Here are a few of the most interesting Microsoft statistics and facts I was able to dig up including revenue totals and employee counts. As always, be sure to check back in the future as I will be updating this post as new and updated stats become available.
Microsoft Facts
- Website: Official Website
- Year Founded: 1975
- Headquarters: Redmond, WA
- Founder(s): Bill Gates and Paul Allen
- Current Chief Executive: Satya Nadella
- Subsidiaries / Brands: Skype, Yammer, LinkedIn, Minecraft (Mojang), GitHub, Windows, Office, XBox, Azure, Surface, Edge, Bing, Teams
What is Microsoft?
Microsoft has a storied history filled with interesting statistics. What started with a plan to bring home computing into the mainstream with a user-friendly operating system has snowballed into a full-blown digital conglomerate of amazing products and services. Microsoft is a true American success story and any company that has been at or near the top of their industry for as long as Microsoft has is sure to rack up some amazing totals along the way.
Microsoft History
- 1975 – Microsoft is founded
- 1979 – Microsoft moves from Albuquerque, NM to Bellevue, WA
- 1980 – Microsoft enters into a deal to include their OS with IBM computers
- 1980 – Steve Ballmer joins Microsoft
- 1983 – Microsoft Word is first released
- 1985 – Windows 1.0 is released
- 1986 – Microsoft moves headquarters from Bellevue to Redmond, WA and goes public
- 1989 – Microsoft Office is first released
- 1990 – Windows 3.0 is released
- 1992 – Windows 3.2 is released
- 1995 – Windows 95 is released; Internet Explorer is released
- 1996 – MSNBC launches; Slate launches
- 1998 – Windows 98 is released
- 2000 – Microsoft loses its antitrust battle with the US government
- 2001 – Windows XP and Office XP are released; Xbox is released
- 2007 – Windows Vista is released
- 2009 – Windows 7 is released
- 2011 – Microsoft purchases Skype
- 2012 – Windows 8 is released; Surface and Windows Phone are introduced; Microsoft purchases Yammer
- 2014 – Microsoft purchases Mojang (Minecraft)
- 2016 – Microsoft purchases LinkedIn
- 2018 – Microsoft purchases GitHub
Microsoft Revenue Totals
Microsoft quarterly revenue:
- Q3 2015 (calendar)/Q1 2016 (fiscal): $21.66 billion
- Q4 2015 (calendar)/Q2 2016 (fiscal): $25.7 billion
- Q1 2016 (calendar)/Q3 2016 (fiscal): $22.1 billion
- Q2 2016 (calendar)/Q4 2016 (fiscal): $22.6 billion
- Q3 2016 (calendar)/Q1 2017 (fiscal): $22.6 billion
- Q4 2016 (calendar)/Q2 2017 (fiscal): $24.1 billion
- Q1 2017 (calendar)/Q3 2017 (fiscal): $23.6 billion
- Q2 2017 (calendar)/Q4 2017 (fiscal): $24.7 billion
- Q3 2017 (calendar)/Q1 2018 (fiscal): $24.5 billion
- Q4 2017 (calendar)/Q2 2018 (fiscal): $28.9 billion
- Q1 2018 (calendar)/Q3 2018 (fiscal): $26.8 billion
- Q2 2018 (calendar)/Q4 2018 (fiscal): $28.9 billion
- Q3 2018 (calendar)/Q1 2019 (fiscal): $29.1 billion
- Q4 2018 (calendar)/Q2 2019 (fiscal): $28.9 billion
- Q1 2019 (calendar)/Q3 2019 (fiscal): $30.6 billion
- Q2 2019 (calendar)/Q4 2019 (fiscal): $33.7 billion
- Q3 2019 (calendar)/Q1 2020 (fiscal): $33.1 billion
- Q4 2019 (calendar)/Q2 2020 (fiscal): $36.9 billion
- Q1 2020 (calendar)/Q3 2020 (fiscal): $35 billion
- Q2 2020 (calendar)/Q4 2020 (fiscal): $33.7 billion
- Q3 2020 (calendar)/Q1 2021 (fiscal): $37.2 billion
- Q4 2020 (calendar)/Q2 2021 (fiscal): $43.1 billion
Microsoft annual revenue:
- 2020: $143 billion
- 2019: $125 billion
- 2018: $110 billion
- 2017: $96 billion
- 2016: $91 billion
Microsoft Statistics
How many people use Microsoft OneDrive?
Last updated 8/8/17
Percentage of the Fortune 500 that use OneDrive:
Last updated 8/8/17
Number of Microsoft Launcher downloads:
Last updated 12/18/17
Reported market value of Microsoft:
Last updated 10/20/17
Average amount an intern earns at Microsoft:
Last updated 2/28/14
Number of active PC users:
Last updated 9/4/13
Microsoft’s share of the global digital advertising market:
Last updated 12/15/14
Number of Microsoft Enterprise Mobility users:
Last updated 4/24/19
Windows Phone Statistics
Window’s share of mobile OS market:
Last updated 8/1/16
Microsoft’s share of the U.S. smartphone market:
Last updated 5/7/15
Number of Windows Phone users in the US:
Last updated January 2016
Number of Windows Phone apps:
Last updated 9/9/13
Number of Windows Phone app downloads:
Last updated 11/20/13
Number of Windows Phone daily app downloads:
Last updated 11/20/13
Number of Windows Phone apps uploaded daily:
Last updated 11/20/13
Amount more that Microsoft reportedly makes off of Android than Windows Phone:
Last updated 11/7/13
Percentage of smartphones in China that are Windows Phones:
Last updated 8/1/14
Percentage of smartphones in India that are Windows Phones:
Last updated 8/8/16
Percentage of Windows Phones that have Windows 10 installed:
Last updated 9/11/16
Number of desktop users that the Microsoft Store is available to:
Last updated 3/5/19
Number of apps in the Microsoft Windows store:
Last updated 10/5/15
Number of visits to the Windows Store:
Last updated 2/4/16
Number of apps downloaded daily from the Windows Store:
Last updated 2/27/14
Percentage of Windows Store app downloads that are games:
Last updated 2/4/16
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