In a blog post, the company’s corporate vice president of Windows and Devices, Yusuf Mehdi, said that as of today, there are more than 200 million monthly active devices around the world running Microsoft’s new OS.
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This means that adoption for Windows 10 is occurring twice as fast as Windows 8, which reached 100 million installs in the same six-month period. Microsoft says that Windows 10 is outperforming Windows 7 by 140 percent, while it is completely obliterating Windows 8 adoption by nearly 400 percent. 22 million of the 200 million Windows 10 devices in use – over 10 percent of the total – are owned by enterprise and education customers. Indeed, speaking of consoles, Microsoft today also revealed that on December 28, more fans logged onto Xbox Live on Xbox One than any other day in Xbox history. The new operating system by Microsoft brings a set of new features including Microsoft Cortana, Microsoft Edge which is a new version of Internet Explorer, Windows Hello, the return of the famous Start Menu and many more. It has also resulted “significantly higher customer satisfaction” than any prior Windows version.
Unlike consumers who were offered a free upgrade (pestered might be a better word), businesses aren’t completely off the hook when it comes to paying for Windows.
Along with these figures, Microsoft also detailed PC users’ engagement with the OS, noting that it hit another milestone in December when users spent over 11 billion hours during the month on the Windows 10 OS.
Windows 10 continues to grow in popularity.
On the smartphone side, the increase in Win10 usage is marginal – very few people are using Windows 10 phones, although numbers are rising slowly. According to Microsoft, the operating system is being adopted more rapidly than any previous version.
Gamers have spent over four billion hours playing PC games in Windows 10 and streamed more than 6.6 million hours of their Xbox One games to those same PCs. Wow.
Overall the combined operating share for Windows sits at a commanding 91.32 percent of the market.
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Rollout of Windows 10 has been highly visible, with some users getting frustrated at the repeated prompts appearing on their desktop screens.
