New knowledge from Lansweeper has uncovered simply what number of companies are nonetheless utilizing Home windows 10, or extra exactly, what number of are refusing to just accept the newest OS, Home windows 11.

Regardless of promising rises within the OS’s adoption in latest months (Statcounter has it that 23.1% of all Home windows installs are of Home windows 11 as of April 2023, up from 8.9% the 12 months earlier than), Home windows 10 nonetheless makes up 71.4% of all installs.

Slim that search all the way down to companies and Lansweeper reckons 80% of companies proceed to make use of Home windows 10, regardless of the announcement that it’s going to have help minimize from October 2025.

Companies nonetheless want Home windows 10

Present figures recommend that 5.5% of suitable enterprise units are working Home windows 11, up from 2.6% over the course of round six months.

With that being mentioned, the risk that Home windows 10 will quickly lose its help has received IT leaders underneath rising stress to refresh their methods, whether or not that’s rolling out OS upgrades, issuing new and suitable {hardware}, or a mix of the 2.

Extra alarming is the truth that a mixed 4.3% of companies are nonetheless working both Home windows 7 or Home windows 8, each of which have reached finish of life, with an additional 1.22% preferring Vista, XP, or Home windows 2000.

Lansweeper Senior Technical Product Evangelist, Esben Dochy, explains the size of the issue:

“For enterprises with thousands of Windows machines, preparing for the Windows 11 upgrade is going to be a massive task if they don’t have automation in place – and even worse without an up-to-date IT asset inventory.”

Whereas Home windows 11 upgrades could also be free, Lansweeper’s research discovered that 42.7% of workstations don’t meet the CPU necessities for the OS with a choose handful additionally not passing the RAM check, indicating the necessity for brand spanking new {hardware} throughout a time of elevated prices and lowered spending.

Some corporations have been holding again to be able to wait for his or her favourite workplace software program to work glitch-free on the newest working system, however with time ticking, now could possibly be the time for a mass improve.