14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft will release Windows 10 on July 29, and the company is making big efforts to allow everyone to perform the upgrade or to install the new operating system on the same day, but it turns out that not all users want to do that immediately.
A survey conducted by research company Adaptiva at Microsoft’s Ignite conference last month shows that 71 percent of the respondents, most of them IT decision makers in organizations with more than 10,000 devices, plan to wait at least six months before installing Windows 10 on their computers.
What’s more, 49 percent said that they want to wait one year or even more after the release of the operating system.
As far as the reason that makes them push back the deployment of Windows 10, 98 percent pointed to application compatibility and time investments, 35 percent voted for user training, and 23 percent named product maturity as the decisive factor.
89 percent of the respondents were running Windows 7
As far as the current operating system of the respondents is concerned, no less than 89 percent were still running Windows 7, and 57 percent were also on Windows 7. 11 percent were still on Windows XP.
Windows 10 will be offered as a free upgrade to those on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, but enterprises are not included in the promo, so these companies will still have to pay in order to move to the new operating system.
Despite the fact that having so many companies planning to delay the move to Windows 10 for up to 12 months is terrible news for Microsoft, it’s not as bad as it seems at first glance. Adaptiva says that the survey included only 186 respondents, so it might not be so relevant for the overall picture when it comes to upgrading to Windows 10.
The new operating system will debut on July 29, so it remains to be seen if enterprises plan to accelerate their migration efforts or not in the next few weeks.