Downgrade rights for Windows 7 will be “hugely important,” an analyst said Thursday, but he’s not optimistic that Microsoft Corp. will let users continue to install Windows XP on new machines.

The company had planned to end the option with the shipping of Windows 7 Service Pack 1, which entered beta on Monday. During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats several times, changed ...

As expected, Microsoft will let computer makers sell PCs with Windows XP for six months after the release of Windows 7, a move likely to confuse companies and make it tougher for them to manage their ...

Personally, I think Windows 7 will be the next Windows XP (read: I think it will rock) and that this issue will mostly go away relatively soon after the Windows 7 launch. People will mostly skip ...

The clock is ticking on the demise of some downgrade rights for Windows 7, an analyst said Thursday. Last year, Microsoft said that customers could downgrade new machines purchased with Windows 7 ...

"We will offer downgrade rights from Windows 7 to Windows XP in the same way we did with Windows Vista," a Microsoft spokesperson told Channelweb.com. "Volume licensing customers have always had the ...

A federal judge has dismissed a year-old lawsuit against Microsoft over alleged antitrust violations for the "downgrade" rules it set for Windows Vista and XP. The order issued Monday by U.S. District ...

I'm looking to make a recommendation to one of my client companies about some Tablet PC purchases for their medical practice. For consistency's sake and to guarantee compatibility with the EMR the ...

NEC has launched a product to let network administrators downgrade machines running Windows Vista to XP. The original equipment manufacturer (OEM) first made the product, NEC FlexLoad, available to ...

Analyst is not optimistic Microsoft will let users install XP on new machines, even though downgrade rights are just as important for Windows 7 as they've been for Vista Downgrade rights for Windows 7 ...