IT Life After Microsoft Ends Windows XP Support
Almost two in 10 IT pros are still unaware of issue. Aware of April 8, 2014 deadline for Windows XP support: 81%, Unaware of April 8, 2014 deadline for Windows XP support: 19%
A significant number of Windows XP computers are still operating in the enterprise. None to less than ten percent: 23%, Ten percent: 26%, Twenty to fifty percent: 27 %, Fifty to one hundred percent: 23%
Organizations with less than 50 Windows XP computers represent about half of the respondents. None: 15%, One to ten: 28%, Eleven to fifty: 24%, Fifty-one to hundred: 9%, One hundred or more: 25%
Slightly less than half will go it alone after Microsoft ends XP support. No: 53%, Yes: 48%
Many Windows XP applications don’t lend themselves to Windows 7 or 8. Compatibility with other machines: 74%, Budget and cost: 42%, Not enough time to execute migration: 22%
Vast majority of organizations intend to go it alone, without Microsoft or third-party support. Support internally: 75%, Still finalizing plan: 23%, Third-party support: 9%
Despite being a slick operating system, there is not a lot of enterprise enthusiasm for Windows 8. Windows 7: 72%, Windows 8: 14%, Undecided: 10%, Macintosh OS/X: 4%
About a quarter of organizations are looking as major system upgrades. None: 28%, Ten percent: 18%, Twenty percent: 12%, Thirty percent: 10%, Forty percent: 6%, Fifty percent or more: 27%
The retirement of Windows XP doesn’t appear to be causing many organizations to embrace desktop virtualization. Mostly physical machines: 49%, All physical machines: 39%, Mostly virtual desktop infrastructure: 12%, All virtual machines: 5%
It’ll take more than the forced retirement of an aging operating system to make that occur for most of the respondents. No: 83%, Yes: 18%