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- From: gjm@cray.com (Gordon Miller)
- Subject: Re: Nightly Buisiness Report
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.164948.15947@hemlock.cray.com>
- Lines: 24
- References: <JEFF.92Aug12135045@claw.clearpoint.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: 12 Aug 92 16:49:48 CDT
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- In article <JEFF.92Aug12135045@claw.clearpoint.com> jeff@claw.clearpoint.com writes:
- >
- >Last night (Tuesday, 8/11/92) the Nightly Business Report made mention
- >of the fact that IBM had sold its 1 millionth copy of OS/2 2.0. They,
- >IBM and other industry analysts, expected the millionth version to be
- >sold in December of '92. They said that this signals that it may be a
- >stronger force than was previously anticipated.
- >
- >In the same report they mentioned that Microsoft reports 16 milliion
- >copies of Windows 3.1. Well, that is not exactly the way the
- >Microsoft spokesman said it. He said that 16 million machines are
- >_running_ Windows 3.1. I wonder how they know whether the machines
- >are running it or if they have crashed :)?
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- Note that the "1 millionth copy" figure does not indicate the actual number
- of copies installed on machines. You can buy ONE copy and license it for
- multiple users. So the 1 million copies may represent 16 million
- (satisfied) users :)
-
- --Gordon Miller
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