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...which Gates unveiled this month. In a typical Gates marketing ploy, the network software comes bundled with every copy of Windows 95. This gives his offering an edge over every other online service promising access to the Internet. "The numbers are pretty simple," says Allen Weiner, an analyst at Dataquest. If only 10% of the 30 million people expected to buy Windows 95 this year click on the button that lets them connect to msn-and through it, the Internet-that's 3 million customers in the first year, more than Prodigy and America Online have amassed between them...
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...expensive manufacturing plants. Instead they operate out of factories and garages. Rather than make PCs from scratch, they buy everything from circuit boards, displays and disk drives to entire computers from foreign firms that largely copy American PC designs. Says Brad Smith, vice president of PC research at Dataquest: "All you need to start a PC company today is a fax machine to take orders and a Black & Decker screwdriver to assemble the parts...
...lithography] is a technology that people don't expect to be widely used until the next century," said Charles F. Boucher, a senior industry analyst with San Jose-based Dataquest Inc., an international high-technology market research firm. "So they were working on a technology that didn't have any wide near-term application...
Since the company's inception, investors sank between $100 million and $130 million into Hampshire, according to a recent report on the firm prepared by Dataquest...