Microsoft sticks out its chest with its operating system and ensures that they provide “excellent performance for over a billion users worldwide«. Ergo, we can say that the Windows developer makes public a fact that is not usually pronounced.
In fact, when we assign numbers or percentages to software quotas, read operating systems as it happens now, but also browsers or other types of applications, it is generally from statistics that in no case show absolute databut rather an indicative whose reliability we do not know, but which we use in spite of it.
Thus, while the percentage of market share of Windows remains high and far from the second and anyone who knows a little knows that it reflects reality, giving an exact number is a risky exercise, since it is not even known how many working devices are out there. At most, you have an estimate of those who are connected to the Internet.
That said, it is worth mentioning that Windows has a couple of years down and, without going any further, with data from this month, its market share on PC is 62.65%, the lowest it has had since measurements were published. But let’s apply what has already been warned: all this is according to what a source of statistics indicates.
The only certainty in this regard is that, in the field of the PC, Windows is the reference. That is not debatable. However, for more data, which is usually said, those that Microsoft itself now provides in the Windows blog with an approximate figure, but as round as a billion; a trillion in Anglo-Saxon accounts.
The figure, in fact, is higher, since there is talk of over a billion usersbut without specifying much more, which implies that they will have a fork that does not reach the and a half.
As an example, a couple of news items: three years ago, in March 2020, it was published that one billion active devices had been exceeded Windows 10 onlywhile last year the total number it was 1.4 billion users. Which is right and which is wrong?
Well, it depends on the moment, the method and so on, although it should be noted once again that not even with a system that tracks the user like Windows, it is possible to extract an absolute number…. because there are many millions who do not connect to the Internet, many others who block system updates -the main source of measurement for Microsoft- and basic functions, etc.
The figure of one billion, if any, is significant for how things are, and that is that today we published the news that MIUI exceeds 600 million active users worldwide. In other words, Xiaomi, one of the most popular smartphone brands, but one among many.
