Windows 10 Will Be the Fastest-Adopted Windows Version Ever, Research Shows

[Batu69]

Gartner claims enterprise adoption will skyrocket

Windows 10 adoption has been far from overwhelming until now, but new research by Garner claims that figures are very likely to skyrocket in the coming months, especially in the enterprise sector, when it's expected to become the fastest-adopted Windows version ever.

Gartner claims that, by January 2017, 50 percent of the enterprises will have started Windows 10 deployments, which could be a sign that Microsoft might actually reach the 1 billion devices running the new OS by 2017 goal.

The research firm claims there are several factors encouraging enterprises to migrate, among which the end of support for Windows 7 in 2020, but also the excellent support that Windows 10 includes for applications developed for previous versions of the operating system.

Migration completed by 2019

Most of the enterprises starting the migration to Windows 10 by 2017 are expected to complete the process by 2019, the research shows, so by the time the end of support for Windows 7 comes, the majority of organizations should be prepared for the upgrade.

“In the consumer market, a free upgrade coupled with broad legacy device support and automatic over-the-air upgrades ensures that there will be tens of millions of users familiar with the operating system (OS) before the end of 2015,” said Steve Kleynhans, research vice president at Gartner. “For enterprises, we expect that implementation will be significantly more rapid than that seen with Windows 7 six years ago.”

As far as consumers are concerned, Windows 10 currently has a market share of approximately 9 percent, which isn’t quite as big as expected, given the fact that the new OS is offered as a free upgrade to Windows 7 and 8.1 computers.

Figures are expected to increase significantly, though, in the coming months, as Windows 7 is still running on some 50 percent of the world’s desktop PCs, and some of these users are getting ready for the upgrade to Windows 10.

News source

[Bausch]

Hmmm, is it because people are forced and/or tricked to install it!?

[visualbuffs]

this article is true!

windows 10 is great! all the old school sucks!

my main computer was win10

[Holmes]

Perhaps its saying when you get past all the bullshit windows ten is a good operating system which I dont doubt.

[Pete 12]

Untill now; " when you get past all the bullshit", nothing left over of Win10.......

For sure, if you have to download/install start-menus and "stop-spying",stop updating, etc.etc.

btw; I doubt its faster then my Win7 , cold start in 12 seconds with 96 pieces of software on it !

[Karlston]

Yep, all Microsoft has to do to convince Windows 7 amd 8.1 users to upgrade is...

Get rid of the nagging, bullying, and forcing of the Windows 10 upgrade.

Stop forcing updates on users "for their own good". Just about every one so far has caused some sort of grief.

Introduce the Windows 7/8.1 style granular updates (stop using take-it-all-or-take-none) cumulative updates

Give users details about the updates

Provide a single telemetry/privacy kill-switch.

In short... start treating us as adults who can make our own choices, and stop treating us as children who don't know any better and have to be forced "for our own good".

Dear Microsoft... there's still over 8 Windows 7 and 8.1 users (who have said NO to the free upgrade) for every one Windows 10 user. If it's such a great OS than why do you continue to alienate users with this bullshit?

[TheRuan]

Simple facts that makes this event quite predictable:

1) Most people were using very old/outdated systems.

2) Microsoft "kinda" forced the update to many people already.

3) And obviously as the technology grows faster we usually end up updating faster each time.

4) Price, cheaper than ever, when it isn't for free...

5) Compatibility to everything that worked on Windows 7 is almost perfect.

2 and 4 never happened before, not even close to anything like this.

1 and 5 did happen before, but not nearly the way it was, there were way to many people that were still running Win XP or 7 and were afraid to not be able to work on Windows 8~8.1

[Kalju]

Windows 10 Will Be the Fastest-Adopted Windows Version Ever, Research Shows

...

Any results of the study is absolutely correlated to the client wallet.

They have always a correlation to the amount to be paid

[steven36]

They were too many people running windows 7 ? there still are last i looked

If you go by numbers netmarketshare says 55.71 % of pc users still use Windows 7 .

https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0

statcounter says 45. 45 % still uses Windows 7.

http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-monthly-201507-201511

Then you have the Android and iphone . the smart phone .

The global PC industry has been on a downward trend for the past few years as smartphones penetration continues to grow. Tablets are replacing the need for a notebook for a number of tech-forward, mobile workers. And now large size smartphones (phablets) are taking the place of tablets.

“As consumers we really do like mobile,” ARM’s lead mobile strategist James Bruce told WIRED. “If you look from the world perspective, it is fundamentally our primary compute device. The PC has very much become a secondary compute device.”

For those in many developing countries, a smartphone is their first computer and their only Internet-connected device. According to a February 2014 survey from Pew Research reports, Africans use their cellphones for mobile payments, for getting political, health, and consumer information and, of course, social networking. With pricing reaching an affordable $30 to $50 for some smartphones, people who have never before been able to afford a computing device now own one, and it fits in their pocket.

Here in the U.S., in the next few years, high-end smartphones will be able to handle things like 4K streaming, immersive virtual reality gaming, and seamless multi-tasking (heck, some devices can do most of that now). ARM’s new CPU, for example, provides a 50x increase in performance over chips from five years ago, on 75 percent less energy than chips from three years ago.

Other chips feature similar specs: Apple’s A8 chip in the iPhone 6 is 50 times faster than the chip in the original iPhone, and its GPU is 84 times faster. And Qualcomm’s latest, the Snapdragon 810 (which LG, HTC, and other Android device makers are planning on employing in upcoming handsets) boasts 4K video streaming and online 3-D gaming capabilities.

But while the smartphone’s hardware and software will be technically able to handle tasks we’d formerly reserve for the desktop, making the switch from smartphone-plus-notebook (or desktop) to smartphone-only will still take some adjustment.

“The only limitation we have now is just the hardware ecosystem,” Bruce says. “Simple things like how easy is it to hook up to a big monitor—those physical issues need to be addressed.”

Yeah, I don’t see a Lightning to Thunderbolt connector just quite yet. Apple, can you get on that?

Canalys principal analyst Chris Jones isn’t quite convinced that we’ll all be ready to ditch computers so quickly, especially our office setups.

“Increasingly, more activities can be completed by using a smartphone,” Jones told me over email, “but for many it won’t replace the larger device with physical keyboard for productivity tasks.” But, Jones says, if a smartphone can do all the things PCs, digital cameras, camcorders, GPS navigation devices, MP3 players, and DVD players can, and more, then yes, smartphones could be the primary computing device for many people.

We’ll still need to improve in two areas: network connectivity and content storage. Connectivity in particular—as more people shift from broadcast TV and stream on mobile devices, it could create a bottleneck in cellular networks—but maybe content storage less so, since cloud-based storage is already increasingly becoming a necessary part of our workflows. But paired with a monitor and a Bluetooth keyboard at work, or streaming over Wi-Fi to a TV set at home, in a few years, there’s no real reason why, for the vast majority of us, a smartphone couldn’t handle all our daily computing needs.

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/smartphone-only-computer/

Once they start making phones that can plug in your TV and monitor you may as well say PC industry is doomed. The future for pcs look grim by the time windows 7 updates run out most every one may be on phones its something to think about ? :unsure:

[davmil]

They were too many people running windows 7 ? there still are last i looked

If you go by numbers netmarketshare says 55.71 % of pc users still use Windows 7 .

https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0

statcounter says 45. 45 % still uses Windows 7.

http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-monthly-201507-201511

Then you have the Android and iphone . the smart phone .

The global PC industry has been on a downward trend for the past few years as smartphones penetration continues to grow. Tablets are replacing the need for a notebook for a number of tech-forward, mobile workers. And now large size smartphones (phablets) are taking the place of tablets.

“As consumers we really do like mobile,” ARM’s lead mobile strategist James Bruce told WIRED. “If you look from the world perspective, it is fundamentally our primary compute device. The PC has very much become a secondary compute device.”

For those in many developing countries, a smartphone is their first computer and their only Internet-connected device. According to a February 2014 survey from Pew Research reports, Africans use their cellphones for mobile payments, for getting political, health, and consumer information and, of course, social networking. With pricing reaching an affordable $30 to $50 for some smartphones, people who have never before been able to afford a computing device now own one, and it fits in their pocket.

Here in the U.S., in the next few years, high-end smartphones will be able to handle things like 4K streaming, immersive virtual reality gaming, and seamless multi-tasking (heck, some devices can do most of that now). ARM’s new CPU, for example, provides a 50x increase in performance over chips from five years ago, on 75 percent less energy than chips from three years ago.

Other chips feature similar specs: Apple’s A8 chip in the iPhone 6 is 50 times faster than the chip in the original iPhone, and its GPU is 84 times faster. And Qualcomm’s latest, the Snapdragon 810 (which LG, HTC, and other Android device makers are planning on employing in upcoming handsets) boasts 4K video streaming and online 3-D gaming capabilities.

But while the smartphone’s hardware and software will be technically able to handle tasks we’d formerly reserve for the desktop, making the switch from smartphone-plus-notebook (or desktop) to smartphone-only will still take some adjustment.

“The only limitation we have now is just the hardware ecosystem,” Bruce says. “Simple things like how easy is it to hook up to a big monitor—those physical issues need to be addressed.”

Yeah, I don’t see a Lightning to Thunderbolt connector just quite yet. Apple, can you get on that?

Canalys principal analyst Chris Jones isn’t quite convinced that we’ll all be ready to ditch computers so quickly, especially our office setups.

“Increasingly, more activities can be completed by using a smartphone,” Jones told me over email, “but for many it won’t replace the larger device with physical keyboard for productivity tasks.” But, Jones says, if a smartphone can do all the things PCs, digital cameras, camcorders, GPS navigation devices, MP3 players, and DVD players can, and more, then yes, smartphones could be the primary computing device for many people.

We’ll still need to improve in two areas: network connectivity and content storage. Connectivity in particular—as more people shift from broadcast TV and stream on mobile devices, it could create a bottleneck in cellular networks—but maybe content storage less so, since cloud-based storage is already increasingly becoming a necessary part of our workflows. But paired with a monitor and a Bluetooth keyboard at work, or streaming over Wi-Fi to a TV set at home, in a few years, there’s no real reason why, for the vast majority of us, a smartphone couldn’t handle all our daily computing needs.

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/smartphone-only-computer/

Once they start making phones that can plug in your TV and monitor you may as well say PC industry is doomed. The future for pcs look grim by the time windows 7 updates run out most every one may be on phones its something to think about ? :unsure:

WTF are you talking about? Every regular business environment I've seen is PCcentric and every thing else is a toy/gadget.

[software182]

Yeah good news for them, but i'm still happy with my Win 8.1 :)

[steven36]

They were too many people running windows 7 ? there still are last i looked

If you go by numbers netmarketshare says 55.71 % of pc users still use Windows 7 .

https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0

statcounter says 45. 45 % still uses Windows 7.

http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-monthly-201507-201511

Then you have the Android and iphone . the smart phone .

The global PC industry has been on a downward trend for the past few years as smartphones penetration continues to grow. Tablets are replacing the need for a notebook for a number of tech-forward, mobile workers. And now large size smartphones (phablets) are taking the place of tablets.

“As consumers we really do like mobile,” ARM’s lead mobile strategist James Bruce told WIRED. “If you look from the world perspective, it is fundamentally our primary compute device. The PC has very much become a secondary compute device.”

For those in many developing countries, a smartphone is their first computer and their only Internet-connected device. According to a February 2014 survey from Pew Research reports, Africans use their cellphones for mobile payments, for getting political, health, and consumer information and, of course, social networking. With pricing reaching an affordable $30 to $50 for some smartphones, people who have never before been able to afford a computing device now own one, and it fits in their pocket.

Here in the U.S., in the next few years, high-end smartphones will be able to handle things like 4K streaming, immersive virtual reality gaming, and seamless multi-tasking (heck, some devices can do most of that now). ARM’s new CPU, for example, provides a 50x increase in performance over chips from five years ago, on 75 percent less energy than chips from three years ago.

Other chips feature similar specs: Apple’s A8 chip in the iPhone 6 is 50 times faster than the chip in the original iPhone, and its GPU is 84 times faster. And Qualcomm’s latest, the Snapdragon 810 (which LG, HTC, and other Android device makers are planning on employing in upcoming handsets) boasts 4K video streaming and online 3-D gaming capabilities.

But while the smartphone’s hardware and software will be technically able to handle tasks we’d formerly reserve for the desktop, making the switch from smartphone-plus-notebook (or desktop) to smartphone-only will still take some adjustment.

“The only limitation we have now is just the hardware ecosystem,” Bruce says. “Simple things like how easy is it to hook up to a big monitor—those physical issues need to be addressed.”

Yeah, I don’t see a Lightning to Thunderbolt connector just quite yet. Apple, can you get on that?

Canalys principal analyst Chris Jones isn’t quite convinced that we’ll all be ready to ditch computers so quickly, especially our office setups.

“Increasingly, more activities can be completed by using a smartphone,” Jones told me over email, “but for many it won’t replace the larger device with physical keyboard for productivity tasks.” But, Jones says, if a smartphone can do all the things PCs, digital cameras, camcorders, GPS navigation devices, MP3 players, and DVD players can, and more, then yes, smartphones could be the primary computing device for many people.

We’ll still need to improve in two areas: network connectivity and content storage. Connectivity in particular—as more people shift from broadcast TV and stream on mobile devices, it could create a bottleneck in cellular networks—but maybe content storage less so, since cloud-based storage is already increasingly becoming a necessary part of our workflows. But paired with a monitor and a Bluetooth keyboard at work, or streaming over Wi-Fi to a TV set at home, in a few years, there’s no real reason why, for the vast majority of us, a smartphone couldn’t handle all our daily computing needs.

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/smartphone-only-computer/

Once they start making phones that can plug in your TV and monitor you may as well say PC industry is doomed. The future for pcs look grim by the time windows 7 updates run out most every one may be on phones its something to think about ? :unsure:

WTF are you talking about? Every regular business environment I've seen is PCcentric and every thing else is a toy/gadget.

its not me ... its ARM talking about it who makes processors they will be phones soon that can compute just as fast as even modern towers and pcs

The name the article is

In Less Than Two Years, a Smartphone Could Be Your Only Computer

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/smartphone-only-computer/

do you think everyone will use the same teach forever? one day using a pc will be like using a VCR . Steve Jobs said this years ago before apple made the iphone . :P

Since 2014 there are more mobile users than PC users

Mobile Now Exceeds PC: The Biggest Shift Since the Internet Began

If you imagine that the mobile usage is merely a reflection of consumers logging onto social media, checking email or conducting search, or shopping, think again.

Executives lead the way in mobile adoption, validating the theory that digital assets for a business or brand must serve target audiences 24/7, and not just during business hours.

http://searchenginewatch.com/sew/opinion/2353616/mobile-now-exceeds-pc-the-biggest-shift-since-the-internet-began

One thing is for sure Windows 10 is Microsoft’s last attempt to try to sell pcs in a world were phones out sell pcs 5 to 1 and predicted phones will out sell pcs 10 to 1 in the next few years . They took old PC teach and combine it with new phone teach thats windows 10 in a nutshell .

In the end people will just buy phones not window 10 pcs. while M$ is busy giving away something free because cant sell it very much any more people are buying smart phones left and right . People dont even make new win 32 apps any more. everything is just updates of old apps . all new apps will be phone apps that will run in pcs and / or phones

[Holmes]

I wont be using a smartphone only I have a smartphone there are only going to be some users that are going to switch to smartphone use only your message is inaccurate. Oh and I keep forgetting to ask you you said windows ten killed a hard drive of your's how exactly did that happen you ask me I would say it was its time to die why blame windows ten.

[davmil]

I wont be using a smartphone only I have a smartphone there are only going to be some users that are going to switch to smartphone use only your message is inaccurate. Oh and I keep forgetting to ask you you said windows ten killed a hard drive of your's how exactly did that happen you ask me I would say it was its time to die why blame windows ten.

Twas a person inclined to get his facts from PC Magazine rather than real world support. Rumors upon rumors to sell new gear is what you're looking at - not business or working environments. Windows 10 obviously doesn't kill hard disks. I'll grant it may be rough around the edges and need a Service Pack and 6 months to bake before deploying large scale but the only hardware I'd worry about is where driver support and esoteric and/or old drivers are a factor.