This contradicts pretty much everything Microsoft has ever posted online about downgrade rights.īut after scouring Microsoft’s online support pages, checking out real-world downgrade experiences on various forums, and then confirming the process with Microsoft’s press team, we can now share the truth about how downgrades work for anyone with a PC running Windows 8 Pro. Another representative said a Windows 7 disc image would be built into new Windows 8 Pro machines. A Dell representative said that to downgrade from Windows 8, you needed to buy a new, unused copy of Windows 7-thus making the whole point of having downgrade rights pointless.
