The catch is that it is not a straightforward process, everything involves time and jumping through hopes. However, this only covered folks with an earlier version of the operating system, but how about those users who just purchased a brand new PC, right? The good news is that if you bought a PC preinstalled with Windows 8 Pro (the business version), you have the downgrade rights to install Windows 7 free.

In a previous article, I showed you how to rollback to Windows 7 if you upgraded to Win 8. As a result we are starting to see many users wanting to downgrade to Windows 7. Even though these are great improvements, some people are finding these changes challenging and hard to figure out, making them get into a learning curve that they may not want to embark right at this time. It brings improved support for multi-monitor support, faster boot time and the new option to sign-in using a Microsoft account are just a few out of hundreds other changes inside the new OS. Windows 8 is a touch-first operating system and it is always connected to the cloud. Compared to Windows 7 or any other previous version, Windows 8 brings a radical shift to the way we interact with computers moving forward with many new features and a complete overhauled interface (the new Modern UI).