Microsoft is a household name and has been for almost four decades. In fact, for good or bad, calling the company legendary is far from an overstatement.
In this article, we will talk about the company, its past, and its current developments. The Microsoft statistics and facts below will give you an accurate idea of where the company is heading and how successful these past few years have been.
The Top 10 Microsoft statistics for 2023
Microsoft increased its revenue by 18% to $198,270 million in 2022.
Microsoft’s Intelligent Cloud segment, led by Azure, generated $75,251 million in 2022.
Windows holds 76% of the global OS share for desktops.
Microsoft is continuing its partnership with OpenAI.
Microsoft became carbon neutral in 2012.
The company loses $100-$200 on every Xbox series X and series S sold.
A third of the global Microsoft workforce are women.
Bill Gates has been a billionaire since 1987.
The company plans to become carbon-negative by 2030.
Microsoft’s market cap was $1.79 trillion in Q4 of 2022.
General Microsoft Stats and Facts
Microsoft generated $198,270 million in revenue, an 18% increase compared to 2021.
Furthermore, the company’s net income grew by 19%, reaching $72,738 million.
In fact, Microsoft’s revenue had grown across every segment. Their productivity and business processes segment was powered by Office 365 Commercial, as well as by Linkedin. Their Intelligent Cloud revenues were helmed by Azure, while More Personal Computing revenue was powered by Windows (of course), but also by news advertising and search.
(Microsoft Investor Reports)
Windows held 76% of the global market share for operating systems used by desktop PCs in mid-2022.
On the other hand, the macOS held 14.6%, Linux was at 2.42%, and Chrome OS was at 1.71%.
It comes as no surprise that the OS market share of the Microsoft company is still at the top, for desktops at least. In the last decade, its market share never fell below 70%.
Similarly, since 2013 Linux moved around between 1% and 2%, while macOS almost doubled its share from 7.95% in 2013 to 14.6% in mid-2022.
(Statista)
Chrome is the leading browser in the US, with a 50.9% market share in December 2022.
And in fact, the browser was in the lead for at least the past 8 years, since 2015. The second most popular browser is Safari, with 33.97%, with Edge in third place at 6.73%.
A similar situation can be found in Europe. In 2022, Chrome had a 58% market share, Safari had 21.66%, and Edge had 5.28%.
(Statista)
Microsoft’s market cap was $1.79 trillion by the end of 2022.
Microsoft industry analysis from 2022 shows a substantial drop in market cap when we look at $2.5 trillion it had in November of 2021. However, the most likely cause is the difficult global economic situation.
Namely, its market cap in 2020 was $1.681 trillion, it was at $1,200 trillion in 2019 and $780.36 billion in 2018. There has been consistent and continual growth throughout the decade, where 2021 was more of an outlier than a sign of bad things to come.
(Companies Market Cap)
Over 1.5 million companies worldwide used Microsoft Office 365 in early 2023.
While it's difficult to determine how many individual users are out there, the data shows that in early 2023, in the US, 1,354,969 companies used Microsoft Office 365.
In second place is the United Kingdom, with 330,084, then Australia, with 157,000.
(Statista)
Microsoft loses between $100 and $200 on every Xbox Series X and S sold.
At first glance, this does not seem to make any sense. However, Microsoft actually recoups this loss and makes a profit based on additional sales generated by consumers owning an Xbox.
Namely, sales from controllers, games, and headsets more than make up for the loss. Furthermore, subscriptions for Xbox live and Game Pass provide a substantial source of revenue as well.
However, Phil Spencer, head of Xbox at Microsoft, did point out that they might increase console prices in the near future, following in the tracks of Sony’s PlayStation 5 price increases.
(IGN)
By June 2022, 50.53 million Xbox One units have been sold worldwide.
Most of these sales were made in North America, accounting for 31.58 million. In Europe, around 12.82 million were sold, with the rest of the world generating, in total, 6.02 million sales.
We also need to mention that there were only 120 thousand units sold in Japan in total. This, along with so few sales in Asia they weren't even segmented, speaks to the popularity of Sony’s PlayStation in the region.
(Statista)
Chromebooks outsold Macs for the first time in 2020.
Furthermore, Microsoft trends show that while Windows has dropped through 2020 in terms of global OS market share, ChromeOS has increased.
At the beginning of the year, macOS was at 5.8%, while Chrome OS was at 5.3, with Windows dominating at 87.5%. However, by Q4, the macOS share grew to 7.7%, and ChromeOS had shown substantial growth, reaching 14.4%. Windows, however, had dropped to 76.7%.
(Geekwire)
In 2022, Windows 11 and 10 were installed on over 1.4 billion devices worldwide.
Microsoft statistics show that for every six people on the planet, there is one device running Windows. Furthermore, it needs to be mentioned that Teams is being used by over 90% of Fortune 500 companies.
(Windows Central)
Microsoft Facts and Stats for the Future
Microsoft’s Intelligent Cloud segment generated the most revenue, bringing in $75,251 million.
This segment also had the highest increase, bringing in 25% more than it did in 2021.
Continuing this Microsoft revenue breakdown, their More Personal Computing segment generated $59,655 million, a 10% increase, while Productivity and Business Processes revenue was at $63,364 million, an 18% increase.
When talking about specific products of individual segments, Linkedin has shown substantial growth, marked by an increase in LinkedIn ads (Marketing Solutions) and their LinkedIn hiring system (Talent Solutions).
(Microsoft Investor Reports)
Microsoft is continuing its partnership with OpenAI, with rumors of a $10 billion investment.
Back in 2019, Microsoft invested a billion dollars into the company and recently announced it will continue its partnership. Considering that Microsoft is not the only tech giant investing in AI and that some estimate the AI software market will be worth more than $120 billion by 2025, this was a very wise choice.
Furthermore, the fact that ChatGPT uses Microsoft Azure’s cloud computing services is a strong sign of how much faith Microsoft has in the AI giant.
(Business Insider)
According to Microsoft stats, the company became carbon neutral in 2012 and plans to be carbon negative by 2030.
Furthermore, the company plans to offset the emissions it has generated since its inception, back in 1975, by 2050.
It plans to scale investments and cut operational and supply chain emissions in half. While many, including Microsoft itself, believe this 2050 goal is a moonshot, it has already invested $471 million into this endeavor back in 2020.
(Forbes)
Microsoft Azure generated $75.3 billion in revenue in 2022.
This was a strong increase of $15.3 billion when looking at 2021.
Furthermore, Azure holds 21% of the cloud computing market, with somewhere between 722 million and one billion users worldwide. Most of the generated Microsoft azure revenue came from the US, at 40%, while the UK had 7% of its customers.
The company’s main contracts are with Verizon, MSI Computer, and LG Electronics.
(Usesignhouse)
Retail and IT are Azure’s main sectors, with the US and the UK being their core regions.
Statistics of Microsoft Azure show that 31,600 retail companies use Azure, and another 30,321 IT companies do as well, globally.
32.38% of its user base are individuals between the ages of 24 and 34. The second demographic using Azure the most are individuals aged 14 to 24, at 24.49%, and then individuals aged 35 to 44, at 19.02%.
(Usesignhouse)
Microsoft Fun Facts
Bill Gates became a billionaire in 1987.
If there is one thing Bill Gates is known for, it's being one of the richest men on Earth. However, one of the lesser known Microsoft interesting facts is the man, who was at the time of writing 67, became a billionaire back in 1987, at 31 years of age.
In other words, Bill Gates has been one of the richest men on earth for more than half his life now.
(Business Insider)
Bill Gates donated $5 billion in 2022.
Bill Gates' plans to donate almost all of his wealth within his lifetime is well publicized, as is the work done by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. One big step closer to his goal was the five billion dollars he donated in 2022.
The donation was directed to the aforementioned foundation, with the purpose of continuing its work in global health, development, advocacy, and US education.
(LA Times)
30.7% of Microsoft’s workforce are women.
Microsoft’s employee count was, at the time of writing, 221,000 people all across the globe. Furthermore, 53.2% of its workforce comes from Russian and ethnic minority communities, globally.
In the US, Asian representation is at 35.8%, the Hispanic demographic is at 7.6&, while Black and African American demographics make up 6.6% of the company’s US workforce.
(Microsoft Blog)
Microsoft has been running for almost half a century.
The company was founded in 1975, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
It was originally called Microsoft, and it focused on microprocessors and software, specifically software for the early personal computer, the Altair 8800. By 1978 the company made its first million in sales and moved to Seattle.
In 1981, the company debuted its MS-DOS operating system to IBM.
(History)
Microsoft released the Windows OS in 1985.
One of the more interesting facts about Bill Gates and Microsoft is that it took the company less than 15 years to become one of the global leaders in personal computer software.
Once Windows dropped, unique in its user-friendly graphical interface, the company soon generated money in the tens of millions. Finally, what cemented Microsoft’s status as a Tech giant was the release of Windows 95, which sold 7 million copies in the first five weeks it came out.
(History)
Final Thoughts
We hope these Microsoft facts and stats have been informative. Despite some difficult years, Microsoft is still going strong. With further developments in cloud computing, and a hefty investment in Open AI, the company has its eyes set on the future. Windows is still a dominant force on the global market, a trillion-dollar market cap company, and with revenue in the hundreds of billions, Microsoft is not going anywhere anytime soon.
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