Vista Business downgrade to XP Pro and entitlement to Vista

[GKern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

I recently purchased a new Thinkpad T500 (standard OS offered was vista 
business) and customized it to request the XP downgrade option. No problem 
there and when I booted, XP pro came up and life is good.

My question is whether I'm entitled to the Vista Business edition? To my 
understanding MS counts this product as a Vista sale (even though it is in 
reality XP). 

Do I need to pay to move up to Vista should I ever decide to do so? 
According to the configuration doc shipped with the product it states 
Vista with xp downgrade option. 

Or is there a chance that the recovery option/partition offers an option 
to load Vista?

I haven't contacted Lenovo yet to ask this question, and my thought that 
is when I do, I'm not certain I'll get a straight answer - hence my 
question here first.

Comments anyone?

Thanks! 

Regards, Jerry

Gerald Kern - MIS Project Leader
Lotus Notes/Domino Administrator
IBM Certified RPG IV Developer
The Toledo Clinic, Inc.
4235 Secor Road
Toledo, OH 43623-4299
Phone 419-479-5535
gkern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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