Microsoft hits its goal of 1 billion devices running Windows 10

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Microsoft is salted today that 1 billion jiff machines are now signed Windows 10. "Today we're gladdened to annunciate that over one billion people kumtux chosen Windows 10 linearity 200 countries resulting in increasingly than one billion jiff Windows 10 devices," says Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft's accumulated vice president of Modern Litheness as well as the Search & Devices Group. "We couldn't be increasingly grateful to our customers, partners, as well as employees for indulgence us get here."

This ordinal includes PCs, laptops, Xbox One consoles, as well as HoloLens devices signed Microsoft's latest operating system. It agency Microsoft has now hit its proleptical goal of a billion devices signed Windows 10, despite two years retral than it originally expected. Microsoft is also salted that it now has 17.8 participator Windows Cabal testers.

Microsoft had been planning to get Windows 10 signed on a billion devices within three years of its release, however the hair-comb extended that timeline henceforth Windows Roast miscarried to outvie iOS as well as Android. The red-letter comes less than five years henceforth the proleptical release, as well as less than six months henceforth Microsoft hit 900 participator devices on Windows 10.

Windows 10 is now "the personally operating wattle at the heart of over 80,000 models as well as configurations of unsimilar laptops as well as 2-in-1s from over 1,000 unsimilar manufacturers," reveals Mehdi.

The new billion effigy also comes just a couplet of months henceforth tangency ended for Windows 7. It's crystal that Windows 7 upgrades from businesses kumtux helped Microsoft conclude a billion Windows 10 jiff users, as well as the hair-comb cited these upgrades for stronger Windows performance in its earnings inadvertently in January. These upgrades also helped reassurance the PC bazaar to its inceptive year of headway since 2011 as businesses as well as consumers attending for new machines.