I recommend posting your qestion is one of the Windows 7 Answers Forums at That being said however, I think I have an answer to your problem without you having to deal with Downgrade rights. Hello Lenconj, This forum is for the support of Windows 7 Validation (non-genuine) issues. I know this is not true after ghosting a new XP image I create multiple times on a new PC I am validating that came with Windows 7, windows activation is now telling me I've exceeded the limit for activating this product key. I called the Microsoft activation center and they said we can install windows XP on multiple PC's using one product key from an XP OEM CD an infinite number times as long as the PC has the Windows 7 sticker with the Windows 7 product key on it.
Now that windows 7 is coming with new PC's we are looking for a solution that will allow us to purchase Windows 7 licenses (as our software will be Windows 7 compatible in the future) but using Windows XP with downgrade rights for now. Then we order that model in bulk and apply the ghost image and configure our software. Dell) with a Windows XP Pro OEM license then we do a clean install of XP and configure it to our liking and create a ghost image for that model of PC.
Our current workflow is to purchase PC's from a vendor (i.e. Our software is currently designed for XP Pro only. This is a smart move by Microsoft, as Windows XP is still wideley used by businesses, and if they had removed the option forcing businesses who wanted to keep their OS standard across all machines to upgrade to Windows 7 they could have alienated a number of business customers.I work for a medical software company and I'm trying to find a solution to a Windows 7 Pro downgrade rights issue. 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. This will help maintain consistency for downgrade rights throughout the Windows 7 lifecycle. To support our customers’ “unprecedented move” to migrate their PC environment to Windows 7, we have decided to extend downgrade rights to Windows XP Professional beyond the previously planned end date at Windows 7 SP1. Microsoft had planned to remove this feature this year and many users would not have been able to downgrade after 2011, but have decided to extend it as many business still use Windows XP and want to standardize operating systems over all their computers.
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