Microsoft brings out the calculator in Build 2018 and boasts of numbers: more than 700 million PC's with Windows 10

We know that Microsoft dominates the computer market with an iron fist. They say pests of the Redmond operating system but the truth is that in the end there is no one who coughs up… and that the residents of Mountain View do it very well with macOS, that the truths always have to be told.

But taking advantage of the developer conference, Build 2018, it doesn't hurt to do a bit of self-promotion, especially when, as is the case, Window 10 is going from strength to strength(we better not name Windows 10 Mobile).And that's what Redmond's have done, boast of numbers.

A for the 1,000 million

Windows 10 has unstoppable growth that has led it first to remove Windows 7 from the top as the most used version of Windows and now walk with a firm step to achieve a new brand: reach 1,000 million computers with Windows 10 as an operating system.

And they don't walk down the wrong path, because today there are almost 700 million PCs with Windows 10 Is there still a long way to go until reach 1,000 million right? Well, maybe not so much if we take into account that in November 2017 the figure was 600 million. Total, 100 million difference in less than 6 months.

To achieve these figures, Microsoft is betting more than ever on attracting users from other platformsWe have already seen it with applications such as Edge or Microsoft Launcher, with which they want to show iOS and Android users the advantages of the ecosystem they offer.

The tools to attract are no longer limited to Skype and the office suite Office

We have seen how Timeline reached Windows but also and in a striking move to iOS and Android so that an iPad user For example, you might experience the same thing as if you were working on a PC.

The path taken by Microsoft is good, especially if we do not take into account some recent erasures (the commitment to Windows Phone or the Universal Applications are enough as an example) but they still have a must, especially if we take into account that their great lack, not having an application store at the height, is still latent.

Developers don't like it, we've already seen it, and that's why they want to give it a little candy to make it more interesting for them to create applications for the platform and upload them to the Microsoft Store.To do this, they will increase the share of revenue generated by the application from the current 70% to 95%.

The truth is that for now they are doing well and Windows 10, an already mature system (with variants such as Windows 10 S Mode and a future Windows 10 Lean), is the flag of the policy that they are carrying out correctly. It remains to be seen if they can find, thanks to their multiplatform applications, that push that Windows Phone has not been able to give them... at least until its new concept of mobile operating system comes out.