Windows 10 now on 400 million “monthly active devices”

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Just announced at Ignite. On July 15, the number was 350 million. In between we saw the end of the free upgrade offer. Paul Thurrott will no doubt not
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Does that say that the sale of new devices with Win 10 on them is 20 million per month, then?

There aren’t a whole lot of people left running Win 7 or 8 who are choosing to upgrade their existing systems.

My own system would be counted as running Win 10 even though it’s NOT my hardware OS because I run it in a virtual machine. I doubt virtualization is terribly common, but Microsoft could and would legitimately claim I’m running Win 10, as well as XP, 7, and 2 x 8.1, all on the same device.

-Noel

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Despite the fact they got there by acting like a malware vendor.

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As well as those who were upgraded to Win10, then rolled back.

Sales of new devices must be less than 20 million/mo. The “million active devices” metric is subject to Microsoft’s definition.

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Not to be disrespectful, but you have to wonder how much Microsoft pays Mary Jo for a gig like that.

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Well I’ve got to tell you there are an awful lot of frustrated Win10 users out there. Specially with the Anniversary update and the rest……… black screens… all kinds of unnecessary stuff happening with updating. I belong to several groups and the fun and games that are going on. At least 10 or more are writing in daily about something or the other happening to their machines and what can they do.

You know with all this I got to thinking……… I know why MS decided to make Win10 FREE……… it’s because it’s BETA!
And as so many of you have stated again and again….Win10 is just not ready yet! I’m sooooo glad I’m not on Win10, nor have I got it ‘reserved’ on this computer….. I would hate to be a ‘statistic’ to aid MS’s bloated figures!

And some of the ‘positive’ feedback by the mods. is that MS have a v. big task to cover all the different scenarios and that it takes time! Excuse me ??? Isn’t that exactly what MS’s business is all about….. and that they are experts in doing this and have been for so many years already……….. They should have got their act together by now! LT

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
― Mark Twain

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It was and still is free, but you can not in any way, shape or form equate this to a commercial success. I would have thought that people out there would have long since abandoned the notion that on 400M devices it must be good, apparently “Microbucks” subscribe to this notion and hope others do too. As for polling this little band of cynical “upgrade upstarts” I think they may well have to revise theyre marketing strategy should they happen to stray in here

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Windows 10 obviously had it all of a beta stage on it’s official 2015-07-29 launch, which is surprising, and still has it all of the beta look’n’feel’ some 14 months later … As you not one day I feel almost as sorry for Win10 users that I feel happy of having avoided the worst.

I’m just wondering how Win10 will deploy in the coming months… or years. I know it’s intended to be a continuous “updatable” OS but semantically that doesn’t mean the basis shouldn’t be valid, and it isn’t. What will Win10 be by 2017/07-29, two years after its launch? I don’t want to be cruel or cynical but I’m as convinced of a rise from the dead as I am of winning at the lottery.

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I hope all of the 400 million are very happy with their devices.

Just as well they didn’t all buy Woody’s book or he would be lost to us by now, reclining with a glass of vintage wine on a sandy beach in some sun-drenched paradise…. :)!

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HA! Naw, I gave up on the tropical beach a few years ago. But Phuket was nice for 13 years.

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Don’t forget – 400 devices are not all computers. MS is counting XBoxs, tablets, and a few phones to inflate their apparent success.
It would be my guess that no one is upgrading anymore now that it’s not free.
My Win10 upgrade VM (that I don’t use) pokes its nose out once a month to pick up Windows Update – are they counting that too?

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Refrigerators, too. Raspberry Pi’s….

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Not to mention all the features like Cortana and edge that they are forcing down throats so that they can spy on people. They are so deeply embedded its very hard to get rid of. I guess they are envious of Google’s $ and are striving to do better.
N

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Hey Woody,
I’m chomping at the bit waiting for the second edition of your Win 10 All-in one for Dummies to hit my local B & N book store. My two Win 10 systems are still running great. (Win 10 Pro desktop, Win 10 home laptop). I was wondering if you also plan on any companion books like you had done with Win XP. Those books saved me a lot trouble when I had to learn XP on the fly when I was working.

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The book should be out any day now. I’m anxiously awaiting it, too.

Nope, doesn’t look like there will be any companion books – but I hit a lot of high points here, and in InfoWorld.

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Can’t wait for the Windows Server 2016 announcement and release at Ignite.
Windows Server 2016 is the server equivalent of Windows 10 with a lot less phone like features, but its configuration can teach those interested a lot about how to make Windows 10 leaner and more usable as desktop and not tablet/phone Operating System.
Usually there is a 180 days free trial for any server version, right now the Tech Preview 5 is available and this is very close to the real thing.

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Good to hear success stories about Windows 10.
I have the original edition of the book and there is something useful for anyone interested in the subject or in how to use Windows in general in that book.

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Probably nobody is upgrading to Windows 10 right now, especially that the Anniversary Edition is not clear yet how stable is and needs a little bit more attention from the developers.
However in few months, those choosing the Windows path will have little choice for new systems.
Although I am heavily invested in Microsoft technologies, I am very tempted to give Mac OS a chance.
This is entirely for functional reasons and has nothing to do with the snooping features, which unfortunately can no longer be avoided even in Switzerland, although it is claimed that the scope of surveillance is not so wide as elsewhere.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37465853

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“They got there” by also counting XBox, tablets, Windows Mobile, those who upgraded (willingly or unwillingly) and then reverted back, those running in virtual machines (like several of mine which has not been run in months), may be even “pirate” installations, etc., in addition to PCs sold with Windows 10.

How many of these “400 million” devices are actually running any version of Windows 10 NOW?

Microsoft is free to inflate these numbers in any way it wants. They seem to believe that by quoting these numbers others will be convinced that Windows 10 is a great success.

Just take it with a grain of salt. I am not convinced in any way.

Hope for the best. Prepare for the worst.

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Windows Server 2016 RTM is already available at Eval Center couple of days ago

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For those interested in Windows 10 Enterprise propaganda on Ignite https://ignite.microsoft.com/#fbid=QgemP8aGW-Q
Useful first hand information for those involved in Windows System Engineering.

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Thanks. Downloading right now

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For those interested
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 to be generally available in mid-October
http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-windows-server-2016-to-be-generally-available-in-mid-october/

The eval is available right now, see also @abbodi86’s post
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-server-2016

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I say congratulations to Microsoft for having pulled this off without having been subpeonaed to appear before the US Congress or the EU for unethical and illegal business practices. They have clout in all the right places.

Now that there are 400 million beta users in their ‘outsiders program’, hopefully the OS will get to full production status in short order. It will be an excellent bullet on an MS power point presentation when convincing pampered Enterprise Clients to upgrade to W10 – 400 million crash test dummies – the Enterprise is safe. Upgrade now.

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>without having been subpoenaed

Yet.

If they never do then it’s a sad state of affairs because it says that things like false advertising and monopolistic, predatory business practices that would have been considered outrageous just a few decades ago are now actually considered acceptable.

What is your choice? Don’t sign it? Then what?

It’s not an exaggeration that people have likened Microsoft’s marketing to that of malware authors.

As we are all seeing, it’s not “someone else’s problem”.

-Noel

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First impressions. Just mentioning that I used briefly Tech Preview 3, 4 and 5 and that the last two were more stable than the release in its evaluation form and licence.
I installed the downloaded ISO eval release without much trouble in a Virtual Machine, joined it to a domain behind firewalls and connected to a proxy server to access the internet. I disabled the built-in firewall.
Then I tried updating from WSUS on Windows 2012 R2 with all the patches and configuration to make WSUS compatible with Windows 10. I tried also Windows Update. It never completed after successive tries.
Instead things like KB3139437 – LanguageFeatureOnDemand for every imaginable language, 57 of them, were installed which makes me wonder if the issues experienced were due to those behind the scenes FeatureOnDemand installations. They are not visible in the regular Windows Update app, but are visible in WU MiniTool and I think in another built-in app.
Crashes and refusing to log off/shut down gracefully.
The only method which eventually worked for updates was to use the Windows Update MiniTool and install the 2 updates available KB3192366 and KB3176936 from WSUS. I am sure the same outcome would have been to use Windows Update with the MiniTool.
I will keep testing for the next few days, but this seems very much like the issues experienced by the Windows 10 Anniversary Update users without the first round of patches.

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