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In message u.edu> - Nicholas Clark <ncl...@inmind.com> writes:
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:>Thomas W Fry wrote:
:>> OK Windows 95 may have sold more first month compared to OS/2 or 
:>>whatever, but that
:>> does not mean that it has more total users as OS/2. Seriously buy a 
:>>clue and learn
:>> how to read what the media is really saying.
:>
:>Actually, I do have a clue... Win95 *does* have a wider user base than 
:>OS/2...  Since the high sales in the first month conitnued for several 
:>months up to now, and that win95 is preinstalled on most systems being 
:>sold...  I think you should learn to look beyond you tiny realm of mind!
:>Buy a clue yourself.

I think you are buying into the MS hype a little too much.  I haven't a clue 
whether there are more users of Win95 or OS/2 right now nor do I care.  But I 
would question your assertion simply from the fact that the press has made it 
pretty clear that direct sales of Win95 are fairly stagnant and that MS is 
not accepting returns.  

Secondly, as you point out, the vast majority of copies of Win 95 are being 
sold already installed on PCs.  However, a large number of these are being 
sold to businesses, and again, from everything I've read these computers are 
simply being reformatted and and reconfigured with something else (I know 
that's what my company does).  I WOULD venture to guess that almost all of 
the PCs sold to individuals with Win95 installed will end up running Win95.

The end result of this is - its impossible to know how many "users" of ANY OS 
there actually are.

Ralph