The web may be endlessly buzzing with stories about the iThis, the iThat, Google, Facebook and Twitter, but the team at Microsoft have just coughed loudly and kicked over a big sheet of stats to remind us all who the boss is around these parts.
Posted on their own blog, the list rattles off a mighty impressive set of statistics that show that Microsoft are still a force to be reckoned with, with their message seemingly being: ‘we’re still the big boys in town and we ain’t going away any time soon.’
Here’s their full list (with sources) – and it’s a mighty impressive one at that.
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Microsoft by the numbers
150,000,000
Number of Windows 7 licenses sold, making Windows 7 by far the fastest growing operating system in history.[source]7.1 million
Projected iPad sales for 2010. [source]58 million
Projected netbook sales in 2010. [source]355 million
Projected PC sales in 2010. [source]<10
Percentage of US netbooks running Windows in 2008. [source]96
Percentage of US netbooks running Windows in 2009. [source]0
Number of paying customers running on Windows Azure in November 2009.10,000
Number of paying customers running on Windows Azure in June 2010.[source]700,000
Number of students, teachers and staff using Microsoft’s cloud productivity tools in Kentucky public schools, the largest cloud deployment in the US.[source]16 million
Total subscribers to largest 25 US daily newspapers. [source]14 Million
Total number of Netflix subscribers. [source]23 million
Total number of Xbox Live subscribers. [source]9,000,000
Number of customer downloads of the Office 2010 beta prior to launch, the largest Microsoft beta program in history. [source]21.4 million
Number of new Bing search users in one year. [Comscore report – requires subscription]24%
Linux Server market share in 2005. [source]33%
Predicted Linux Server market share for 2007 (made in 2005). [source]21.2%
Actual Linux Server market share, Q4 2009. [source]8.8 million
Global iPhone sales in Q1 2010. [source]21.5 million
Nokia smartphone sales in Q1 2010. [source]55 million
Total smartphone sales globally in Q1 2010. [source]439 million
Projected global smartphone sales in 2014. [source]9
Number of years it took Salesforce.com to reach 1 million paid user milestone. [source]6
Number of years it took Microsoft Dynamics CRM to reach 1 million paid user milestone. [source]100%
Percent chance that Salesforce.com CEO will mention Microsoft in a speech, panel, interview, or blog post.173 million
Global Gmail users. [source]284 million
Global Yahoo! Mail users.[source]360 million
Global Windows Live Hotmail users.[source]299 million
Active Windows Live Messenger Accounts worldwide. [Comscore MyMetrix, WW, March 2010 – requires subscription]1
Rank of Windows Live Messenger globally compared to all other instant messaging services. [Comscore MyMetrix, WW, March 2010 – requires subscription]$5.7 Billion
Apple Net income for fiscal year ending Sep 2009. [source]$6.5 Billion
Google Net income for fiscal year ending Dec 2009. [source]$14.5 Billion
Microsoft Net Income for fiscal year ending June 2009. [source]$23.0 billion
Total Microsoft revenue, FY2000. [source]$58.4 billion
Total Microsoft revenue, FY2009. [source]
