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Microsoft Says 700M Devices Now Run Windows 10 (techcrunch.com)

Posted by msmash on from the aggressive-expansion dept.

Over 700 million devices run Windows 10, Microsoft announced on Monday at its Build developer conference. From a report: Almost exactly a year ago, that number stood at 500 million. In addition, the company also today noted that Office 365 now has 135 million monthly active commercial users, up from 120 million last October. Back in 2015, when Windows 10 launched, Microsoft's original goal was to hit a billion devices by 2018. It quickly became clear that this was a bit too optimistic. While Windows 10 usage clearly continues to grow at a decent speed, we're not likely to see it hit a billion users soon. In a wide-ranging interview with news outlet The Verge, Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella discusses the future of Microsoft. (He gave an interview to CNBC as well.) Onstage at Build, Nadella said "privacy is a human right."

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  1. Sure sure sure by cellocgw · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Like we had a choice.
    Certainly no choice on our business machines.
    Certainly no choice on the machines all our nontechie relatives bought.

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    1. Re:Sure sure sure by tepples · · Score: 3, Insightful

      What applications do these "nontechie relatives" use that has no replacement on macOS?

    2. Re:Sure sure sure by Z00L00K · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I wonder what GDPR will do to the "telemetry" of Windows 10. EU citizens will have the right to know at May 25th. And no EULA can evade that.

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    3. Re:Sure sure sure by jellomizer · · Score: 2

      There are choices, Linux for business and Apple for home use. (They can be swapped too)

      But more to the issue, Microsoft is competing against itself. Having to convince people to get off their old versions and use the new versions, before the old versions get too old, and allowing the customers to look at other options, because either way it would be a hard upgrade.

      It is often like when Apple shows its iPhone sales. The people who stitch from Android to iOS or iOS to Android is more or less a wash. But apples success in a product are how many people upgrade their old phones to the new ones, and net new phone buyers.

      Now if Microsoft sees people not upgrading to Windows 10 and staying on Windows 7 or older. Then they may be having a problem with the product. Like they had with Windows Even Version. Where people didn't upgrade and stayed on the old version, forcing MS to put more effort into the next version to make it better and less on new shiny features.

         

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    4. Re:Sure sure sure by LynnwoodRooster · · Score: 2

      I dunno, this computer runs things plenty fine for most non-techie people. Surfing, Facebook, e-mail, basic gaming, etc. All-in-one for under $500.

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  2. How many *chose* to run it? by Rick+Schumann · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How many had it forced on them, were tricked into upgrading, or made no conscious choice whatsoever and really didn't notice, just turned it on one morning and whump, there it was? Be honest, Microsoft.

    1. Re:How many *chose* to run it? by Rick+Schumann · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Technically I did have it forced on me -- by my employer, a large microchip manufacturer. Showed up for work one Monday and the gods-be-damned drive encryption wouldn't accept my password. So they tell me "Oh, that's not compatible anymore, we have to 'upgrade' you to Windows 10". So I had NO CHOICE in the matter. Of course they own the damned computer, too, but I had to put up with it. I've hacked the living shit out of Win10 though so it's as sanitized as I can make it, use a different UI shell so it's more like Win7, and being the Enterprise version most all of the telemetry (spyware) is cut out or disabled (and more after I got done with it), so I'm coping. But at home? Still on XP, until I get around to upgrading the hardware, in which case it looks like it'll be Ubuntu. No more MS for me, thanks anyway.

    2. Re:How many *chose* to run it? by cwsumner · · Score: 2

      How many had it forced on them, were tricked into upgrading, or made no conscious choice whatsoever and really didn't notice, just turned it on one morning and whump, there it was? Be honest, Microsoft.

      Standard M$ tactic: Pop up a question window that only needs an Enter to count as "Yes go ahead".

      The user is working and typing something into a text window or word processor, while reading from a page (or something). The question pops up and "steals" the keyboard, the user typing hits an Enter, and the question takes it as a "Yes". The user probably never saw the question and just wonders "where did my words go???".

      M$ has known about this bug for years and has used it before. When they say that all users agreed to upgrade, this is what they are talking about...

  3. Herpes 1.0 is also a huge success... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    it's "running" on about 3 billion humans...

  4. I'm Doing My Part! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I keep Windows 10 up to date on our desktop, laptop, and two surface tablets. Fantastic operating system. Service guarantees citizenship! Thanks, Microsoft!

  5. Re:700 Mil Run Windows 10, Or Run FROM Windows 10? by the_skywise · · Score: 2

    *boots his computer*
    Once more into the breach dear friends!

  6. Hardisks / ssd's with win 10 metric by sjwest · · Score: 2

    We buy pcs without Microsoft licences (not from the famous brands) and still get microshit software on disk so if they consider new harddisk sales as a metric there wrong.

    Could run does not mean it runs it.

    1. Re:Hardisks / ssd's with win 10 metric by thegarbz · · Score: 2

      Congratulations on adding to the rounding error.