Microsoft Operating System Windows 10 has successfully achieved 900 million devices user globally. In just one year it jumped from 700 million devices as its user to 800 million devices. This 100 million increment is gain in the time span between September 2018 to March 2019.
The number includes standard Windows 10 desktops and laptops, as well as the Xbox and niche devices like the Surface Hub and Microsoft’s HoloLens. Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president of the Modern Life, Search and Devices group at Microsoft, tweeted about the milestone, saying that Microsoft added more new Windows 10 devices in the last 12 months than ever before.
Mehdi added, that there is more to come as part of this powerful innovation
“From PCs to HoloLens to Xbox to Surface Hub, Windows continues to power innovation — with more to come next week!.”
If the increasing trends follow the same procedure for the Windows 10 installations than it would likely hit the 1-billion mark sometime in 2020. Interestingly, Microsoft had once thought that Windows 10 would reach that milestone in 2018 itself.
One of the main reasons for Windows 10 installation boost is that Windows 7 is finally heading to its support end of life. Individuals and businesses using the older Windows 7 would now have to compulsorily start upgrading and migrating to Windows 10.
Incidentally, the announcement of the Windows 10 milestone comes the same day when Microsoft advised Windows users to install an “emergency” out-of-band security patch after it discovered a security flaw in some versions of Internet Explorer that could allow an attacker to remotely run malicious code on an affected device.