Windows 10 with more than a billion active installations

Windows 10 has now passed the billion of active installations mark. Microsoft had originally set itself the goal of reaching this number by 2018. It was not until much later that this was successful. As Microsoft reports, the operating system currently runs on more than 80,000 different device types – including desktops, laptops, convertibles as well as mixed reality headsets or IoT devices. In addition, Windows 10 is meanwhile the «most popular PC gaming platform worldwide», it says in the blog post further.-

“Reaching a billion people with Windows 10 is just the beginning,” writes the software company. The Redmond company says they want to invest not only in the PC edition of Windows 10 in the future, but also in other versions to meet the different customer needs – the group names Windows IoT, Windows 10 Teams Edition for Surface Hub, Windows as examples Server or Windows Mixed Reality on HoloLens.

For Windows 10 there was definitely another boost due to the end of support for Windows 7 in January. Because in March 2019, the US software company still communicated 800 million active Windows 10 devices. According to the statistics portal “Statista”, Microsoft’s latest operating system had a market share of 57 percent in January. Windows 7 was just under 26 percent – and was still the second most used in the operating systems. The market shares were measured using web access.

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