Posted on 06/30/2015 7:12:26 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
An overwhelming 96 percent IT professionals said they’re interested in Windows 10, with 60 percent stating that their IT department has already evaluated a preview version, according to a survey conducted by Spiceworks. The survey of over 500 IT professionals said that nearly all respondents expressed at least some interest in Windows 10 – (96 percent), to be exact.
"But based on their patterns of adoption for OSes in general, it’s fair to say that being interested doesn’t necessarily mean they’re booking flights, at least not right away. When we asked IT pros why they typically start using a new OS, more than two-thirds (69 percent) indicated that they do so on an as-needed basis, such as when a current system reaches end of support (EOS)," Spiceworks stated.
About three quarters of respondents plan to adopt Windows 10 for home use within the first year. The two-year business outlook is also bright, with almost three-quarters taking the Windows 10 (for) business flight. What is the differentiating factor that could make more IT pros board Windows 10? Sixty-four percent of IT professionals said they were most interested in the return of the Start button, 55 percent cited the free upgrade from Windows 7 and 8/8.1, and 51 percent referenced enhanced security.
Seventy-nine percent cited hardware/software compatibility as their greatest concern followed by early release bugs (65 percent), user training (59 percent), and lack of third-party support (51 percent), and time required for upgrade process (43 percent).
In addition, the survey showed that businesses typically value OS stability (68 percent) and application compatibility (62 percent) as the main reasons to consider an OS. The latest features and functionality rank much lower on the list (14 percent) of drivers.
According to the survey, 75 percent of IT pros are planning to adopt Windows 10 for business use within the first two years, versus immediately. "Companies may wait it out to see early reports of how Windows 10 performs, or until third-party applications are fully supported on the new OS."
Almost half (48 percent) of survey respondents say having a common OS for both PCs and mobile devices makes them more likely to consider Windows 10.
Even so, only a third (31 percent) say they’d be interested in having Windows 10 for smartphones, compared with those interested in Windows 10 on laptops (85 percent), desktops (83 percent), and tablets (50 percent).
"Aggregated Spiceworks network data backs up the positive outlook for Windows 10. Two years after launch, Windows 7 had a penetration rate of 60 percent and a total market share of 14.4 percent. Based on the survey data presented in this report, Windows 10 is expected to have a penetration rate of 73 percent after two years–and according to our calculations, an expected market share of 17 percent," the survey said.
Take your pick. I'm okay with either one for the bet. I'm pretty sure it will be around 50% at best. Call it 73% if you wish.
The plural of anecdote is not data. . .
Large corporations I'm familiar with generally keep their operating systems upgraded before, or at least shortly after EOL. For W7, that's January 2015. Security updates will still be provided to 2020.
Do you have data? If you do, let's see it. So far you haven't even offered anecdote, just your personal opinion presented as if it's self-evident truth.
I work in informatics, and it just doesn't match what I see in real life, particularly in healthcare.
That said, I could see one possible way that the statistics could be skewed, and it wouldn't be lying: 99.7 percent of U.S. employer firms are classified as "Small Business". From the same document published by the Small Business Association:
"...In 2011, there were 28.2 million small businesses, and 17,700 firms with 500 employees or more. Over three-quarters of small businesses were nonemployers; this number has trended up over the past decade, while employers have been relatively flat..."
There are statistics, and damned statistics. If you look at a "business" of a single person (of which there are a huge amount) and it counts the same as a business that employs 5000 people, then, yes...it is somehow posslble.
If this is what they mean, it is wildly misleading, but...perhaps not "untruthful".
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>> “WIndows 7 is fading fast” <<
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LOL!
Windows 7 is selling fast.
Machines loaded with Windows 7 sell as fast as they are put on the shelf.
The cloud is fading fast.
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link to actual survey conclusions with LOTS of cartoonist pictures, graphs, bar charts, pie charts, etc. and essentially NO description of survey methodology.
One tidbit though is that the sample size of 500 “IT Pros” was for a WORLDWIDE survey, not just U.S. Also, I wonder what an “IT Pro” is: CIOS, just some guys in bars, friends, co-workers, cab drivers, relatives or what exactly?
The whole “survey” is childish and ridiculous. Somehow I don’t think “spiceworks” is exactly going to give Gartner a run for their money.
LOL, I just finally moved off of Windows XP a week ago...and onto Windows 7! Do I feel behind the times? Hell yeah. But reality is what it is.
When you work in a large enterprise, 5,000-10,000 employees, and money is tight, and there are constantly huge IT related projects going on that have more impact and importance to a company than what people are using on their desktops, and money is tight, it isn’t hard to see what will get shoved to the background.
For IT, building and developing the support infrastructure for supporting thousands and thousands of PC’s is no small task, everything from building valid disk images for the desktop support team to the network underpinnings to support it is a major task, never mind the hardware upgrades. Many organizations (particularly in healthcare) have critical legacy applications that cannot easily be transitioned to a new OS.
In a strapped economy, jumping to a new OS in a large company is by no means a done deal because the new OS looks better and runs more reliably. The investment that has to take place in training, updating applications, the loss in productivity as people try to get acclimated to new software...it is huge.
So I agree with Swordmaker, most large companies are pretty conservative on these things, that I have seen.
SpiceWorks is the "FaceBook" of the IT industry. It's a "free" program that sells your eyeballs to advertisers. They're a joke.
This speaks a lot about how the IT world hates windows 8.
I have half a dozen machines, all running XP because that is the last system I can run the proprietary software I use for work on.
Pity, too, because I can do what I need just fine with it. The only sad part is that as I resurrect old machines to run it, I can't do a new OEM install because the verifying servers will not recognize the license (maybe the XP ones are done). I have two unopened copies I didn't get onto machines before MS shut down or I'd have them up, too.
Wow.
Who on earth did they survey?
I’m a silly valley tech exec, and we have about a 5% penetration rate of *any* Windows OS. It’s all OSX and Linux - because those work. The only people who use Windows have to, because the parent company (Merck) use Office 360. Which is nasty, btw.
Big corps play a different game, I guess.
They discontinued free support in January 2015, and will end all updates except security updates in six months. All security updates will end in 2020. Support is available on a payment per incident system, which will end someday. You can pay for "extended coverage", as well.
I agree with their assessment that the rollout rate for W10 within the first 2 years will be slightly better than it was for W7. Unlike the W7 upgrade, this one doesn't seem to require any hardware upgrades, and application compatibility so far seems very good. All the indications are that an upgrade from W7 to W10 should be much smoother than the jump from XP to W7. Add to that the free upgrade in the first year, and an increasing confidence the direction Microsoft's development has take under Sataya Natella.
Granted, we don't know what their methodology is that produced the figure of 60% within the first 2 years for W7, but as long as the same methodology is followed to measure the W10 penetration rate I think that 75% prediction might not be too far off the mark.
It might be possible to create a virtual XP machine using VirtualBox or VMware and clone it on as many boxes as you like, with no need for further XP installs.
The statement I gave you "flack" about was the statement that "no business moves that fast on a new OS. . .". I know that's just flat out wrong because I've seen it done. I don't know where you get these ideas, but that one is just plain bullshit.
“the horrific Vista experience”
I actually like my Vista. I bitched about Vista until we bought a new system with Windows 8. THAT lasted one day, and it we took it back to Best Buy. I came home and hugged my Vista laptop. Now I must upgrade Vista because it won’t update to the newer web browsers.
If I had a choice between Windows 8 and DOS, I’d pick DOS. Someone on this site referred to the “heiroglypics” of 8. Really. I hate icons, pictures, and mice. Give me words and keystrokes and let me do my job quickly instead of “cutely”. Doesn’t Microsoft understand that serious people buy computers?
Totally understand.
Nevertheless I would encourage you to migrate from Vista to Win7 when you can -- 7 is everything good about Vista without the stuff that makes you (and me) want to bitch about it, IMO. And while Vista is not yet out of time on its Windows Updates, it's less than two years before they slam the door (April 2017). Win7 has about three years of life past that.
I don’t agree or disagree with your assessment, but my question would be (going back to my earlier email):
Is that penetration rate 75% of all business PC’s being used, or 75% of all registered businesses say they are using Windows of a given version?
Because if it is 75% of all business PC units deployed on desktops, that would be simply astonishing.
If it is 75% of all registered businesses have deployed ...that could mean quite a different thing!
Absent more information about the survey methodology, we don't know. If it's the latter, and the arguments that it's wrong are being based on estimates of the former then we're comparing apples and oranges.
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