North American businesses reluctant to adopt Windows 10

[Batu69]

 

A year on from the release of Windows 10 most businesses are still reluctant to adopt the OS, according to research by solutions and managed services company Softchoice.

 

Based on an evaluation of more than 400,000 Windows-based computing devices between January and May this year, across 169 organizations in the US and Canada using the TechCheck asset management solution, the study reveals less than one percent were running Windows 10.

 

It finds the vast majority of North American businesses adopted Windows 7 as the corporate platform-of-choice since moving away from Windows XP, and have yet to move in significant quantities to newer versions Windows 8 or 10.

 

"It appears businesses are hesitant to take advantage of the various Windows 10 upgrades and, at least for now, are satisfied with Windows 7," says David Brisbois, Softchoice's senior manager of assessment and technology deployment services consulting. "Historically, OS upgrades have been viewed as major time and resource-consuming undertakings, and this may be influencing the decision today to hold off on Windows 10".

 

The findings show that 91 percent of machines were running on Windows 7 (an increase of 18 percent over the same period in 2015). A worrying five percent were still on Windows XP (a decrease of 20 percent from the same period in 2015). Four percent were on Windows 8 (up two percent from 2015).

 

It’s also larger businesses that are most reluctant to move. Softchoice’s analysis finds enterprises still had the largest deployment of Windows XP. However, there was a 29 percent drop in the OS from 2015 to 2016.

 

You can find out more about TechCheck on the Softchoice website.

 

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[tomm]

Microsoft claims that Windows 10 is running on more than 350 million devices around the world, and now that the free upgrade offer has come to an end, the company is betting big on enterprises to continue the fast adoption of the new operating system.

 

 

But as far as businesses are concerned, convincing them to move to Windows 10 might really be a challenge, as a new study conducted by SoftChoice shows that most of them still see Windows 7 as good enough for their current needs.

 

The research involved more than 402,000 devices at 169 organizations in the United States and Canada and revealed that only 0.75 percent of devices were running Windows 10. The study was conducted between January 1 and May 31, and this could be one of the reasons why the adoption percentage is so low, as some companies might have upgraded after this date.

 

Windows 7 running on 91 percent of devices

 

Nevertheless, Windows 10 adoption is still surprisingly low, and one of the reasons is Windows 7. The research shows that 91 percent of these devices were running Windows 7 while 5 percent of them were still on Windows XP - shocking figures, given the fact that XP no longer receives updates since April 8, 2014.

 

“It appears businesses are hesitant to take advantage of the various Windows 10 upgrades and, at least for now, are satisfied with Windows 7,” said David Brisbois, Softchoice’s Senior Manager of Assessment and Technology Deployment Services Consulting. “Historically, OS upgrades have been viewed as major time and resource-consuming undertakings, and this may be influencing the decision today to hold off on Windows 10.”

 

Certainly, the adoption figures of Windows 10 will continue to grow in the coming months, but the biggest question right now is how fast this is going to happen. Microsoft needs to move users and companies off Windows 7 before the January 2020 end-of-support deadline, otherwise, it might have to deal with another Windows XP moment, when many will refuse to upgrade despite the obvious security risks.

 

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[steven36]

Why would they pay out a ton of money for Windows 10  when they done said that skylake will run windows 7 tell 2020 ? That means if they buy new pcs there will be no need to update them soon to enterprise  they can keep using Windows 7 pro . No one wanted to leave XP  ether they all waited tell the last minute to update  to windows 7 and the only reason most updated was because new laws have made it possible that they may get sued . Who would want to install something with Windows store apps that you have too update to enterprise to even block?

 

All these post about businesses prove is how little businesses has to do with the marketshare overall  almost as many people is on Windows 10 as Windows 7 in North America. even without business.. Home users have always been fast to adapt . business has always been slow to adapt.

 

 

http://gs.statcounter.com/#desktop-os-na-monthly-201607-201608-bar

 

[Batu69]

Topic merged.

[luisam]

"Update" means spend money and have people with the knowledge how to manipulate updated systems, which means... spend more money. Additionally, "business" knows what may hide behind FREE OFFERS. They know that free offers are to earn more; in this case favoring Miscrosoft . And if you do "business" you always weight the Cost/Benefit ratio.

At the beginning, business was reluctant to adopt Windows XP. They were quite happy with Windows NT, Windows 2000 and even Windows 98 SE

Probably these  are the main reasons behind the "reluctance" to adopt Windows 10, having a very good Windows 7 and even the XP, at hand.

[steven36]

48 minutes ago, luisam said:

"Update" means spend money and have people with the knowledge how to manipulate updated systems, which means... spend more money. Additionally, "business" knows what may hide bihind FREE OFFERS. They know that free offers are to earn more; in this case favoring Miscrosoft . And if you do "business" you always weight the Cost/Benefit ratio. Probably these  are the main reasons behind the "reluctance" to adopt Windows 10, having a very good Windows 7 and even the XP, at hand.

There's  estimated to be 377,079,878  internet users  in North America a survey  of  402,000 devices  dont have no barring  of what they use as a whole .

China would be who i would be worried about if i was M$ they have 721,434,547 internet users and most still use Windows 7 and XP .

http://www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users-by-country/

 

China and India  there is more ,money to be made there than in North America but with larger populations  its not so easy for  to sell them Windows 10 and China  dont care if there people pirate windows or not .