Microsoft Likely To See a Boost in Windows 10 Sales This New Year (fortune.com)

Because many businesses are wary of new software updates, let alone a new operating system, Microsoft could see a significant surge in Windows 10 install base and sales in the New Year. From a report on Fortune: Businesses have been slow to upgrade all of their corporate computers to the latest Windows OS in 2016, according to research by IT services and technology company Adaptiva. Adaptiva said Tuesday that based on its findings, it believes companies are going to be upgrading to the latest version in 2017. Adaptiva based its findings from a survey it conducted over the summer of 300 IT professionals at various businesses. The company said that 41% of the companies it surveyed have been avoiding the upgrade, and some "have gone so far as to actively resist the move by using software to prevent or disable Windows 10 installation." The survey didn't say why exactly companies were avoiding the upgrade, but the majority of respondents that did upgrade "rated the Windows 10 migration process to be somewhat to extremely challenging," the survey said. According to latest figures provided by Microsoft, Windows 10 is running on over 400 million devices.

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Linux

[110010001000]

This is doubtful. 2017 will be the year of desktop Linux.

Win10 is good OS that has bolted-on malware

[sinij]

Win 10 is good OS that would be quickly adopted if/when MS decided to remove or make optional bolted-on telemetry malware. Such "feature" is simply not acceptable on a non-free product.

Ummm..

[LVSlushdat]

Unless you can get Windows 10 Enterprise, your business is Microsoft's business.. Even if you "castrate" Home and Pro, they still blab your business to Microsoft. And even if you *could* completely disable the spyware aspects of 10, how do you know that MS won't come along and turn it all back on via one of its updates? If you trust MS at all, you have your head in the sand.. The only way to win with Windows 10 is to NOT PLAY.... Let the MS apologists mod me down... It HAD to be said..

Re:Ummm..

[ilsaloving]

Wow, posting AC, being a flaming asshole, AND lying through your teeth. Hat trick!

Unless you are using Windows 10 Enterprise, *you cannot disable telemetry*. Period. Not through the GUI. They even disabled the functionality in group policy.

Oh, and if you ARE using Enterprise, and disable telemetry, then Windows update won't work properly either. So Microsoft has set things up so that you are flat out fucked no matter what you do.

More Microsoft propaganda?

[OneHundredAndTen]

What's the matter with Slashdot? Why has it become a Microsoft's propaganda vehicle?

Windows 10 Is In Permanent Develmoment

[Anonymous Coward]

With past versions of Windows a business could wait until it was stable and then upgrade, but with Windows 10 it is in constant development and is never stable. Once to twice per year Microsoft is doing an Windows 10 "update", which is actually a whole new operating system download and completely new installation. It's supposed to transfer everything across, but it actually fails miserably and destroys your computer. To make matters worse the updates can remove features or settings that you use.

The constant state of flux that Windows 10 is in would create chaos in your companies IT infrastructure. Windows 10 is all about what Microsoft want with no thought at all given to the customer/user.

Plant?

[Jerry]

The unsigned article in Fortune reads like a Microsoft PR plant.
At least they took the MS PR Logo off before they republished it.