Microsoft: 400 million Windows 7 and 100 million Office 2010 licenses sold (and more partner conference stats)
Summary: Microsoft's Day 1 keynote from the Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles didn't feature much product news. But there were a lot of stats thrown at the 12,000 or so partners in attendance on July 11.
Microsoft's Day 1 keynote from the Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles didn't feature much product news. But there were a lot of stats thrown at the 12,000 or so partners in attendance on July 11.
I've rounded up the claims from CEO Steve Ballmer, Windows/Windows Live CFO Tammi Reller and Partner Chief Jon Roskill here:
400,000,000: The number of Windows 7 licenses sold to date
100,000,000: The number of Office 2010 licenses sold to date 50,000: The number of businesses that have tried Office 365 (via its trial program) in the past two weeks 41,000: The number of Microsoft partners now who identify themselves primarily as cloud partners 1,000: The number of days until Microsoft stops supporting Windows XP (Note: end of support doesn't mean users can't still run the product)
76: The percentage of servers that ship with Windows on them
62: Number of days until the third Microsoft-sanctioned disclosure about Windows 8 at the Build conference
36: Number of times Reller said "Windows 8" during her keynote remarks (without actually sharing anything new about the coming OS)
8.70: The amount Microsoft partners make for every $1.00 that Microsoft makes.
2: The number of public updates Microsoft has provided about Windows 8 (CES 2011 in January and AllThingsD/Computex in June)
"Transition" was the key word for me at the partner conference this morning. Microsoft is attempting to get partners to transition to the cloud more quickly. Company officials are working to transition from viewing technologies like Bing and Xbox as consumer-only technologies and think about how they might be able to be used for business. And Microsoft is seeking a way to help partners transition from Windows 7 to Window 8 without having the bottom drop out of the Windows 7 market.
Just as they did with Vista when Windows 7 was on the horizon, MIcrosoft execs are emphasizing to partners that there's still life left in the current version of Windows, in spite of all the interest about Windows 8. Microsoft's guidance is to get partners to sell customers on moving to Windows 7, IE 9 and Office 2010 now to ease their transition to Windows 8, IE 10 and Office 15. It's tough to be between product cycles, as the Softies are right now with Windows and Office, but that's where things are right now....
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Brokering services.
The above is great, because it allows Bing to capture lots of information beyond what is found on web pages, and encourages monetization of this data beyond advertising alone. Further down the line, MS could sell companies on the idea of powering their services using local Bing based implementations, which use standard data formats that go significantly beyond HTML, further differentiating itself from Google, and other HTML based search engine services.
The above is what I mean when I say that MS should look to develop solutions on Windows, that go beyond solutions found on the HTML platform. Let the Online division be taken over by Windows proponents, and let them do new and exciting things (lead by designers / user experience guys), which don't merely clone what other companies are doing with HTML. HTML should be considered by MS' online division to be so yesterday!
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Thanks for the info. I think this info though should at least be accessible from the Help menu in Visual Studio. Also for those developing WP7 apps, I believe the App Hub should also be accessible from the VS Help menu.
RE: Microsoft: 400 million Windows 7 and 100 million Office 2010 licenses sold (and more partner conference stats)
RE: Microsoft: 400 million Windows 7 and 100 million Office 2010 licenses sold (and more partner conference stats)
76% of servers "sold with an installed OS" were Windows, the roughly 50% of servers sold bare bones, well we don't know what OS is on them.
And if MS only makes a couple hundred bucks (1/8th) on the thousands my employer sends them every month, they must have some unreal cost control issues.
Same old, same old
Windows server @ 76% of preinstalled is a little disappointing for that market (OEM license, low volume). I'd have expected it to be much higher.
Yes, the numbers are extremely impressive
Microsoft deserves congratulations for being so successful.
No you didn't. You expected it to be much worse
You actually sound disappointed.
Congratulations are in order for MS.
RE: Microsoft: 400 million Windows 7 and 100 million Office 2010 licenses sold (and more partner conference stats)
RE: Microsoft: 400 million Windows 7 and 100 million Office 2010 licenses sold (and more partner conference stats)
RE: Microsoft: 400 million Windows 7 and 100 million Office 2010 licenses sold (and more partner conference stats)
RE: Microsoft: 400 million Windows 7 and 100 million Office 2010 licenses sold (and more partner conference stats)
RE: Microsoft: 400 million Windows 7 and 100 million Office 2010 licenses sold (and more partner conference stats)
First of all, the "bare bone" servers could either be Linux, Windows Server Volume License, VMware, or any combination, so while we don't know with certainty the exact number, you can assume that many are running alternatively-licensed copies of Windows. I know I buy my servers with no OS and use my volume licensing options, as an example.
Second, you didn't read the 8.70 figure right. Microsoft makes $1 for every $8.70 their partners make, meaning it's profitable to partner with Microsoft, and Microsoft software is less expensive than you want to believe (especially when getting into proper volume licensing programs).
RE: Microsoft: 400 million Windows 7 and 100 million Office 2010 licenses sold (and more partner conference stats)
Second point, So you're saying that $8.70 is divided amongst all MS partners? How many partners? 10K, 50K, more? $8.70 doesn't go far when divided by those numbers.
Of course, in reality, the standard 80/20 rule applies.
Not good numbers
Not sure about your sources or logic....
I suspect that most of those are on cell phones, not computers, i.e. if you're talking about "people online" as opposed to computers. Between most of China, India, the rest of lower Asia, New Guinea region, most of South America and most of Africa, I would guess at leat 5 billion live in underdeveloped regions that barely have toilets, never mind electrical service and computers.
Windows 7 has been around a couple of years, Office 2010 around one year. 400/100 million seems like a great figure to me, especially when you consider that the pricetag is around $55-480/$72-560 for the various licenses of Windows and Office.
And honestly, I don't understand the connection to silverlight. It's a free plugin. As in... free...and...plugin. You might as well compare MS office to facebook. You know, one is used to do work, and the other is used to waste time. They both run on computers, but that's pretty much where the similarities end. Your comparison goes a little beyond comparing apples and oranges. It's more like apples and mushrooms. You could have picked so many more suitable things... like maybe Linux servers, or linux desktops, or...free office suites??
A free plug-in that works on XP, Vista, and Windows 7
so how that relates to Windows 7 sales, I'm in agreement, not seeing the relation.
400 million includes all new PCs bought.
Anyway, Microsoft today equates to Office and Windows with little innovation or revenue to show in any other division. Do they really need those tens of thousands of programmers to produce Windows and Office?
RE: Microsoft: 400 million Windows 7 and 100 million Office 2010 licenses sold (and more partner conference stats)
They do have a choice. Nobody forces consumers to buy PCs. But since Linux is a non starter with consumers, what other options do they have?
RE: Microsoft: 400 million Windows 7 and 100 million Office 2010 licenses s
So not true...I was shopping for a possible system replacement at several large electronic store chains, and when I asked about any other OS besides Windows, I was told that only Windows was allowed to be sold with a PC.
So customers have NO option at all. So these numbers are very bad based on the numbers of systems out there. It's easy to sell millions of licenses when you can't get anything else. I wonder how many of these are really sold, not just sitting in the channel?