Intra2net study shows: 21% of Microsoft Office packages are used in small companies without being updated. Every fifth company in Germany uses Office packages for which security updates are no longer offered.
That is one of the results of this year's SME study by Intra2net. The groupware and security provider evaluated the data from more than 1.500 PC workstations in over 100 companies with 10 to 49 employees. Only companies without Hosted Exchange or Microsoft Office 365 were taken into account.
Older Microsoft Office versions have a 21% market share
The figures from the Intra2net study from March 2021 show that Office 2010 is still used on 17% and Office 2007 on 4% of the jobs in the SME segment. For the two Office versions that are more than ten years old, the end date of the extended manufacturer support has long passed. Microsoft is no longer providing security updates.
Sharp increase in the use of Office 2019
Small companies migrating from the older Office versions switch directly to Office 2019. Based on an 8% market share in the 2020 SME study, the latest Office package was able to increase its share significantly to 24%. In the same period, the use of Office 2010 decreased from 31% to 17%.
Microsoft Office 2016 with 37% market share
The most used version remains Office 2016 with a 37% market share, this is growing slightly by 3% compared to the previous year. Office 18 is still used in 2013% of companies.
"After the end of support for Office 2010, every fifth small company will be using Microsoft Office packages without security updates," says Steffen Jarosch, CEO of Intra2net AG. “In addition to the office migration, the hafnium cyber attacks also raised the question of the security of Microsoft Exchange. For small companies that want to continue to operate groupware systems on-premises, the Intra2net Business Server can be an alternative here, with which patch management in particular can be simplified. "
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Intra2001net AG has specialized in security and groupware solutions since 2. These offer companies effective protection for their network and support people in working together in a team. Customers include over 5.000 small and medium-sized companies.