Windows 7 is projected to arrive at the end-of-support in January 2020, and that is seen as a major catalyst either way home users that's why it pros to begin the process the transition to Windows 10.

But in keeping with a new survey conducted by Kollective and involving 260 IT decision makers in the uk and the US, this doesn't sound like a rush.

For a minimum of 43 percent using the respondents said they are just plain still running Windows 7 (in accordance with ITProPortal), which is worrying understandably when looking back at how much companies had to upgrade from Windows vista.

Microsoft pulled the plug on Windows vista on April 8, 2014, today some companies needed around five years to give up on this OS version. Therefore , there's a good chance some firms would stay within Windows 7 even if the January 2020 deadline.

"Windows XP still powering some computers"

What's more frustrating is that some 17 percent of the companies didn't realize that the support for Windows 7 is coming to an end. In January 2020, Microsoft would stop offering security updates for Windows 7, so any new vulnerability inside operating system wouldn't have any patch.

Due to isn't concerning enough, 33 percent of your companies exceeding 100,000 systems are nevertheless running Xp, the system that was launched no much less than 17 long ago.

There's a good side within the story too. The upgrade to Windows 10 is named a priority for 33 percent about the companies, which indicate that sooner or later, the alteration to the new OS would eventually start anyway.

Windows 7 carries a market share that exceeds 40 %, and Windows 10 is projected to overtake it to be remembered as the world's leading desktop OS by the end of the year. The decline, however, appears at a pace slower than originally projected.