Are you budgeting for a technology refresh of your MTRs in 2025-6?
Microsoft certifications are essential to all MTRs whether they be Windows based bundles, Android Meeting Bars or Collaboration Boards.
The expiry dates for all manufacturers’ systems are listed on www.microsoft.com. You’ll find that a large number of them expire 3rd September 2025, just over 5 months from now.
Now, “End of Certification” doesn’t necessarily mean “End of Life” and security and other essential updates will still be published to expired systems for a further 2 years. However, they won’t receive feature upgrades and mix of software levels, varying functionalities and differences in user interface across your estate is not recommended, and so we urge you to budget for a technology refresh in 2025, and indeed every 3 years moving forward.
What we know already is:
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- Windows 10 will cease to be supported by Microsoft on 14th October 2025. This includes Windows 10 IoT Enterprise on MTRs.
- Windows 10, 22H2, is the current and final version of Windows 10 and is already only supported through security updates.
- So Windows 11 is essential for all PC-based MTRs moving forward
- Microsoft has published a list of Intel CPUs which support Windows 11 but most MTR customers don’t know what’s inside their systems or what else they may need, eg RAM/storage upgrades
- Most Android bars have their certifications expiring on 3rd September 2025
- We are already less than 7 months away on both counts
- Microsoft is very clear about the importance of MTRs remaining up-to-date and auto-updates NOT being switched off
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- Processor Cores will need to be 8th-Generation or later, 1GHz 64bit processor, with a minimum of 4GB memory and 64 GB disk storage
- Camera, microphones and speakers will probably be unaffected, unless you have an unsupported Android speakerphone and unless you want to benefit from new “AI tracking features”.
- Any bars or boards running less than Android 13 will cease to be MS certified. For these systems, depending on the underlying chipset, a complete swap out is likely to be needed.
- Zoom has followed Microsoft in declaring certification expiries in September 2025.
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Talk to us to determine:
- If your system hardware is capable of being upgraded to Windows 11+ or Android 13?
- If the systems you purchased in 2024/5 are equally effected.
- If we can offer a part-exchange trade in for your expiring system
- Whether the remaining term on its service contract can be transferred to a new system
VideoCentric’s “No obligation” promise.
The above offer applies regardless of whether you bought your systems from VideoCentric or not. The only difference is that our existing customers don’t need to supply us system details – we already have them.
For systems we recommend changing out in 2025, 2026 or 2027, we will offer you a budgetary quote which is non-binding on either party.
All our installations are backed by a 12 months guarantee of satisfaction.
Ongoing Technology Refresh
If you finance your technology refreshes via pay-as-you-go monthly payments, the full cost, including any reinstallation and maintenance, can be spread over 36 months and at the end of the term you simply hand the aging equipment back to be refreshed for yet another 3-year term, meaning that budgeting is automatically dealt. Most businesses are eligible for offsetting up to 25% of cost against their tax returns making it a less expensive and more easily justifiable route to acquiring the most up to date solutions on the market.
Remember we work with virtually all hardware manufacturers of Teams, Zoom, Google and Webex cloud based solutions. Our sales demo areas and technical support labs are kitted out with virtually one of every system, allowing us to remain one of the most knowledgeable and unbiased suppliers in the UK, supporting customers as fairly today as we have over the last 24 years.
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