Microsoft reveals 400 million machines are now running Windows 10, new Edge security featureBack in July,

Microsoft reveals 400 million machines are now running Windows 10, new Edge security featureBack in July, Microsoft admitted that its goal of hitting one billion Windows 10 installations just three years after the launch of its latest OS wasn’t going to happen. But this figurewill eventually be reached - it just won’t…

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