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Microsoft SharePoint for Business Executives: Q&A Handbook

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Microsoft SharePoint for Business Executives: Q&A Handbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Microsoft SharePoint for Business Executives: Q&A Handbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Q: How big is SharePoint to Microsoft?


A: In the press you will often read:

SharePoint is the fastest selling product in Microsoft history.

Microsoft has been adding 20,000 SharePoint users per day, every day for the last five years.

There are over 65,000 SharePoint customers who have purchased SharePoint (statistics stated at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference in 2011: http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/exec/kurtd/10-03-11SharePoint.mspx).

Further analysis may question these numbers, but there is no doubt that SharePoint is an extremely large and successful source of revenue for Microsoft, as well as being strategically important, as it helps sustain other Microsoft franchise products such as Office and Windows.

Note

One of the reasons the Office franchise is still relevant in a web-based world of work can be partially attributed to SharePoint's success within the enterprise. With higher reported revenue than any other division (14.124 billion dollars in 2011 according to Microsoft)...