Interesting facts and figures from HQ

The facts and figures below were recently posted by Frank X. Shaw (Corporate Vice President, Corporate Communications ) on the Official Microsoft Blog and make some interesting reading.

1

150,000,000
Number of Windows 7 licences sold, making Windows 7 by far the fastest growing operating system in history.^[source]

2 

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]

 3 

<10
Percentage of US netbooks running Windows in 2008. ^[source]

96
Percentage of US netbooks running Windows in 2009. ^[source]

4
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]

5 

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]

 6

 9,000,000
Number of customer downloads of the Office 2010 beta prior to launch, the largest Microsoft beta program in history. ^[source]

 7

21.4 million
Number of new Bing search users in one year. [Comscore report – requires subscription]

 8

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]

9
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]

 10 

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.

11 

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]

 12 

$8.2 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]