Vipin Gupta, CTO at Starbucks India, also raises the issues of hardware and application compatibility. But this migration will be much faster than the Windows 7 migration that we have witnessed in the past in India.” Challenges ahead “Enterprises will take their time to complete this diligence before migrating their employees to the new OS. “Usually, it’s the consumer and SMB segments who adopt these upgrades quickly,” he says. However, companies are cautious, and will want to make a checklist to test the compatibility of the final version with their existing applications before planning for a company-wide upgrade. Hence, it is expected that a greater segment that is using Windows 10 would like to go for this upgrade.” Microsoft intends to upgrade them smoothly to the next version without impacting their routine. Jaipal Singh, IDC’s research manager for client devices, says, “Windows 11 is going to be a free upgrade to all users who are using a Windows 10 PC or buying a PC before the official launch of Windows 11 to customers. We can expect the IT and developer community to join in, bringing out value-added services on top to enhance the end-user experience, be it software, services or training on the new software and technologies.” Peeush Bajpai, CEO of enterprise IT training provider Springpeople, says, “Software adoption among people working in the IT industry has always been rapid and high. What influences software adoption in India?īroad industry support is one factor. The Indian IT landscape presents some interesting challenges when it comes to rolling out a new operating system, with the IT and IT-enabled services industries often at the forefront of adoption, and others more likely to stick with older technologies and hardware. It took until April 2019 for Windows 10 to overtake Windows 7 in India, whereas the same landmark was passed in December 2016 in the US, just 17 months after launch. Windows adoption has always been much slower in India: Windows XP took much longer to go away, Vista hardly ever arrived, and Windows 10’s arrival, like that of 7 before it, was much smoother and more spread out.
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