Brief history of Windows 10 in numbers

Windows 10 global launch was carried out simultaneously in various countries of the world on the 29th of July, this year. With Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, in attendance at the Kenyan leg of the launch.

The launch went on well, and Windows 10 is currently 10 weeks old. On Tuesday Microsoft had a briefing about Windows 10, where Terry Myerson the Microsoft’s Executive Vice President of the Windows and Devices Group spoke about the progress of the new Windows.

He said that in just a few short months, more than 110 million devices are already running Windows 10. “So what have these 110 million people been doing with our new Windows 10?” queried Mr. Myerson.

A question to which he responded by saying that the millions of people were using Windows to do various things such as: viewing 650 billion web pages with the new Microsoft edge browser, streaming over 120 years of game play from X-boxes to their new Windows 10 devices and exploring the new more personal experience of windows 10; by asking Cortana over 1 billion questions.

“And these millions of people have not just been upgrading their current devices, the share of Windows devices, at retail, has grown each month since windows 10 has been available.” Mr. Myerson said.

Over the period of just  10 weeks these millions of people have made over 1 billion visits to the Windows App store, this in turn led to developers seeing great engagement, which led to the  developer revenue increasing 4 times, since the windows 10 upgrade rolled out.

“We are seeing increased Application usage on windows 10, Netflix users are spending more time on the Netflix App than on the Netflix website. This early activity is attracting new universal windows apps to windows 10; today we are very excited to announce that Facebook will be building all new universal windows App for: Facebook, Instagram and Messenger,” he continued.

Myerson noted that currently there is over 8 million business PCs running Windows 10. “IT pros are telling us that the security built in to windows 10 is critical to keeping their businesses safe, the result of this is that our Businesses customers are moving faster to windows 10 than they have ever before to any other release of Windows; with over 50 percent of our managed customers already starting their windows 10 trial,” he added.