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[Secured Tim]

On the eve of Microsoft pulling the plug on support for Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 2, company officials announced they are extending downgrade rights for Windows XP.

Users who purchase new PCs installed with Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate will now be able to downgrade to XP up until January 15, 2015 (for Windows 7 Professional) or January of 2020 (for Windows 7 Ultimate), according to Computerworld’s calculations. Originally, downgrade rights — the sanctioned ability of Windows volume buyers to apply their new Windows licenses to older versions of the product — were due to expire around 2011 for Windows XP.

From Microsoft's “Blogging Windows” blog:

We have decided to extend downgrade rights to Windows XP Professional beyond the previously planned end date at Windows 7 SP1. This will help maintain consistency for downgrade rights throughout the Windows 7 lifecycle. As a result, the OEM versions of Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Ultimate will continue to include downgrade rights to the similar versions of Windows Vista or Windows XP Professional. Going forward, businesses can continue to purchase new PCs and utilize end user downgrade rights to Windows XP or Windows Vista until they are ready to use Windows 7.

Source: Znet

[awesomeo4000]

Ugh.

[K.L.Devine]

2015??? OMG!

[Borix]

MS should convert XP into a mobile OS

[Airflow]

And XP continues.. okidoke.. wasn't surprising in any way shape or form.

[barrie]

Even Windows 7 still can't beat XP for this business, unbelievable but true

[Aleksandr]

Wow! I wasn't expecting this one bit! I was seriously happy of the death of XP. Now we have to wait 10 more years?! Just....wow.

[Gragier_521]

Oh no!

[Rudy]

Haha yeah long live!

[InlineSkate]

Haha yeah long live!

Why? XP sucks honestly both in security and performance on new hardware.

[Frylock86]

Haha yeah long live!

Why? XP sucks honestly both in security and performance on new hardware.

QFT. It's hard anymore to tell the difference between malware and Windows XP, both are almost impossible to get rid of, and they both negatively impact the system and user in the long run.

[RickSOLET]

10 more years! I'm surprised (and sad) to hear that.