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Windows 10 Aiming to Reach 1 Billion Devices by 2018

Windows 10 launches this summer.

By Eddie Makuch on April 29, 2015 at 5:01PM PDT

Microsoft is setting its sights on a major milestone for Windows 10. The company said today during its Build conference in San Francisco that it's aiming to have 1 billion devices running the new OS by 2018.

"Within two to three years of Windows 10's release, there will be 1 billion devices running Windows 10," Microsoft VP Terry Myerson said during the keynote address, as reported by GameSpot sister site CNET.

Windows 10 launches this summer (the end of July, if AMD is right), and will be available as a free upgrade for existing Windows users for PC and mobile devices. The new operating system also has a renewed focus on gaming.

Also at Build today, Microsoft revealed the name of its Internet Explorer replacement for Windows 10 and announced a new partnership with Unity for HoloLens.

For lots more on everything announced at Build, be sure to read CNET's extended coverage. The event runs through Friday, so keep checking back for even more news from the show.

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Why don't you aim to make it good first MS, 8 was awful.

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I disagree! Me and my lady loved it once we learned how to work it.

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@davem1992: Win 8 certainly wasn't as bad as it was made out to be. Sure it was a pain to clean spyware from a customer's computer because they decide to click on every kitten screensaver they see. The Metro style UI took me all of 5 minutes to customize to my liking on my work computer.

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@davem1992: 8 wasn't that bad. it just wasn't for everyone

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@shadyshack@davem1992: no it was bad for everyone, don't sugar coat this with enough cocaine to make Scarface wide eyed.

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@shadyshack@davem1992: as soon as I installed Classic Shell it was obvious that Win 8 is actually better than 7. I no longer have complaints about this OS but I'm wondering how 10 will fare on release.

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@shadyshack@davem1992: Installing Classic Shell helps with using it, though.

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@shadyshack@davem1992: If you want.

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@davem1992@shadyshack: no you just have to find a reason to hate something.

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@shadyshack@davem1992: No, I have it on my laptop and it's awful.

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@davem1992@shadyshack: it works really well if you have a laptop. no one will complain that copy. it was built for easy use like an mobile devices such as a laptop.

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@shadyshack@davem1992: Actually it works well if you have a touchscreen laptop, FTFY.

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@davem1992: 8 wasn't awful. IT had issues at release just like any OS. It was fixed later on.

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@sammoth@davem1992: I use 8 on everything now mostly for the sync. Now moving between systems is more like windows into the same bigger systems verse having to remember the setup of each one.

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@sammoth@davem1992: Yet was still awful, Windows 7 still destroys it.

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How does windows 7 destroy windows 8 when they are one of the same. You can do everything on windows 8.1 that you can do on windows 7 and if you dont know that then you havnt really gave it a try.

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@davem1992@sammoth: That's your opinion. I used both I still prefer 7 but, 8 isn't as bad as people claim. Now if you are talking about Vista and I would agree.

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@sammoth@davem1992: Vista is a travesty, my mother still has it installed on her PC and whenever I offer to put Windows 7 on it she freaks out due to being used to Vista.

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@davem1992@sammoth: I think the biggest issue people had was Vista was UAC, but it was the necessary ripping off the Band-Aid, and now application developers no longer require escalated privileges unless it's actually necessary.

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I dunno why, but I have a bad feeling about this.

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@adsparky: then you should seek out a doctor.

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@adsparky: its an OS not a nuke

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@iammcgruber@adsparky: Well, coming from MS...

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My question is, how are they making money on the OS if they are giving it away for free? Thats the scary part about this to me.

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@indojimbo: 1. From businesses, who still have to pay.

2. From new PCs.

3. From app store, movies, music, etc...

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@indojimbo: They make their licensing money off enterprise support contracts and OEMs. What little they make off selling upgrade licenses is eaten up having to support old versions for longer. I think Nadella understands that but Ballmer was still thinking in the 80s context.

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@indojimbo: And it's not free to everyone just Windows 8 and 7 users.

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@sammoth@indojimbo: if you get the torrent version you will not have access to all the os.

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@shadyshack@sammoth@indojimbo: Correct you can't get it if you have a pirated copy either.

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They openly said that they even welcome ppl who pirated windows 8 to download windows 10 for free

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@kentray1985@sammoth:

Read the update

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@sammoth@shadyshack@sammoth:

Not correct, windows 10 upgrade will be free for everyone with windows 7/8/8.1, even those with pirated copies

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@julianbuluba@sammoth@shadyshack@sammoth: No that was corrected.

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Read the update

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@sammoth@shadyshack@sammoth: that's true. nadell is very good at what he is doing right now. Steve was the worst CEO Microsoft has ever had.

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@shadyshack@sammoth@shadyshack: To many people think Windows is the same as Xbox division. there is a reason Windows in the #1 uses OS on the planet on PC.

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@sammoth@shadyshack@sammoth: PC market that is continuing to shrink year after year, it will be mostly in IT and Businesses since people at home are mainly on their portables and why MS was making the tablet push with Surface. The Juggernauts in pocket computing Google and Apple are in no way easy to topple. MS is only looking to stay relevant as their mainstay is dwindling away as Google is also taking on the netbook front, not sure why. Oh well, this is business and the way of life.Evolve or get left in the past.

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@SavageEvil@sammoth@shadyshack@sammoth: LOL ok now I know you're talking out your @ss. Telling me that the PC market is shrinking.

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@SavageEvil@sammoth@shadyshack@sammoth: That's a common investor mistake. Short term trends do no indicate paradigm shifts.

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@sammoth@shadyshack@sammoth: correct and if i had to take a guess i would think the next xbox will be a custom built box just like a pc. because it will be cheaper to mass produce that than a full unchangeable system.

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@shadyshack@sammoth@shadyshack: I'm not sure it's to that level yet because console prices still have to be dirt cheap relative to performance. That's why they couldn't just use Hyper-V for the XB1 but had to develop a hypervisor specifically for a game system. Eventually it will get to a point the performance/cost ratio makes it not really matter and it can just be a PC in a console box.

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Free to consumers...not to pc makers or big businesses.

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@hood_honky: right. they have to make money some how. but if you do not have win7-8 you have to pay for the update

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Yeah just like the xbox one, this thing will also fail

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@lukeskyrunner: just like your common sense.

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@lukeskyrunner: LOL Sorry Windows is on almost 95% of PC user base throughout the world.

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@lukeskyrunner: you try to hard man, just give it a rest.

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"Within two to three years of Windows 10's release, there will be 1 billion devices running Windows 10."

Yep. Whether they sell them or not. Whether Windows 10 sucks or not. But hey, it's Microsoft. That's beside the point.

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That's some illuminutty s**t right there.

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