As TechFlash;s Todd Bishop reminded us, as of right now,
Office 2007 Professional Key, October 22, Pc makers are no longer allowed by Microsoft to preload Windows XP on new PCs.Netbooks had been the last class of PCs on which Microsoft was still allowing XP preloads at this point. Back again in April 2008, Microsoft informed OEMs that October 22,
Office Pro 2010 Key, 2010, could be the day that no far more XP House would be permitted to be preinstalled on new netbooks.Update: XP preloads are performed, but XP downgrades aren't, through the way. Ideal any of us Microsoft watchers can inform, it seems to be like XP downgrades might be permitted up until 2015. (Microsoft won;t validate or deny that date.)Not so coincidentally, currently also will be the one-year anniversary with the start of Windows 7,
Office Professional 2007 Key, the primary edition of Windows which Microsoft is encouraging Pc makers to preload on not just PCs, but additionally the new crop of slates which are coming out. (Hewlett Packard launched its long-awaited Windows 7 slate on October 21 — the one that looked at the start of the year that it might be a real iPad competitor, but ended up as a business tablet.)Microsoft officials said yesterday that in its first 12 months of availability, the company has sold 240 million licenses of Windows seven. Company execs are playing up the new versions of Microsoft;s Windows Live family of add-on services, a new promotional site for Windows seven applications and hardware (known as Product Scout) and a new Games for Windows Marketplace portal as their Windows seven updates for this holiday season.Speaking of Windows Live, I;ve gotten notes from a few readers who aren't happy that Microsoft has decided to make the new Windows Live Essentials 2011 bundle something that it is delivering via its Windows Update service. Readers said they consider things like Windows Live Movie Maker, Windows Live Mesh,
Microsoft Office Pro Plus, Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Photo ############## and the other elements of the suite as nice-to-have add-ons — not something that should be pushed to them via Microsoft;s service which is used primarily to deliver security-focused updates.But Microsoft is doing just that. Starting October 19,
Office 2010 Home And Stude/nt, Windows Vista and Windows 7 users who use Windows Update are being offered the Windows Live Essentials 2011 as a “Recommended Update” if they already have any with the included Windows Live software programs installed. Windows Update users who don;t have any of the Windows Live Essentials programs installed on their computers, will also see the update, but it will likely be marked as “Optional.”
