Windows 10 now on 75 million devices

Corporate VP of marketing for Windows posts Twitter list of facts about Microsoft's new OS

Windows 10 is now running on 75 million devices globally, just a month after it was launched, Microsoft has confirmed.

Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president of marketing for Windows and devices, took to Twitter to unveil 10 facts about the operating system, just under a month since it first hit the market.

He tweeted that the OS is being used in 192 countries – "virtually every country in the world" – and that more than 90,000 PCs or tablets have upgraded from older versions.

The Microsoft man’s stats come after CRN's sister site Channelnomics Europe reported that just 150 PCs with Windows 10 pre-installed were sold by European distributors during its launch week.

Mehdi added that a number of devices made in 2007 had upgraded to the new OS, more than 122 years of gameplay had been streamed from Xbox One to updated machines, and 10 million achievements had been unlocked on Microsoft’s Solitaire and Minecraft games.

Cortana, the Windows personal assistant tool, has told more than half a million jokes since the Windows 10 launch, he said, adding that app downloads have shot up to six times more per device than those running Windows 8.