The 64-bit editions of Windows Operating system have been made available to OEMs and computer buyers for over five years. However, up until now, the 32-but editions have largely been popular. That appears to be changing now. According to a report published on the Windows Team blog, close to 50% of Microsoft computers today run [...]

When Bing was launched in the middle of last year, it was touted to be a “decision engine” – a tag that Microsoft sought to differentiate their website from “search engines” like Google. Close to a year later and with over $100 million spent on marketing the website, the company is still fighting Google in [...]

Microsoft is the second largest private employer in the American state of Washington and its impact on the local economy cannot be underestimated. A recent study by University of Washington makes several interesting observations on the economic impact Microsoft has had on the region. Here are some interesting notes (numbers for 2008 unless specified) 13.6% [...]

Microsoft continues to dominate the desktop and laptop operating system space with close to 92% market share for its Windows suite of operating system. Eight years after its release, Windows XP is still the leader though its market share is fast reducing thanks to increasing proliferation of Windows 7. Here is the latest market share [...]

Windows Operating System remains the most critical part of Microsoft’s business despite the several new businesses Redmond has ventured into of late. Here are the numbers from the latest quarter Total revenue for Microsoft in Q4 ’09 : $19.02 billion Revenue from sale of Windows 7 : $1.71 billion Overall Revenue from Windows (including Windows [...]

Microsoft acquired Hotmail from Sabeer Bhatia in 1997 and since then competition from the likes of Gmail and Yahoo Mail has meant the Hotmail is no longer as popular as it once was. But fact be told, Hotmail is still mammoth and here are some interesting facts about the service Number of languages : 36 [...]

Razorfish, the advertising agency that belonged to Microsoft has been acquired by Publicis Groupe. Here are the details regarding the deal: Value of the deal : $530 million $300 million to be paid in cash by Publicis Microsoft to get hold of 3% stake in Publicis Razorfish annual revenue estimate : $380 million Razorfish employee [...]

Windows fell below the 90 percent mark for the very first time in October. Here is the share of the top three operating systems on the web: Windows : 89.69% Mac : 8.82% Linux : 0.82%

Microsoft has made a 38 percent increase quarter-on-quarter in the latest update. Online Advertising revenue in the fourth quarter of 2006 : $453 million Online Advertising revenue in the fourth quarter of 2007 : $623 million

According to the Comscore rating released for December: 1. AOL Finance – 13.5 million unique visitors 2. Yahoo – 13.2 million unique visitors 3. MSN Money – 11 million unique visitors