14 DAY TRIAL // Windows 10 is projected to receive the Anniversary Update later today, and Microsoft sees this release as a key moment for the adoption growth of the new operating system, as many companies were waiting for this update in order to finally perform the upgrade.
And truth be told, enterprise usually don’t rush to move to new operating systems, but they typically wait for the first major pack of improvements, which, in this case, is this Anniversary Update landing today.
But according to a survey by Adaptiva on 300 IT professionals, the Anniversary Update isn’t quite a strong reason to move to Windows 10. And yet, 64 percent of the respondents said they planned to move to Windows 10, despite the fact that 76 percent of them admitted that the Anniversary Update wasn’t impacting the “urgency” to install the new OS.
The move to Windows 10 is “challenging”
30 percent of the IT professionals, on the other hand, explained they were waiting for the Anniversary Update, so now that it becomes available, their plans to migrate to Windows 10 will be accelerated as well.
“These survey results show that the anticipated surge in enterprise Windows 10 adoption is definitely on the horizon, and some organizations are expediting plans in light of the anniversary release,” states Jim Souders, Chief Operating Officer at Adaptiva.
“The results are consistent with the influx of questions and interest we are seeing internally from customers who are in the Windows 10 planning process, and are looking to automate their migrations with a systems management solution that saves time and deployment costs.”
Additionally, 56 percent of the IT professionals included in the survey said they used the Current Branch for Business to update systems while only 22 percent pointed to Long Term Servicing Branch, which confirms that enterprises also want to get updates as soon as possible.
A total of 52 percent of respondents claimed they wanted to move more than half of the PCs in their organizations to Windows 10 in the next year while 65 percent said they expect the transition to be “somewhat to extremely challenging.”