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In <4dj8am$chfa@navajo.gate.net> cirby@gate.net (Chad Irby) writes: 

>Nope.  The 7 million was for August-December.  Actually, they sold
more 
>like 10 million, but three million were returned.  And not everyone  
>believes that all of those 7 million were actually kept in use.  I
know
>that most of the companies I've dealt with that have bought new  
>computers format the hard drive first and install Windows 3.1 instead 
of 
>
>Nope.  About four million of the 7 million were preloads.  So only
about 
>three million people actually *bought* Windows 95...

The Wall St journal reported 7 million sold in the 3rd quarter (OEM and
retail upgrades) for August-September and a total (approx) of 17 - 19
million by the end of the year, with no break out for OEM/retail. Most
analysts guestimates before the launch were in the 20 - 30 million
range,
with Dataquest at the high end (30M). The article also said that at
about
18M units in 4.5 months it is the best selling software package ever in
that amount of time.

True, Win95 did not do as well as some projected, hoped or wanted it
to.
It is still a bigger hit than Win 3.0 or Win 3.1 were in the same
amount
of time and in percent of market gained. Two years after Win 3.0 was
launched, DOS applications still outsold Win apps.

Mike Schmit

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