Windows 11 has reached 1 billion users faster than Windows 10

Windows 11 now has 1 cardinal users. Microsoft deed the milestone during the caller vacation quarter, meaning Windows 11 has managed to scope 1 cardinal users faster than Windows 10 did nearly six years ago.

“Windows reached a large milestone, 1 cardinal Windows 11 users,” said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella connected the company’s fiscal Q2, 2026 net call. “Up complete 45 percent year-over-year.” The maturation of Windows 11 complete the past 4th will beryllium related to Microsoft’s end of support for Windows 10, which besides helped summation Microsoft’s Windows OEM revenues.

Microsoft must person had a beardown number of Windows 11 users passim December, arsenic Windows main Pavan Davuluri revealed astatine Microsoft Ignite connected November 19th that “nearly a cardinal people” were moving Windows 11.

What’s absorbing is that Windows 11 has managed to scope 1 cardinal users successful 1,576 days, little than the 1,706 days it took Windows 10 to scope the aforesaid milestone. Microsoft had planned to get Windows 10 moving connected a cardinal devices wrong 3 years of its release, but the timeline sewage extended aft the cancelation of Windows Phone.