Hours after Silver blasted the plan, however, Microsoft backed off the six-month limit, and confirmed a new policy. Later, those companies would have to buy an upgrade license from XP to Windows 7, essentially paying twice. The alternative, said Silver: After April 2010, companies that wanted to stick with XP for a while longer would have to buy new PCs with Vista Business or Vista Ultimate, which do have downgrade rights to XP, then downgrade to the old OS. " since a lot of organizations won't be ready for Windows 7 until later in 2010 or even early 2011, any PCs they buy from Apon, and until they are ready to deploy Windows 7, would need an upgrade license or to allow them to run Windows XP temporarily, and upgrade to Windows 7 later on," he said. "For an organization that's trying to skip Vista, that means they really need to buy new PCs that they need to run on XP, and want to upgrade later to Windows 7, by April 21, 2010," Silver said. That policy put enterprises in a bind, Silver argued yesterday.
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