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SOFTWARE SALES SHOW SOFTNESS

The Software Publishers Association (SPA) of Washington, D.C. announced last month that combined sales of PC application software in the U.S. and Canada was $7.53 billion in 1995, a 12% jump from a revised $6.7 billion in 1994. Fourth quarter 1995 sales were $2.07 billion, down 8.8 % from Q4 94, when sales were a record $2.27 billion. For the year, unit sales in North America increased 60% and were up 35% for Q4 95 over Q4 1994. Worldwide unit sales increased 37% for Q4 95 and 71% for the year.

Windows applications was 75% of application software sold in the U.S. and Canada in 1995, with sales of $5.7 billion. In the six months since its debut, Windows 95 has become the second largest selling format, with 12.4% of all sales for the year. (SPA does not have enough firms reporting every category to report Windows 95 platform applications sales separately but plans to report these data soon.)

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