| • | Rank of Microsoft among world’s most recognized brand names in 2007, according to BusinessWeek: 2 |
| • | Rank of Microsoft brand in terms of value, according to the 2007 Millward Brown Optimor Survey: 3 ($54.9 billion) |
| • | Rank of Microsoft on Fortune magazine’s 2007 America’s Most Admired Companies list: 12 |
| • | Number of years in a row that Microsoft has been in Fortune’s Top 100 Companies to Work For list: 10 |
| • | Total company net operating income for FY07: $14.07 billion |
| • | Amount we spent on R&D in FY07: $7 billion |
| • | Number of patents earned as of early 2008: 8,500 U.S. (plus nearly twice that number pending) |
| • | Number of countries or regions in which we have subsidiaries: 99 |
| • | Average number of demos featured at TechFest, our annual innovation showcase sponsored by Microsoft Research: 150 |
| • | Number of researchers in Microsoft Research: more than 700 (working at five labs around the globe in 55 areas, including speech recognition, information retrieval, user-interface research, programming tools and methodologies, operating systems and networking, graphics, natural language processing, machine learning, and mathematical sciences) |
| • | Number of languages in which our products appear: 90 |
| • | Number of employees worldwide in 2007: 78,565 (more than 30,000 in Puget Sound alone) |
| • | Average employee age: 36 |
| • | Amount we donated in cash and software to non profit organizations around the world in 2007: More than $334 million |
| • | Number of spam e-mails blocked by our Puget Sound area servers each day: 8.5 million |
