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Subject:Re: Should we skip HTML? From:Barb Ostapina <Barb -dot- Ostapina -at- METROMAIL -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 11 Mar 1998 13:52:02 -0500
It's still a big number. And the point is that new people are putting the
Reader on their machines even as we speak. This is quite different from the
implication that nobody does it anymore. I don't get out much myself, but
even I know people who have it on their machines.
--B
barb -dot- ostapina -at- metromail -dot- com
...speaking only for myself.
That is about 10%-20% of the people on the web.
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Barb Ostapina wrote:
> >I don't know anyone who has acrobat on their
> > machines anymore,
> >
> > I know hundreds. >
>
>
> At a workshop I attended late last fall, Adobe announced that they had
> crossed the 20 million mark on downloads of their free Reader. And I
> believe that does not count the people who got it from some other source.
> Somebody should get out more.
> --B
> barb -dot- ostapina -at- metromail -dot- com
> ...speaking only for myself.
>
