Are we going to have one of these articles on Windows 11 adoption every week until October?!
Windows 11 adoption picking up speed, but older sibling still ahead
There has been a clear uptick in the adoption of Windows 11 as enterprises migrate PC fleets ahead of the end of support date for Windows 10. The Statcounter market share figures confirm the OS - launched more than forty months ago - remains in second spot yet the direction of travel is obvious. Windows 10 still accounts for …
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Monday 3rd March 2025 15:59 GMT ComicalEngineer
Win 11 offers me nothing that Win10 doesn't have.
In fact, I find the interface obstructive, and the inability to have the taskbar on the left of the screen downright annoying, and the amount of spyware that has to be turned off an intrusion never mind the even more annoying adverts.
There is no killer app or other significant reason to move to 11 other than M$ hammering on about end of support".
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Monday 3rd March 2025 19:33 GMT ecofeco
Corporate upgrades are kicking in
I'm on a large upgrade roll out right now. Many thousands of users. Should be done by the end of the year.
This is the ONLY reason I spent time getting used to Win 11. Because it pays my bills. If I could find a Linux support job in my region, I would be done with M$ forever.
But Win 11 is by far the worst since Millennium.
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Tuesday 4th March 2025 15:02 GMT Ball boy
These import tarrifs will affect minds
Let's see: if a business needs to replace a desktop because the current one fails to meet the W11 requirements then they'll be spending some $1000 on new hardware. That bill is about to go up by $100 or so to cover the tariffs. Maybe this trading war will sort itself out in six months or so, maybe it won't - but buying a years' worth of W10 support seems like a sensible low cost option. As a maintenance fee, it also comes out of OpEx rather than CapEx so it keeps the beancounters happy, which in turn, may well reflect in the CEO's bonus.
Sure, W11 offers desktop AI - but that's still very much in development (I'm being polite) so there's no huge risk in holding off on that roll-out right now. Even if the biz. has grand plans to run AI on a corporate scale to help with design, call-screening, etc, etc, it'll be server/cloud based so the toy version W11 offers still isn't required. Other than planned replacements (dead/dying hardware, etc), I see no compelling reason to upgrade to W11 across an entire business unless there are external forces such as incompatibility with a key business application.