{"id":298626,"date":"2019-03-08T10:01:59","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T08:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=298626"},"modified":"2019-03-08T10:03:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T08:03:10","slug":"over-800-million-devices-run-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/298626-over-800-million-devices-run-windows-10.html","title":{"rendered":"Over 800 million devices run Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/bythenumbers\/en\/windowsdevices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Microsoft has stated<\/strong><\/a> that over 800 million devices are running Windows 10 today.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft executive Yusuf Mehdi <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yusuf_i_mehdi\/status\/1103701863239606273\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>tweeted<\/strong><\/a> the news on Thursday, thanking customers for helping the company to achieve this goal.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft reached the 700 million mark in September 2018, showing that the operating system has grown substantially &#8211; despite problems with its <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/278753-warning-dont-download-the-latest-windows-10-update.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>October Update<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Windows 10 was released in 2015, and it was originally hoped that the operating system would be running on a billion devices within three years of being released.<\/p>\n<p>However, a year later, Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/microsoft-windows-10-wont-hit-1-billion-devices-by-mid-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>said<\/strong><\/a> this goal would not be met.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft will release its next update in <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/296058-microsoft-begins-testing-big-windows-10-update.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>April 2019<\/strong><\/a>, which will include a light theme, the separation of Cortana from the search feature, and an integrated Microsoft Office app.<\/p>\n<p>The previous Windows update, which was released in October 2018, has been Microsoft\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/294216-the-latest-windows-10-update-is-the-least-successful-version-ever.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>least successful<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0one to date.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/298466-the-windows-calculator-is-now-open-source.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The Windows Calculator is now open source<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 800 million devices are running Windows 10 today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":174478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[123,26970,21291],"class_list":["post-298626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-microsoft","tag-windows-10","tag-yusuf-mehdi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298644,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298626\/revisions\/298644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}