Microsoft sticks its chest out with its operating system, ensuring that they provide “excellent performance for more than a billion users worldwide«. So we can say that the Windows developer is publishing a fact that is not usually spoken.

In fact, when we assign numbers or percentages to software quotas, we read operating systems, as it happens now, but also browsers or other types of applications, it is generally from statistics which in no way show absolute databut rather an indicative whose reliability we do not know but use nonetheless.

So while Windows’ market share percentage remains high and far from second, and who knows a bit knows that it reflects reality, giving an exact number is a risky exercise because it’s not even known how many functional devices are out there. PUSH. At most you have an estimate of those connected to the internet.

That said, it’s worth noting that Windows has a few years down and without further ado, with this month’s data, its PC market share is 62.65%, the lowest since the measurement was published. But let’s use what has already been warned: this is all according to what the source of the statistics says.

The only certainty in this regard is in the PC field, Windows is the reference. This is not debatable. However, for more data that is usually said, the one that is now reported by Microsoft itself on the Windows blog with an approximate number, but rounded off as a billion; trillion in Anglo-Saxon accounts.

This number is actually higher because it is being talked about over a billion usersbut without specifying much more, which means they will have a fork that will not reach and a half.

As an example, some news: three years ago, in March 2020, it was announced that one billion active devices had been exceeded Windows 10 onlywhile last year total figure it was 1.4 billion users. Which is correct and which is incorrect?

Well, it depends on the moment, the method and so on, although it should be noted again that even with a user-tracking system like Windows, the absolute number cannot be mined…. because there are many millions of people who do not connect to the Internet, many more who block system updates – a major source of measurement for Microsoft – and basic functions, etc.

The one billion number, if it even exists, is significant to the way things are, and that’s how we broke the news today that MIUI has surpassed 600 million active users worldwide. In other words, Xiaomi, one of the most popular smartphone brands, but one of many.