At Microsoft's 2013 Worldwide Partner Conference, CEO Steve Ballmer gave us a very interesting tidbit about the scale of Microsoft's server operations. "We have something over a million servers in our datacenter infrastructure." Furthermore, Ballmer even went on to say that "Google is bigger" and "Amazon is a little bit smaller." It is extremely rare to hear such direct figures; in almost two decades, Google and Amazon have never even put a rough figure on their server count -- and now Ballmer is on stage, giving up their secrets.