From TechnoBuffalo:
Windows 10 might be a nice upgrade for most PC users—especially when it was free—but many just aren't interested in it. Businesses especially are avoiding Microsoft's latest operating system, according to new data.
Softchoice, which has obtained data from the TechCheck IT asset management service that is supplied to 169 firms in the U.S. running over 400,000 Windows machines, has found that only 0.75 percent of businesses are currently running Windows 10.
That's right—not even a full percentage of businesses are running Windows 10 more than a year after its release.
Windows 7 is still used by 91 percent of enterprise customers, according to Softchoice, and that percentage continues to grow. It's actually up 18 percent since the same time last year. Windows 8 is currently being used by 4 percent of businesses.
"It seems businesses don't see an urgent need to move operating systems, so long as their cloud-based applications are still running fine on Windows 7," said Craig McQueen, director of the Microsoft Practice at Softchoice.
However, McQueen does believe that Windows 10 will see a boost in adoption once organizations begin to "grasp the user benefits," such as improved touch interaction, greater security, and baked-in Cortana.
User benefits? Touch interaction doesn't work on desktops and Cortana was the first thing the organization blocked as part of Group Policy at my place of employment!
In addition, after a very poorly executed pilot program and a rush to get new machines into the hands of the users, nearly all of the machines that went out imaged with Windows 10 when I was first brought on board for this refresh project have now come back in to be reimaged with Windows 7. The users hate it, and a lot of home-baked mission-critical applications aren't compatible.
Maybe someone should've looked into that before we rolled out all those machines?
My Aunt's laptop upgraded itself to Win 10 without her approval and I had to help her fix things, even with a move from Win 8. I've hated everything I've seen of Win 8 and Win 10. I don't want anything to do with Win 10, and Microsoft is doing everything in their power to try to get my machine to upgrade on its own from Win 7, to the point of auto-scheduling an upgrade so many times that I had to come up with ways to cancel just made me more clear that I want absolutely nothing to do with Win 10.