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Microsoft Says 700M Devices Now Run Windows 10 (techcrunch.com) 120

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Over 700 million devices run Windows 10, Microsoft announced on Monday at its Build developer conference. From a report: Almost exactly a year ago, that number stood at 500 million. In addition, the company also today noted that Office 365 now has 135 million monthly active commercial users, up from 120 million last October. Back in 2015, when Windows 10 launched, Microsoft's original goal was to hit a billion devices by 2018. It quickly became clear that this was a bit too optimistic. While Windows 10 usage clearly continues to grow at a decent speed, we're not likely to see it hit a billion users soon. In a wide-ranging interview with news outlet The Verge, Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella discusses the future of Microsoft. (He gave an interview to CNBC as well.) Onstage at Build, Nadella said "privacy is a human right."
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  • Sure sure sure (Score:3, Insightful)

    by cellocgw ( 617879 ) <cellocgw@gmail . c om> on Monday May 07, 2018 @12:03PM (#56567282) Journal

    Like we had a choice.
    Certainly no choice on our business machines.
    Certainly no choice on the machines all our nontechie relatives bought.

    • Re:Sure sure sure (Score:4, Insightful)

      by tepples ( 727027 ) <tepples.gmail@com> on Monday May 07, 2018 @12:07PM (#56567316) Homepage Journal

      What applications do these "nontechie relatives" use that has no replacement on macOS?

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by DogDude ( 805747 )
      Our business still runs Windows 7. My personal machines still run Windows 7. Why do you say that you don't have a choice?

      • Our business still runs Windows 7. My personal machines still run Windows 7. Why do you say that you don't have a choice?

        Perhaps after two years, some machines aged and needed to be replaced.

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by DogDude ( 805747 )
          You can get refurbs with Windows 7 on them for next to nothing. The market is flooded with them. We won't be moving away from Windows 7 until this market dries up.

          • Re: (Score:2)

            by tepples ( 727027 )

            What plans have you made for 20 months from now when security updates for the Windows 7 operating system on these refurbs dry up?

    • Re:Sure sure sure (Score:5, Interesting)

      by Z00L00K ( 682162 ) on Monday May 07, 2018 @12:08PM (#56567324) Homepage Journal

      I wonder what GDPR will do to the "telemetry" of Windows 10. EU citizens will have the right to know at May 25th. And no EULA can evade that.

      • I wonder what GDPR will do to the "telemetry" of Windows 10. EU citizens will have the right to know at May 25th. And no EULA can evade that.

        Nothing. Windows 10's latest update makes it fully compliant. The GDPR does nothing to prevent data gathering. It just puts some requirements about management, e.g. deletion such as here: https://pureinfotech.com/delet... [pureinfotech.com]

    • But Intel doen't give you a choice. you have to run Minux.

    • There are choices, Linux for business and Apple for home use. (They can be swapped too)

      But more to the issue, Microsoft is competing against itself. Having to convince people to get off their old versions and use the new versions, before the old versions get too old, and allowing the customers to look at other options, because either way it would be a hard upgrade.

      It is often like when Apple shows its iPhone sales. The people who stitch from Android to iOS or iOS to Android is more or less a wash. But a

  • How many *chose* to run it? (Score:4, Interesting)

    by Rick Schumann ( 4662797 ) on Monday May 07, 2018 @12:04PM (#56567296) Journal
    How many had it forced on them, were tricked into upgrading, or made no conscious choice whatsoever and really didn't notice, just turned it on one morning and whump, there it was? Be honest, Microsoft.

    • Re: (Score:2, Troll)

      by Rob Lister ( 4174831 )
      I mean, you're a little right, Rick, but was it forced on you? Were you tricked into upgrading? I can't imagine anyone wouldn't notice though. But for the great unwashed it really didn't make much of a difference. I have a mixture on several machines and I'm pretty happy with all of them. Or at least not unhappy.

      • Re:How many *chose* to run it? (Score:5, Interesting)

        by Rick Schumann ( 4662797 ) on Monday May 07, 2018 @12:46PM (#56567706) Journal
        Technically I did have it forced on me -- by my employer, a large microchip manufacturer. Showed up for work one Monday and the gods-be-damned drive encryption wouldn't accept my password. So they tell me "Oh, that's not compatible anymore, we have to 'upgrade' you to Windows 10". So I had NO CHOICE in the matter. Of course they own the damned computer, too, but I had to put up with it. I've hacked the living shit out of Win10 though so it's as sanitized as I can make it, use a different UI shell so it's more like Win7, and being the Enterprise version most all of the telemetry (spyware) is cut out or disabled (and more after I got done with it), so I'm coping. But at home? Still on XP, until I get around to upgrading the hardware, in which case it looks like it'll be Ubuntu. No more MS for me, thanks anyway.
        • Why not upgrade your existing home computer to Ubuntu now? Firefox is ending support for XP this year and it's the last major browser to do so; after that you get no new web features or security updates (not to mention the years of security updates for other system components you've missed out on, such as the Meltdown and Spectre mitigations).
          • Because I don't want to break the only working setup I have for something I haven't worked out all the kinks in, that's why, and also the XP box is >10 years old, single core processor, 2GB RAM, and just not worth bothering 'upgrading' an OS on. I have a newer setup that will replace it -- as soon as I get all the OS-related problems worked out. Also I don't spend much time playing with computers anymore so I'm not going to waste time duplicating effort for no reason. Also it's not a huge 3-alarm-fire pr

            • Ubuntu is now the heaviest desktop (maybe tied with Mint Cinnamon). Kubuntu or Ubuntu MATE take half the memory. I've put Lubuntu or Puppy on many a "vintage" XP machine.

      • FWIW, several of my non-techie friends were tricked into upgrading to Windows 10 - when the "do you want Windows 10" pop-up appeared, they clicked on the "close window" icon like they'd done before, but MS had decided to change the behaviour of the dialog, so that now meant "yes."

        Better yet, a couple of those (Sony - yes, I know, but I wasn't consulted during the purchasing phase) machines became unusable due to a lack of appropriate hardware drivers.

        Also, FWIW, MS can claim Windows 10 stats on pretty m

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      Microsoft destroyed my laptop. It was working fine with older version of Windows (pre-Win10 version). Yes the laptop-display didn't work, but I had it connected to my TV via HDMI and everything was fine. Well, without prompting, without being given a choice, without being able to stop it Microsoft started Windows10 installing/upgrading on its own. But the video out HDMI doesn't work by default & without being able to see the native-laptop-screen am unable to get the forced-upgrade to complete, rever

    • How many had it forced on them, were tricked into upgrading, or made no conscious choice whatsoever and really didn't notice, just turned it on one morning and whump, there it was? Be honest, Microsoft.

      Standard M$ tactic: Pop up a question window that only needs an Enter to count as "Yes go ahead".

      The user is working and typing something into a text window or word processor, while reading from a page (or something). The question pops up and "steals" the keyboard, the user typing hits an Enter, and the question takes it as a "Yes". The user probably never saw the question and just wonders "where did my words go???".

      M$ has known about this bug for years and has used it before. When they say that all users a

  • Herpes 1.0 is also a huge success... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 07, 2018 @12:05PM (#56567300)

    it's "running" on about 3 billion humans...

    • 1.0? The only reason it's spread so far is by forking.

  • I'm Doing My Part! (Score:2, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward

    I keep Windows 10 up to date on our desktop, laptop, and two surface tablets. Fantastic operating system. Service guarantees citizenship! Thanks, Microsoft!

  • Sounds like a botnet advertisement (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    Over 700 million devices run Windows 10, Microsoft announced on Monday at its Build developer conference.

    And a sizeable ratio of those even with sort-of legal agreement of its owners to terms that allow Microsoft to run basically any payload they want.

    This is the future of organized crime.

  • That... is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep, No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd.

  • Correction (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    After my Windows 10 laptop automatically patched itself it now fails to boot. So correction: 699,999,999 devices.

  • Hardisks / ssd's with win 10 metric (Score:3)

    by sjwest ( 948274 ) on Monday May 07, 2018 @12:31PM (#56567570)

    We buy pcs without Microsoft licences (not from the famous brands) and still get microshit software on disk so if they consider new harddisk sales as a metric there wrong.

    Could run does not mean it runs it.

  • ...and at least 100 million of those devices were upgraded voluntarily!

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by stooo ( 2202012 )

      >>...and at least 100 million of those devices were upgraded voluntarily!
      Upgraded? You mean like in "Up" and "Graded" ?

  • As I'm sitting here waiting on Windows to clean install a fourth time on my work laptop...

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by stooo ( 2202012 )

      >> As I'm sitting here waiting on Windows to clean install a fourth time on my work laptop...
      I cleaned a lot of windows, and they are all dirty again.

  • I did a manual update on my laptop last tuesday in the hopes of no unexpected reboots. Last night it rebooted.

    Fuck you Microsoft. If you can't be bothered to ask before rebooting, I can't be bothered to run your software next time I buy a laptop.

  • Otherwise the TOS thought police might get you if you start using any of the 7 words [google.com]

  • With your Personal Computer that no longer belongs to you.

    The scariest statement from about 2 years ago "Over 82 billion photos viewed within the Windows 10 Photo app"

    Even if w10 was the best software ever this *should* be a deal breaker. Esp for technical users, at least limit your exposure to game play etc where you actually need to use it.

  • Perhaps when Win 10 does reach a billion installs Slashdot will finally retire its stained glass windows logo. If the stereotypical Slashdot post about Win 10 died with it, so much the better.

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