Microsoft provides sales figures round-up

Microsoft's German head Ralph Haupter gave a presentation at Microsoft's 'keynote' event at the Cebit trade show in Hannover on Monday.

His talk was largely about cloud computing - and he proved that speaking a different language is no barrier to business cliche when he described it as "ein game-changer" - but he also provided some interesting numbers on some of Microsoft's most recent products.

Most of them have already announced but we found it useful that they were all collected in one presentation, so here they are.

He started off by pointing out that the Xbox 360 had sold 50m units, a figure Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave at his CES talk in January. The number of Xbox Live accounts is 30m, which is surprising. That includes both the paid-for Gold accounts and free Silver ones, which means that there are 20m Xbox 360s out there with effectively no internet connectivity (you need a Silver account to download games, demos and most other things).

More stats after the jump...

The Kinect add-on has been a huge success, with 8m units sold in the few months it's been available.

There are now nine Windows Phone 7 handsets available. That's a small amount compared with Android, but the platform is only six months old, so it's not a bad start. Around the world there are 60 network operators carrying the phones, and 8,000 apps available in the Windows Phone marketplace.

Windows 7 has sold a total of 300m copies in the nearly 18 months since it was released, and the final figure was that all versions of Microsoft Office, up to the current 2010 edition, have sold 750m copies.

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