how many people world wide

Over 20,000 as of sometime in 2005. It's a tough number to verify....

I'm sure someone at Microsoft knows, though it may not be a number they're willing to share freely.

I read the 20,000 figure on their "Solutions in Action CD", a CD with white papers, case studies, and product information with a copyright date of 2005. Here's the quote.

"Microsoft Retail Management SYstem has already been installed by more than

I would love to know the figure for Microsoft Point of Sale. I know the potential is HUGE and fully expect Microsoft to gain significant market share but how many copies have actually sold and/or been installed is number I haven't been able to find yet.

Darril Gibs> How many people world wide are using RMS

According to a Partner slideshow last month, now over 40k copies sold worldwide. I'm assuming that's between QS2K, QSC, RMS (SO & HQ) and MSPOS.