Survey : Majority PCs in enterprise not Windows 11 compatible

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https://www.lansweeper.com/itam/is-your-business-ready-for-windows-11/

Since Microsoft announced Windows 11, IT teams in large enterprises have been under pressure to devise a plan of attack. To roll out the new OS, they’ll need a quick and cost-effective Windows 11 readiness check to identify machines that are eligible — and ineligible — for the upgrade. Our research shows that over 55% of workstations are not capable of being upgraded.
Lansweeper data based on an estimated 30 million Windows devices from 60,000 organizations reveals that on average, only 44.4% of the workstations are eligible to receive the automatic upgrade, while the rest would be ineligible. …

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Besides having a lot of computers ineligible to run Win 11, it is also a bit too early to make estimates of adoption of a new and not yet fully tested in practice OS —  without first hearing enough good reports from enough sources about using it — by big businesses and the government. That are usually fairly conservative about rushing to install any new shiny thing that is dangled in front of their collective eyes, to make their collective mouths water or, alternatively, to hypnotize them in order to leave them with a post-hypnotic suggestion to install!, install!, install!

At least, that has been my experience when working for the government. I am guessing that it may be the same at large business corporations.

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I retired from a Fortune 500 Mining company.  They upgraded from Windows NT to Windows 7 to Windows 10.  The Windows 10 upgrade was made with new hardware in 2020.  They follow their own timetable for hardware and software upgrades, and it is done jointly.  They have never upgraded the OS on older hardware.

I doubt very seriously that they are even looking at Windows 11 yet.

Always create a fresh drive image before making system changes/Windows updates; you may need to start over!

We all have our own reasons for doing the things that we do with our systems; we don't need anyone's approval, and we don't all have to do the same things.

We were all once "Average Users".

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My experience of the situation points to the way software is handled “in the field”.

When I was dealing with various retail customers, if the machine was not in “ex factory” condition (usually as the hard disk had failed or had been replaced with a SSD in the field), then it was very likely reinstalled as a flat MBR installation as that’s what Microsoft’s media creates when given a blank disk and no other instruction (and it was still that way the last time I tried it at 1909), which means the machine will fail as even if it’s UEFI capable and has a TPM it won’t pass muster boot security wise.

This caused so many complaints of “slow machines” when we took such machines on, we took opportunity to correct the problem where it was found.

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The used PC market will be interesting, as Win 11 depresses the value of systems that are not eligible for Win 11.  There’s going to be a whole lot of relatively capable machines, some older, some newer, that will be good enough to run anything, except Win 11.  

I’m personally surprised at the callousness and insensitive way MS is doing this.  They are angering nearly all segments of their user base: business, school, government, home, ethusiasts, and gamer.  Win 11 isn’t making very many friends, if any.  Worse than Vista’s rollout? A strong maybe.

• Millions of computers sent to e-Waste and landfills
• Forcing people into new machines in the middle of a global chip shortage
• Angering home-built and gamer users as many of their PC’s don’t meet Win 11 standards
• Exotic, hardly used Win 11 security features that are seen to be a weak smokescreen for MS true goals: profits for itself, and profits for its OEM partners (HP, Dell, etc.)
• MS stubborn insistence on new requirements and privacy invasions, without a persuasive argument as to “Why? Why should I do this?”
• Breaking a very public promise that many relied on: Win 10 is the last version of Win.

 

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TaskForce141:  Such remarkable multiple hits at Redmond in one single broad swipe! Someone high on something really good up there, right?

Ex-Windows user (Win. 98, XP, 7); since mid-2017 using also macOS. Presently on Monterey 12.15 & sometimes running also Linux (Mint).

MacBook Pro circa mid-2015, 15" display, with 16GB 1600 GHz DDR3 RAM, 1 TB SSD, a Haswell architecture Intel CPU with 4 Cores and 8 Threads model i7-4870HQ @ 2.50GHz.
Intel Iris Pro GPU with Built-in Bus, VRAM 1.5 GB, Display 2880 x 1800 Retina, 24-Bit color.
macOS Monterey; browsers: Waterfox "Current", Vivaldi and (now and then) Chrome; security apps. Intego AV

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TaskForce141 wrote:

MS stubborn insistence on new requirements and privacy invasions, without a persuasive argument as to “Why? Why should I do this?”

What are the new privacy invasions?

TaskForce141 wrote:

Breaking a very public promise that many relied on: Win 10 is the last version of Win.

That was never a promise (just a comment by a single Microsoft employee).

But how exactly did many rely on it?

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The ratio is probably worse on home systems. We have five PCs/laptops in our house. Only one is Windows 11 compatible. It will be interesting to see adoption rates.

The sad thing is Windows 11 seems more oriented toward business users. Frankly, as a home user I see no need to upgrade just one PC, especially since all my other PCs are stuck in the Windows 10 era permanently.

WTG Microsoft.

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