Corporations start testing Windows 11 in Bigger Numbers. Good luck

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Large corporations are starting to run Windows 11 pilot programs in anger, potentially helping to boost adoption of Microsoft’s latest operating system – whose popularity remains way behind its predecessor.

According to figures from Statcounter, a web analytics service that has tracking code installed on 1.5 million websites, Windows 11 was running on 16.93 percent of global PCs in December. This compares to 16.12 percent and 15.44 percent in each of the prior two months. The desktop version of Windows 10 was on 68.01 percent. Steve Kleynhans, research vice president of Digital Workplace Infrastructure and Operations at market researcher Gartner, told The Reg the numbers collated by Statcounter are in the “right ballpark” and where he’d expect them to be. “Most businesses have avoided making any substantial move to Win 11 so far, waiting for the first significant update. Now that 22H2 has shipped and we have gotten past the year end, I see a lot of enterprises planning fairly quick uptake,” he said.

“A lot of organizations are in or starting pilots this month, and planning to move new purchases over to Win 11 in the next few months once they are comfortable. Upgrades of existing systems are likely to take longer as there isn’t really a huge need until later in 2024 when the end of life for Win 10 starts looming,” Kleynhans added. Microsoft will continue to support at least one Windows 10 release until October 14, 2025, though as Reg readers know, customers can continue to pay for custom support to keep receiving patches, firmware updates and more but it gets pricier. Corporations tend to adopt a wait and see attitude before widely adopting a new OS, typically this is 12 to 18 months after launch. Consumer adoption hasn’t exactly set the world alight and some of the design choices possibly deterred folk, as did the hardware requirements.
 

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