XP Survival, From One Horses Mouth, An Open Letter From Microsoft.
Blog If you use an application that isn't available for Windows Vista or if you just aren't ready to upgrade, you should get a new PC with Windows Vista Business or Windows Vista Ultimate, and then take advantage of downgrade rights to use Windows XP...
[June 30, 2008, 21:53]
Monolithic OS Upgrades Are So Over
Blog Well, if Vista doesn't deliver I shall have no qualms about a downgrade. Ask for a downgrade to Windows XP. Even Newham Council, which over the past couple of years veered from Linux pilot poster child to Vista case study as one of Microsoft's five...
[September 25, 2007, 18:26]
Laptop Review - Fujitsu Lifebook S6510
Blog Although the system came preloaded with Windows Vista Business, the recovery media included both Vista and XP Pro disks, and there was a page included titled "Downgrade Rights for Microsoft Windows Vista Business" which states that the owner has...
[December 27, 2007, 12:15]
S6510: XP Faster, More Stable Than Vista
Blog As I have mentioned previously, the S6510 came with a certificate of "Downgrade Rights for Microsoft Windows Vista Business", and a Windows XP Professional Recovery DVD. So I decided to get a second disk drive, so that I could keep the original...
[January 13, 2008, 20:44]
Status Update, Vista To XP Retreat (Advance?)
Blog Comment In the first weeks after Vista was released, it suddenly became difficult to even order a new computer with XP; then it slowly started reappearing as an alternate configuration; then they quietly started shipping Vista systems with "Microsoft...
[January 28, 2008, 7:11]
Vista To XP - Two Weeks Later
Blog Comment i bought new Asus laptop i also downgraded from Vista Ultimate because the following reasons first the huge disk space then the battery life then the huge ram usage & space eater in Winsxs file in windows directory this in XP have no even 10...
[June 19, 2008, 17:08]
Spoke Too Soon About XP SP3?
Blog Comment Incidentally, I only installed XP Pro SP2 on 23rd December as a downgrade from Vista Home Premium. I tried to install XP SP3 RC2 today. I already had XP SP3 RC1 installed, so I followed MS instructions to remove it first.
[February 21, 2008, 23:52]
2008-01-06 Vista Is A Downgrade.
Talkback Don't *need* another newer version of Windows, such as Vista. But with Vista? XP works perfectly totally fine. The title bar of every window now looks 1.5 times the height that it was under XP and I can't change it.
[January 6, 2008, 23:41]
2008-01-06. Vista Is A Downgrade. Part 4.
Talkback There's one good thing with Vista though: When I installed my VPN for work I used something akin to a Wizzard that was able to connect me almost immediatly and effortlessly whereas in XP I had to go into advanced settings of the TCP/IP entry of...
[January 6, 2008, 23:57]
2007-01-06. Vista Is A Downgrade. Part 3.
Talkback Then I get the Vista popup again. But the sound in Vista is ATROCIOUS? Then I'm told by a Vista popup that PowerDVD has compatibility issues and has an update and do I want to install it. You still get popups that say "this program is incompatible...
[January 6, 2008, 23:54]
