Posted on 05/19/2015 10:17:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Microsoft Corporation’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows 10, is possibly the last version of Windows the company will ever make. Tech enthusiasts are looking forward to use Windows 10 so much so that analysts expect that 410 million PCs will be running Windows 10 within the first 18 months of its release. Windows 10 is expected to release for PCs “this summer” possibly in late July, with a mobile version of the operating system to come shortly after it.
According to Net Applications, an analytics vendor, more than 75% of all PCs currently running Windows 8 or 8.1 will switch to Windows 10 within the first 18 months of its existence. A smaller percentage of Windows 7 users will make the switch to Windows 10, but will still add millions of people to the tally as Windows 7 is currently the most popular platform of the operating system. The projections are based on the performance of Windows 8.1 and also the free upgrade it offered to Windows 8 users. However, most government computers and businesses would make the shift to Windows 10 later in 2017 as the Windows 7 enterprise standard will not lose support till January 2020.
The Redmond based company aims to have 1 billion devices installed with its Windows 10 operating system within three years. That will be nothing short of an easy task, and analysts have calculated that in order for the company to accomplish that, it needs to capture the “entire consumer new PC market”, get a significant Windows 7 users to upgrade to Windows 10 (the free upgrade to Windows 10 within the first year of its release deal might help) and run on a huge chunk of smartphones as well.
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All my devices purchased for Win7 are working under Windows TP. The last of my device drive issues went away in January.
I keep seeing this claim in multiple articles. What do they think MS is going to replace Windows with? I assume they're not getting out of the OS market entirely.
Yup. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had customers order PCs with OEM licenses only to blow them away during image deployment with volume licenses(Enterprise). Almost every business nowadays uses KMS or Active Directory Activation anyways.
It is actually harder to buy a desktop—even when making bulk purchases—without an OS than with whatever the OEM gives you. When you reimage those, all the bloat-ware the OEMs put on is gone, too, so you have a cleaner machine.
Microsoft intends to publish continual updates, distributing changes when they are ready instead of bundling them up in version bulk upgrades.
I think the author may be a little off the mark saying most businesses still running W7 won’t upgrade until 2017. The free upgrade offer in the first year also extends to Windows 7, and I think there will be a lot of companies taking advantage of that.
I was at Microsoft Ignite two weeks ago in Chicago.
Windows as a Service was discussed at length.
Here’s a link to a session I attended on the subject: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK2322
I think there’ll still be deployment scenarios requiring an ISO, though—or at least an install.wim. Bare metal installs, new equipment, wipe and loading malware-infected boxes, security reasons to get rid of previous users’ data, etc.
I’m told the ISO—including the continuous updates sideloaded into it, will be available to volume license customers, through the Windows as a Service for Business website, whenever that gets started.
Perpetual rolling releases? Makes sense, kinda.
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