CES 2011: Office 2010 success in people and numbers

From: Microsoft

Office 2010 sales boasts. A copy of a Microsoft blog post from Jan 2011 – now removed from their site.

Back in January 2011 there was an interesting blog post by Microsoft which gave some hard numbers to Office 2010 sales – notably that a copy of Office 2010 is sold every second.  It came at a time when there was a lot of talk about slow sales and low popularity of Office 2010 – talk that Microsoft was eager to stop.

That blog post has now been removed (at Jan 2014 the link gives a ‘can’t find the page you’re looking for’ error), even thought Microsoft itself still links to the non-existent page.

Thanks to the WayBackMachine we found a copy of the blog post as at 8 May 2013.  Here’s the text with our highlighting:

CES 2011: Office 2010 success in people and numbers

2010 was a remarkable year for Office. First came Office 2010, which launched in June along with the all-new Office Web Apps. Then Office Mobile for Windows Phone 7 launched in November – a whopper of a productivity experience across the PC, phone, and browser. And we didn’t ignore the social networking movement: The Outlook Social Connector let customers connect social networks to Outlook 2010, and we integrated with Facebook so customers could share and open Office documents from directly within Facebook. A busy year indeed!

January 2011 marks the 6^–month milestone for Office 2010 and the Office Web Apps, which makes CES the perfect time and place to update everyone on how we’re doing, and–most important–to highlight a few Office 2010 customers, one of whom is here with us.

We’ve been getting a lot of questions about the uptake of Office 2010 and the Office Web Apps, so first and foremost, let’s look at the numbers.

• More than 30 million people use the Office Web Apps to view, edit, and share Office documents from anywhere with a browser and an internet connection.


• Office 2010 now ranks as the fastest-selling consumer version of Office in history, with approximately one copy of Office 2010 sold worldwide every second.


• For the 8^th year in a row, Microsoft Office was the number one selling software product in U.S. retail measured by dollar volume, outpacing games and security software.

Without a doubt, we’re delighted by the numbers that show Office 2010’s success thus far, but it’s our customers and their success that put the icing on the cake.

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