Only 33% Of Companies Plan To Upgrade To Windows 8: Survey

[RoBoGhOsT]

Windows 8 is its biggest product in Microsoft's history and it is spending a lot on its marketing campaign showing its new features and look to its customers.

While Windows 8 has aroused a lot of interest in consumers to upgrade, companies seem less interested in making a switch to Microsoft's latest OS.

According to a survey from Forrester Research, only about 33% of the companies it surveyed plan to update to Windows 8 operating system. About 40% surveyed said they haven’t considered Windows 8 yet and 10% plan to skip it entirely.

This drop in percentage of companies planning to upgrade is staggering compared to companies that planned to upgrade to Windows 7 when it launched in 2009.

According to Wall Street Journal, “At the same point before Windows 7 was released in 2009, two-thirds of companies surveyed said they planned to migrate to Windows 7, and 28% said they hadn’t yet considered Windows 7 or planned to skip it.”

The reasons for the lack of interest in the upgrade may be due to obvious interface changes in the new OS, or it may be that companies are unwilling to spend more after spending a lot already on Windows 7 upgrade, as for office tasks like email, productivity and other normal usage, the upgrade doesn't make much sense.

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[Pseudo Admin]

It is appalling when people compare the lack in interest in Win8 with the interest in Windows 7.

It should also be noted that people wanted to move from Vista to a more polished OS. Many were still there on WinXP.

Compare that to now when everyone is well settled on Win 7 and there is no doubt a certain apprehension about the screen you boot into on Win 8.

Of course MS will push for this new OS as it will build an ecosystem of devices (phone, tablet, laptop and desktop) which once broken into can be dominated decisively. It is a brilliant business move from MS.