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Posted on 05/10/2017 4:34:07 PM PDT by dayglored
Microsoft is announcing today that 500 million active machines are now running Windows 10. The latest statistic comes almost 8 months after the company revealed 400 million devices were running Windows 10. Microsoft revealed its latest Windows 10 figures just as the software maker starts its Build developer event in Seattle today.
Microsoft had originally claimed it would have 1 billion devices running Windows 10 by 2018. The bold estimate was revised last July, with Microsoft admitting "it will take longer than FY18 for us to reach our goal of 1 billion monthly active devices." It now seems this will take a lot longer than 2018 for Microsoft to reach 1 billion Windows 10 devices. Growth has stalled since the free Windows 10 upgrade offer, and Microsoft has all but given up on phones that could have helped boost its numbers.
Sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans tell The Verge that the company has been loosely targeting 550 million monthly active Windows 10 devices by the end of June, and 575 million by the end of September. Today’s 500 million figure shows the company is roughly on schedule with its revised estimates, and it’s a large number of devices that makes it increasingly harder for developers to ignore.
Microsoft will now again try and tempt developers to create Universal Windows Apps for its Windows 10 operating system, while also convincing them to port existing desktop apps into the Windows Store. Build is a key event for this type of push, and the majority of Microsoft’s Windows focus will be seen tomorrow during the company’s second keynote at 11AM ET / 8AM PT.
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Their original target probably assumed some level of success in the phone market.
Still, that’s a lot of machines.
I bought my mother a new PC and had no choice but to buy it with Windows 10 on it.
It really sucks. The interface is completely different and it's loaded with bloatware.
ML/NJ
I hate it
I’ve built dozens of WIn-10 VMs. Only two remain that I know of. I wonder how virtual machines factors in?
Well, at least it’s finally surpassed WinXP.
https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0
Yeah, they were always talking about "total devices", meaning Windows phones/tablets, Surfaces, laptops, in addition to their traditional mainstay of home and business desktops.
It _IS_ a lot of machines. No question about it. But the trend is not great. Look how many Windows 7 machines they have to still convert, to swap places:
Those curves are nearly flat -- Win7 at just below 50%, Win10 at about 25%. They still have to convert at least half of the remaining Windows 7 machines to Windows 10. At the rate of the past half year, it'll take until long after Win7 is dropped from support (Jan 2020) to make that happen.
The above curves were snapshotted from NetMarketShare's site a few minutes ago.
A VM counts as an installation just like any other, assuming it is active and has an internet connection.
I will switch to apple or linux before windows10.
I intend to go Linux. I’m in early research now.
Download Classic Shell and you will get your Windows 7 interface back. Works like a charm.
You have a few options:
It saves my sanity daily at work where I have to use/support it.
See link in comment #13 above.
I bought a Mac. I run them both
I had no idea there were that many W7 machines out there!
I’d guess the bulk of them are POS systems. I’ll poke around a bit.
I’ve been occasionally using Win 7 32 bit in a VM because I needed Family Tree Maker, which syncs (until two days ago) with Ancestry.com. Windows 10 is a no-go.
I have a underpowered PC with Windows Server 2008 without a keyboard or monitor that I can access remotely using Remmina remote desktop client. I may install Family tree maker on that computer because, even in a VM, windows blows.
Good choice, IMO. That's what I do.
Mac hardware lets me run anything at all as a virtual machine, they're stable running on the MacOS host (VMware Fusion), and restoring the state of any of the VMs is just a file copy, no fancy footwork. Time Machine backup/restore for the Mac is one of the big things that sold me on using that as my base platform.
I’m a happy clam on Fedora Linux. Just got tired of the Microsoft tax. A lot more secure.
Our migration to 10 is finally getting off the ground as a project. Been working on tweaking the image and build for months now... still work to do.
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