Posted on 02/02/2016 9:32:16 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Windows 10 is already seeing early signs of success in the enterprise field, as more and more companies are looking at the new operating system and evaluating a possible upgrade in the coming months.
That’s what research firm Gartner explains when looking at adoption figures in the enterprise field for both Windows 10 and Windows 7, saying that the new OS easily outclasses its predecessors.
Gartner analyst Steve Kleynhans has told CW in an interview that the enterprise market has changed the way it prepares for upgrades now that Windows 10 is available, asking questions that are more related to the way of deploying the OS rather than the changes it brings and why they should upgrade.
“The level of interest expressed by our customer base, the type of questions they asking, indicates a much more rapid shift to Windows 10 than any previous operating system,” Kleynhans is quoted as saying. “Here we have seen that compressed, to about nine months. [Enterprises] are already asking 'How should we do it?' and 'How are others' pilots doing?’”
Enterprises still see Windows 10 as a rather new product, as the original platform launched in July 2015 was considered to be unfinished and stable. So the November Update, also labeled as 1511, is the one that improved the performance of Windows 10 to a point that makes the platform much more appealing to enterprises.
“From an enterprise standpoint, Windows 10 wasn't complete or stable until about eight weeks ago. So from their perspective, the OS is only a couple of months old,” the analyst adds.
According to Microsoft’s very own statements, Windows 10 was running in early January on 200 million devices across the world, with 22 million of these being used by enterprises.
Analysts expect 2016 to be the year of enterprises in the Windows 10 world, but for the moment, the majority of businesses and organizations are only evaluating and piloting the operating system, so the wave of migration is yet to start.
Yep, just like govt, “Trust us, we’re from Microsoft. We’ve looked into it ourselves and found nothing wrong.”
Yep, changing that settling today may work, but another feature/patch may change it w/out your knowledge (or you clicking the other 20+ ‘OK’ confirmations).
Sorry, I don’t trust anything that’s plugged into the ‘net and has reporting ‘features’ turned ON by default.
Then I recommend you return to your cave, unplug the internet, and wait quietly for the black helicopters.
I’d expect that to work. I haven’t tried it (I don’t have a copy of office 2003) so can’t say for sure.
[[Some people do that and are happy, others get frustrated, usually some app they need and can’t run there]]
I tried running several flavors of Linux and my gosh- I ran into one problem after another that took forever to find solutions to online (the tech on Linux is either way over my head, or very sparse for the specific problems I was having- could not get wine working right- missing files, this that and the other thing- reminded me of the early windows days- couldn’t get hardware to work right etc- it was a bloody nightmare- I thought that I’d had enough of that back in early windows- so will stick with windows 7 as everything I throw at it just works basically- and there’s tons of online resources if something doesn’t-
[[No system is perfect, but hopefully from this you get the sense that customer privacy is important at Microsoft.]]
Sorry- but gathering the info in the first place exposes the user’s info to threats- just look at all the companies who took privacy seriously who got compromised, SS, Target, Home Depot, etc etc etc-
It’s like the online ‘security suite’ company that advertised relentlessly about ‘securing your computer’- people went with htem in droves thinking they were making hteir computers safer- Bzzzzt- the company got hacked- and the bottom lien is they got hacked because they were a huge target Database of specific information that hackers were looking for-
Not saying that will happen- just that it’s adding another layer of vulnerability to an already vulnerable situation- them ore layers, the more can go wrong
This information gathering happens every time you log onto the internet. Use Google search? They have info on what you searched. How come you’re not in a panic over that?
[[Use Google search? They have info on what you searched.]]
No I don’t and haven’t for years for that very reason and I’ve done all the ‘do not track’ crap that needs to be done, and blacklists’ ‘white-lists’ etc and opt outs- necessary for other sites such as Yahoo or whatever- the point being that we do what we can to cut down on this crap- not add to it- and not be forced into it- them ore companies that force it upon you, them ore potential for compromise because more companies own your info- I stand by my previous points as well-
If you like to be spied on, then get Windows 10.
My next computer will be an Apple or Linux.
I’m done with Microsoft.
Apple’s Siri DOES THE EXACT SAME THING - sends search queries to the cloud. Use Google, Yahoo, Bing, Dogpile? Same thing - search queries in the cloud.
Then wha search engine do you use?
How’s the saying go, Just because you’re paranoid...
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