Were you able to avtivate the XP Pro?
I called the avtivation center and they refuse to activate my XP Pro even
with valid Vista Business OEM key on the workstation.
They told me I was miss informed and need a valid XP Pro Key.
At the end I shout at them and they gave me set of ID to activate one machine.
I have to activate 100 XP Pro a month. This is going to be a battle.
"Gav" wrote:
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> "Mike Brannigan" <Mike.Brannigan@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:OrNs14d%23HHA.4568@xxxxxx Quote:
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> > "Gav" <gav@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:%236SlA0c%23HHA.4568@xxxxxx Quote:
> >>I have a Dell laptop which came with Vista Business preinstalled. I would
> >>like to install XP on this machine instead and as I understand it Vista
> >>Business or Ultimate can be downgraded to XP Pro. Can anybody tell me how
> >>I go about doing this?
> >>
> >> thanks
> >>
> >> Gav
> >
> > All your questions about downgrade rights are covered in the PDF document
> > at
> > http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...rencesheet.pdf
> >
> > Basically - you can downgrade but YOU must source the media (The XP CD and
> > License key) to enable you to do this.
> >
> > --
> > Mike Brannigan
> > >
> Oke doke. So after reading that if I have an XP Pro CD I can install XP.
> Then ring Microsoft to activate it explaining that the license I am actually
> using is the Vista one not an XP one.
>
> thanks for the link. 
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