MSFT: We're Number Two!

Microsoft has once again asserted that 1.5 billion PCs

around the world run on Windows.

It posts the figure in its newly updated Microsoft by the

Numbers website, which also shows off that Cortana has

been asked 18 billion questions, facts about the company's

artificial-intelligence activities, donations, and its carbon

Footprint.

The number is consistent with figures that Microsoft has

previously set out about Windows adoption. Apple has

about 1.3 billion active iOS devices, while Google reports

about two billion active Android devices.

Microsoft in July said just under 700 million PCs are running

Windows 10, up from 500 million in May. Last week, the

company boasted that more than half of Windows devices in

the enterprise are running Windows 10.

Microsoft's own app data statistics report shows that, as of

September, 76 percent of all Windows PCs are running the

Windows 10 April 2018 Update, version 1803, with the

remainder on some earlier version.

Missing from the new By the Numbers report is a mention

of Office. Previously it stated that Office apps have had been

downloaded over 100 million times on Android and iOS, as

Neowin reported when Microsoft's site launched in 2015.