14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft started the Windows 10 version 1809 (October 2018 Update) rollout on October 2, but only a few days later, the company pulled it from all channels due to a bug potentially leading to user data loss.
While the software giant hasn’t provided any data as to how many users got to download the October update during the few days of availability, an estimate in this regard could be calculated using numbers provided by AdDuplex and based on statistics collected from UWP apps.
AdDuplex says only 2.3 percent of Windows 10 devices are running version 1809. As noted by MSPU, the most recent official Windows 10 adoption figure is 700 million devices powered by this OS version, which means out of the total number of Windows 10 computers, a little over 16 million were upgraded to the October update.
However, keep in mind that the data is only collected based on data from Microsoft Store apps, so there’s a chance that adoption figures of version 1809 are actually much bigger.
Microsoft: Only a few systems affected by the bug
Of course, this doesn’t mean that everyone was hit by the bugs in the October update. In fact, Microsoft said last month that the data removal issue which made it pull the update affected a super-limited set of users.
“At just two days into the rollout when we paused, the number of customers taking the October 2018 Update was limited. While the reports of actual data loss are few (one one-hundredth of one percent of version 1809 installs), any data loss is serious,” Microsoft said in an analysis of the bug.
For now, the Windows 10 October 2018 Update remains in testing mode, which means that it’s still not available for download for users worldwide. No ETA has been shared, but we’re guessing the rollout should resume any minute now, Microsoft has already fixed the most critical bugs reported lately.