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On 17 Jan 1996 11:32:22 -0500, cirby@gate.net (Chad Irby) wrote:

>Dave Glue (daveacg@interlog.com) wrote:
>: 
>: Who said there would be 40 million?  The most optimistic was
>: Dataquest, who stated 30 million _shipped_, 20 million _sold_. 
>
>Nope- they said 30 million _sold_.  Even the most pessimistic 
>prediction from the "experts" was on the order of 16 million.  Hell, even 
>Sangria was more optimistic than to predict 7 million...

Please give me a press release from Dataquest stating sold.  The last
I read, was when they were downgrading their estimates to 16.8 million
or so- from "20 million sold, 30 million shipped".  That was in
Infoworld/PC Week.

>: The 7 million figure is about two months worth of sales- not 1995.
>
>Nope.  The 7 million was for August-December. 

NO, IT WAS NOT.  Microsoft has NOT release sales figures yet.  Where
are you getting this tripe?


>: They were all sell-throughs.
>
>Nope.  About four million of the 7 million were preloads.  So only about 
>three million people actually *bought* Windows 95...

You don't understand the term "sell through", do you?  It means copies
_sold to customers_.  Being shipped on a PC counts, as long as it's
not in the warehouse or factory.