CII FORECASTS WINDOWS 95 WILL SHIP 22.5 MILLION UNITS THIS YEAR

Largest Upgrade Cycle in History; Nearly 59 Million Seen Shipping in 1996

LA JOLLA, Calif., June 20, 1995 -- New research from Computer Intelligence
InfoCorp (CII), the computer and communications industries' leading source
of fact-based information, indicates that 1995 shipments of Microsoft's
Windows 95 operating system, destined for both new and existing PCs, will
reach 22.5 million units. In 1996, the product's first full year of
availability, CII data predict shipments of 58.9 million units. The
majority of copies will be bundled with new PCs.

This represents the largest first-year shipment of software that's ever
occurred, said David Tremblay, CII's Senior Industry Analyst for PCs. By
contrast, Windows 3.0, which was released in May 1990, shipped fewer than
four million units that year. The only thing keeping Windows 95 numbers
from being even higher is hardware availability.

To run Microsoft Windows 95 and applications software satisfactorily, a PC
will require both a fast processor (486 or 586) and at least 8 megabytes
of memory (RAM). According to CII's forecast of the worldwide PC market,
though these machines are now the fastest-growing part of the market, by
the end of 1995 this group will account for only 39 percent of the
installed base of x86-compatible PCs. By the end of 1996, however, these
high-powered PCs will represent the largest segment, offering a much
stronger base of fast processors than Microsoft and other marketers of
power-hungry software will meet in 1995.

Worldwide x86 Installed Base of PCs -- % share by CPU and memory

CPU/Memory                         1993   1994   1995   1996

486 or 586 with 8+ MB RAM           10%    18%    39%    61%
386, 486, 586 with 4-7 MB           19%    24%    22%    15%
386, 486, 586 with 3 MB or less     20%    22%    14%     9%
286 and below                       51%    37%    25%    15%

Source: Computer Intelligence InfoCorp 1995

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