Windows 10 is edging ever closer towards the magic billion mark, with news emerging the operating system has now been placed on over 800 million devices globally.

That's according to Yusuf Mehdi, Corporate VP of contemporary Life and Devices Group at Microsoft, who announced the milestone on Twitter.

Thank you to definitely all of our customers and partners in order to us achieve 800 million #Windows10 devices and also the highest client satisfaction in the good reputation for Windows. https://t.co/G3CRdkFoPT pic.twitter.com/je9kvBvYhjMarch 7, 2019

Microsoft has additionally updated its 'by the numbers' website to reflect the new total of 800 million.

The last official update we had on how widespread Windows 10 has become was delivered last September, at Microsoft's Ignite 2018 conference, whenever we heard that 700 million devices have been reached. Windows 10 hit 600 million devices back in November 2017, and made the 500 million mark in May 2017.

Obviously, when Windows 10 was first released back in mid-2015, Microsoft famously asserted that it envisaged the OS standing on a billion devices in 2 to 3 years.
2020 vision

So in the latest, the software giant wanted to see a billion reached in the center of 2018, but given the current pace of adoption, it looks like that milestone won't roll around until 2020 - five years after Windows 10 was first unleashed.

Windows 10 continues to be using a rocky duration of it lately, with the most recent update for that OS - the October 2018 Update - being fraught with assorted problems, which have resulted in it's rolled out at a veritable snail's pace.