IT leaders scramble as Windows 10 deadline nears
News Source : Computerworld
News Summary
- When Microsoft’s regular support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, BSH Home Appliances will still have 6,000 computers that haven’t migrated to Windows 11.
- By October, all but 500 of the remaining office PCs will have been upgraded or replaced.
- “Unlike with the migration from Windows 7 to Windows 10, there was no compelling business reason to upgrade,” says Paddy Harrington, senior analyst, security and risk at Forrester.Companies also faced the opportunity cost of distracting the IT, security, networking, and application teams with a Windows 11 migration.
In such cases, IT may be able to give users a thin client OS such as the ChromeOS Flex or IGEL Secured OS or move them to Linux, which has a similar look and feel to Windows, and forgo Windows en [+1495 chars]
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