This New Year of 2025 brings with it plenty of new resolutions, aspirations, and strategic goals for people and organizations. Many of us approach the new year with plenty of anticipation for opportunities and advancements after what we experienced during 2024. For many IT organizations however, one upcoming event that will occur in October is being met with a combination of dread and resignation, as the end-of-support for Windows 10 looms on what is now the short-term horizon. Many IT organizations are starting to implement their tactical plans now for the expected massive capital expenditures, security exposures, and logistical nightmares that the migration to Windows 11 will bring, especially if the focus is on swapping out non-compatible machines for expensive new end-user devices.

At IGEL, we say “fear not” when it comes to the impending move to Windows 11. In fact, with IGEL OS, the Windows 10 end-of-support can be a highly secure, economical, and painless event for your IT team and your end-users. With IGEL, the process of migrating to Windows 11 is as simple as 1 – 2 – 3:

1. Move your Windows 10 desktops to the cloud – IGEL can help with that!
2. Replace Windows with IGEL OS on your existing endpoints
3. Migrate your desktops to Windows 11 in the cloud

With these three simple steps, you can turn the impending Windows 11 migration violent storm into a breeze for your company.

One key additional advantage gained by moving to Windows 11 in the cloud with IGEL is much stronger endpoint security. The IGEL Preventative Security Model is a comprehensive, powerful approach toward protecting your endpoint devices from cyberthreats by essentially turning them into non-targets for would-be hackers. This is achieved in multiple ways, including:

• Read-only OS keeps malware from being installed or attached to the endpoint
• No local data storage keeps potentially dangerous data off the device
• Trusted Application Platform (TPM) device integrity check keeps the endpoint tamper-proof
• Modular design shrinks the software footprint which in turn minimizes the attack surface

With IGEL, companies can turn their Windows 11 migration into a big endpoint security improvement opportunity, in addition to the potentially huge capital expenditure savings and logistical disruption avoidance of device swap-outs.

When you look at all your non-Windows 11 compatible endpoint devices that are candidates for Windows 11 migration swap-outs, you can now view them as renewable, highly capable endpoints with years left of productive operation. That further strengthens your bottom line while also contributing to your company’s sustainability posture by keeping those devices away from landfill sites. All while making your enterprise much more secure.

Still dreading this New Year’s upcoming Windows 10 end-of-support? Learn more about how IGEL can turn your fears into a calm sense of confidence here (link to Windows 11 Migration web page)

You can learn more about the IGEL Preventative Security Model here (link to Preventative Security Model page)