Microsoft 'ecosystem' owns 42 percent of ITMicrosoft now has the data to prove how influential they are, with a new study showing they control over 40 percent of the IT industry.
The software giant commissioned research company IDC to survey 82 countries and measure the economic impact of the IT industry, and Microsoft specifically.
Overall, the results were not surprising, according to Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft. IT contributes to economic growth and job growth more than other industries, according to the IDC study.
The study managed to quantify the Microsoft business universe. There are about 14 million people working at companies that touch Microsoft software in some way, either as hardware distributors, services companies, or software developers.
That number represents about 42 percent of the overall IT market, according to the data. Mundie expects that number to stay consistent in the coming years.
For policymakers, the survey offers some lessons on how to promote economic development by encouraging an IT industry, said Mundie, who worked several years on government policy in China, India and other countries.
Governments looking to nurture IT should not only seek to attract large, established IT providers to the countries, but also the smaller companies that revolve around those giants, Mundie said.
"People tend to look at IT in a somewhat naive way. If the big guys are there -- Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, the names you know -- they think that everything will be good. That's not the case," Mundie said.
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