Downgrade Extension of Windows 7 to XP Till 2020

News for all Windows 7 users now they will be able to downgrade Windows 7 they used for a while into Windows XP, Microsoft has prolonged the period after that free authorization of downgrading of Windows 7 to Windows XP will be available to the users. Microsoft statement is given as:

“Windows 7 end user downgrade rights will be available for approximately 18 months after the general availability of Windows 7 (April, 2011) or the release of a Windows 7 Service Pack, whichever is earlier”.

It was announced that Service Pack 1 of Windows 7 will be released on 12^th July 2010. It was an unofficial release and you will install it without Microsoft support. New options and features are also absent. Proper release will come after some short time according to analyst’s opinion.

Microsoft chooses to postpone the deadline as majority of the PCs at business places still using Microsoft XP, 74% of the computers at business places running XP stated by company executive at the Microsoft WPC.

“Our business customers have told us that removing end-user downgrade rights to Windows XP Professional could be confusing, given the rights change would be made for new PCs pre-installed with Windows 7, and managing a hybrid environment with PCs that have different end-user rights based on date of purchase would be challenging to track”, said Brandon Leblanc, Windows communications manager at Microsoft.

“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″.

“This will help maintain consistency for downgrade rights throughout the Windows 7 life cycle”.

Which one is used at your workplace Windows 7 or XP? And will Microsoft users like downgrading option. What do you say?[via PL]