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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: energy_investor who wrote (10833)	9/20/1998 12:54:00 AM
From: VICTORIA GATE, MD	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

RaySharp cbs.marketwatch.com.

To: energy_investor who wrote (10833)	9/20/1998 10:38:00 PM
From: VICTORIA GATE, MD	Respond to of 74651

ray re< looking ahead a few more years ....> 2.5M upgrades for Win98 Microsoft says demand is strong especially in Japan since June launch September 17, 1998: 6:51 p.m. ET Microsoft PALO ALTO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it had sold more than 2.5 million copies of its Windows 98 operating system for personal computers since it was launched on June 25. That includes 1.5 million units sold outside the United States, with about 500,000 sold in Japan, and about 1 million in the United States, said Melissa Havel, an outside spokeswoman for Microsoft. The company -- which has more than 85 percent of the market for PC operating systems -- said demand for Windows 98 has been stronger than expected in Japan, even though the country is mired in a recession. In the first two days Windows 98 was on sale, the Redmond, Wash.-based company said more than 250,000 retail upgrade units of the program had been bought worldwide. Not only is customer demand for Windows 98 better than expected, but the sale of peripherals and hardware related to Windows 98 has exceeded forecasts, Microsoft said. "Windows 98 has undoubtedly provided a boost to the home PC industry in Japan," said Rei Suzuki, an official at Sofmap Co. Without providing further specifics, Microsoft's Chief Operating Officer Bob Herbold said the company had shipped more than 1.5 million copies of the upgrade since its launch on June 25. Retailers sold more than 3 million copies of Windows 95 in its first five weeks on the market. Herbold also said the software company had licensed more than 150 million copies of all 32-bit operating systems, including Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT. He made the comments at the NationsBanc Montgomery Securities investment conference in San Francisco.