Recently, Microsoft has been criticized a lot for its inability to act according to changing times and shifting trends. Where i-Pad and i-Phones took the glory all year along and Google still leading the web, Microsoft is yet to make a breakthrough in either. Windows Mobile 7 is far from release and even on the web Microsoft is playing catch-up. In fact the only ray of hope and only thing that’s keeping the Redmond giant afloat is its dominance in desktop.

In reply to the criticism, Frank Shaw, Microsoft’s Corporate VP of Corporate Communications, gave a flaunting demonstration of numbers to remind that they still hold the top berth even if the world is going frenzy over ‘i’.

Here is the synopsis of crunching of the numbers.

• Windows 7 has sold 150 Million licenses to date, and is the fastest growing OS ever.
• PC: In spite of the speculations of decline in PC sales and i-Pads being some PC killers, Microsoft projected a 355 million PC sales in year 2010.
• Netbooks: There has been a rapid rise in number of netbooks using Windows in past year.
• Server Market: The dwindling market share of Linux servers is indeed a ray of hope for Windows even though it is not its strong point.
• Office: Office 2010 has indeed been a huge success. The part that its beta has been downloaded 9 million times just proves this point.
• X-Box Live: Microsoft outshines Netflix with 23 million subscribers.
• Bing: Bing has been a making slow yet steady progress and now has 24.1 million users.
• Windows Live Hotmail: Hotmail might not be acclaimed as the best mail client, yet it holds the top spot as the market leaders with 360 million users subscribed.
• Overall Income: Apple or Google might have beaten Microsoft in some places, yet it they are far from near in overall income, with Microsoft at 14.5 billion in previous fiscal year.

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