{"id":282759,"date":"2018-10-31T14:49:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T12:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=282759"},"modified":"2018-10-31T14:51:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T12:51:12","slug":"it-pros-not-upgrading-to-windows-10-anytime-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/282759-it-pros-not-upgrading-to-windows-10-anytime-soon.html","title":{"rendered":"IT pros not upgrading to Windows 10 any time soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/it-pros-not-in-a-rush-to-upgrade-to-windows-10-survey-reveals-523530.shtml\">survey by WinMagic<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>shows that 30% of IT pros don&#8217;t know when older versions of Windows will no longer be supported.<\/p>\n<p>29% of respondents were also found to be &#8220;fairly or very concerned about the migration process&#8221; to Windows 10 &#8211; with 68% of this group citing potential security breaches as their main concern.<\/p>\n<p>Only 34% of respondents had no concerns whatsoever about the migration process.<\/p>\n<p>A third of those surveyed also did not know whether they had every tool required to migrate to Windows 10.<\/p>\n<p>Windows 7 will stop being supported at the beginning of 2020, at which point only Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 will receive updates from Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The clock is ticking and if organisations don&#8217;t move fast they could find themselves scrabbling last minute to deliver a seamless and secure migration to Windows 10,&#8221; said WinMagic vice president of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, Luke Brown.<\/p>\n<p>Windows 7 is still the most popular Windows operating system for desktop PCs, although Windows 10 is close to taking over this mantle.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/280879-microsoft-adding-ability-to-delete-more-built-in-windows-10-apps.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Microsoft adding ability to delete more built-in Windows 10 apps<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>30% of IT pros don&#8217;t know when older versions of Windows will no longer be supported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":193098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[26970,5214],"class_list":["post-282759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-windows-10","tag-windows-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282767,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282759\/revisions\/282767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}