Microsoft: 200M now use Windows 10 in the enterprise
Microsoft on Tuesday said that some 200 million enterprise workers now run Windows 10, a sign that corporations and other businesses are close to schedule to scrub Windows 7 from their machines before that older OS retires in about 20 months, an analyst argued.
"The 200 million resonates with me, based on what I'm hearing from clients," said Stephen Kleynhans of Gartner Research. Migrations to Windows 10, he added, are progressing "pretty aggressively."
Joe Belfiore, a corporate vice president who leads the Windows 10 team, revealed the number at Microsoft's Build developers conference Tuesday. "Right now, there are over 200 million people in corporate accounts using Windows 10," Belfiore said as he claimed deployment is "really ramping up" in the enterprise. "We've seen that [Windows 10] adoption rate increase now at 79% year-over-year growth."