14 million systems upgraded to Windows 10 in the first day

Microsoft announced the successful launch of Windows 10 by highlighting as many as 14 million systems have been updated to the new OS in the first 24 hours of availability; a long way towards the goal of 1 billion in three years.

Windows 10 is available for 2 days and so far the debut of the new operating system may be referred to as a success for Microsoft. No fewer than 14 million devices that have been upgraded to the new OS during the first day of availability, a fact that obviously reflects the fact that the update was initially made available to Windows users Insider that in recent months have been able to use the various preview release of the operating system.

We must not forget in any case as the debut of Windows 10 has been organized by Microsoft releasing a ” wave “. The free upgrade for owners of systems with Windows 7 licenses and Windows 8.1 was not open to everyone at once but will be made available in tranches during these first weeks of availability, so as to avoid problems relating to overhead lines.

And this is one of the biggest problems emerged before the 29th of July, ie the ability of Microsoft to assure download speed of the operating system appropriate even in the face of an expected high demand from the users. Windows 10 does not have ” broken internet “, but over the last two days the web traffic globally has not increased to the point to create obvious problems of quality of service.

Credit for this result is to be found in the choice of Microsoft to distribute the free update in batches, avoiding peaks of simultaneous requests unmanageable with existing infrastructure. The first 14 million systems are updated to Microsoft a first step towards the stated goal recently, Windows 10 installed on 1 billion devices in the next three years.