Only 44.4 percent of company PCs are ready for an automatic upgrade, and less than two percent have already upgraded, Lansweeper said. However, there is a solid nuance because Windows 11 often pops up outside the company walls.
According to Lansweeper, 55 percent of corporate PCs can’t automatically upgrade to Windows 11. The main problem is with the correct CPU (55.6 percent is not sufficient) or with the need for TPM. About 19 percent failed the test, and 28 percent were incompatible or not enabled.
That in itself is not a huge surprise because Windows 11 has very specific system requirements and was announced very last minute. Therefore, many hardware makers have started late with systems that are fully compatible with Windows 11, and it will take a while before they also show up in the office.
But the most notable figure in Lansweeper’s research is that Windows 11 appears on just 1.44 percent of devices. Three months ago, this was only half a percent. That deserves some nuance and is actually not representative.
Lansweeper gets its data from about thirty million devices in sixty thousand companies, presumably, companies that use Lansweeper. It concludes from this that today 80.34 of the devices run on Windows 10 and 4.7 percent on Windows 7, which is no longer supported. Even Windows 8 (1.99 percent) and Windows XP (1.71 percent) outperform Windows 11.
The main nuance here is that they are numbers from corporate environments. Although Windows 11 has been available for half a year, IT departments traditionally always wait a while before migrating to a new operating system en masse. This is because they want to make sure that the new system is mature enough and that all their own software runs smoothly on the new OS before everyone upgrades.
Historically, the big waves of upgrades in business only started once there was a first Service Pack (a major update that came out after 1-2 years with Windows XP, among others).
