Microsoft revealed today that 1 billion active machines are now running Windows 10.
Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of Modern Life and the Search & Devices Group said, “Today we’re delighted to announce that over one billion people have chosen Windows 10 across 200 countries resulting in more than one billion active Windows 10 devices.
“We couldn’t be more grateful to our customers, partners, and employees for helping us get here.”
The figure claimed covers devices which include PCs, laptops, Xbox One consoles, and HoloLens devices running Microsoft’s latest operating system. It means Microsoft has now hit its original goal of a billion devices running Windows 10, albeit two years later than it originally expected. Microsoft is also revealing that it now has 17.8 million Windows Insider testers.
The company had been working on getting Windows 10 installed on a billion devices within three years of its release but the company extended that timeline after Windows Phone failed to challenge iOS and Android. The milestone comes less than five years after the original release, and less than six months after Microsoft hit 900 million devices on Windows 10.
Mehdi revealed that Windows 10 is now “the only operating system at the heart of over 80,000 models and configurations of different laptops and 2-in-1s from over 1,000 different manufacturers.”
The billion update comes just a couple of months after support ended for Windows 7.
