“Windows 10 is off to the hottest start in history with over 350m monthly active devices, with record customer satisfaction and engagement”, Microsoft said in a statement to ZDNet.
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If you are Windows 7 or 8.1 user, you can upgrade by clicking this link to Microsoft’s official upgrade page. However, the sales of Windows phones dropped by mid-2015 and the forecasted 1 billion mark became hard to achieve.
“We will continue to develop new devices and adapt Windows 10 for small screens, to support Lumia phones like the Lumia 650, the Lumia 950 and Lumia 950XL, and the phones of our partners like manufacturers as Acer, Alcatel, HP, and Vaio Trinity”, said a spokesman. While many companies have pilot programs in place to test Windows 10, many more appear unwilling to go through the hassle and expense of an upgrade when earlier operating systems like Windows 7 are still perfectly capable of doing everything they need. It was expected that Microsoft would increase the time period of free upgrades, but that is not happened. According to Yusuf Mehdi, the corporate vice president of the Windows and Devices Group at Microsoft, “For the price of a cup of coffee and a donut per day, you can get enterprise-class security on a per-user subscription basis”.
The company has just been forced to pay more than £7,000 to a woman in the USA after she said her computer – which had run Windows 7 previously – was left unstable after Windows 10 automatically installed on her system.
Aside from taking over people’s screens to advertise Windows 10, the U.S. technology firm is now offering to perform a same-day upgrade on any Windows 10-compatible PC in its retail stores.
Once upon a time, Microsoft had huge plans for its phone business.
Since its release in 2015, Microsoft Windows 10 has had a great impact on the tech world and it has also been recognized as one of the most successful Windows launches. The company wants to have at least 1 billion Windows 10 users within the next two to three years.
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Over the past year Microsoft has gone all-out in an aggressive push to get as many people to use Windows 10 as possible. It could be argued that some developers will be a bit peeved, since their apps and services may not hit the size of the market promised by Microsoft, but really the desktop and Lumia market decline is full public knowledge so there shouldn’t be a surprise there.
