However, there's a good chance Microsoft will hit the 1 billion mark in 2020. The software giant just announced that Windows 10 is now running on over 900 million devices.
#Windows10 is on more than 900M devices! Thanks to our customers, we added more new Windows 10 devices in the last 12 months than ever before. From PCs to HoloLens to Xbox to Surface Hub, Windows continues to power innovation—with more to come next week! https://t.co/G3CRdkFoPT pic.twitter.com/38fKk50IEH
— Yusuf Mehdi (@yusuf_i_mehdi) 24 september 2019
At the moment, one of the issues Microsoft is facing is that a lot of Windows users are still running Windows 7. It's a bit of a repeat of the Windows XP situation, many users are unwilling to upgrade despite the fact that Microsoft is cutting off security updates on January 14, 2020.
According to the latest OS marketshare statistics from NetMarketShare, over 30 percent of computers are still running Windows 7.