The announcement is made on Thursday by Microsoft regarding its latest Windows operating system designed to work on smartphones, desktops, laptops, Xbox One consoles and it going increase the strength of devices up to 300 million, around the world.
Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Windows and Devices Group said in a blog post that, “We’re seeing people at home, at schools, at small businesses, at large companies, and other organizations adopt Windows 10 faster than ever, and use Windows 10 more than ever before,”
The adoption speed has possibly been increased and boosted up by Microsoft’s step towards making Windows 10 available for a free upgrade by the end of July this year.
According to the Redmond, a Washington-based company is of the view that after some time on all new devices, it will be available as pre-installed or will be available on the purchase basis, while in the case with a home computer version it’s priced at $119.
Furthermore,Tech Titan is expecting the new version which is to be rolled out after the inappropriate pace of progress in Windows 8 attraction that aimed at integrating with a variety of devices can help it invigorate in the mobile sector, where it remained far behind Google Android and Apple iOS, especially in emerging computing technologies.
In simple terms, tiny fraction of smartphones is the cause for Windows running which is influenced and dominated by Microsoft’s personal computer software market.
These three hundred million (300) simply represents new computers and devices with Windows 10 installed in addition to upgrades of existing gadgets.
Now, Microsoft has fixed the target for having the operating system in use, in more than a billion devices by 2018, which would make it more competitive with Apple upheld that this year it has one billion active devices running iOS.
Moreover, the introduction of “An Anniversary update” is also reported by Microsoft that is feasible for the operating system to make it a more powerful and attractive educational device at schools.