30% of companies won’t upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10

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Updated onOctober 4, 2023

updated onOctober 4, 2023

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Microsoft plans toend Windows 7 supporton January 14, 2020. The company advisedWindows 7users to upgrade toWindows 10as soon as possible mainly for security reasons.

Many individual users have alreadyupgraded to Windows 10. As of now, Windows 10 is indeed the most popularoperating systemin the world, surpassing Windows 7’s market share. However, migration isstill a big challengeforbusinessusers. Althoughbusinessusers have started to upgrade, they are still moving at a slow pace.

A study conducted by security company 1E suggests that approximately two-thirds of thebusinessmachines have upgraded toWindows 10.

Still,businessesneed to migrate the rest of the machines within the next six months.

Those who want to stick toWindows 7will pay ahandsome amount for the extended supporton a per device basis.

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Data security is a major concern for businesses

Today,businessesare more concerned about security as compared to the past. Around 9/10businesseswho participated in the survey believe thatsecurity is a major factorthese days.

It is worth mentioning that IT admins admitted they don’t have control over half of the machines in their network. They might face problems while accessing those machines that are remotely accessing their network.

A main obstacle to the transition appears to be the growth in remote work, which 77% agree is creating security concerns specifically around the challenge of updates. The extraordinarily high rates of concern around the energy sector for remote work (92%) are unsurprising, since, from oil rigs to oil fields, from tankers to trucks, it has long been an intrinsically ‘remote’ industry.

Keep in mind thatWindows 10has some drawbacks as well. Microsoft is still working on improving theOSand users need to deal with plenty of issues every now and then. Therefore, IT admins need to spend part of their time testing new patches before rolling them to PCs.

However, the security advantages offered by Windows 10 are worth any upgrade issues. After all, let us not forget that Windows 7 actuallyfacilitated the spread of the Wannacry ransomware. For businesses and organizations, it is much easier to carefully plan the upgrade than deal with the after effects of a ransomware or malware attack. In both cases, companies and organizations have to shell out money out of their pockets to fix the problem.

Do you think that businesses will overcome theWindows 10upgrade challenge? Share your opinions and thoughts in the comments section below.

30% of companies won’t upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10#

Data security is a major concern for businesses#

30% of companies won’t upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10

Data security is a major concern for businesses