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To: MoonBrother who wrote (3843)	8/25/1998 11:02:00 PM
From: DJBEINO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9582

First-Month Sales Of Windows 98 Hit 500,000 Mark TOKYO (Nikkei)-More than 500,000 copies of Windows 98 have been sold in Japan in the month since the Japanese-language version of the operating system made its July 25 debut, Microsoft Co. officials said Tuesday. The major software developer initially forecast it would take at least three months to reach the half-million mark. The release has helped lift the personal computer market out of the doldrums, raising PC sales by 20-30% from a year earlier. The first 250,000 packages were sold within two days. Since then, sales have remained strong and steady at Tokyo's Akihabara electronics district and elsewhere, with activity concentrated on weekends. Industry analysts attribute the brisk sales to the willingness of Windows 95 users to upgrade their operating systems and recent releases of thin, lightweight notebook PCs.