The downgrade from Windows Vista to Windows XP increasingly expensive

"The option to downgrade from Windows XP to Windows Vista offers some OEM is always more expensive"

With the presentation on the market of Microsoft Windows Vista all the OEM PC manufacturers have updated their line up of products using the new operating system, Windows XP and then became increasingly rare. The house of Redmond has provided some situations where Windows XP could still be a good solution and in this scenario has placed an option to downgrade.

With this method you buy your license Microsoft Windows Vista but you can install on your PC Windows XP. At a later time, when it sees fit, you can make the upgrade to the latest operating system.

In fact, not all users can access this option to downgrade since Microsoft has provided key requirement of the presence of a licensed Microsoft Windows Vista Business or Ultimate, then all holders of Home versions are excluded. It should be noted that Microsoft intended to downgrade the customer turns professional and business situations in which migration from one system to another requires careful testing. Some PC manufacturers have used the procedure as a further downgrade option to offer to their users, so customers less inclined to use the latest Microsoft operating system received a PC with Windows Vista license but with Windows XP preinstalled. Obviously, this has a cost to the user, and on this point various online sources reported situations worthy of note.

Dell was one of the most price offering the option to downgrade on their pc: in a first phase the option to downgrade was proposed at a cost of a few tens of dollars, while in recent times that price has increased to dollar 150 well . This increase could be assumed to attempt to discourage users to downgrade.

According to some estimates reported by Computerworld and dating back to last August at least one third of PCs purchased under license from Microsoft Windows Vista has suffered the downgrade Windows XP. Asked Microsoft as deadline for the option to downgrade to Windows XP to Windows Vista 31 July 2009.