Looking to downgrade

I see that my new every two is up and have been looking at my options. I am on a family share plan with 500 minutes, no text, no internet use. We use two phones and use less than half of the 500 minutes allotted. Most of the people we call use Verizon and beyond that we are just not long conversationalists on the phone. The basic rate is 59.00 but after all the surcharges and taxes we are paying over $70.00 a month. So basically we are throwing away minutes since they don't roll over.
Is there a way to get a lesser plan not advertised so we don't have to pay so much when we aren't even using it up? I've explored the possibility of doing separate lines but that comes out to be around the same amount of money. I also looked at the pay as you go plan. And I found that we wouldn't be saving money there either and we are not 65. Can you negotiate down from a plan to save money? A friend of ours is sharing on a 250 minute plan that they just keep rolling over. Money is tight right now and something got to give.

There is a Verizon Family Share loyalty plan out there, but I don't know Verizon's criteria for putting people on it. It's worth a call in, I believe it's something like 500 minutes and 1000 N&W minutes for $49.99/month. Other than that, Verizon doesn't offer any lower minute plans (outside of the 65+ plans).
You really aren't going to lower your costs much and stay on Verizon's postpaid service. Have you looked into other prepaid providers? Page Plus uses the Verizon network, and each of the other major networks also have their own prepaid divisions as well as other companies that use their network to provide prepaid service.
If you truly use no text, no data and very few minutes, prepaid will be the best way to save money, but you'll have to do the math and research to see which provider will be the best value for you.

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Refund:
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My company normally builds PCs but recently we also decided to start using All in One PCs, we're looking at using the HP ProOne 400 G1.
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As far as I know, Microsoft is correct.
When you look at downgrade rights, it says that the downgrade has to be performed by the PC manufacturer (The PC has to come from HP with W7 Pro on it at the time of delivery).
It has been that way for any HP business PC I have ever purchased.
I just bought a HP 350 G1 business notebook with W7 x64 Pro downgrade rights from W8.1 Pro last month.
W7 was preinstalled on the hard drive, and a W8.1 disk was provided in case I wanted to change to W8.1 Pro.
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I am looking at the specs, and it is pretty vague about how you can get a PC to already come with W7 Pro installed.
It says availability dependent on Region.
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