
Microsoft's yearly sales and marketing spending 2000-2020
research and development, which also regularly amounts to well over ten billion U.S. dollars in recent years.
In fiscal year 2020, Microsoft Corporation spent 19.6 billion U.S. dollars on sales and marketing, the company’s highest annual expenditure to date. In the past decade, Microsoft has slowly increased sales and marketing spending, with the annual figure rising by nearly five billion U.S. dollars during that time. Another of Microsoft’s major yearly expenditures is