Microsoft Windows 10 is now running on 800 million devices

Microsoft’s Windows 10 is now running on 800 million devices. The company added about 100 million subscribers in last six months.

At the 2017 edition of Build conference, Microsoft said Windows 10 was running on 500 million devices. Six months later, the company announced the OS had 600 million active users.

With 800 million devices, Windows 10 is now among the largest operating systems in the world. But Microsoft had to really toil to reach the milestone.

It may be recalled Microsoft had initially aimed at 1 billion devices with Windows 10 by the end of 2018. Later, Microsoft acknowledged that the target was too ambitious. In fact, it took about four years to overtake its decade-old Windows 7 software.