Microsoft won't have 1 billion Windows devices by 2018 after all

At its Build conference back in 2015, Microsoft set for itself a particularly ambitious goal: Have 1 billion devices running Windows 10 by mid–2018. But now that we’re more than halfway through 2016, Microsoft has backed off of that figure, admitting that goal was just a little bit too big.  SEE ALSO: HP's new Windows 10 phone arrives in August, won't play 'Pokémon Go' In a statement to ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft said (emphasis ours):  In other words, whe