Thanks to Swordmaker for the ping!!
Posted on 08/07/2015 2:21:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Windows 10 was officially launched on July 29 and since then, Microsoft has released it for millions of users across the world who are eligible for the free upgrade to the new operating system.
While Microsoft hasn't provided any new statistics on how well adoption of Windows 10 is going, there are new reports out there claiming that the operating system has already been installed more than 25 million times.
Keep in mind that Microsoft hasn't yet confirmed these figures, but they are very likely to be accurate given the fact that after only 24 hours, Windows 10 was running on 14 million devices.
The race to 1 billion devices
While it's a little bit too early to compare Windows 10 adoption with the one of its predecessors (some preliminary data shows that the new operating system is already performing significantly better than Windows 8.1), there's no doubt that Microsoft is very pleased with these numbers, but it still expects Windows 10 to do better in the future.
The company has a goal of 1 billion devices by 2017, but this also includes mobile devices, so it's very clear that it has a very long way to go and plenty of work to do in the next 24 months to achieve this.
Windows 10 is offered as a free upgrade to those running genuine Windows 7 or 8.1 and since the first is installed on more than 50 percent of the PCs across the world, upgrading these systems first is a priority for the company.
Right now, Windows 10 is being rolled out to PCs across the world in stages, which means that some users are yet to get it, so expect adoption figures to grow significantly in the coming weeks and months. It remains to be seen though if Microsoft can reach its 1 billion Windows 10 devices goal by 2017.
What part if FREE is difficult to understand?
And how much of your data have they accessed? :>}
I’ll pass.
I’m guessing those downloads represent more bits than all the data that flowed on the Internet/Arpanet during the 30 years preceding the dot-com crisis of 2001.
I installed and then reverted back to Win7. Do their stats take that into account?
PING for your Windows list. . . 10 has 25 million installs since release. . .
A co-worker told me today his dads pc is stuck on a black screen during the upgrade. Has not seen the desktop yet.
It asks him to insert a cd or usb device with the software.
His dad started the upgrade from the downloaded files so his son is burning a cd for him.
Thanks to Swordmaker for the ping!!
Personally I'll also want to see the figures from the websites and monitoring companies that are a measure of how many of these installs are actually in use. I'm willing to bet the numbers end up pretty darn good. Despite a lot of kvetching, Windows 10 seems to be getting decent acceptance.
Of course, many of us still remember the Microsoft Sales Dept.'s fabricated stories based on how many Windows Vista "licenses were sold" -- many of which weren't even loaded onto computers, and many were loaded but never became productive machines because the machines sat on shelves and were finally tossed out (or in many cases back-loaded with Windows 7 so they'd sell). Remember the Vista->Win7 "downgrade option" fiasco, where a Vista license was required so that Sales could still claim their "licenses were sold" numbers?
But in this case I think we have legitimate numbers that Microsoft can be proud of.
Not Vista -> Win7. "Vista -> XP" downgrade. Geez, my memory is slipping.
I’ve got it on one desktop, 2 laptops, just in-place updated my Surface today, and about 25 VMs—although some of these still have the Preview on them.
I in-place updated several Win 7 and 8.1 VMs and then reverted several more just to get the feel of it and document the process. When it starts the in-place update, it does a DISM capture of the original image so it can revert if there are problems or you don’t like it.
Microsoft says takes about 1 hour to revert but mine consistently took closer to two hours. Then again, they’re VMs and I’m only letting them use one core a piece...
Cortana is a lot of fun, but she can pick up on other voices too easily if a lot of people are talking in the room. You still have to say “Hey Cortana” to wake her up.
I’ve also been using the new Windows Image and Configuration Designer that comes with the Windows Automated Deployment Toolkit (ADK). It’s awesome. You should see the customization settings available. As much stuff as all the administrative templates in a GPO. AND you can make the customizations apply on a deployment or even an offline WIM image.
If you’re a deployment guy, life is good.
Seriously, that's great news, thanks for commenting on your experience with the upgrades.
I've been working on an entirely unrelated business-critical deployment the past few weeks at work, and burned out by the time I get home, and so I haven't had squat time to play with the Win10 release yet. Hope to start catching up soon...
Yeah, I've known several people that have done this and reverted back to Windows 7. Personally, I don't run MS Windows products anymore, the smart-phone-ification of the desktop/laptops has soured me on the latest Microsoft operating systems. I really don't care for all that garbage. Windows 7 is still probably their best operating system by far, for the Microsoft products, IMO.
CGato
I have been running Linux Mint in VM Player for a while and tried to install it on my Lenovo desktop, but it wouldn’t boot, so I reimaged it back to Win7. Clonezilla made that a breeze. I made a Windows 10 backup image with the MS utility but it refused to restore unless Win10 was already on the HD. I’m done with their false sense of security, re backup images.
I’ve had trouble with installing Mint before too. I do know others that haven’t had any troubles with it and enjoy it.
My 2 favorite flavors of Linux is Ubuntu and Zorin, the LTS or Long Term Service versions.
CGato
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