[There's a reason that Yoda is the unofficial mascot of SBS. Size indeed matters not.] Action pack users, read this - THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA"
Fri, Jan 12 2007 13:05 bradley

Action pack users, read this

Microsoft Small Business Community Blog : Do I have Downgrade Rights for my software that comes in Action Pack?:
http://blogs.msdn.com/mssmallbiz/archive/2007/01/12/do-i-have-downgrade-rights-for-my-software-that-comes-in-action-pack.aspx

If you have used an XP license from your Action pack, that license now has a time limit on it... it's valid only up untill the time you renew.

If you are still running on OEM versions of XP, you are fine and do not need to upgrade to Vista.  You can stay on your OEM XP.

To all of those who I urged on Action pack without realizing this limitation, my personal apology.  I had no idea that the license terms would be like this. When my action pack renews in April, I cannot upgrade XPs to Vista as all of my line of business applications don't work on Vista.  Fortunately for me the Action pack for my firm (MPAN) is a recent change and I didn't rely too much (one machine) on that Action pack media.  So I'm going to be retiring that machine in April to be compliant.

 

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Friday, January 12, 2007 4:16 PM by Nick Whittome

Yada Yada Yada...

Lets all come back down to earth now.   The Microsoft legals do not live on this planet anyway.

Frankly, I am not upgrading to Vista, no matter what the licence says...   I very much doubt that anything will happen to me, I also very much doubt that Microsoft will give a rats.

So, for me at least, XP will stay firmly on my machine until such time as I can afford to upgrade the entire testbed / office machines to hardware capable of running this Dog of an operating system.

2 Cents of course ;)