What a crock of an article. But it is the Register which is the equivalent of the Huffington Post.
One billion is their own personal goal. Whether they get there or not is not a sign of success or failure of the OS.
The OS, as of now, is used more than all Mac and Linux versions combined and then some, in case the usuals show up to try to act like an OS on hundreds of millions of devices is a failure, while those OSs they constantly try to pimp and advertise on Windows threads, that sit at a fraction of that number are some rip-roaring success.
I swear it is like some pathetic deranged obsession of some people on FR to desperate NEED Windows 10 to somehow go away in order to personally affirm their use of Ubuntu, OSx, or some old version of Windows as if normal people actually using an OS they irrationally hate makes those inoperable.
Get over it! Like it or not, those of us that use Win10 are perfectly fine with it. Be happy with what you got and stop looking for some mythical rejection of this OS.
Relax. This same article appeared in a lot of tech news, I just happen to enjoy the Register and posted it from there.
It’s not about the operating system, it’s about the fact that Microsoft was foolish enough to make a big freaking deal in public about their “personal goal”. If they’d merely been more subtle, these articles about missing the goal wouldn’t exist.
But they were unsubtle, and so they get to feel foolish now.
It’s not about the OS.