Guest Gary S. Terhune Posted September 3, 2008 Posted September 3, 2008 Re: Quantative Measure of People Still Using 98? You know, in my case, I still have my Windows 95 and 98 Original Retail Upgrade disks. Both were *very* used. (hundreds of installs.) I wouldn't sell them for any price, even though I haven't used them in something 7 years. In fact, when I get a little extra cash, I'm going to buy up some of those versions as collectors items. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://grystmill.com "Franc Zabkar" <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> wrote in message news:sqrpb41a3jc4t9lr5332nnvahcr72u34rf@4ax.com... > On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 16:28:14 -0700, "Gary S. Terhune" <none> put finger > to keyboard and composed: > >>Three-year-old info, but what the heck: >>http://www.usagewatch.org/2005/08/how_many_pcs_ar.html >> >>"According to the Computer Industry Almanac (March 2005), at the end of >>2004 >>there were 822,15M PCs in use worldwide." >> >>By my calculations, that would amount to over a billion, now. Times 0.2% >>(if >>these were all online computers that got counted by W3schools), still >>leaves >>2 million in circulation. > > My question would be, assuming that, say, 10% of current XP and Vista > users upgraded from Win98SE, then where are *their* old CDs? If *I* no > longer needed my Win98SE CD, I would be offering it on eBay at the > current inflated prices. > > - Franc Zabkar > -- > Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.
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