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Enterprises Planning to Begin Pilots for Windows 10 in the First Half of 2016

Windows 10 — released by Microsoft in July this year as a part of the Windows NT family of operating systems, is described to be the “Universal” application architecture. And last week the company updated the operating system that includes a brand new management tool called, IT-level Windows 10 which will frequently update the tools of businesses automatically. Gartner, Inc. predicts that 50 percent of enterprises will have started Windows 10 deployments by January 2017.

“In the consumer market, a free upgrade coupled with broad legacy device support and automatic over-the-air upgrades ensures that there will be tens of millions of users familiar with the operating system (OS) before the end of 2015,”

Said Steve Kleynhans, research vice president at Gartner.

“For enterprises, we expect that implementation will be significantly more rapid than that seen with Windows 7 six years ago.”

The prediction is based on a significant interest that Steve Kleynhans has seen during conversations with clients about their plans. While enterprises are known for taking their time with software updates, they’re moving fast with Windows 10.

Gartner pointed out several factors that are driving Windows 10 migration:

  • Awareness of the end of support for Windows 7 in January 2020.
  • Strong compatibility with Windows 7 applications and devices.
  • A pent-up demand for tablets and 2-in-1 device rollouts.

Windows 10 for Enterprise: More secure and up to date

Enterprises have been conservative in how they adopt new operating systems for their workers’ personal computers, worried about meeting regulatory requirements and new costs to train employees when the software morphs. Corporations also usually test updates on a subset of systems before widely deploying those changes to ensure that workflow and applications do not break. Microsoft’s biggest-ever change to its update and upgrade process, that continues to keep it current via Windows Update for the supported lifetime, is integral to the firm’s “Windows as a service” strategy.

It includes enterprise-grade security, identity and information protection features, reducing complexity and providing a better experience for the modern needs of business, along with enabling devices to stay up to date with latest features. This is encouraging many enterprises to plan to begin for Windows 10 in the first half of 2016, and to broaden their deployments in the latter part of the year. Gartner expects that at least half of enterprises will have started some production deployments by the beginning of 2017, with an eye to completing their migrations in 2019.

And Microsoft claims,

“Windows 10 will be our greatest platform ever for organizations and their employees”

The free update represents the most refined version of Windows yet, and it’s jam-packed with productivity-boosting features that business users will really appreciate. We can say that Microsoft is heading towards to its ultimate goal that is to make Windows 10 the sole operating system powering all kind of devices.