Microsoft has sole 150 million Windows 7 licenses in just over 8 months. That is quite a statement. But Microsoft is under attack, mainly for being behind the 8-ball in the area of innovation. Some are even going after Steve Ballmer saying that he should be replaced. See Gates vs Ballmer

But their sales of Windows, that’s more than 600,000 per day. Microsoft even makes the connection that a product called Windows 7, sells up to 7 copies of the license of every second of every day since launch.

So by the numbers, here is Microsoft’s take on the latest developments.

3: What about the netbooks? What are they using?

• Less than 10% : The percentage of US netbooks running Windows in 2008. [source]
• 96%: The percentage of US netbooks running Windows in 2009. [source]

4: Cloud computing: Azure

• 0: Were the number of paying customers running on Windows Azure in November 2009.
• 10,000: But the number of paying customers running on Windows Azure increased in June 2010.
• 700,000: Finally, The number of students, teachers and staff using Microsoft’s cloud productivity tools in Kentucky public schools, the largest cloud deployment in the US.

5: Who is Using What? A Comparison of Products

• 16 million: Total subscribers to largest 25 US daily newspapers.
• 14 Million: Total number of Netflix subscribers.
• 23 million: Total number of Xbox Live subscribers.

XBox is holding is own. More so than other subscription sources.

• 9,000,000: This is the number of customer downloads of the Office 2010 beta prior to launch, the largest Microsoft beta program in history.

7: Bing Users

• 21.4 million: The number of new Bing search users in one year.

8: Linux

• 24%: The Linux Server market share in 2005.
• 33%: The predicted Linux Server market share for 2007 (made in 2005).
• 21.2% : But the actual Linux Server market share as of fourth Quarter 4 in 2009.

9: Mobile Phone

• 8.8 million: the number of Global iPhone sales in Q1 2010.
• 21.5 million: And the number of Nokia smartphone sales in Q1 2010.
• 55 million: This is the total smartphone sales globally in Q1 2010.
• 439 million: And the projected global smartphone sales in 2014.

10 The e-Mail Market

• 173 million: Global Gmail users
• 284 million: Global Yahoo! Mail users.
• 360 million: Global Windows Live Hotmail users
• 299 million: Active Windows Live Messenger Accounts worldwide.
• 1: The rank of Windows Live Messenger globally compared to all other instant messaging services.

11: Revenue – Net Income – Who is making what

• $5.7 Billion: Apple Net income for fiscal year ending  Sep 2009.
• $6.5 Billion: Google Net income for fiscal year ending Dec 2009.
• $14.5 Billion: Microsoft Net Income for fiscal year ending June 2009.
• $23.0 billion: Total Microsoft revenue, FY2000.
• $58.4 billion : Total Microsoft revenue, FY2009.

These numbers show a lot of market value for Microsoft.  Sales, net income, product use, market share, all of these show the overwhelming total of numbers in multiple directions. While it has been convenient to knowk Microsoft, the truth is that at this point in time it is the most successful technology company on earth. Can it retain that omph into the future depends in large part on their vision.

The new technologies that Microsoft is pursuing may develop slowly but if their beta versions are any indication, they ate looking at producing products that will survive the test of time. Many of the visionary technologies that have been in the news these last few years are limited to small niche markets. Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and the like have made their contribution to the social networking scene but to the full computer scene . That is where Microsoft still holds the edge.

Source: Microsoft Blog