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The funny thing is that as near as I can tell the costs associated with the
downgrade are slapped on by the hardware vendor and not MS. When the whole
downgrade issue was first raised it was noted that the Vista licenses that
allow for downgrading simply allow it. It's up to the consumer to acquire
XP install media and it appears the OEMs are charging.

I'd also not expect the suit to get very far as the machines were capable of
running Vista. Maybe not running it "well" or "optimally" but they could
run it.

And I do run Vista at home and work. It's fine on reasonably equipped
modern hardware. It even has better driver support than XP, as evidenced by
not requiring a 400+MB download from HP to manage my multifunction
print/scan/FAX/copy machine.

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:24 PM, sjl <sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I don't, because I don't have and will _never_ have a PC running Vista...


http://weblog.infoworld.com/robertxcringely/archives/2009/02/microsoft_downg.html?source=NLC-NOTES&cgd=2009-02-23

- sjl



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