Microsoft highlights 299M Skype users, 1.5B Halo games played
27th Jun 2013 | 17:29  Microsoft highlights 299M Skype users,
1.5B Halo games played  Microsoft updated subscriber numbers
while touting Azure  Microsoft laid out its latest subscriber
numbers and server statistics at Build 2013, updating the
figures for its Azure-powered online services like Xbox Live,
Skype and Office 365.  Skype, which Microsoft bought in 2011,
now has 299 million connected users, while Bing, the company's
home-grown search platform, sends 1 billion mobile notifications
a month.  SkyDrive has also broken the 200 million mark,
handling the file uploads of 250 million account holders.
Microsoft also reminded everyone at Build that was able to gain
1 million users in its first 24 hours of availability and Office
365 now has nearly 50 million Office web app users.  All not
quiet on the gaming front  Microsoft reiterated the stat of
having 600 times as many servers for Xbox Live as it did when
its online gaming service started.  It