Neowin News Feed for: Installs

Windows 10 reportedly exceeds 120 million installs in three months

Usama Jawad — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 15:44:01 +0000

According to a new report, Windows 10 has exceeded 120 million installations in three months. This equates to an average of 40 million installs per month and 1.33 million per day. Read more...

Windows 10 is now running on 110 million devices

Usama Jawad — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 14:09:14 +0000

At its devices event today, Microsoft has officially announced that Windows 10 is now installed on more than a hundred million devices which includes Windows Insiders and Enterprise users. Read more...

Windows 10 has reportedly surpassed 100 million installations

Usama Jawad — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 14:24:01 +0000

A new report claims that Windows 10 installations have finally surpassed the 100 million figure which means that if true, the company achieved 25 million more upgrades in the last 33 days. Read more...

Microsoft is downloading Windows 10 to your device, whether you've reserved it or not

Usama Jawad — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 11:23:03 +0000

A report has surfaced claiming that Microsoft will download the files required for Windows 10 on your device, whether you have reserved the free upgrade or not. The company has confirmed this claim. Read more...

Windows 10 is now running on more than 50 million devices

Timi Cantisano — Sat, 15 Aug 2015 15:50:01 +0000

After nearly two weeks, Windows 10 is running on nearly 50 million devices globally. This is a huge increase, considering that a week ago, the number was reportedly at 25 million. Read more...

Windows 10 is running on more than 25 million devices

Brad Sams — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 15:34:13 +0000

Windows 10 is now installed on around 25 million machines worldwide and with the rollout still going ahead full steam this number should continue to climb for the foreseeable future. Read more...

Windows Phone sees around 10% app install growth during the holidays

Brad Sams — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 15:30:01 +0000

Every year, smartphones are given as holiday gifts and when comparing app installs surrounding the holidays, we can see that Windows Phone had roughly a 10% growth. Read more...

No Boot Clean Installs Using Windows Vista Upgrade Discs

Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:52:55 +0000

Although it has been discussed to death here, some official coverage on the front page is needed. Thanks to Ambiance for posting a direct response from Microsoft about the issue. Unlike with the Windows... Read more...

22% of Windows Installs Pirated, 2.6Million of that Genuine?

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 23:11:22 +0000

Microsoft's anti-piracy tool, aka Windows Genuine Advantage, launched in 30 months ago in 2005. Since then, 512 million have tried to validate their copy of Windows and 114 million users, or 22.3%, were labeled by... Read more...

Sony Installs 'Rootkits' On Users Machines

Tom Warren — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 18:43:25 +0000

In what's set to be 2005's hottest story yet Sony have been found to install illegal Trojan horse-based digital restrictions management (DRM) technology that installs itself as a rootkit on Windows PCs. Users... Read more...

AIM Worm Installs Rootkit

Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:38:50 +0000

FaceTime Security Labs reported on Friday that a variant of the Sdbot worm has been making it's way around the AOL Instant Messenger network (AIM) via chats and instant messaging. Symptoms of an... Read more...

SAS Airline Installs Wireless Net Access

Wed, 02 Jul 2003 20:58:41 +0000

Scandinavian Airlines on Wednesday said it will offer high-speed Internet access aboard some long-haul flights, letting passengers surf the Internet or send e-mail. As signed a contract with Boeing Co. to install its wireless broadband... Read more...

Blue Screen of Death hits SP3 installs

Thu, 01 Aug 2002 16:21:04 +0000

Some reports are appearing which seem to suggest that that some users who downloaded the SP3 patch for Windows 2000 have experienced problems. (shock horror, news at 11! Ed.) In the... Read more...