Microsoft originally limited Windows 7-to-Windows XP downgrades to six months after Windows 7’s release, but backtracked in June 2009 after an analyst with Gartner Research called the plan a “real mess.” Monday’s announcement was the second Windows XP downgrade rights extension. While few consumers may want to downgrade from Windows 7 to XP - unlike when many mutinied against Vista three years ago - businesses often want to standardize on a single operating system to simplify machine management. In the past, Microsoft has terminated downgrade rights - which let customers replace a newer version of Windows with an older edition without paying for two copies - within months of introducing a new OS. 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 system for up to 10 years.
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