Windows 10 is still taking its first steps, but they’re more like gargantuan leaps: the operating system is now installed on more than 75 million devices.
1. #Windows10: More than 75 million devices running Windows 10 – and growing every day. 1/10 pic.twitter.com/g0kqGizU0c
— Yusuf Mehdi (@yusuf_i_mehdi) August 26, 2015
The news comes just four weeks after launch, when 14 million devices installed the upgrade within 24 hours of its release. In contrast, Windows 8 was installed on around 40 million devices within the first month. Windows 7 hit 90 million sales eight months after its launch.
It’s likely the strong numbers are due to the simple fact that the upgrade to Windows 10 is free for a “limited” time to almost everyone, along with the prompts found in Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 to install the update.
Yusuf Mehdi, the Corporate Vice President of the Windows and Devices Group at Microsoft also shared on Twitter that Cortana has told half a million jokes since launch and 90,000 distinct desktop and laptop devices have upgraded.
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