Microsoft's Windows 10 still (officially) has not exceeded the limit of 700 million active devices. They may be almost there, but they remain without major changes.
Microsoft executives hinted months ago that the company has reached the milestone of 700 millions of Windows 10-enabled devices, but today it's finally official.
During the duration of the Q4 FY'18 analyst conference call on July 19, CEO Satya Nadella announced that Windows 10 was "active" on approximately 700 million devices. By the end of November 2017, we knew that the company was enjoying 600 million active devices.
Microsoft executives they had announced on the first day of BUILD 2018 held in Seattle in May that they had reached the milestone of 700 million active devices. In recent months, however, the word "almost" has been officially added.
It should be mentioned that the company hopes to see more installations of Windows 10 after the upcoming one date end of support of Windows 7 in January 2020.
Microsoft's measurements of the "active" devices it mentions last 28 days include Windows 10 on PCs, tablets, phones, Xbox consoles, HoloLens and Surface devices. All versions of Windows 10 included.
So we see that the company's goal for 2015 to see Windows 10 active in 1 billion devices does not seem to have closed until mid-2018. To be fair, however, we should mention that Microsoft has withdrawn from the mobile phone purchase with Window 10, which would raise the numbers quite a bit.
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