Windows 10 Now On 500 Million Devices, Up By 200 Million in a Year (arstechnica.co.uk)

Posted by msmash on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @05:20AM from the growing-dominance dept.

At Build developer conference in Seattle today, Microsoft announced that Windows 10 is now running on 500 million monthly active devices. From a report: Little over a year ago, the company said that the operating system had reached 300 million systems. As the operating system nears the end of its second full year on the market, it's clear that it's going to fall a long way short of the company's original estimates. At launch, the ambition was to reach 1 billion devices over the first two to three years of availability, but this estimate assumed that Windows 10 Mobile would be a going concern, selling something of the order of 50 million or more devices a year.

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Re:Forced upgrades. by sexconker · 2017-05-10 07:55 · Score: 3, Interesting

The point is to have games and whatever other Windows-only critical applications you need when you need them, but to get away from Windows and it's "telemetry" whenever you can. With Windows in a VM, you can block the forced updates and spying. Windows as a host OS will subvert your attempts to block these things, and you'd have to run an external firewall. By running Windows in a VM, the external firewall is simply on the host OS.