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Windows 10 Passes 700 Million Devices (neowin.net)
At its Ignite 2018 conference, Microsoft said that Windows 10 has been installed on over 700 million active devices. Neowin reports of the confusion around this estimate, noting that "the last milestone was 600 million active devices" announced on November 29, 2017, nearly 10 months ago. From the report: If you follow Windows 10 news, this might not even seem like a major development. That's because the firm's communication around this has been wildly inconsistent. It started off when Windows and Devices chief Terry Myerson announced that he's leaving Microsoft, and he wrote in a farewell letter that Windows 10 is installed on nearly 700 million active devices. That was almost six months ago. At the firm's Build conference in May and at the Insider Dev Tour in July, Microsoft announced that Windows 10 is installed on over 700 million devices, only to retract those statements later on and say they were mistakes. But today after almost six months of "nearly 700 million", Windows 10 is officially installed on over 700 million devices.
....any version Windows has been on?
FTFY
Right in your lap. Here's where you say "Thank you Microsoft".
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
Here's hoping they give the persons that worked on it the maximum prison sentences possible. Which will keep the entire Microsoft Corporation in jail until the sun explodes.
Xbox consoles
Windows 10 phones which arent made anymore
Buget atom tablets which microsoft gave away windows 10 on but in order to qualify the hardware maker had to purposely make the hardware suck, killing off intels efforts to gain marketshare over arm in the tablet market
Win 7 and 8 machines that were automaticaly upgraded to 10 against the users will.
People who upgraded to 10 for gaming since microsoft purposely holds back directx12 from anything other to windows10 to make people upgrade. The same bullshit they did with vista.
People who upgraded because it was 'free' even though every other os is free eg linux, macos, android, ios, ps4, switch. Not being free is the outlyer here.
People who upgraded because they have a new machine and microsoft refuses to give older version of windows support for newer cpus.
Not the same windows 10. There is a huge difference between windows 10n enterprise ltsb which is subscription based, non bloated and has no bullshit vs the editions most people have which is infested with spyware, ads and superfluous programs.
How many do you subtract that were forced on unsuspecting users, users who didn't know any better, and users who weren't otherwise given a choice? Can we also subtract out businesses, who either didn't have a choice, either, and their employees, who weren't given a choice by their employers?
According to wikipedia, Linux kernel systems are 40.41%, windows 36.84% and Apple 18.46%.
These guys are now going to 'manage' your PC and charge you a fee. They will also remove and suggest what software you need.
What could possible go wrong.
Cause communism is saying it.
It seems like well, Windows is really shit in regards to an AVR (you could fuck up in a game or something else), so basically when there is real business to be done... who would use it?
I just cannot understand why to put the game at the lowest level to the hardware.
Basically, if you are going to send updates for no reason other than being bothersome what exactly is your purpose. It could only be that you are targetting an individual in which case re-instating Rome and their structure of leadership.
All in all it is a crazy idea or progression, where as the original Windows was "let people understand" visual objects being recognized as components in computers. That is basically the same thing as letters, but with the amount of data the abstraction was needed. The trouble is, that now they aren't working on and explaining a new abstraction, instead they are modifying known abstractions.
It is incredibly strange, because you are basically trying to change english to chinese without creating the new "letters".
I truly think they are both ignorant, viewing without reference, and terribly bad.
Basically you build structures, then you "sell" or "describe" those structures so people "know" what to expect.
You assholes at Microsoft are trying to not build structures, but change the old ones. Why?
If you are trying to get beyond something, you have to actually have something new. What you (windows) is doing, is just trying to confuse people. The thing is that if you point at a window and call it something else, people are not going to go with you so how are you expecting to go past that?
So, like, a fraction of Android/Linux devices?
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
As the saying goes, quantity is job number one.
Well played Kaoshin, well played
*** Suerte a todos y Feliz dia!
That's a whole lot of eyes and ears for Microsoft now.
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
Wow that's almost as many as Windows 95!
It's OK Bender, there's no such thing as 2.
So let me guess, it means they are counting Windows 10 phones in the landfill, they are counting MS Surface tablets including those they paid companies to use, it includes virtual machines running Windows 10 and the pre-loaded computers sitting on store shelves.
But who the heck cares? Then again, doesn't this sound like the same old Microsoft? Even when they keep trying to tell us they are not the same old Microsoft.
I think the correct time would have been "had been". How many of those came preinstalled and the first thing anyone did to them was to wipe the system?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
You didn't imagine you were in control of your computer, did you? Have you read the EULA?
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How many do you subtract that were forced on unsuspecting users, users who didn't know any better, and users who weren't otherwise given a choice? Can we also subtract out businesses, who either didn't have a choice, either, and their employees, who weren't given a choice by their employers?
The geek has been posting variations of this rant since the launch of Slashdot. Windows took possession of the desktop along about Win 95 and never looked back. The fundamental reason is that the Windows PC is a mass market product easily customized for home and office use. You want 1500 thin clients for corporate use? No problem. Shopping Amazon.com for the high-end water cooled gaming machine? Also no problem.