1. Mar-16 © 2007 IDC 11 IT Economic Impact and Microsoft Country Footprint Portugal Prepared for Microsoft Corporation October 2007

2. Mar-16 © 2007 IDC Portugal: Highlights 2007 IT spending: $3.5 billion (2.8 billion EUR); software spending: $0.6 billion (0.5 billion EUR) 2006-2011 annual IT spending growth: 6.2%; software growth: 7.3% IT spending as a percent of GDP: 1.8%, compared to 2.5% worldwide 2007 IT employment: 97,000 2007 Microsoft-related IT employment: 41,000 Source: IDC Economic Impact Study, 2007

3. Mar-16 © 2007 IDC 3  Portugal’s IT sector will generate more than 12,000 new jobs from 2007 to 2011 and account for the creation of more than 600 new IT companies.  Over the next four years, Portugal’s IT industry will drive $0.9B (0.7B EUR) in new tax revenues and contribute new revenues of $2.8B (2.2B EUR) to GDP.  Software spending represents 18% of the total Portugal IT market, while 51% of IT employees, in industry and the user base, are engaged in creating, distributing, installing, or servicing software.  43% of Portugal’s 2007 IT employment stems from the Microsoft ecosystem.  For every EUR of Microsoft revenue in Portugal, 10.56 are generated by other companies in the Microsoft ecosystem of hardware OEMs, software companies, and channel and service firms. Portugal: Key Findings Source: IDC Economic Impact Study, 2007

4. Mar-16 © 2007 IDC 4 Portugal: IT Employment Microsoft-related IT employment in 2007 is 43% of total IT employment. Source: IDC Economic Impact Study, 2007

5. Mar-16 © 2007 IDC 5 Portugal: Microsoft Footprint For every dollar or EUR that Microsoft earns in-country, companies in the Microsoft ecosystem earn 10.56. Source: IDC Economic Impact Study, 2007 Ratio of ecosystem revenue to a unit of Microsoft revenue

6. Mar-16 © 2007 IDC 6 Investments by the Microsoft ecosystem, including infrastructure, people, marketing and business development, is expected to be more than 0.2 billion EUR in 2008 Source: IDC Economic Impact Study, 2007 Portugal: Ecosystem Investment EUR(M)