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75 Million devices now running on Windows 10


75 Million devices have so far been connected with Windows 10 as the company edges towards its target of 1 billion installations. This announcement was made  by Microsoft India through a tweet, Quoting Corporate Vice President, Windows and Devices Group at Microsoft Yusuf Mehdi,

In a sequence of tweets, Mehdi also said that Windows 10 was now officially available in 192 countries. He also announced that more than 90,000 unique PC or tablet models have upgraded to Windows 10.

”Among the devices that have upgraded to Windows 10, some go back to 2007.”’ He added in a tweet.

By end of July, Windows 10 operating system was running on more than 14 million computers, two days after the software was released as a free download. That was far cry from the company’s goal of getting Windows 10 onto a billion devices within three years. Microsoft said it’s releasing the software in waves to make sure downloads go smoothly

Released 4 weeks ago Windows 10 saw 14 million machines being upgraded to the new operating system within 24 hours.

 

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