QuoteMicrosoft is offering a downgrade to XP option through the original computer manufacturers. If you have either Home version of Vista though, youre out of luck - only those that bought computers preloaded with Vista Ultimate or Business qualify for the downgrade.
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/09/24/microsoft_offering_xp_downgrade/1
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2007/09/microsoft-reveals-windows-vista-sp1-will-install-xp.html
Seems to be a joke to me.
Its an over the top assumption people are saying M$ meant that the SP1 will allow you to turn off a lot of stuff and have things turned off automatically for optimisation like they did with xp as well as interface changes
I think they should be focusing on fixing driver issues and making the 64bit version effective :)
I still think they may do a xp similar platform with the nice bits of vista and dx10 as a vista version, well hoping :)