Windows 10 now in use on 700 million active devices (updated)

Updated June 1, 2022: At an Insider issue this week, Microsoft quietly confirmed that information technology has crossed the threshold, and in that location are now more than than 700 meg agile Windows 10 devices. The original article from Build 2022 follows.

Microsoft kicked off is Build 2022 conference today by announcing that there are now near 700 million active Windows 10 devices. That's up by almost 200 million from a year ago, when Microsoft said at that place were 500 million active devices, and up by nearly 100 million since November.

That'due south some pretty solid growth in only a twelvemonth's fourth dimension, only it falls brusque of where Microsoft wanted to exist when it launched Windows 10 in 2022. At the fourth dimension, Microsoft was aiming to have Windows 10 on one billion active devices within its first 3 years. Microsoft later reined in expectations, acknowledging in 2022 that it would not meet its goal.

Continue in mind that Microsoft counts Windows ten PCs, tablets, Xbox, HoloLens, and Windows ten mobile devices in that 700 meg number. All the same, it'south null to belittle at.

In other numbers, Microsoft also revealed that Office 365 has 135 million monthly active commercial users. For a service that makes up a growing piece of Microsoft'southward portfolio, that's a solid base of users.

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