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Four weeks after the launch of Windows 10, Microsoft has revealed that it has now been installed on 75 million PCs so far. Around 14 million of those installs took place within the first 24 hours, as we reported on at the start of the month. Microsoft's Windows 10 roll out has been happening in waves, so most of those who signed up for their free upgrade from Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 likely have the ability by now.
Obviously this does not reflect the amount of copies Microsoft has managed to sell, as owners of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 get an upgrade to the OS for free. On top of that, there have been reports of some upgrading from pirated versions of Windows and getting it all activated without an issue.
As you can see, with 75 million installs within the first month, Windows 10 is already doing a lot better than Windows 8, which took six months to get to the 100 million mark. The fact that Windows 10 is free for many probably doesn't hurt either.
Microsoft's head of Windows marketing, Yusuf Mehdi, revealed the new adoption rate figure today, along with some more unique statistics on Twitter. For instance, Xbox One owners have streamed 122 years worth of game time to a Windows 10 machine so far and the Windows Store has seen six times the normal number of downloads per device.
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KitGuru Says: Adoption rates for Windows 10 appear to be rising pretty rapidly. Have you installed Windows 10 yet? Are you still holding off?
Lets wait till after Aug 31 to start getting numbers on how many people reverted back to Win 7/8. We get 30days to go back and myself and my friends have already gone back.
i have been using win 10 on my pc and my laptop. i have not had a single issue with it.
Win 10 is a spy program that work as os .
First of all i m not going to install this spy tool nd incase i want to use dx12 …..simply i will install dual boot win 10 nd win 7 without spy updates
Win 10 Can use mic to hear everything if MS want..cam too
Curse u Microsoft …..
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Wait let me show you some stuff:
http://www.theonion.com/video/cias-facebook-program-dramatically-cut-agencys-cos-19753
Okay now read this up and see how much of you are privacy conscious:
I did intend to include a link to the Google equivalent of Microsoft’s SmartScreen filter: see Google’s Safe Browsing Service is Killing Your Privacy for the same sort of alarmist warnings.
(link: http://www.sitepronews.com/2014/10/01/googles-safe-browsing-service-killing-privacy/)
If you’re interested in Android privacy issues, see Mission Impossible: Hardening Android for Security and Privacy and XPrivacy.
(link: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/mission-impossible-hardening-android-security-and-privacy)
(link: https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacy)
On Mac OS X, “The logs show that a copy of your Safari searches are still sent to Apple, even when selecting DuckDuckGo as your search provider, and ‘Spotlight Suggestions’ are disabled in System Preferences > Spotlight.”
(link: https://github.com/fix-macosx/yosemite-phone-home)
The Washington Post notes that “Once Yosemite is installed, users searching for files – even on their own hard drives — have their locations, unique identifying codes and search terms automatically sent to the company, keystroke by keystroke. The same is true for devices using Apple’s latest mobile operating system, iOS 8.”
(link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/10/20/apples-mac-computers-can-automatically-collect-your-location-information/)
Apple’s Mac computers can automatically collect your location information
As that story also says: “The change is the latest by a major technology company hoping to more closely integrate individual devices with remote cloud services.”
Now lets talk about Google:
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/11/surveillance_as_1.html
That’s how Google makes vast profits from its monopoly of search, and that enables it to finance numerous free services that damage commercial rivals.
From the same Bruce Schneier post:
The result is a world where our most intimate personal details are collected and stored. I used to say that Google has a more intimate picture of what I’m thinking of than my wife does. But that’s not far enough: Google has a more intimate picture than I do. The company knows exactly what I am thinking about, how much I am thinking about it, and when I stop thinking about it: all from my Google searches. And it remembers all of that forever.
So just stay off the internet, because Google tracks you everywhere, even if you don’t use any Google services. Also, don’t use transit cards or rewards cards or bank cards, or a smartphone, and don’t go outside in any urban areas.
Otherwise, the NSA can put spyware on your hard drive, so I don’t think avoiding Windows 10 (or any version of any operatign system) is going to make much difference.
(link: http://www.wired.com/2015/02/nsa-firmware-hacking/)
For a good read on Windows 10:
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/askjack/2015/aug/15/windows-10-microsoft-should-privacy-problems-worry-me
So now are you ready to disconnect yourself from the internet and live in some cave? Because apparently nothing is safe.
grow up, slime ball