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Microsoft's Ginormous Software Business
Posted by John Foley,
Jul 11, 2007 12:08 PM
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At Microsoft's annual partners conference Tuesday, attendees were barraged with numbers meant to impress them about the sheer size of Microsoft's business and the market opportunities its scale represents for them. Merriam-Webster just added "ginormous," a combination of gigantic and enormous, to its dictionary. It's a word befitting the world of Microsoft. |
Tuesday's keynote presentations featured Microsoft execs Allison Watson, Kevin Turner, Chris Caposella, Mike Sievert, and Steve Ballmer, and the statistics were flying. Here's some of what they shared:
8,000 partners from 130 countries attended Microsoft's Partners conference this year
10,000 people in total attended the conference, which was sold out
600,000 – Microsoft partners around the world
160 million – Microsoft customers around the world
40 million Windows Vista licenses sold since launch on January 30, 2007
$300 billion – the "opportunity" available to the Windows Vista partner ecosystem in 2008
10,000 devices have been Windows Vista certified
1,900 applications have been Windows Vista certified
2 million devices are supported by Windows Vista
96% of devices are supported by Windows Vista
85 million – Sharepoint users worldwide
2.5 million Lotus Notes users have switched to Microsoft Exchange in 2007
4 million – Microsoft's goal for switching Lotus Notes users to Exchange in 2008
$7 billion – Microsoft's R&D budget in fiscal 2007
$7 billion plus – Microsoft's R&D budget in fiscal 2008
$44 – monthly per user fee for Microsoft's Dynamics CRM Web app, Professional edition
$59 – monthly per user fee for Microsoft's Dynamics CRM Web app, Enterprise edition
$150 million – partner opportunity around Microsoft's Office Live online software
6 million – number of Office 2007 downloads
5,300 – number of Microsoft's "Information Worker competent" partners
2,200 – Information Worker competent partners who work with Sharepoint Server
20,000 partners trained on Microsoft exchange
$5 million – funds set aside by Microsoft for "skills accelerator" program for Information Worker partners
2,640 – billable hours in a typical Office 2007 partner engagement with a large company
$596,000 – the contract value of those billable hours
$22 – partner opportunity for each dollar Microsoft makes on Windows Vista
$33 billion – partner deployment opportunity around Office 2007
$4,000 to $5,000 – annual cost to manage one PC
600,000 laptops lost or stolen in the United States in 2005
$39 billion – annual commercial losses to software piracy
70 – emerging technologies/innovations identified as future business opportunities by Microsoft
$100 million – average Microsoft investment in future opportunities based on annual R&D budget of $7 billion
$228 billion – size of commercial software market in 2007
$305 billion – size of commercial software market in 2010
$32.5 billion -- Microsoft revenue through three quarters of fiscal 07 (fourth quarter and full-year results are due next week)
$9.8 billion -- Microsoft net income through three quarters of fiscal 07
These are just some of the numbers shared during the above mentioned keynotes. (See Richard Martin's news report here.) I took notes furiously, but couldn't keep up, as Microsoft's speakers clicked through more than a million PowerPoint slides. Or so it seemed.
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