Why Business Should Love Microsoft

WHY BUSINESSES SHOULD LOVE MICROSOFT The history of innovation for the small to midsize business market (SMB) MICROSOFT Current Products for SMBS Windows 7 Office Professional Dynamics CRM Online Professional Office Live Small Exchange Online Microsoft AdCenter Business Windows Small IE 8/9 Office Web Apps Business Server Security Essentials Windows Phone Lync Sky Drive Office 365 SQL Server BUSINESS EMAIL USE [1] 73% of businesses in North America with 500+ PCs use Microsoft Exchange Server as their primary insources email system. In another study, however: 97% of businesses report Microsoft Exchange as their current email system. [2] 7% use Lotus Notes. SEARCH ENGINE SHARE [3] Google bing Ask Aol. .com 30% (14.1% Bing, 15.9% Yahoo) 65.6% 2.9% 1.5% HISTORY[4] 1975 1975: Gates-Allen form a partnership called Microsoft 1980 1985:Windows 1.0 released 1985 1986: Microsoft stock goes public at $21/share 1987:Windows 2.0 and OS/2 1989: First Office Suite released 1990 1990:Windows 3.0 announced; release of Windows SDK, allowing anyone to develop applications to run in the Windows OS 1990: first PC company to exceed $1 billion in revenue with $1.18 billion 1993:Windows NT (first OS marketed to professional use) 1995 1995:Windows 95 1998: Windows 98 2000 2000: Windows 2000 and Windows ME 2003:Windows Server 2003 2005 2005:launches Xbox 360 2007: Windows Vista 2009:Windows 7 2010 2010: Kinect for xbox 360 OS MARKET SHARE ON CORPORATE DESKTOPS, MARCH 2011[5] Windows ALL: 87.6% total Windows 7: 20.9% (of Windows) Windows vista: 6.2% (of Windows) Windows xp: 59.9% (of Windows) Windows nt: 0.5% (of Windows) Windows 2000: | 0.1%(of Windows) other: <0.1%(of Windows) Mac OS X: 11% total Linux: 1.4% total MISC, MICROSOFT USE (2011)[6] O 2.35 MILLION IE9 downloads in first 24 hours of release (over 27x per second) Nearly 50 million people use Office Web Apps 450 MILLION Every second, a copy of MS Office 2010 is sold Windows 7 licenses sold since 2009 launch (fastest-growing OS ever) 100.5 MILLION unique Bing searchers Microsoft Dynamics CRM has over 30,000 customers and 2 MILLION users worldwide. 5 billion Microsoft Tags have been printed since its launch in January 2009 People spend 140 BILLION minutes on Windows Live Messenger every month Microsoft Lync 2010 offers 337% ROI Over 15 MILLION (risk-adjusted, with a payback period of 12 months; commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Microsoft in Nov 2010) people use Live@edu (largest cloud service for education in the world) Cloud productivity services (including Office 365, BPOS, Office Web Apps, and Live@edu) being used by more than 80 MILLION people worldwide. [7] Windows Phone has more than 50,000 published apps and games in Marketplace, with an average of 300 added each day. Ford has shipped over 4 MILLION vehicles equipped with Ford Sync powered by Microsoft FEEL GOOD STUFF [8] Microsoft donated over $504 MILLION worth of software to 43,650 organizations worldwide in 2010. Microsoft distributed over 800,000 training and certification vouche as part of Elevate America (program providing Americans with free technology training and certification to help them find employment). the US Sources: Created by 1. http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/features/2011/nov11/11-03MicrosoftByTheNumbers.mspx 2. http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/229625435/can-google-cloud-alternatives-displace-microsoft.htm; jsessionid=OA+4u-sycr+PovNRRidVyw**.ecappj03 3. http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2080003/May-2011-Search-Engine-Market-Share-from- comScore-Compete-Hitwise 4. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/history 5. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/forrester-windows-7-powering-21-percent-of-corporate- desktops-xp-still-at-60-percent/9723 6. http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/features/2011/nov11/11-03MicrosoftByTheNumbers.mspx 7. http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2012/01/09/that-s-a-wrap-microsoft-2012-ces -keynote-recap.aspx 8. http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/features/2011/nov11/11-03MicrosoftByTheNumbers.mspx calnet TECHNOLOGY GROUP www.CalNetTech.com WHY BUSINESSES SHOULD LOVE MICROSOFT The history of innovation for the small to midsize business market (SMB) MICROSOFT Current Products for SMBS Windows 7 Office Professional Dynamics CRM Online Professional Office Live Small Exchange Online Microsoft AdCenter Business Windows Small IE 8/9 Office Web Apps Business Server Security Essentials Windows Phone Lync Sky Drive Office 365 SQL Server BUSINESS EMAIL USE [1] 73% of businesses in North America with 500+ PCs use Microsoft Exchange Server as their primary insources email system. In another study, however: 97% of businesses report Microsoft Exchange as their current email system. [2] 7% use Lotus Notes. SEARCH ENGINE SHARE [3] Google bing Ask Aol. .com 30% (14.1% Bing, 15.9% Yahoo) 65.6% 2.9% 1.5% HISTORY[4] 1975 1975: Gates-Allen form a partnership called Microsoft 1980 1985:Windows 1.0 released 1985 1986: Microsoft stock goes public at $21/share 1987:Windows 2.0 and OS/2 1989: First Office Suite released 1990 1990:Windows 3.0 announced; release of Windows SDK, allowing anyone to develop applications to run in the Windows OS 1990: first PC company to exceed $1 billion in revenue with $1.18 billion 1993:Windows NT (first OS marketed to professional use) 1995 1995:Windows 95 1998: Windows 98 2000 2000: Windows 2000 and Windows ME 2003:Windows Server 2003 2005 2005:launches Xbox 360 2007: Windows Vista 2009:Windows 7 2010 2010: Kinect for xbox 360 OS MARKET SHARE ON CORPORATE DESKTOPS, MARCH 2011[5] Windows ALL: 87.6% total Windows 7: 20.9% (of Windows) Windows vista: 6.2% (of Windows) Windows xp: 59.9% (of Windows) Windows nt: 0.5% (of Windows) Windows 2000: | 0.1%(of Windows) other: <0.1%(of Windows) Мас OS X: 11% total Linux: 1.4% total MISC, MICROSOFT USE (2011)[6] O 2.35 MILLION IE9 downloads in first 24 hours of release (over 27x per second) Nearly 50 million people use Office Web Apps 450 MILLION Every second, a copy of MS Office 2010 is sold Windows 7 licenses sold since 2009 launch (fastest-growing OS ever) 100.5 MILLION unique Bing searchers Microsoft Dynamics CRM has over 30,000 customers and 2 MILLION users worldwide. 5 billion Microsoft Tags have been printed since its launch in January 2009 People spend 140 BILLION minutes on Windows Live Messenger every month Microsoft Lync 2010 offers 337% ROI Over 15 MILLION (risk-adjusted, with a payback period of 12 months; commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Microsoft in Nov 2010) people use Live@edu (largest cloud service for education in the world) Cloud productivity services (including Office 365, BPOS, Office Web Apps, and Live@edu) being used by more than 80 MILLION people worldwide. [7] Windows Phone has more than 50,000 published apps and games in Marketplace, with an average of 300 added each day. Ford has shipped over 4 MILLION vehicles equipped with Ford Sync powered by Microsoft FEEL GOOD STUFF [8] Microsoft donated over $504 MILLION worth of software to 43,650 organizations worldwide in 2010. Microsoft distributed over 800,000 training and certification vouche as part of Elevate America (program providing Americans with free technology training and certification to help them find employment). the US Sources: Created by 1. http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/features/2011/nov11/11-03MicrosoftByTheNumbers.mspx 2. http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/229625435/can-google-cloud-alternatives-displace-microsoft.htm; jsessionid=OA+4u-sycr+PovNRRidVyw**.ecappj03 3. http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2080003/May-2011-Search-Engine-Market-Share-from- comScore-Compete-Hitwise 4. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/history 5. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/forrester-windows-7-powering-21-percent-of-corporate- desktops-xp-still-at-60-percent/9723 6. http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/features/2011/nov11/11-03MicrosoftByTheNumbers.mspx 7. http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2012/01/09/that-s-a-wrap-microsoft-2012-ces -keynote-recap.aspx 8. http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/features/2011/nov11/11-03MicrosoftByTheNumbers.mspx calnet TECHNOLOGY GROUP www.CalNetTech.com WHY BUSINESSES SHOULD LOVE MICROSOFT The history of innovation for the small to midsize business market (SMB) MICROSOFT Current Products for SMBS Windows 7 Office Professional Dynamics CRM Online Professional Office Live Small Exchange Online Microsoft AdCenter Business Windows Small IE 8/9 Office Web Apps Business Server Security Essentials Windows Phone Lync Sky Drive Office 365 SQL Server BUSINESS EMAIL USE [1] 73% of businesses in North America with 500+ PCs use Microsoft Exchange Server as their primary insources email system. In another study, however: 97% of businesses report Microsoft Exchange as their current email system. [2] 7% use Lotus Notes. SEARCH ENGINE SHARE [3] Google bing Ask Aol. .com 30% (14.1% Bing, 15.9% Yahoo) 65.6% 2.9% 1.5% HISTORY[4] 1975 1975: Gates-Allen form a partnership called Microsoft 1980 1985:Windows 1.0 released 1985 1986: Microsoft stock goes public at $21/share 1987:Windows 2.0 and OS/2 1989: First Office Suite released 1990 1990:Windows 3.0 announced; release of Windows SDK, allowing anyone to develop applications to run in the Windows OS 1990: first PC company to exceed $1 billion in revenue with $1.18 billion 1993:Windows NT (first OS marketed to professional use) 1995 1995:Windows 95 1998: Windows 98 2000 2000: Windows 2000 and Windows ME 2003:Windows Server 2003 2005 2005:launches Xbox 360 2007: Windows Vista 2009:Windows 7 2010 2010: Kinect for xbox 360 OS MARKET SHARE ON CORPORATE DESKTOPS, MARCH 2011[5] Windows ALL: 87.6% total Windows 7: 20.9% (of Windows) Windows vista: 6.2% (of Windows) Windows xp: 59.9% (of Windows) Windows nt: 0.5% (of Windows) Windows 2000: | 0.1%(of Windows) other: <0.1%(of Windows) Мас OS X: 11% total Linux: 1.4% total MISC, MICROSOFT USE (2011)[6] O 2.35 MILLION IE9 downloads in first 24 hours of release (over 27x per second) Nearly 50 million people use Office Web Apps 450 MILLION Every second, a copy of MS Office 2010 is sold Windows 7 licenses sold since 2009 launch (fastest-growing OS ever) 100.5 MILLION unique Bing searchers Microsoft Dynamics CRM has over 30,000 customers and 2 MILLION users worldwide. 5 billion Microsoft Tags have been printed since its launch in January 2009 People spend 140 BILLION minutes on Windows Live Messenger every month Microsoft Lync 2010 offers 337% ROI Over 15 MILLION (risk-adjusted, with a payback period of 12 months; commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Microsoft in Nov 2010) people use Live@edu (largest cloud service for education in the world) Cloud productivity services (including Office 365, BPOS, Office Web Apps, and Live@edu) being used by more than 80 MILLION people worldwide. [7] Windows Phone has more than 50,000 published apps and games in Marketplace, with an average of 300 added each day. Ford has shipped over 4 MILLION vehicles equipped with Ford Sync powered by Microsoft FEEL GOOD STUFF [8] Microsoft donated over $504 MILLION worth of software to 43,650 organizations worldwide in 2010. Microsoft distributed over 800,000 training and certification vouche as part of Elevate America (program providing Americans with free technology training and certification to help them find employment). the US Sources: Created by 1. http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/features/2011/nov11/11-03MicrosoftByTheNumbers.mspx 2. http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/229625435/can-google-cloud-alternatives-displace-microsoft.htm; jsessionid=OA+4u-sycr+PovNRRidVyw**.ecappj03 3. http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2080003/May-2011-Search-Engine-Market-Share-from- comScore-Compete-Hitwise 4. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/history 5. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/forrester-windows-7-powering-21-percent-of-corporate- desktops-xp-still-at-60-percent/9723 6. http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/features/2011/nov11/11-03MicrosoftByTheNumbers.mspx 7. http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2012/01/09/that-s-a-wrap-microsoft-2012-ces -keynote-recap.aspx 8. http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/features/2011/nov11/11-03MicrosoftByTheNumbers.mspx calnet TECHNOLOGY GROUP www.CalNetTech.com WHY BUSINESSES SHOULD LOVE MICROSOFT The history of innovation for the small to midsize business market (SMB) MICROSOFT Current Products for SMBS Windows 7 Office Professional Dynamics CRM Online Professional Office Live Small Exchange Online Microsoft AdCenter Business Windows Small IE 8/9 Office Web Apps Business Server Security Essentials Windows Phone Lync Sky Drive Office 365 SQL Server BUSINESS EMAIL USE [1] 73% of businesses in North America with 500+ PCs use Microsoft Exchange Server as their primary insources email system. In another study, however: 97% of businesses report Microsoft Exchange as their current email system. [2] 7% use Lotus Notes. SEARCH ENGINE SHARE [3] Google bing Ask Aol. .com 30% (14.1% Bing, 15.9% Yahoo) 65.6% 2.9% 1.5% HISTORY[4] 1975 1975: Gates-Allen form a partnership called Microsoft 1980 1985:Windows 1.0 released 1985 1986: Microsoft stock goes public at $21/share 1987:Windows 2.0 and OS/2 1989: First Office Suite released 1990 1990:Windows 3.0 announced; release of Windows SDK, allowing anyone to develop applications to run in the Windows OS 1990: first PC company to exceed $1 billion in revenue with $1.18 billion 1993:Windows NT (first OS marketed to professional use) 1995 1995:Windows 95 1998: Windows 98 2000 2000: Windows 2000 and Windows ME 2003:Windows Server 2003 2005 2005:launches Xbox 360 2007: Windows Vista 2009:Windows 7 2010 2010: Kinect for xbox 360 OS MARKET SHARE ON CORPORATE DESKTOPS, MARCH 2011[5] Windows ALL: 87.6% total Windows 7: 20.9% (of Windows) Windows vista: 6.2% (of Windows) Windows xp: 59.9% (of Windows) Windows nt: 0.5% (of Windows) Windows 2000: | 0.1%(of Windows) other: <0.1%(of Windows) Мас OS X: 11% total Linux: 1.4% total MISC, MICROSOFT USE (2011)[6] O 2.35 MILLION IE9 downloads in first 24 hours of release (over 27x per second) Nearly 50 million people use Office Web Apps 450 MILLION Every second, a copy of MS Office 2010 is sold Windows 7 licenses sold since 2009 launch (fastest-growing OS ever) 100.5 MILLION unique Bing searchers Microsoft Dynamics CRM has over 30,000 customers and 2 MILLION users worldwide. 5 billion Microsoft Tags have been printed since its launch in January 2009 People spend 140 BILLION minutes on Windows Live Messenger every month Microsoft Lync 2010 offers 337% ROI Over 15 MILLION (risk-adjusted, with a payback period of 12 months; commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Microsoft in Nov 2010) people use Live@edu (largest cloud service for education in the world) Cloud productivity services (including Office 365, BPOS, Office Web Apps, and Live@edu) being used by more than 80 MILLION people worldwide. [7] Windows Phone has more than 50,000 published apps and games in Marketplace, with an average of 300 added each day. Ford has shipped over 4 MILLION vehicles equipped with Ford Sync powered by Microsoft FEEL GOOD STUFF [8] Microsoft donated over $504 MILLION worth of software to 43,650 organizations worldwide in 2010. Microsoft distributed over 800,000 training and certification vouche as part of Elevate America (program providing Americans with free technology training and certification to help them find employment). the US Sources: Created by 1. http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/features/2011/nov11/11-03MicrosoftByTheNumbers.mspx 2. http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/229625435/can-google-cloud-alternatives-displace-microsoft.htm; jsessionid=OA+4u-sycr+PovNRRidVyw**.ecappj03 3. http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2080003/May-2011-Search-Engine-Market-Share-from- comScore-Compete-Hitwise 4. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/history 5. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/forrester-windows-7-powering-21-percent-of-corporate- desktops-xp-still-at-60-percent/9723 6. http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/features/2011/nov11/11-03MicrosoftByTheNumbers.mspx 7. http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2012/01/09/that-s-a-wrap-microsoft-2012-ces -keynote-recap.aspx 8. http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/features/2011/nov11/11-03MicrosoftByTheNumbers.mspx calnet TECHNOLOGY GROUP www.CalNetTech.com WHY BUSINESSES SHOULD LOVE MICROSOFT The history of innovation for the small to midsize business market (SMB) MICROSOFT Current Products for SMBS Windows 7 Office Professional Dynamics CRM Online Professional Office Live Small Exchange Online Microsoft AdCenter Business Windows Small IE 8/9 Office Web Apps Business Server Security Essentials Windows Phone Lync Sky Drive Office 365 SQL Server BUSINESS EMAIL USE [1] 73% of businesses in North America with 500+ PCs use Microsoft Exchange Server as their primary insources email system. In another study, however: 97% of businesses report Microsoft Exchange as their current email system. [2] 7% use Lotus Notes. SEARCH ENGINE SHARE [3] Google bing Ask Aol. .com 30% (14.1% Bing, 15.9% Yahoo) 65.6% 2.9% 1.5% HISTORY[4] 1975 1975: Gates-Allen form a partnership called Microsoft 1980 1985:Windows 1.0 released 1985 1986: Microsoft stock goes public at $21/share 1987:Windows 2.0 and OS/2 1989: First Office Suite released 1990 1990:Windows 3.0 announced; release of Windows SDK, allowing anyone to develop applications to run in the Windows OS 1990: first PC company to exceed $1 billion in revenue with $1.18 billion 1993:Windows NT (first OS marketed to professional use) 1995 1995:Windows 95 1998: Windows 98 2000 2000: Windows 2000 and Windows ME 2003:Windows Server 2003 2005 2005:launches Xbox 360 2007: Windows Vista 2009:Windows 7 2010 2010: Kinect for xbox 360 OS MARKET SHARE ON CORPORATE DESKTOPS, MARCH 2011[5] Windows ALL: 87.6% total Windows 7: 20.9% (of Windows) Windows vista: 6.2% (of Windows) Windows xp: 59.9% (of Windows) Windows nt: 0.5% (of Windows) Windows 2000: | 0.1%(of Windows) other: <0.1%(of Windows) Мас OS X: 11% total Linux: 1.4% total MISC, MICROSOFT USE (2011)[6] O 2.35 MILLION IE9 downloads in first 24 hours of release (over 27x per second) Nearly 50 million people use Office Web Apps 450 MILLION Every second, a copy of MS Office 2010 is sold Windows 7 licenses sold since 2009 launch (fastest-growing OS ever) 100.5 MILLION unique Bing searchers Microsoft Dynamics CRM has over 30,000 customers and 2 MILLION users worldwide. 5 billion Microsoft Tags have been printed since its launch in January 2009 People spend 140 BILLION minutes on Windows Live Messenger every month Microsoft Lync 2010 offers 337% ROI Over 15 MILLION (risk-adjusted, with a payback period of 12 months; commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Microsoft in Nov 2010) people use Live@edu (largest cloud service for education in the world) Cloud productivity services (including Office 365, BPOS, Office Web Apps, and Live@edu) being used by more than 80 MILLION people worldwide. [7] Windows Phone has more than 50,000 published apps and games in Marketplace, with an average of 300 added each day. Ford has shipped over 4 MILLION vehicles equipped with Ford Sync powered by Microsoft FEEL GOOD STUFF [8] Microsoft donated over $504 MILLION worth of software to 43,650 organizations worldwide in 2010. Microsoft distributed over 800,000 training and certification vouche as part of Elevate America (program providing Americans with free technology training and certification to help them find employment). the US Sources: Created by 1. http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/features/2011/nov11/11-03MicrosoftByTheNumbers.mspx 2. http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/229625435/can-google-cloud-alternatives-displace-microsoft.htm; jsessionid=OA+4u-sycr+PovNRRidVyw**.ecappj03 3. http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2080003/May-2011-Search-Engine-Market-Share-from- comScore-Compete-Hitwise 4. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/history 5. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/forrester-windows-7-powering-21-percent-of-corporate- desktops-xp-still-at-60-percent/9723 6. http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/features/2011/nov11/11-03MicrosoftByTheNumbers.mspx 7. http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2012/01/09/that-s-a-wrap-microsoft-2012-ces -keynote-recap.aspx 8. http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/features/2011/nov11/11-03MicrosoftByTheNumbers.mspx calnet TECHNOLOGY GROUP www.CalNetTech.com WHY BUSINESSES SHOULD LOVE MICROSOFT The history of innovation for the small to midsize business market (SMB) MICROSOFT Current Products for SMBS Windows 7 Office Professional Dynamics CRM Online Professional Office Live Small Exchange Online Microsoft AdCenter Business Windows Small IE 8/9 Office Web Apps Business Server Security Essentials Windows Phone Lync Sky Drive Office 365 SQL Server BUSINESS EMAIL USE [1] 73% of businesses in North America with 500+ PCs use Microsoft Exchange Server as their primary insources email system. In another study, however: 97% of businesses report Microsoft Exchange as their current email system. [2] 7% use Lotus Notes. SEARCH ENGINE SHARE [3] Google bing Ask Aol. .com 30% (14.1% Bing, 15.9% Yahoo) 65.6% 2.9% 1.5% HISTORY[4] 1975 1975: Gates-Allen form a partnership called Microsoft 1980 1985:Windows 1.0 released 1985 1986: Microsoft stock goes public at $21/share 1987:Windows 2.0 and OS/2 1989: First Office Suite released 1990 1990:Windows 3.0 announced; release of Windows SDK, allowing anyone to develop applications to run in the Windows OS 1990: first PC company to exceed $1 billion in revenue with $1.18 billion 1993:Windows NT (first OS marketed to professional use) 1995 1995:Windows 95 1998: Windows 98 2000 2000: Windows 2000 and Windows ME 2003:Windows Server 2003 2005 2005:launches Xbox 360 2007: Windows Vista 2009:Windows 7 2010 2010: Kinect for xbox 360 OS MARKET SHARE ON CORPORATE DESKTOPS, MARCH 2011[5] Windows ALL: 87.6% total Windows 7: 20.9% (of Windows) Windows vista: 6.2% (of Windows) Windows xp: 59.9% (of Windows) Windows nt: 0.5% (of Windows) Windows 2000: | 0.1%(of Windows) other: <0.1%(of Windows) Мас OS X: 11% total Linux: 1.4% total MISC, MICROSOFT USE (2011)[6] O 2.35 MILLION IE9 downloads in first 24 hours of release (over 27x per second) Nearly 50 million people use Office Web Apps 450 MILLION Every second, a copy of MS Office 2010 is sold Windows 7 licenses sold since 2009 launch (fastest-growing OS ever) 100.5 MILLION unique Bing searchers Microsoft Dynamics CRM has over 30,000 customers and 2 MILLION users worldwide. 5 billion Microsoft Tags have been printed since its launch in January 2009 People spend 140 BILLION minutes on Windows Live Messenger every month Microsoft Lync 2010 offers 337% ROI Over 15 MILLION (risk-adjusted, with a payback period of 12 months; commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Microsoft in Nov 2010) people use Live@edu (largest cloud service for education in the world) Cloud productivity services (including Office 365, BPOS, Office Web Apps, and Live@edu) being used by more than 80 MILLION people worldwide. [7] Windows Phone has more than 50,000 published apps and games in Marketplace, with an average of 300 added each day. Ford has shipped over 4 MILLION vehicles equipped with Ford Sync powered by Microsoft FEEL GOOD STUFF [8] Microsoft donated over $504 MILLION worth of software to 43,650 organizations worldwide in 2010. Microsoft distributed over 800,000 training and certification vouche as part of Elevate America (program providing Americans with free technology training and certification to help them find employment). the US Sources: Created by 1. http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/features/2011/nov11/11-03MicrosoftByTheNumbers.mspx 2. http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/229625435/can-google-cloud-alternatives-displace-microsoft.htm; jsessionid=OA+4u-sycr+PovNRRidVyw**.ecappj03 3. http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2080003/May-2011-Search-Engine-Market-Share-from- comScore-Compete-Hitwise 4. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/history 5. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/forrester-windows-7-powering-21-percent-of-corporate- desktops-xp-still-at-60-percent/9723 6. http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/features/2011/nov11/11-03MicrosoftByTheNumbers.mspx 7. http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2012/01/09/that-s-a-wrap-microsoft-2012-ces -keynote-recap.aspx 8. http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/features/2011/nov11/11-03MicrosoftByTheNumbers.mspx calnet TECHNOLOGY GROUP www.CalNetTech.com