Microsoft just announced a major milestone for Windows 10 adoption: Less than a year after launch, the operating system is now running on 300 million active devices around the world.
"We're pleased to see Windows 10 become one of the largest online services in less than a year," Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Windows and devices group, wrote in a Thursday blog post. "We're seeing people at home, at schools, at small businesses, at large companies, and other organizations adopt Windows 10 faster than ever."
Some 14 million or so devices switched over to the new OS within the first 24 hours of its launch on July 29. Less than a month later, the OS was running on some 75 million devices.
Contributing to those strong adoption numbers, Redmond is offering the OS as a free upgrade to those on Windows 7 and 8.1. If you haven't yet taken advantage of the free upgrade offer, you might want to make it a priority because time is running out. The promotion ends on July 29; after that date you'll have to pony up $119 for a full version of Windows 10.
As Windows 10 adoption grows, people are spending more and more time using Microsoft's Edge browser, Cortana personal assistant, and playing games for the platform. In March alone, users collectively spent 63 billion minutes on Edge, contributing to a 50 percent increase in minutes used since the last quarter, Mehdi said. In addition, people have played 9 billion hours of games on Windows 10 to date and used Cortana to answer more than 6 billion questions.
This article originally appeared on PCMag.com.