Windows Vista™ Downgrade

With a downgrade right, transtec offers the solution for customers who already are running Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional on their existing systems, who, however, in the future intend to migrate to Windows Vista™. transtec delivers the PC with Windows Vista™ license and a pre-installed Windows® XP Professional. Until the scheduled migration, you can use Windows® XP Professional on the new incorporated computer without being obliged to buy a new license. In this way, you can decide the moment of your company-wide migration. Additional replacement and expansion investments for the PC will not be required.

Prerequisites

In order to be able to exercise the downgrade right you need one license for Windows® XP Professional. For this purpose, it will be sufficient if there is one PC in the network operated with Windows® XP Professional. The license is not required for the registration process of the new PC, but in order to make sure that an XP-based network structure exists.
For the downgrade to Windows® XP Professional, with your new PC you have to acquire either Windows Vista™ Business or Windows Vista™ Ultimate.

Existing network with at least one valid Windows® XP Professional license

New PC without additional Windows® XP Professional license

Advantages

You receive a legal license for Windows Vista™.
The existing Windows® XP Professional system is maintained without any additional license.
Min. expenses for the migration to Windows Vista™.
Migration to Windows Vista™ is possible any time.

Licensing and new installation

In case of a new installation of your system with downgrade right you have to use the already enabled license number and the corresponding medium of the existing Windows® XP Professional systems. Usually, Microsoft should not create any problems with this because the licensing procedure complies to the Microsoft® downgrade right.

In case of unexpected problems with the product filing please contact the following Activation Support Line of Microsoft:

0800 / 2848283 (free of charge) or 069 / 5007 0025 (fee required).

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