Microsoft: Windows 10 Won't Hit 1 Billion Devices By Mid-2018 (zdnet.com)

Despite Microsoft's aggressive efforts to get everyone to upgrade to Windows 10 by mid-2018, the company says it is unlikely to meet its self-imposed deadline. In a statement to ZDNet, the company said: Windows 10 is off to the hottest start in history with over 350M monthly active devices, with record customer satisfaction and engagement. We're pleased with our progress to date, but due to the focusing of our phone hardware business, it will take longer than FY18 for us to reach our goal of 1 billion monthly active devices. In the year ahead, we are excited about usage growth coming from commercial deployments and new devices -- and increasing customer delight with Windows. ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley writes: Microsoft Windows and Devices chief Terry Myerson made the original claim at Build 2015, noting that the 1 billion figure would encompass all kinds of devices that would run Windows 10 in some variant, including desktops, PCs, laptops, tablets, Windows Phones, Xbox One gaming consoles, Surface Hub conferencing systems, HoloLens augmented reality glasses and various Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Officials said at that time that the majority of those 1 billion devices would be PCs and tablets. But Windows Phones running Windows 10 Mobile also were expected to help Microsoft reach that total by mid-2018.Since April 2015, the bottom has fallen out of the Windows Phone market, with Microsoft officials conceding that Windows Phone isn't much of a focus for Microsoft in calendar 2016.

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Windows 10 is the first Windows I've bothered to use much. I tried XP for a while and went back to Mandrake. Vista was dog balls. 7 was back to being XP. 8.1 was absolute garbage; I used it for Unity 3D for a while. Windows 10 surprised me by having a modern, useful interface with surprisingly-fewer flaws than all prior versions of Windows (useless Start menu search; Virtual desktops don't allow me to ctrl-alt-shift move windows; no exploded workspace view a la Gnome 3, although the alt-tab interface is better than Gnome 3), and by being an actual, competent OS.

Soon I'll get rid of Cygwin in favor of Ubuntu on Windows 10.

If it could just act as an iSCSI initiator at the home desktop level, I'd run it on a diskless machine with a cheap, low-capacity M2 and use FreeNAS to back its main program and data drive. Too bad the Windows installer can't do sensible things like mount a disk over C:\Program Files.