Windows 10 is now on more than 800 million devices

The install base of Windows 10 has topped the 800 million mark according to the Microsoft Story Labs site. Microsoft executive Yusuf Mehdi tweeted the news yesterday. This is an increase of 100 million since September last year and it seems likely that the increase has been partly driven by the impending end of support for Windows 7. In October Microsoft said that more than 1.5 billion devices were running Windows, these latest figures therefore mean that more than half of Windows machines are now on Windows 10. Although Microsoft has been busy shifting its focus to services supplied from the… [Continue Reading]