Windows 10 Takes the Fastest Route

According to Gartner, Fifty Percent of Enterprises Will Have Started Windows 10 Deployments by January 2017

Windows 10 is poised to become the most widely installed version of Windows ever, following on the path of Windows XP and Windows 7 before it, according to Gartner.

“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.”

Several factors are driving migration, specifically awareness of the end of support for Windows 7 in January 2020, strong compatibility with Windows 7 applications and devices, and a pent-up demand for tablet and 2-in-1 device rollouts.

Gartner made three additional endpoint technology predictions: By 2019, Organizations Will Deliver Twice as Many Applications Remotely Compared With 2015; By 2018, Touchscreens Will Be Shipped on One-Third of All Notebooks; By 2018, 30 Percent of Enterprises Will Spend More on Display Screens Than on PCs. “All of these trends portend a new employee workspace that is more mobile, more capable of working more naturally with humans, and, overall, more productive and secure. Endpoint support staff must rethink the workspace and work with suppliers to rearchitect and re-cost standards,” said Ken Dulaney, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner.”