Microsoft's Build developer conference has kicked off, and one of the company's first announcements was a new milestone for Windows 10: the functional system useson 500 million devices.
Although Microsoft is very unlikely to catch up with its original goal: Windows 10 on 1 billion devices until mid-2018 (the company since then returns to this goal) is still an impressive landmark for an OS that began almost before two years.
The company captured 400 millions in September, and since then the operating system is still spreading develops.
It is a milestone that the company will definitely want to know developers. The reason; But of course, the Windows Store support, especially when the company released the new Windows 10 S, a software that runs only Store applications.
Microsoft will probably try too hard in this Build to convince developers that the platform of Windows applications Universal is a remarkable investment.
In addition, half a billion systems do not matter.