From the Microsoft blog post, with my emphases:
Welcome to 2016! In the year ahead, we’re excited to bring you more Windows innovations, more incredible devices, and great new Windows apps and games that will deliver more productivity and entertainment experiences across the broadest range of devices. As we start the new year, I want to provide an update on Windows 10 and Windows 10 devices. We continue to be excited – and humbled – by the incredible response to Windows 10. First, a few updates on how we’re tracking toward our goal of seeing Windows 10 active on more than one billion devices.
As of today, there are more than 200 million monthly active devices around the world running Windows 10.
- And Windows 10 adoption is accelerating, with more than 40% of new Windows 10 devices becoming active since Black Friday.
- In fact, Windows 10 continues to be on the fastest growth trajectory of any version of Windows – ever – outpacing Windows 7 by nearly 140% and Windows 8 by nearly 400%.
- We’re seeing increased preference for Windows 10 with consumers. Since Black Friday, US retail PC share* for Windows 10 grew 16 points to 62% compared to the prior four weeks. Windows 10 mix of PCs rose to 87% from 58% prior to the holiday.
- We are also seeing accelerating and unprecedented demand for Windows 10 among enterprise and education customers. As of today, more than 76% of our enterprise customers are in active pilots of Windows 10, and we now have over 22 million devices running Windows 10 across enterprise and education customers.
Other relevant stats shared included:
- Over 2.5 billion questions asked of Cortana since launch.
- Around 30% more Bing search queries per Windows 10 device vs. prior versions of Windows.
- Over 82 billion photos viewed within the Windows 10 Photo app.
- Gaming continues to grow on Windows 10 – in 2015, gamers spent over 4 billion hours playing PC games on Windows 10. Gamers have streamed more than 6.6 million hours of Xbox One games to Windows 10 PCs.
Most of those stats include Windows 10 Mobile, of course.
There then followed a bunch of stats and stories about the Store, which I won't dignify here because 99% of it is still rubbish of one kind or another.
Finally, phones get a quick, though generic, mention:
The first Windows 10 phones, the Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL are now available worldwide and off to a great start, with initial demand outstripping our supply. We’re working actively to resupply the many stores which ran out of initial stock.
These are just a few of the recent highlights for Windows and our devices. We’re grateful for a strong 2015 and look forward to delivering more great experiences in 2016!
I'm really not sure how the current buggy mess, with high return rates, qualifies as 'a great start'. And 'demand outstripping supply' is a meaningless phrase without some numbers to back it up.
Still, thanks to Microsoft for sharing some figures at least, and it's great to see Windows 10 as a whole doing very well indeed.