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![]() To the vast bulk of users, though, "downgrade" is a synonym for reverting to an older version. By Microsoft's end-user licensing agreement (EULA), you can't have both Vista and its downgraded XP installed at the same time on the same or different machines. Think of it as a swap, Vista for XP, not as an extra license. In effect, the license for Vista is transferred to XP. Specifically, these downgrade rights lets owners of some versions of Vista replace it with Windows XP without having to pay for another license. Downgrade doesn't mean the process for rolling back Windows from Vista to XP, since there isn't such a procedure, not in the generally accepted use of "upgrade." In an older-to-newer move, developers usually make it possible to retain all the digital detritus on the drive, from already installed applications and Word documents to iTunes tracks and family photos, while updating the system files. What is a downgrade? To Microsoft, "downgrade" describes the licensing rights it grants to older operating systems. Even if you wanted to take advantage of the wider window of XP opportunity, you might not know where to start.įor the rest of us, just what does it take to turn back the clock? Read on for more about the trip to Windows yesteryear. But even with XP's reprieve, few PCs come with anything but Vista. Microsoft's decision last week to delay the end of Windows XP sales five months means users have just that much longer to jilt Vista and return to the older - and some say more mature - operating system.
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