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Windows 10 Now on 600 Million Active Devices (geekwire.com)

Posted by msmash on from the nothing-like-anything dept.

Windows 10 has found its way onto 600 million active devices, says CEO Satya Nadella. From a report: CEO Satya Nadella referenced the new number for the first time moments ago at the company's annual shareholders meeting. The number is up from the 500 million devices touted by Microsoft earlier this year, but it's still well short of the company's original goal of 1 billion Windows 10 devices within two to three years of its 2015 release.

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  1. Good leadership at the helm... by rwven · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It can't be understated how good of a job MS has done with Win10 and the company's direction as a whole in the past few years. Placing Nadella at the helm, and getting rid of Balmer has been a real boon to the company. I know this probably makes me sound like a MS shill, but having spent multiple years in the Linux desktop scene, macOS, and windows, the current windows OS is by far the best OS I've ever used.

    While the target of 1B devices might be a little bit of a pipe dream, they still have another year to hit their goal, and if they don't, it's not like it's even remotely a failure.

    I still can't deny that Ubuntu 17.10 is very tempting though...

    1. Re:Good leadership at the helm... by CohibaVancouver · · Score: 1, Interesting

      I have to agree. I'm writing this on a Surface Pro running Windows 10. It's a great OS running on a sweet machine.

    2. Re:Good leadership at the helm... by rwven · · Score: 2, Interesting

      No, it's not embarrassing. They make a better desktop OS than Apple or any Linux desktop at the moment. I don't even view that as an "opinion." Having spent loads of time in all of them, it's just the current state of affairs.

      Maybe if Apple gets their collective heads out of their rears, or if a Linux distro finally decides what it wants to be, that might change.

  2. Re:Had to give it away by DickBreath · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Windows 10 is free.
    Not free as in freedom.
    Not primarily free as in beer.
    But mostly free as in herpes.

    How is this malware running on 600 million machines?

    Did the recently announced Microsoft Sets look like Windows will become another Chromebook?

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