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.

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 ...

Microsoft’s decision to take a radical departure in the user interface of Windows 8 has many of its customers asking the same question. Microsoft has always had downgrade rights in place for its ...

Microsoft is offering free tech support to businesses that buy Vista PCs, and if the customers are unsatisfied, the company will offer a free downgrade to Windows XP Microsoft said Monday it would ...

Security researcher Alon Leviev from the company SafeBreach has discovered a vulnerability in Windows Update that allows attackers to downgrade an actually secure Windows and make it vulnerable. This ...

Just a day before Microsoft drops support for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) , the company announced on Monday that people running some versions of Windows 7 can "downgrade" to the aged operating ...

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 ...