Forleden publicerede Microsoft en række nøgletal, som viser hvor stor virksomheden i virkeligheden er i forhold til salg af diverse produkter. Det er normal ikke en ting man ser Microsoft gøre, men kors hvor er det morsom at læse.
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150,000,000
Number of Windows 7 licenses sold, making Windows 7 by far the fastest growing operating system in history.[source]
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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]
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<10
Percentage of US netbooks running Windows in 2008. [source]96
Percentage of US netbooks running Windows in 2009. [source]
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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]
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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]
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9,000,000
Number of customer downloads of the Office 2010 beta prior to launch, the largest Microsoft beta program in history. [source]
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21.4 million
Number of new Bing search users in one year. [Comscore report – requires subscription]
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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]
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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]
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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.
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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]
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$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]
Kilde: Frank X. Shaw @ The Official Microsoft Blog
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