Posted on 11/06/2015 8:53:04 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Microsoft has announced that 120 million devices worldwide are running Windows 10. Recently, as a follow up to its recent study on Windows 10, Spiceworks, the professional network for IT, delved a bit deeper into the statistics to see exactly who is adopting the new platform and if its making an impact on the commercial market.
The analysis, based on 500 responses to a survey in North America and EMEA, found that Windows 10 is gaining momentum among businesses. Ten weeks after the release of Windows 10, Spiceworks found that overall Windows 10 penetration in the business environment stood at 11 percent. By comparison, this penetration rate is nearly 20 percent faster than the penetration rate of Windows 8 when it was released. The analysis also found that Windows 10 penetration rates at businesses in North America are 13 percent higher than in EMEA, 27 percent higher than in Latin America, and 41 percent higher than in the Asia-Pacific region. Also, according to Spiceworks’ June 2015 data, 40 percent of companies plan to begin rolling out Windows 10 within the first year.
Medium and large businesses are also more likely to be running Windows 10 than smaller companies. The survey found that approximately 23 percent of companies with 500 employees or more have at least one instance of Windows 10 on their networks compared to a mere 5.3 percent of organizations with less than 50 people.
And the software industry is the biggest adopter of Windows 10, with a penetration rate of 19.2 percent, or approximately 68 percent higher than the average penetration rates of the other industries combined.
Overall, Windows 10 is now the most quickly adopted OS in history, and if penetration continues at its current rate, Windows 10 will be in use on 1 billion devices within a few years. Spiceworks invites you to check in with the Spiceworks Windows 10 group for future updates regarding Windows 10 use in business.
Windows 10 gains momentum?? The automatic “forced” upgrades must have kicked in earlier than advertised.
Not surprising.
1) It’s the first time they’ve given it away for free.
2) It’s the first time they’ve been willing to hack into your computer and “upgrade” you almost without your knowledge or consent.
Windows 10 looks tempting, but I’m not sure I am willing to install this Microsoft spyware.
Since it took my company nearly 3 years to convert from XP to Windows 7, I can’t seem them converting to Windows 10 in any less time. Windows 10 would have to tested with 14,000 applications, and then installed on 260,000 PCs.
On a positive note: there will be a lot more customers to beta-test their software so all of the bugs should be known by the time they release version 11. Notice that I didn't say fixed.
MS also does a dishonest thing in counting upgrade numbers that may not apply in this case. When they field a new OS nobody wants, they eventually relent and include rights to “downgrade” to a previous (and better) version. Witness Win8 and 7 install rights. And that does help move the systems and licenses. BUT....let’s say that someone’s offering a machine for which they bought a Win8 license, but which you’re willing to purchase because they’ve already “downgraded” it to Win7. It shows up, it has Win7, and you’re happy, but MicroTruth still counts that as a Win8 adoption, since it was theoretically a Win8 license they sold to the PC maker.
If you force a user to get it.
RE: If you force a user to get it.
If they force you, tell them you’re switching to another OS.
What the heck, it was free.
RE: MS also does a dishonest thing in counting upgrade numbers that may not apply in this case.
The only thing is this article cites a SURVEY of businesses. Unless those responding are mostly lying, I think the article is true regarding adoption rate.
RE: What the heck, it was free.
So, these businesses are going to regret adopting Windows 10 later? Who does IT for them?
They structured it that way, it isn’t like hardly anyone said “oh hey,,,,ive got to go buy that Windows 10!”.
They try to make it sound like everyone was lining up outside to get it.
Well, like I said, I’m not even sure the circumstances under which that scenario exists are present in the W10 rollout; it’s not intended as a comment on this article per se, it’s just a pet peeve of mine with MS and cited adoption rates in general.
I can’t imagine a company with an IT department moving to 10 this early.
I put together a pc for my relative and it had Windows 7 on it. I then installed Windows 10 and telling them they could easily remove it within 30 days if they did not like it. Microsoft execs recently admit that they are spying and that you could not block them (not exact words).
I uninstalled Windows 10.
What a crock.
The companies are not doing this adoption in one big bang. They are doing it slowly and incrementally.
According to the article:
“The survey found that approximately 23 percent of companies with 500 employees or more have at least one instance of Windows 10 on their networks compared to a mere 5.3 percent of organizations with less than 50 people.”
I’m not a fan of Microsoft but I was happy with Windows 7. Eventually curiosity about Windows 10 got the best of me and I installed it on an old Dell desktop and an old ThinkPad. I was surprised when they both ran like new. After a month or so I installed Windows 10 on my new ASUS box. I have no complaints and as far as the spying goes I figure someone somewhere is spying all the time anyway. What the hell — it’s free and I have nothing to hide.
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