Use Windows 7 end of life to update desktop productivity
Summary
The company hopes organisations will move beyond products such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint towards seeing Microsoft as a collaboration platform with software including Skype, Teams and the LinkedIn service. “Worldwide PC shipments growth was driven by demand from the Windows 10 refresh in the business market in the second quarter of 2019,” said Mikako Kitagawa, senior principal analyst at Gartner. But a recent YouGov digital wellbeing study for Avanade, based on a survey of 1,000 employees, found that UK companies are failing to realise the value from their workplace technology investments. Insight found that among the people who took part in the survey, workers complained of unintuitive or overly restrictive technology systems and felt they were being left without adequate training. Stanley Louw, UK and Ireland head of digital innovation at Avanade, said: “We see the workplace as the new frontier for competitive advantage and a driver of sustainable growth.