This morning during Microsoft's Windows 10 devices event, Microsoft's executive vice president of Windows Terry Myerson announced that Windows 10 is off to a formidable start: 110 million devices are now running the OS, 650 billion webpages have been access with the new Edge browser, users have asked Cortana more than 1 billion questions, there have been 1 billion visits to the Windows app store, and developer revenue has increased four times over.
One of those developer feats is forthcoming from Facebook: Myerson says that the platform will be building all new Windows universal apps for Windows 10 devices, including a new Facebook app, a new Messenger app, and (seriously, finally) Instagram. Instagram has long remained the missing app for Windows 10, a huge hole in an otherwise fairly full catalog (though it was admittedly a very slow-going process getting to that point).
Myerson gave no details on what Instagram would look like or when it will be available for Windows 10 devices, but there will finally be one less reason for people to balk at Windows Phones—although, maybe that ship already sailed. We'll find out more today if Microsoft can recapture our attention in that department.
