The significance of data to Microsoft

Introduction: Frank Show, vice president of soft public relations, wrote in Saturday, citing a number of important data on Microsoft that would enable outsiders to better understand Microsoft.

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You may have seen Microsoft Windows 7 listed 8 months of sales of 150 million reports. This data is equivalent to 600,000 sales per day. In other words, since the Windows7 release, the average sales of at least 7 copies per second.

As a PR person, I prefer to use the text, but because Microsoft is a very important data enterprise. So the milestone data for Windows 7 also prompted me to start looking for other data related to Microsoft.

Of course, the data can only reflect the status quo from one aspect, and our industry competition is extremely fierce, there are a lot of opportunities, but also with many challenges. But in any case, 2010 will be a very important year for us, thanks to Windows 7, Office 2010, Bing, Xbox 360, Kinect, Windows Phone 7, the cloud computing platform, and many other products, services and satisfied users.

So, needless to repeat, here are some of my favorite data:

First group:

150,000,000

Meaning: Microsoft Windows 7 Sales, which makes Windows 7 the fastest selling operating system ever

Source: Windows Team

Second group:

7.1 million

Meaning: Apple ipad Tablet PC 2010-year sales forecast

Source: ISuppli

58 million

Meaning: 2010 Netbook sales Forecast

Source: ABI

355 million

Meaning: 2010 PC sales Forecast

Source: IDC

Third group:

<10%

Meaning: 2008 windows in the United States netbook market share

Source: NPD

96%

Meaning: 2009 windows in the United States netbook market share

Source: NPD

Fourth group:

0

Meaning: Number of paid users for Windows Azure cloud Computing operating System November 2009

Source: Microsoft Official

10,000

Meaning: Number of paid users for Windows Azure cloud Computing operating system June 2010

Source: Microsoft Official

700,000

Implication: The total number of students and faculty using Microsoft's cloud Office software in Kentucky State Public schools in the United States is the largest cloud computing deployment program in the country.

Source: Microsoft News Center

Fifth Group:

16 million

Meaning: The total number of 25 largest newspaper subscribers in the United States

Source: AP

14 million

Meaning: The United States online film rental service provider Netflix total registered users

Source: Netflix official

23 million

Meaning: Total Xbox Live registered users

Source: Microsoft Xbox Team

Sixth Group:

9,000,000

Meaning: The beta download of Office 2010 before it was officially released, which is the most downloaded beta software in the history of Microsoft

Source: Microsoft Official

Seventh Group:

21.4 million

Meaning: The number of new search users in Bing a year

Source: ComScore

Eighth Group:

24%

Meaning: 2005 years of Linux server market share

Source: IDC

33%

Meaning: 2007 years of market share forecast for Linux server developed in 2005

Source: IDC

21.2%

Meaning: The actual market share of Linux servers in the fourth quarter of 2009

Source: IDC

Nineth Group:

8.8 million

Meaning: Global iphone sales in the first quarter of 2010

Source: IDC

21.5 million

Meaning: Nokia smartphone sales in the first quarter of 2010

Source: IDC

55 million

Meaning: Global smartphone sales in the first quarter of 2010

Source: IDC

439 million

Meaning: 2014 global smartphone sales forecast

Source: IDC

Tenth Group:

9 years

Meaning: The time spent by Salesforce.com to 1 million paid users

Source: Salesforce.com Official

6 years

Meaning: Microsoft Dynamics CRM to reach 1 million paid users of the time spent

Source: Microsoft Official

100%

Meaning: Salesforce.com CEO mentions Microsoft in speeches, symposiums, interviews or blog posts

Source: None

11th Group:

173 million

Meaning: Total gmail global users

Source: ComScore

284 million

Meaning: Yahoo email The total number of users worldwide

Source: ComScore

360 million

Meaning: Total number of Windows Live mail Global users

Source: ComScore

299 million

Meaning: The number of active users worldwide for Windows Live Messenger

Source: ComScore

1

Meaning: The ranking of Windows Live Messenger in all Instant messaging services worldwide

Source: ComScore

12th Group:

5.7 billion dollars

Implication: Apple's net profit for the fiscal year ended September 2009

Source: Hoovers

6.5 billion dollars

Meaning: Google's net profit for the fiscal year ended December 2009

Source: Hoovers

14.5 billion dollars

Meaning: Microsoft's net profit for the fiscal year ended June 2009

Source: Hoovers

23 billion dollars