Posted on 09/28/2015 1:50:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Released on July 29, Windows 10 has reportedly surpassed the 100 million installs milestone, sometime last week.
Microsoft released the new operating system version as a free upgrade to Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 users and saw the adoption rate spiking through the first few weeks. While sluggish in the later days, Windows 10 has finally passed the 100 million mark last week, according to sources. We already saw reports of the operating system reaching 75 million and then 81 million downloads earlier this month. Citing unnamed sources, reports are now claiming that the OS has finally reached the 100 million installation milestone, last week.
This is only a start for the company as Microsoft has just announced its partnership with Baidu, Chinese tech giant. By dropping its own Bing search engine and replacing it with Baidu in China, Microsoft aims to drive Windows 10 sales and offer a localized experience to the Chinese users. The Microsoft-Baidu partnership will definitely see the new operating system reaching more milestones in the coming months thanks to millions of Windows users in the country.
Additionally, Microsoft is expected to release first non-patch update to Windows 10 that will help the new operating system get more polished, stable and will also squash bugs and compatibility issues. Having some users staying away from the new Windows thanks to early troubles that have kept appearing since the release in July, the expected October update (earlier slated for November) could lure in this segment that has been waiting for smoother performance of the OS.
Success in China, updates to the operating system, and finally release of new products running Windows 10, including the highly anticipated Surface Pro 4, will drive the adoption rate even further for the Windows 10. Microsoft aims to bring Windows 10 to over 1 billion devices in the next three years. With 10% of that goal already achieved, Windows 10 is definitely off to a good start. The company is, however, yet to announce the 100 million installations milestone as its official statistics still list 75 million Windows 10 downloads. If reports are true, it wouldn’t take Redmond long to announce the new milestone this week.
So far I’m OK with it. I upgraded from 8.1, but I’m not sure I would have if I had 7.
I’m not impressed with this 100 Million installation mark. It’s FREE, of course people are going to install it.
I’d like to see what happens when the subsequent “Please pay for your next upgrade” comes along.
I’ll stick with 7 on my Windows machines.
100 million people willing to abandon more privacy.
RE: 100 million people willing to abandon more privacy.
Microsoft finally addressed that concern.
See here:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3342213/posts
If thats what you call it...
And the 99,999,999th deinstallation. Seriously, it screwed my PC up so bad I had no option but to uninstall it.
Windows 10, 100,000,000 and counting ping!!!
How many of those installations have reverted to the previous OS?
“It’s FREE, of course people are going to install it.”
There were lots of people that were confident that no one would....because it’s Windows and everyone hates windows according to the internet.
“I’d like to see what happens when the subsequent “Please pay for your next upgrade” comes along”
Some will. Some wont. No different than anything else.
Adults that aren’t retards have a time period to get an OS for no cost. If you sit that out, then oh well!
“How many of those installations have reverted to the previous OS?”
According to internet wishful thinking? All of them + 100 million installed Linux, 600 million installed XP, and 40 billion bought Macs.
“I’ll stick with 7 on my Windows machines”.
Same here.
I have windows 7 Professional and love it. I used to have 8.1 and when I got a new machine it came with 7 Pro. What benefit is it to upgrade to 10? I hated 8.1/. Can anyone answer that for me.
-— I hated 8.1/. Can anyone answer that for me. -—
Works great on a laptop, touchscreen laptop and especially for multimedia.
If you work on a workstation all day, it has no advantages that I can think of.
But they were looking for an integrated experience across all devices. I have a desktop, touchscreen laptop and Windows phone, and I love the consistent experience
I upgraded a W7 eight year old dell laptop and a new W8.1 dell laptop.
Had to fiddle with sound settings on the W7 and it will not play some newer game graphics.
W8 had a few little oddities. File History broke and there were unfound file errors in Back up and Restore which I had to resolve
Overall happy with W10
I have a smaller Celeron based notebook with 4G of ram.
I loved 7 pro, and did not like 8.1pro until I purchased a replacement start menu app (start is back dot com) that booted straight into the desktop. I loved 8.1 then, it was faster than Win 7 and everything worked.
Windows 10Pro? I am still on the fence. It is a memory hog, well part of it is. I am constantly running out of memory where before I never had. I am hoping it gets better over time. The touch screen is useful but I generally forget I have it. If you love Win 7. I would keep it. Though I would make an image of it, and download, install 10 and activate it for free. Then I would reinstall my 7 image, keeping my activation code for Win 10 for a time when it is better.
Note this is an under powered machine.....
I’m busy loading my favorite Win Apps in either a VirtualBox Win dist (XPP and/or Win7) or to run using WINE. Free at Last, Free at Last. Plus my Linux machine takes 4 sec to shut down.
..changes to subscription based....or else reverts to your old op sys...
I absolutely detested 8.1. I’m not unhappy with 10.
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