Quantative Measure of People Still Using 98?

[Guest Gary S. Terhune]

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.

 

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Gary S. Terhune

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"Franc Zabkar" <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> wrote in message

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> 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

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