Windows 10 Gains Momentum In Commercial Market, Software Industry

By Christine Kern, contributing writer

Microsoft has announced that 110 million devices worldwide are running Windows 10. Recently, as a follow up to its recent study on Windows 10, Spiceworks, the professional network for IT, delved a bit deeper into the statistics to see exactly who is adopting the new platform and if its making an impact on the commercial market.

The analysis, based on 500 responses to a survey in North America and EMEA, found that Windows 10 is gaining momentum among businesses. Ten weeks after the release of Windows 10, Spiceworks found that overall Windows 10 penetration in the business environment stood at 11 percent. By comparison, this penetration rate is nearly 20 percent faster than the penetration rate of Windows 8 when it was released. The analysis also found that Windows 10 penetration rates at businesses in North America are 13 percent higher than in EMEA, 27 percent higher than in Latin America, and 41 percent higher than in the Asia-Pacific region. Also, according to Spiceworks’ June 2015 data, 40 percent of companies plan to begin rolling out Windows 10 within the first year.

Medium and large businesses are also more likely to be running Windows 10 than smaller companies. The survey found that approximately 23 percent of companies with 500 employees or more have at least one instance of Windows 10 on their networks compared to a mere 5.3 percent of organizations with less than 50 people.

And the software industry is the biggest adopter of Windows 10, with a penetration rate of 19.2 percent, or approximately 68 percent higher than the average penetration rates of the other industries combined.

Overall, Windows 10 is now the most quickly adopted OS in history, and if penetration continues at its current rate, Windows 10 will be in use on 1 billion devices within a few years. Spiceworks invites you to check in with the Spiceworks Windows 10 group for future updates regarding Windows 10 use in business.