Microsoft History
- Year Microsoft was founded: 1975
- Launch date of Microsoft Windows OS: November 20, 1985
Microsoft Facts
- Office has been downloaded 340 million times on iPhones, iPads, and Android devices.
- Photographer Stephen Alvarez is on a mission to capture images of all seven natural wonders of world using only Microsoft Smartphones.
- Microsoft employees in Radmond, Washington eat about 984,000 orders of French fries each year in campus cafeteria.
- More than 1.2 billion people use Microsoft office in 140 countries and 107 languages around the world.
Microsoft OS Market share
- Windows Total Desktop OS Market Share: 90.61%
- Windows 10 Desktop OS Market Share: 11.85%
- Windows 8.1 OS Market Share: 10.72%
- Windows 8 OS Market Share: 60%
- Windows 7 OS Market Share: 52.47%
- Windows Vista OS Market Share: 1.73%
- Windows XP OS Market Share: 11.42%
PCs & Gaming
- Global market share of Win7: 53.71%
- Number of Windows 8 licenses sold worldwide: 200m
- Household penetration of PCs: 93%
- Global unit sales of Xbox 360: 0.93m
Smartphone & Tablets
- Global smartphone OS market share of Windows Phone: 0.7%
- Forecast market share of Windows Phone by 2019: 2.2%
- Global smartphone shipments of Windows Phone 7/Windows Mobile: 2.4m
- Global market share held by Windows RT tablet OS: 8.5%
- Number of computers that Windows 10 is installed on: 200 million computers globally
Microsoft Revenue growth
- Microsoft revenue for Q1 2016 (fiscal): $21.66 billion
- Microsoft revenue for Q2 2016 (fiscal): $25.7 billion
- Microsoft’s share of the global digital advertising market: 2.72%
- Microsoft’s global revenue: $77.85bn
- Microsoft’s net income: $21.86bn
- Microsoft’s expenditure on research & development: $10,411m
- Acquisition price of Skype: $8.5bn
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