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Do businesses even use windows 10? Every company I've been at has been windows 7, only one was windows 8.1 a couple of years ago.

krapp 8y ago
>Every company I've been at has been windows 7, only one was windows 8.1 a couple of years ago. How many companies are there, and how many companies have you been at?
micv 8y ago
Windows 7 is pretty close to EOL now. Companies might not have migrated off it yet, but they're going to have basically no choice in short order. I doubt Microsoft are going to suddenly change how they handle updating the OS in the next year or so -- at the end of the day, there's no real competition for the business desktop -- so I expect we all have some fun and games to look forward to.
- Reelin 8y ago
  For what it's worth, I'm a home user still on Windows 7 plus a bit of Ubuntu. When Windows 7 finally hits EOL, that's it for Windows for me. After having had the displeasure of using family members' MacOS or newer Windows devices a few times, I'm out.
m-p-3 8y ago
We switched to Windows 10 LTSB. Even the Enterprise version of Windows 10 is mostly consumer-level garbage.
- jangosister 8y ago
  LTSB is literally the best operating system I've used, it's got none of the Windows app junk that the normal version is and it's super reliable because the only updates it gets are security ones. It's a shame they don't just release that as the main branch.
mr_toad 8y ago
Numbers I’ve seen suggest it’s about 50/50, with almost no Windows 8 users. The 50% still on 7 will probably have to be dragged kicking and screaming.
- Tempest1981 8y ago
  This shows 50/37/10 (Win10/Win7/Win8.x). And 57/32/8 in the US. Win 8.1 isn’t quite dead. http://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desktop/worldwide/ http://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/deskt...
Droop 8y ago
We're migrating the last of our 7000+ computers off of 7 by December. Probably only a couple of hundred left running 7. There will be maybe a half dozen left on 7 for compatibility testing and because of legacy software. But 7 is functionally dead.

krapp 8y ago

>Every company I've been at has been windows 7, only one was windows 8.1 a couple of years ago. How many companies are there, and how many companies have you been at?

micv 8y ago

Windows 7 is pretty close to EOL now. Companies might not have migrated off it yet, but they're going to have basically no choice in short order. I doubt Microsoft are going to suddenly change how they handle updating the OS in the next year or so -- at the end of the day, there's no real competition for the business desktop -- so I expect we all have some fun and games to look forward to.

Reelin 8y ago
For what it's worth, I'm a home user still on Windows 7 plus a bit of Ubuntu. When Windows 7 finally hits EOL, that's it for Windows for me. After having had the displeasure of using family members' MacOS or newer Windows devices a few times, I'm out.

m-p-3 8y ago

We switched to Windows 10 LTSB. Even the Enterprise version of Windows 10 is mostly consumer-level garbage.

jangosister 8y ago
LTSB is literally the best operating system I've used, it's got none of the Windows app junk that the normal version is and it's super reliable because the only updates it gets are security ones. It's a shame they don't just release that as the main branch.

mr_toad 8y ago

Numbers I’ve seen suggest it’s about 50/50, with almost no Windows 8 users. The 50% still on 7 will probably have to be dragged kicking and screaming.

Tempest1981 8y ago
This shows 50/37/10 (Win10/Win7/Win8.x). And 57/32/8 in the US. Win 8.1 isn’t quite dead. http://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desktop/worldwide/ http://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/deskt...

Droop 8y ago

We're migrating the last of our 7000+ computers off of 7 by December. Probably only a couple of hundred left running 7. There will be maybe a half dozen left on 7 for compatibility testing and because of legacy software. But 7 is functionally dead.