The number of Windows 10 devices exceeded 1 billion

Microsoft said that the number of active devices operating OC Window 10 exceeded 1 billion around the world. This was stated by Vice President of the Yusuf Mehdi Corporation, writes The Verge .

This indicator includes desktop computers, laptops, Xbox ONE Game consoles, as well as Hololens augmented reality glasses. It was possible to achieve a mark of 1 billion devices on Windows 10 Microsoft two years later than planned initially - instead of three years after Windows 10, it took almost five years. The main reason for this was the company's refusal from the mobile version of OC, which could not withstand competition with Android and iOS.

Apparently, the January termination of the support of the Windows 7 operating system has contributed to the achievement of this mark, which forced many private and corporate customers to update their PCs to Windows 10 devices. At the same time, some companies cannot quickly switch to a new OS - for them Microsoft offers paid Windows 7 updates as part of the Extended Security Program Updates (ESU). The first year of service for this program costs $ 25 per device, the second - $ 50, and the third - $ 100. For users with Windows 7 Pro, service will cost 50, 100 and $ 200 per device, respectively. Earlier it became known that the German authorities will pay for such updates for Windows 7,800 thousand euros.

If in December 2019, according to the STATCOUNTER service, the share of Windows 7 among all OC Microsoft on personal computers in the world was 26.8%, and the Windows 10 accounted for 65.4%, then in February 2020 the ratio was 23.2 and 69.2%.