14 DAY TRIAL // Windows 10 was officially launched on July 29, and since then, Microsoft has released it for millions of users across the world who are eligible for the free upgrade to the new operating system.
While Microsoft hasn't provided any new statistics on how well adoption of Windows 10 is going, there are new reports out there claiming that the operating system has already been installed more than 25 million times.
Keep in mind that Microsoft hasn't yet confirmed these figures, but they are very likely to be accurate, given the fact that, after only 24 hours, Windows 10 was running on 14 million devices.
The race to 1 billion devices
While it's a little bit too early to compare Windows 10 adoption with the one of its predecessors (some preliminary data shows that the new operating system is already performing significantly better than Windows 8.1), there's no doubt that Microsoft is very pleased with these numbers, but it still expects Windows 10 to do better in the future.
The company has a goal of 1 billion devices by 2017, but this also includes mobile devices, so it's very clear that it has a very long way to go and plenty of work to do in the next 24 months to achieve this.
Windows 10 is offered as a free upgrade to those running genuine Windows 7 or 8.1, and since the former is installed on more than 50 percent of the PCs across the world, upgrading these systems is a priority for the company.
Right now, Windows 10 is being rolled out to PCs across the world in stages, which means that some users are yet to get it, so expect adoption figures to grow significantly in the coming weeks and months. It remains to be seen though if Microsoft can reach its 1 billion Windows 10 devices goal by 2017.