All computers will be upgraded by 2018, the firm says

Jun 30, 2017 07:09 GMT  ·  By

If you’ve never heard of Accenture, let us put it this way. This is the company that more or less backed Microsoft in the LiMux saga, conducting a research commissioned by German authorities that eventually convinced them to abandon Linux and move to Windows.

Accenture is also the consulting firm that went all-in on Microsoft software, and now the company is preparing the transition to Windows 10 for no less than 400,000 computers.

In an announcement today, Microsoft reveals that Accenture aims to complete the upgrade to Windows 10 for all its computers by 2018 after previously kicking off a pilot program in September 2015. Accenture first wanted to determine whether all of its business applications are compatible with the new OS, and once validation was complete, they started the initial deployment.

Accenture owning the largest OneDrive account out there

“First, they upgraded all new PCs with Windows 10 and provided a manual upgrade option for early adopters. The second deployment began in August 2016, which addressed existing PCs running Windows 7 and allowed employees to utilize an In-Place Upgrade tool and process that uses OneDrive for file distribution to perform a Windows 10 upgrade,” Microsoft explains.

Accenture is betting big not only on Windows 10, but also on other Microsoft solutions. At this point, for example, the company has the biggest OneDrive account with over 6 petabites stored in the cloud.

Windows 10 is definitely growing at a fast speed, and partnerships like this certainly help Microsoft achieve its goal of bringing the OS on 1 billion devices by the end of FY2014. The most recent statistics revealed that Windows 10 was running on nearly 500,000 computers, but with more enterprises now completing the piloting phase and getting ready to migrate all their systems to the new OS, these figures are likely to skyrocket in the coming months.