I am looking for a variety of facts/statistics about various aspects
of the computer industry.  Can you help?

1.	Statistics regarding how much money or percentage of budget
Microsoft spends on improving its Windows operating system.
2.	Statistics on the growth of use of non PC-dependent information
storage devices (e.g., memory sticks, USB keychain drives, et al)
3.	Statistics on the growing acceptance of open source applications,
based on such platforms as Linux, and their ease of use/security

1.
<Microsoft has spent over $100 million in the last eight months to
facilitate an intensive vulnerabilities analysis of millions of lines
of Windows source code.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/insight/0,39023731,20268906,00.htm

Microsoft spent over $100 million looking for bugs in Windows.
http://www.midrangeserver.com/mid/mid073102-story02.html

January 2003, according to a report by Joris Evers, Microsoft spent
$200 million on improving Windows security.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/01/24/030124hngatesemail_1.html

July 2002.
Microsoft spent $100 million improving Windows security in the first
six  months of 2002.
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/1429681

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Windows development costs.

Windows 95 cost $1 billion to develop.
http://community.sigames.com/6/ubb.x?a=tpc&f=893197497&inc=-1&m=8481971666

Windows 95, Development costs $1.1 billion, promotion costs $1.2 billion.
http://www-1.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/gheal/B7006-001/costs/tsld037.htm

An estimated $1billion was spent on Internet Explorer.
http://maxdecuba.digitalbomb.com/FORUM/topic.cfm?F=29

From 1995 onward, Microsoft spent $100 million a year developing Internet Explorer.
http://news.findlaw.com/microsoft/5.DE.html

Windows 2000 costs over $1billion to develop.
http://www.rediff.com/computer/2000/feb/17ms.htm

Windows 2000 cost about $2 billion to develop.
http://www.sla.purdue.edu/it/news/feature/2000/windows2000/content.html

Windows XP - $1 billion.
http://www.sdtimes.com/cols/winwatch_026.htm


Research and development spending by Microsoft.

1997 - $2.2 billion
1998 - $2.6 billion
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-203238.html?legacy=cnet

1999 - $3 billion - 15% of revenues.
2000 - $4 billion
http://www.afn.org/~afn01170/S&Ppdffiles/msft.pdf

http://www.vedpuriswar.org/Ved%20Books/ERM%20-%20III/8-Enterprise%20Risk%20Management%20at%20Microsoft.PDF

2002 - $4.3 billion.
2003 - $5.2 billion
http://www.wininsider.com/news/?1934

2001 - $5.3 million (90% to be spent on software research). Microsoft
spends 16% of its revenues on research and development.
http://archive.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/07/24/010724hnmssummit.xml

According to a 1998 speech by Bill Gates Microsoft spends almost 20%
of its revenue on research and development.
http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/speeches/10-7ncr.asp

1998 ? 2.6 billion
1999 ? 3.0 billion
2000 ? 3.8 billion
2001 ? 4.4 billion
2002 ? 4.3 billion
http://www.vedpuriswar.org/Ved%20Books/ERM%20-%20III/8-Enterprise%20Risk%20Management%20at%20Microsoft.PDF

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2.

According to Sony shipments of memory sticks were 9 million units to
the end of March 2001. Shipments to the end of March 2003 were 39
million units. It forecasts shipment of 75 million by the end of 2004,
130 million by the end of March 2005 and 210 million by the end of
March 2006.

About 60 percent of current sales of cards are for digital cameras and
30 percent for PC and peripheral use, including digital music players.
 The remaining 10 percent are used in cellular telephones, and Sony
thinks this will rise between 20 percent and 25 percent in the future
on the back of increased use with cellular handsets. 3G applications
are predicted to give a boost in sales in 2006 and 2007.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,112126,00.asp


According to a Sony press release , as of April 2003, worldwide
cumulative shipments of Memory Stick media had reached 40 million
units and shipments of Memory Stick compliant products had reached
over 40 million units.
http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press/200308/03-0806E/


Samsung estimates that memory sticks hold a quarter of the $10 billion
flash memory market. (American City Business Journals Inc. 2003).
http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2003/08/04/daily39.html


According to palminfocenter.com cumulative shipments of Memory Stick
media reached 30 million by October 2002 and compatible products
exceeded 30 million units as of September 2002.
http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID=4837

Key chain drives.
According to analyst Jim Handy at Semico Research, the key chain drive
market is predicted to be $1.6 billion this year and $3 billion next
year.
http://66.102.11.104/search?q=cache:Yg8QXsrxXLUJ:www.forbes.com/technology/personaltech/2004/01/23/cx_ah_0123tentech.html+%22key+chain+drives%22+million&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

According to a study by Semico Research, worldwide shipments of
keychain drives will reach 50 million units by 2006 up from 10 million
units in 2002.
http://www.everythingusb.com/news/index/1223.htm


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3.

A survey of 500 North American IT users by SG Cowen found that 80
percent of respondents were currently using Linux and over half
planned to increase their use of the system in the next two years. The
main reasons for turning toward Linux were reliability, scalability,
and lower cost. Reasons for not deploying Linux centered around
concerns regarding application availability and service and support.

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,113864,00.asp


A 2002 study of 100 IT managers found that 39 percent of respondents
had deployed Linux. Cost savings were a major factor implementing the
system.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,107565,00.asp

This site gives a summary of the results of the Attitudes Towards
Shared Source & Open Source Research Project. The Shared Source
project was developed to provide a greater understanding of how key
audiences perceive Open Source, Linux, Shared Source, and the GPL and
which messages will be effective with each audience.

The survey of IT professionals was carried out in U.S. Brazil, France,
Germany, Sweden and Japan in 2001.

Some of the findings.
81% of respondents are familiar with OSS and 77% with Linux.
Linux favorability amongst Linux familiar was 86%. 
The survey also shows the familiarity in each geographical region.
Respondents found the most compelling reason to support OSS was that
it offer a low total cost of ownership (40%) and 34% because it offers
an alternative to Microsoft.
Only 24% of respondents were interested in deploying Linux in their
business. There was however greater interest in Germany (50%) and
Japan (37%).
http://www.opensource.org/halloween/halloween7.php


A survey of IT professionals by intenet.com Corp carried out in 2001,
found that nearly 80 percent of current Linux users value the
operating system for its superior, more stable performance.

The survey found that Red Hat is the most well known -- familiar to 79
percent of the respondents and recognized as a major player in the
Linux market by 55 percent of the respondents. Even among non-Linux
users, two-thirds have heard of Red Hat.
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/newss/3119/1/
According to IDC Linux-based server sales were $743 million in the
third quarter of 2003, up 49.8 percent over the year-earlier period.
Overall server sales are expected to grow 2 percent in 2004, mostly
from sales of lower-end units.
http://money.cnn.com/2003/12/10/technology/techinvestor/hellweg/

A survey by Evans Data Corp found over three quarters of polled Linux
developers report no incidence of outside intrusion, and even fewer
report any viral attacks whatsoever. The rarity of security breaches
in the Linux environment is illustrated by the fact that 78% of
respondents to the survey have never experienced an unwanted intrusion
and 94% have operated virus-free. Over 84% of Linux developers believe
that Linux is inherently more secure than software not created in an
OSS environment
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9257441017.html

Linux users in China name Red Hat as the most stable and the easiest
to use version of Linux - 55.8 percent and 43.9 percent, respectively.
http://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/2000/press_netcraft.html

Linux?s Future in the Embedded Systems Market.
http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT6328992055.html>


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<Hope this helps.>

belindalevez, great work!  Thanks for digging down and sussing out
this information that I have been trying to get for a while. 
Terrific!!