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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 06:43:09 +0100
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On 28 Feb 00 at 18:54, Mark at Cross+Road's wrote:

> The page states that their is still 100-million dos users world
> wide!  Can that be true and if so how many windows users are there?

Notice the estimate quoted below:.

Source:  Edupage, 28 May 1998
<http://www.educause.edu/pub/edupage/edupage.html>

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NEW DOS IS YEAR 2000-COMPLIANT

IBM has launched a new PC DOS 2000 that automatically corrects the
two-digit dates that threaten to befuddle older computer systems, and
also supports the European Monetary Union's new euro currency symbol
-- a management problem that could prove even more troublesome for
European businesses than the Y2K problem. 

According to recent research, there are between 120 million and 150
million people who still use DOS on their desktop machines. "We
believe about half of those are business users," says a manager at
IBM's Network Computing Software division. That figure doesn't
include users of Microsoft Windows 3.1, which includes DOS as a
component. (InternetWeek 27 May 98)

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All the best,
Bjorn