Microsoft by the numbers

From an official MS blog post. I think Apple and Google still have a long way to go.

150,000,000
Number of Windows 7 licenses sold, making Windows 7 by far the fastest growing operating system in history.

7.1 million
Projected iPad sales for 2010.

58 million
Projected netbook sales in 2010.

355 million
Projected PC sales in 2010.


100% Percent chance that Salesforce.com CEO will mention Microsoft in a speech, panel, interview, or blog post.

MS have a bit of humour here :)

173 million Global Gmail users.

284 million Global Yahoo! Mail users.

360 million Global Windows Live Hotmail users.

299 million Active Windows Live Messenger Accounts worldwide.

Rank of Windows Live Messenger globally compared to all other instant messaging services.

$8.2 Billion Apple Net income for fiscal year ending Sep 2009.

$6.5 Billion Google Net income for fiscal year ending Dec 2009.

$14.5 Billion Microsoft Net Income for fiscal year ending June 2009.

$23.0 billion Total Microsoft revenue, FY2000.

$58.4 billion Total Microsoft revenue, FY2009.

Looks impressive, however as the NY Times pointed out :


Bing, its search engine, attracted 21.4 million new users in one year, Mr. Shaw says. Very well, but he does not mention the following: in 2007, the company’s online services group lost $604 million; in 2008, $1.2 billion; and in 2009, the year of Bing’s introduction, $2.25 billion.

Bamboo web parts.

2 of my favorite 3rd party web parts are Bamboo’s Alert and Mini calendar, they really fill in the gap of what people want and out of the box SharePoint.

I found out today that if you installed these on SP 2007 and are migrating to 2010 you have 12 months from when you installed these on 2007 to do so free.

I assume this is for all of their web parts.

Ever wanted to stop conflicts on a calendar?

This did take some time to think about, but it’s pretty easy.

1. Kick off a workflow when the item is created/modified

2. Add a delay in the workflow. This is because if the look up into the list is done too soon, the item saved sometimes, can not be found.



3. Perform a look up on the Item id and compare.

SharePoint in Plain English

Developing Applications for SharePoint 2010

Excellent straight, non MS techie speak, of how to develop applications in SP2010.

Link

Wish I found this article 2 months ago.

Cloudy morning in LIC on Wednesday

Where's the skyline?

I had an early start that day.

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