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Article: The defenestration of Bill? (debut of Windows 95 software from Bill Gates' Microsoft)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- July 8, 1995
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AUGUST 24th--the day on which, unless the antitrust police intervene, Bill Gates plans to release the biggest new product in his company's history--is the anniversary of the eruption of Vesuvius in 79AD. No doubt the volcano will remain the biggest disaster commemorated that day. But Windows 95, the latest version of Microsoft's operating system, may not be quite the marketing triumph Mr Gates hopes.
Microsoft coyly refrains from making predictions for the impact of Windows 95, but it is clearly placing a hefty bet. Dataquest, a Californian market-research firm, is expecting shipments of 29m copies of the program by the end of 1995. Other analysts are less ...