Although Windows is far from being Microsoft's biggest business, it is still our main point of contact with this large software company. However, for more and more mobile device users, the desktop has become completely irrelevant. With more than 2 billion Android users and more than 1 billion iOS users, this data clearly tells us that most users who use personal computing devices no longer use PCs.
In September 2017, almost a year ago, Satya Nadella told Bloomberg that the company had recorded 1 billion Windows users, but the company later issued an official statement to update the figure to 1.5 billion.
Today, Microsoft updated their data through the Numbers page, reaffirming the number of PCs using Windows to 1.5 billion units. Of course, we don't know the date from which this number was reached, but given that the site has just been refreshed after a few years of fallow, we think this is the latest. On the one hand, Microsoft is actually increasing the proportion of their Windows Enterprise Edition business, and their Windows system Pro version of sales increased by 8% year-on-year in their recent financial data.
Conversely, however, we see sales of their consumer product lines continue to decline, but Microsoft plans to make Windows 10 PCs work better with mobile phones, and plans to bring PCs to and from game streams, Xbox Game Pass, etc. Consumers are more relevant to the device.
