Microsoft is going to lose: Win10 installed 1 billion targets are estimated to be

Computer store news: Just before Windows 10 first launched in July 2015, Microsoft had set a grand goal for the system — — at Microsoft At the end of the 2018 fiscal year, the system was installed in one billion devices.

But now, a year has passed and Microsoft is going to lose its word. Microsoft claims that from the current situation, it is expected that the time to achieve this goal will be extended. To this end, Microsoft also issued a statement in the statement that the Windows 10 installation is difficult to meet the standard due to the weakness of the Windows smartphone business. The following is a statement from a Microsoft spokesperson about the release of this matter:

& ldquo;Windows 10 has a good start, it is the most powerful start in history, the number of active devices in a single month has reached more than 350 million, and customers Satisfaction and participation also set a new record. We are satisfied with the current progress, but due to the impact of the mobile phone hardware business, it will be difficult to achieve the goal of achieving 10 billion installations according to the previously scheduled date, so the time to complete this goal is required. Delayed. We are currently satisfied with the growth of commercial deployments and new device users. At the same time, our customers' satisfaction with Windows has also made us happy. In other words, Microsoft is still satisfied with the growth momentum of Windows 10 in the fields of PCs and tablets, and also believes that the goal of Windows 10 final installation to 1 billion devices can be achieved. Of course, all this credit has a lot to do with the launch of the free upgraded version of Windows 10. Microsoft's free Windows 10 upgrade ended on July 29 and has now attracted millions of users to try the system for free.

In early July 2015, just a few weeks before Windows 10 was rolled out to PCs and smartphones, Microsoft almost canceled the Windows Phone business, announced a massive layoff, and announced that it would focus on &ldquo ; Create some of the selected flagship phones & rdquo; aspects. This adjustment is also the result of the shrinking market share of Windows phones. Today, the market share of Windows phones is only about 3%, and the hope of restoring growth is already very slim. Although Microsoft plans to launch a new phone in 2017 that may be the focus of industry leader Apple, Microsoft will not launch a new flagship Windows 10 phone this year.

Therefore, due to the drag of the mobile phone business, the goal of achieving Windows 10 installation to 1 billion devices will of course need to be delayed. This issue is very important for developers because developers want to develop related applications for the platform with the most users. At present, Windows has been struggling with the iPhone and Android in the mobile phone field.