While doing some research, I ran into some interesting stats about employment figures from both MS and IBM. One of the sites lead me to the following page on the Microsoft web site:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/inside_ms.mspx [4]
More specifically, check out the employment information (as at April 21 2009) directly at:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/inside_ms.mspx#EADAE [5]
Links:
[1] http://pulse.veltsos.com/category/perso/general
[2] http://pulse.veltsos.com/category/it/reference
[3] http://pulse.veltsos.com/category/it/softwareosmicrosoft
[4] http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/inside_ms.mspx
[5] http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/inside_ms.mspx#EADAE