When I find it, it will be in the comments below.

Windows xp is Enf-Of-Life’d on Oct, 22nd 2010.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-xp/end-of-sale.aspx

Google sorts it’s responses by popularity, right? That means the most popular answers to downgrading 7 to XP are no answer at all. Microsoft extended the downgrade to 2020. Great! How do I do it?

Windows/Microsoft doesn’t provide the answers in an obvious place, a remote place and thus far it’s not in a distantly remote place. Windows sure is cutting there own throats by offering a product and insisting we operate it there way. They demand you upgrade to outlook 2010 or Windows Live.

Really? You didn’t have to do anything to keep Outlook, but instead you spend the cash to ensure Outlook 2010 is just different enough to be incompatible with all other previous version.

I find pages of questions ‘how to I down grade?’ and pages of responses ‘Why would you want to downgrade?’

Can I get my question answered before I answer yours? No? Fine.

Not supported in Windows 7:

Highend antivirus software
Previous versions of Outlook
Workhorse printers
The fact that despite not needing to, they change so many little things like the control panel

Enough bothers me that I’m honestly considering the pros and cons of Google’s Chromium. Windows clearly does not get it. SIMPLE. People like it simple. Once they learn something the don’t want to have to relearn it. Fortunately my company operates almost solely on the internet so the switch-over won’t be all that crazy. I’m thinking of getting them Google netbooks because it’s so cheap it’s obscene.