how much those netbook licenses would cost. Ubuntu CEO Mark Shuttleworth welcomed the prospect of a level playing field in the netbook market, stating in an interview that "a decent edition of Windows [7] will mean Microsoft finally has to charge full price and that Redmond will finally stop allowing OEMs to use low-cost copies of Windows XP instead of paying full price for the full version of the official flagship - Windows Vista.
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An option to consider-put your original Vista hdd away and install new one for XP. Some of the notebook features may not work in XP due to uncertified licenses pointed in this guide. Am I paying more? For more information, please refer to this Microsoft article. Please make sure that your installed applications are compatible with Windows XP. I found that the upgrade version of Windows 7 Professional costs For more information, refer to this Microsoft article.
Based on my knowledge, dual booting option is not going to affect you system performance. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees , and confers no rights.
It is free for genuine Windows 7 users. Windows Virtual PC.
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