In case you didn’t already know it, Macro Scheduler will be 10 years old this year. In fact, I had a quick look through our old sales records the other day and discovered that we sold the first ever copy of Macro Scheduler on 1st May 1997. So 1st May this year will be a special day. We’ve got a few things up our sleeves so keep posted for more news.

In the mean time Andy Brice, of PerfectTablePlan.com, suggested it might be fun to work out how much time Macro Scheduler has saved people in total since its launch in 1997. So we pulled some figures from our sales database, made a few conservative estimates, consulted our marketing people and ran a few number crunching macros and discovered that in total Macro Scheduler has saved approximately 27,000 years in lost productivity over the last 10 years.

In that time you could have built:

• 6875 Golden Gate Bridges, or
• 3928 Channel Tunnels, or
• 5500 Wembley Stadiums, or
• 1350 Great Pyramids of Giza.

[Although to be fair Herodotus estimated you’d need 100,000 workers to build the Giza Pyramids in 20 years]

Seriously. Sure, we had to make a few estimates but we’ve been conservative. This is based on our most complete year on year user-base figures and an assumption that on average each user saves 2 hours per working day. We’ve assumed a working day is 8 hours and a working year is 210 days. While some people may use the software on a more ad-hoc basis we know many run dedicated Macro Scheduler workstations running 24 hours a day. Anyway, we need something to work from, so we’ve chosen an average figure of 2 hours per day. But even if you halve that it’s still a pretty impressive outcome. And it could be more – that’s only working days and our user base figures most likely under-read due to various custom licensing arrangements and unlimited user licenses etc.

Hey, it’s just a bit of fun 🙂