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Windows 10 Now Active on over 200 Million Devices

Happy New Year!
In the coming year, Windows is looking forward to bringing you more Windows innovations, more awesome devices, and new Windows apps and games that will allow more productivity and entertainment, across a broad spectrum of devices.

In the new year, Windows provides us with an update on Windows 10 and Windows 10 devices. They state that they are excited, and humbled, by the great response to Windows 10. Here are a few updates on how they are striving to obtain their goal of getting Windows 10 active on more than one billion devices

As of today, there are more than 200 monthly active devices around the world running Windows 10.

  • And Windows 10 adoption is accelerating, with more than 40% of new Windows 10 devices becoming active since Black Friday.
  • In fact, Windows 10 continues to be on the fastest growth trajectory of any version of Windows – ever – outpacing Windows 7 by nearly 140% and Windows 8 by nearly 400%.
  • We’re seeing increased preference for Windows 10 with consumers. Since Black Friday, US retail PC share* for Windows 10 grew 16 points to 62% compared to the prior four weeks.  Windows 10 mix of PCs rose to 87% from 58% prior to the holiday.
  • We are also seeing accelerating and unprecedented demand for Windows 10 among enterprise and education customers. As of today, more than 76% of our enterprise customers are in active pilots of Windows 10, and we now have over 22 million devices running Windows 10 across enterprise and education customers.

Windows is even more excited that the customers love using Windows 10. As a whole, they are seeing significantly higher customer satisfaction with Windows 10, than any prior version of Windows. With over 11 billions hours logged on Windows 10 in December, it is now the highest engagement on Windows ever.

One way that progress is measured for Windows 10, is how people are using it. Some people upgrade simply to have the safest version available, but then find new ways to enjoy their experience. From the new web browser to their own personal assistant, Cortana, to playing games, or just simply being more productive, Windows activity has risen more and more. The more people use it, the smarter Cortana and Bing become, along with the Edge browser compatibility being more broadly tested, it makes a more attractive experience for developers and allows Windows to bring us more and more features.

Some ways people have been using Windows 10 follows.

  • Over 44.5 billion minutes spent in Microsoft Edge across Windows 10 devices in just the last month Microsoft-Edge
  • Over 2.5 billion questions asked of Cortana since launch.
  • Around 30% more Bing search queries per Windows 10 device vs. prior versions of Windows.
  • Over 82 billion photos viewed within the Windows 10 Photo app.
  • Gaming continues to grow on Windows 10 – in 2015, gamers spent over 4 billion hours playing PC games on Windows 10. Gamers have streamed more than 6.6 million hours of Xbox One games to Windows 10 PCs.

Windows Store sees Dramatic Growth in 2015, Creating Opportunities for Developers 

One huge investment in Windows 10, is being able to deliver a platform that allows developers to reach the core of Windows 10 devices- being pc, tablet, phone, and more- with one app and one Windows store. The new Windows Store has storefronts appealing to both consumers and organizations, providing new ways to promote themselves and help people find new content. With 3 billion visits to the new store, it has gained popularity and has opened new doors for upcoming Windows 10 apps such as Netflix, NPR, Pandora, Shazam, TuneIn Radio, Twitter, Uber, Wall Street Journal, 1-800-Flowers, and more. Some top developers are even releasing new games to the store, such as Mincecraft: Story Mode and World of Tanks Blitz. More new titles, such as Rise of the Tomb Raider are coming in early 2016. Developers are noticing the opportunity to market to millions of users, and are taking advantage of it.

The new Windows Store has shown: 

  • 2x increase in the number of paid transactions from PC and tablet customers this holiday season.
  • In December alone, 60% of paying customer were new to the Store.
  • In December, Windows 10 generated more than a 4.5x increase in revenue per device, as compared to Windows 8

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Xbox has Best Holiday Ever; Surface Book Coming Soon to 10 More Markets 

The Holidays were good to the Windows 10 devices, with high demands for Xbox One, Surface Pro, and Surface Book. This marks 2015 as the biggest year in Xbox history, with Xbox one setting a record in global engagement and sales. December 28th showed that there were more fans using Xbox One Live than any other Xbox in history. With Xbox One now running Windows 10, it is shown to be faster and more social after the release of the new Xbox One Experience. Windows 10 is said to make gaming better, by providing a consistent gaming experience across devices, while extending Xbox Live to every screen.

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With a great holiday in US and Canada, Surface is able to be brought to more people, in more markets. In China and Hong Kong, Surface Book recently became available for preorder, and today they are pleased to announce that it will soon be available in 10 different markets. Tomorrow, fans will be able to preorder Surface Book in Austria, Australia, UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, and New Zealand. It will also be coming to Japan soon as well! Surface Pro will be available in India in the coming weeks too.

The Microsoft HoloLens is continuing to bring developers more opportunities, with the Microsoft HoloLens Development edition coming soon. Customers like Volvo Cars and Autodesk Fusion 360, are creating all new ways to use the HoloLens at the center. It’s exciting to see what the developers may come up with in the future.

With the initial demand outnumbering the supply, the first Windows 10 phones, the Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL are now available worldwide, and are doing exceedingly well. Windows is actively working to restock the many stores that are currently out of these phones.

These are some exciting highlights for Windows and their devices. Let’s hope 2016 proves to be as strong as 2015 was!

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