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M$ Soften Preinstalled Vista Rules
Name: XpUser Date: June 28, 2007 at 14:27:50 Pacific OS: XP Home & PRO All SP2 CPU/Ram: 2.02GHz/512RAM
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First see this & believe - M$ is now giving you ...
Name: XpUser Date: June 28, 2007 at 14:29:02 Pacific
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OH another thing to remind you - The Vista Family Discount program will end June 30, 2007.
i_XpUser
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Response Number 2
Name: Sabertooth Date: June 28, 2007 at 16:22:41 Pacific
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IMO, this "downgrade rights" soap opera is quite ballsy on M$' part. But as always, the Vole is a swiftly moving target.
Instead of looking at the growing downgrade trend as an embarrasing blight on Vista - they are putting a friggin' spin on it .... like what are they going to do - prohibit folks from downgrading at gun point .... LOL
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Response Number 3
Name: Cobra_R Date: June 28, 2007 at 23:27:02 Pacific
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I really don't see why this would bother MS, considering if people bought a system with Vista on it and wanted xp instead, those people will more then likely go buy a copy of XP which puts money in MS's pocket either way.
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Response Number 4
Name: blackbill Date: June 29, 2007 at 06:49:00 Pacific
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Well they sure have done SOMETHING to loosen activation rules.
I've been experimenting so much in the past while with vista 32, vista 64, XP, dual boot, triple boot...etc, that the last time I tried to install office 2003, the activation said... sorry guy, you've hit your limit.
After reading this thread I tried again to install to vista 64 and the activation went through without a hitch.
Thanks XPUSER... you saved me some money! I thought that I was going to get stuck buying office 2007.
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