Windows 10: Windows 10 Now on 75 Million Devices

Windows 10 installs alone (75-million currently), is getting close to the installed base of of Apple Macs (80 million).

"as reported at the WWDC 2014, Apple’s installed base of Macs has grown to 80 million users"

Mac Installed Base : AAPLinvestors

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Windows 10 installs (75-million currently), are nearly double the Ubuntu installed base (40-million).

"Because of a lack of registration, any number provided for Ubuntu usage can only be estimated. In 2015, Canonical's Ubuntu Insights page stated "Ubuntu now has over 40 million desktop users and counting" - Wikipedia

Ubuntu (operating system) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

+1. In my opinion, new PCs are bought because of different reasons (hardware failure, new games you "must" play...) but a new OS would be a minor one, if at all. Besides, the gamers and other enthusiasts would upgrade several components rather than buy a complete new PC. I know I have the same PC for 10+ years, but of course no component is the same as the original

 

I upgrade HW , for hardware's sake, to get wanted and needed performance and upgrade OS to take advantage of new HW.

 

Any data to back that up?

If we're both talking anecdotally here, my guess is that people will just install it and use it, and not make any decision "whether to go with it or not".

Taking out a certain number of people who have problems with the upgrade and roll back, I don't see a large number of people actually making any decision to "go with it or not".

And I'm one who - though I certainly like W10 in my own personal experience - doesn't consider 75 million mostly free installs to be any proof of it being "the ultimate OS". It's just a big number driven by a free upgrade.

 

As for me, I LOVE the W10 upgrade.

I've done two installs (this very laptop and one in our family) and the performance increase alone is amazing to me. I am on a 2GB Dell laptop right now, and the upgrade means I am no longer considering a memory upgrade like I was with W7. This feels like a new computer after the upgrade.

I realize I'm just one of 75 million, but if I were one of 75, I'd feel the same way.

 

First graph on here is up to date,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_...rating_systems

 

Installed Windows 10 base after 1 month - 75-million.

Installed Apple Mac base - 80-million - total.
Mac Installed Base : AAPLinvestors

Installed Ubuntu base - about 40-million - total.
Ubuntu (operating system) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Windows 8 sold 60-million licenses in the first 3 months.
Windows 8 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Windows 7 sold 100-million copies in the first 6 months.
Windows 7 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Windows Vista sold 20-million copies in the first month.
Eugene Register-Guard - Google News Archive Search

Windows XP sold 32-million copies after 7 months of sales.
The Victoria Advocate - Google News Archive Search

 

So emphasis is on Free !

 

Windows 7 offered 3 for 1 licenses (for home use) early on. Windows 8 offered $40 upgrades. Most new Windows introductions offer deep discounts as part of the introduction. Windows 10 is hardly different with the 1 year free upgrade offer.

 

Ultimately all this is moot. Windows 10 will overtake all of the previous versions simply because there will be no Windows 11.

 

"Hardly" in this case means 40 bucks !

 

So what's your point? Do you think Windows 10 is going to fail or are your just arguing to be arguing? It has already matched or exceeded other FREE operating systems (Apple and Ubuntu) after 1 month. Now it only has to compete against Windows. ALL new Windows hardware will come with Windows 10, not 7, not 8.1, not XP, not Vista. Windows 10.

 

I would have to say that some of the facts quoted on the links seem a little dubious

This from the apple one is an example ...

"The last two years alone the number of users of OS X has tripled in five years"

 

No, I don't think it's going to fail, au contraire but a lot of people are upgrading just because it's free, coupled with possibility to return to previous system if not satisfied, without loosing either license, makes it practically risk free. MS has pulled a great move like that and it's paying off. I have nothing against it, that's for sure.
What I would like to see is number of retail licenses sold. That would be right measure of things.
I was pretty satisfied with W7 and even more with W8/8.1 and if it wasn't for insiders edition, I would be still running beta version like I did with most other windows before. I even had an early version of W8 and followed it thru all the way to last 8.1 (which I still have in dual boot). I took the offer to buy W8 upgrade for I think $37 but we have a regional MS office here and was able to pay in local currency, otherwise it would be more complicated.
Keep in mind that it's not as easy in many places in the world to make a distance payment over internet or otherwise.
It also wouldn't be great surprise if OEM licenses outstrip retail by a large margin.

 

The usual ratio of OEM to retail is 19 to 1. It should be even higher over the next 11 months because of the giveaway since the giveaways are displacing almost all the retail sales. (It is probably meaningless, but the GWX licenses are FPP without a key.)