Despite a few misses like Windows Vista, RRODs, and Zune, Microsoft is still pretty much the king of the tech world. This past weekend, they released a few statistics that may sound surprising, but given the time to think about them, don't seem too radical.
Microsoft cited several sources apart from their own press releases to add credibility to the figures. Give them a read and you'll be surprised to find out that despite some of their products being "unpopular," they're really actually quite the contrary.
- 150 million 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]
- Less than 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 the largest 25 US daily newspapers [source]
- 14 million Total number of Netflix subscribers [source]
- 23 million Total number of Xbox Live subscribers [source]
- 9 million 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 September 2009 [source]
- $6.5 billion Google net income for fiscal year ending December 2009 [source]
- $14.5 billion Microsoft net income for fiscal year ending June 2009 [source]
- $23 billion Total Microsoft revenue, FY2000 [source]
- $58.4 billion Total Microsoft revenue, FY2009 [source]
Some of the key points we found surprising are the number of Hotmail users vis-a-vis Gmail and Yahoo! Mail subscribers and the 1st place ranking of Windows Live Messenger compared to all other instant messaging services, which we think refers to Yahoo! Messenger and Skype. Also, notice that the figures made no mention of their bastard browser, Internet Explorer.
Clearly, Microsoft is a silent giant that needs not scream of its products' greatness because it doesn't have inferiority issues (not with these numbers). Though let's be weary of the time when Steve Jobs begins to stop using superlatives to describe his creations.
Via Gizmodo
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