The standard technical support of Windows will end on October 14 and a good number of companies that have not arrived in time to perform migrations to Windows 11 or have not bet on alternative operating systems, They must pay billions of dollars to keep Windows 10according to the Nexthink data.
The specialized firm in IT work space management has estimated that the global cost of maintaining Windows 10 could be of the order of 7,300 million dollars only the first year. The data is obtained from the cost of acquiring the extended support program (ESU) launched by Microsoft.
Is it viable to keep Windows 10?
The end of the Windows 10 life cycle continues to cause information, controversies and controversies. Microsoft has been insisting that the best option was to use free migrations to Windows 11 to keep up. The problem is that, although companies and consumers would like to do so, there are dozens of millions of computers that They do not meet the hardware requirements imposed by Microsoft itself. In addition, Windows 11 has not achieved enough attractiveness for mass migrations, due to its instability, lack of performance, advertising or an inconsistent interface against Windows 10.
So things, Nexthink has tried to put a concrete global figure to keep Windows 10. First, you have to define the amount of commercial devices available. Microsoft said this summer that there were more than 1.4 billion active devices with Windows. According to the Nexthink analysis of customer terminals, 30% are used by organizations, private companies and public sector, which would result in 420 million business devices con Windows.
But how many use Windows 10? Microsoft does not provide official data, but according to the latest Statcounter market share data, Windows 10 had in August 45.65% market share. With this, NEXTHINK estimates that the amount of business devices that Windows 10 still used in August was approximately 181 million.
If the trend continues, it is estimated that when the technical support ends next October, there will be around 121 million PC with Windows 10 running in companies around the world. If each of them hired the extended security service, at a cost of $ 61 per device, the collective bill would be the one commented: more than 7.3 billion dollars.
It is data is, logically, approximate and It has several caveats (especially since there are no official Microsoft figures) because the exact number of quota in October and those that hire the ESU program are not known, but it is likely that the final quantities are multimillionaires.
