Author: Steve Ranger / Source: ZDNet
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It’s now less than a year until Windows 7 goes out of mainstream support; after January 14, 2020, Microsoft will no longer provide security updates or support for PCs running Windows 7 — unless you want to pay extra, of course.
This is a big issue for many companies: while Windows 7 is long in the tooth (it went on sale back in October 2009), it’s much loved — at least, as much as a PC operating system can be loved — and is still widely used.
Indeed, even though Windows 10 has been around late 2015, it’s only in the last month or so that general usage of Windows 10 has finally overtaken Windows 7. According to Microsoft there are 1.5 billion devices running Windows, with more than 700 million running Windows 10. But that means there are hundreds of millions of devices running Windows 7, with that support deadline looming.
Microsoft is certainly keen for businesses to upgrade, touting the security of Windows 10 over Windows 7 as a good reason to make the move. It’s also keen to get as many users onto Windows 10 as possible because that will help it build momentum behind Windows-as-a-Service, which means regular feature updates rather than massive upgrade projects every few years.
But enterprises, which are often cautious about new technology, will have noted Microsoft’s buggy recent Windows 10 upgrades and will worry about the impact on their infrastructure.
So what happens now?
Andrew Hewitt, a tech analyst at Forrester Research, says the past two years has already seen a massive migration and push towards Windows 10.
According to Forrester’s survey of infrastructure decision-makers, 56 percent of company-issued PCs are currently running Windows 10 — up eight percent from last year, and 18 percent from the year before. “This shift is happening at a quick rate, but as you can see, there’s still quite a ways to go before everyone is shifted over to Windows 10,” says Hewitt.
So why hasn’t everyone updated yet?…
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