However underwhelmed most commentators were with last Thursday’s Windows 98 launch, sales projections for the day itself were being set at over a quarter of a million units, with half a million predicted to have been sold over the weekend. Those numbers are only slightly down on Windows 95, and if the sales continue at present rates, Windows 98 will have become 1998’s best selling software title by the end of next week. Sales information supplier PC Data, which worked out the figures by tracking sales at retailers and mail order companies, says that 40% of customers also bought Plus! 98.
