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Article #2457Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!
From: Kurt A. Seiffert, Database Analy...
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 16:42
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 16:42
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> Seven and one-half MILLION retail purchasers would disagree with you > on that! That is the total global retail sales of Windows 95 to date. > This figure does NOT include preloads! Given that Windows 95 hasn't Uh...I heard that figure on NPR the other day but they DID say that included preloads. In fact the retail sales were about 3 million and the balance was pre-loads. And remember Microsloths original astounding earnings on Windoze 3.x were from pre-load sales that many people never used and from a agreements that the govornment ruled (and with which the courts agreed) were violating anti-trust laws. Yeah, I'll agree in a hot minute, Microsloth has done a great marketing job. Desiging a decent OS, is another issue all together. :-) -- Kurt A. Seiffert Internet: seiffert@indiana.edu UCS, Database Analyst office ph: (812) 855-7179 'Almost never' ALWAYS arrives sooner than you expect. DISCLAIMER: I don't speak for IU and IU doesn't speak for me. We both like the arrangement.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!muad-dib.ucs.indiana.edu!user From: seiffert@indiana.edu (Kurt A. Seiffert, Database Analyst) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,alt.destroy.microsoft Subject: Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!! Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 11:42:25 -0500 Organization: Indiana University Message-ID: <seiffert-2010951142250001@muad-dib.ucs.indiana.edu> References: <451aje$flj@orion.cybercom.net> <46319v$8f9@hp5.online.apple.com> <Pine.A32.3.91.951018210734.76170A-100000@acs5.acs.ucalgary.ca> <DGq4ss.At1@news.zippo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: muad-dib.ucs.indiana.edu X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.0b30