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500 million devices are now running Windows 10

By Ng Chong Seng - on 10 May 2017, 11:00pm

500 million devices are now running Windows 10

At the first Build 2017 developer conference keynote today, Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella has revealed that Windows 10 is now running on 500 million active devices, a number that includes PC, tablets, phones, Xbox consoles, HoloLens, Surface Hubs, and IoT devices. This is 100 million more than the 400 million number the company touted last September. This is also half of the 1 billion devices target that Microsoft originally wanted to achieve by 2018, but which the company has since admitted would take longer.

With Windows Phone as good as dead and the Creators Update barely a month old, it’s unclear what else has fueled the growth of the operating system in the past six months. One guess is this came from commercial deployments and new devices from OEMs. With the new Surface Laptop and upcoming affordable education PCs from PC OEMs running Windows 10 S, Microsoft is looking to education deployments to fuel the OS' next phase of growth.

Here are a few more number drops:

  • Commercial Office 365 monthly active users: 100 million
  • Cortana monthly active users (all forms of interactions counted): 141 million
  • Organizations in Azure Active Directory: 12 million
  • Fortune 500 using Microsoft Cloud: >90%
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