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

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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Forced upgrades.

[gfxguy]

It's pretty easy to hit that milestone when you force people to upgrade without their consent. Don't get me wrong - I have Windows 10 on both my desktop (dual boot) and personal laptop; I have it on one of my work laptops (the other is Windows 7/Linux dual boot). I'm probably one of the few people who like it, but I don't pretend like what MS didn't wasn't disgraceful.

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[WallyL]

Cheap grab for attention/points/karma/laughs:

Hello, Windows developer. Please select one of the following options for the new Windows "Free" Initiative:
( . ) Free as in freedom
( . ) Free as in beer
( X ) Free as in herpes

^ Thank you for your selection. Have a nice day!