'Since we've only been offering (it) for about a month, we don't really have anything to share on demand.'Ī Microsoft representative confirmed there were changes made over the summer to make it easier for customers to downgrade to XP. She said it was too soon to gauge how high customer interest has been. 'For business desktops, workstations and select business notebooks and tablet PCs, customers can configure their systems to include the XP Pro restore disc for little or no charge,' HP spokeswoman Tiffany Smith said in an e-mail. Hewlett-Packard also started a program in August for many of its business models. 'That's going to help out small- and medium-size businesses,' Fujitsu marketing manager Brandon Farris told CNET. Fujitsu has been among the most aggressive, starting last month to include an XP disc in the box with its laptops and tablets. The program applies only to Windows Vista Business and Ultimate versions, and it is up to PC makers to decide how, if at all, they want to make XP available. While Microsoft is still pushing Vista hard, the company is quietly allowing PC makers to offer a 'downgrade' option to buyers that get machines with the new operating system but want to switch to Windows XP.

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