James McGovern has has posted this stat on how vast the network is inside the Big House in Redmond and i'm quite amazed in their IT infrastructure:

Microsoft internal IT:

600k connected devices
10,000 Servers
3 Datacenters 1 operations center
11% is virtualized in Microsoft Datacenters
330 of 385 servers run Windows Server 2008 (RC0) plus all 85 Microsoft.com servers
11 clustered systems
30,000 users in redmond domain (50,000 with vendors)
NAP reporting 140K clients, 90 clients deferred mode

The Redmond Active Directory domain is running in Windows Server 2008 mode since last thursday (Nov 1st)

Microsoft Email:

6 million internal emails per day
20 Million emails from Internet
97% rejected as spam
99,999 uptime

Want to read more? Go to James McGovern's website and check out this crazy stat.

Hmmm... I wonder how many geeks are running the show in such a huge network. Hmm.. Do you know?