Windows 95 could be running on up to 65 million PCs by the end of 1996, all of them a mouse-click away from the Microsoft Network – a huge advantage that [America Online chief executive Steve] Case claims is patently unfair.
Predictor: International Data Corp.
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for Wired magazine, writer Mark Nollinger shares the following information: ”Analysts at market research firm International Data Corp. estimate that Windows 95 could be running on up to 65 million PCs by the end of 1996, all of them a mouse-click away from the Microsoft Network – a huge advantage that [America Online chief executive Steve] Case claims is patently unfair.”
Date of prediction: September 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Economic structures
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: America, Online! America Online Has Been on a Rocket Ride, Now it Would Like to Morph Into an ‘Interactive Service Company’ Before Microsoft and the Web Eat its Lunch
Quote Type: Paraphrase
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.09/aol_pr.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Stotler, Larry