He added, “[one could] assume that everyone would acknowledge this truth and rush to upgrade — yet global statistics tell us that Windows 11 adoption remains woefully low, surpassing the 50-50 mark only recently, and only in North America [and South America]. So, the more truthful refrain should be, if I can’t tell it’s broke, why fix it?”
Annand pointed out, “an individual consumer not upgrading from Windows 10 to Windows 11 is bad, but it has a relatively small blast radius. One person’s data is encrypted. One identity is stolen. From that consumer’s perspective, while the impact may be significant, they may be playing the odds that it won’t happen to them.”
The enterprise, on the other hand, he said, “has a much, much larger blast radius. Not only are enterprise companies more likely to be targeted by malicious actors because of their deeper pockets, but a compromise of a single PC can cascade into facilitating the compromise of thousands of PCs.”
This story originally appeared on Computerworld
