The Case For Supporting Always Up-To-Date Operating Systems

Reduce Complexity And Accelerate Your Application Release Cycle

Published November 2017

Delivering applications to enterprise customers is a perennial challenge, but software vendors face greater demands than ever as customers expect new capabilities to be delivered on a regular basis.

In May 2017, Microsoft commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate adoption and usage trends of cloud-enabled operating systems among software vendors.

Forrester conducted an online survey of 308 IT decision makers at medium to large software vendors in North America and EMEA to explore this topic.

This whitepaper discusses the survey's findings.