I just returned to a former employer. They are still on Windows 7 Pro, and they intend to stick with it as long as possible. It’s a medium sized engineering company in Texas.
” They are still on Windows 7 Pro, and they intend to stick with it as long as possible.”
I worked for General Dynamics. They adopted Windows 7 while the rest of the world was already going to Windows 10. The reason is, a defense/government user group took that long to test it for bugs that could be exploited and get with Microsoft for solutions. Their IT manager told me that their system was assaulted around 30,000 times per day. I asked if it was the Russians or Chinese. He said, “Neither. It mostly tracks back to Berkeley.”
Once GD had to shut down worldwide IT operations because somebody was opening his private email on his system at work. A deadly bug got in and infected the entire system. So, the danger is there and it’s real. But convincing the more liberal users to follow procedures is very difficult.