400 million devices are now equipped with Windows 10

In his opening Ignite conference, Microsoft wanted to make a point about the level of adhesion of Windows 10. flagship OS publisher would be installed on 400 million devices. Windows 10, the operating system from the Redmond company released in the summer 2015, continues to expand. The latest figures released yesterday by Microsoft are reporting 400 million active devices are equipped. It seems that the pace of accession has slowed somewhat.
400 million active terminals under Windows 10 According to Microsoft, we now count 400 million active devices with Windows 10. In these 400 million are included PCs, tablets, smartphones, but also the Xbox One and augmented reality devices Hololens. The pace of installations is no longer supported as it was a few months. One reason for this slowdown is undoubtedly the end of free updating Windows operating systems 7 and 8 to Windows 10 since last July. In June, Microsoft announced a number of 350 million active devices in Windows 10. In three months "only" 50 million facility were thus carried out an average of about 16.6 million per month, while before the end of the free period, 50 million new facility, on average, were recorded every month. The objective of the billion devices in 2018 abandoned At this rate, the target of 1 billion devices equipped with the latest OS from the American publisher is not tenable. Microsoft understood this well and last summer the group had announced to give up its ambitions. In the market for operating systems, Windows 10 is still well ahead of Windows 7, which in August held 47.28% market share against 22.99%, according to the firm Netmarketshare. Mobile, Windows 10 is practically absent with a paltry share of market of only 0.6%.
source: 01net.com