Eight months after the launch of its Windows 10 system, Microsoft says the operating system is currently being “used on more than 270 million devices.”
This announcement was made by Windows boss Terry Myerson today at the opening of Microsoft’s annual Build conference in San Francisco.
CEO Satya Nadella had earlier said, in his remarks introducing Myerson, that Windows 10 is “off to the fastest start in Windows history” and is being adopted at a dramatically faster pace compared to Windows 7 in the same timeframe, among both consumers and enterprise customers.
Myerson: Windows 10 has been adopted by 270M users. #Build2016 pic.twitter.com/kcvcmUQX3L
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Windows 10 took off to a strong start with 14 million upgrades in the first 24 hours after release. By January, Microsoft reported the latest version of Windows was on 200 million devices. At that time, the company said Windows 10’s adoption outpaced Windows 8 by an incredible 400%.
Microsoft also announced an update to Windows 10 called Windows 10 Anniversary Update. Other new features discussed during the event include Microsoft’s Windows Insider Ring (a platform for early beta testers), an update for Windows Hello, allowing users to log in with facial recognition technology, and Windows Ink for digital pen input.
