Press News

Budapest, September 29, 2004

In mid-September, the 20 millionth program was downloaded from the [origo] Software Base launched five years ago. The popularity of the website has been continuously firm and increasing; at present, the daily number of visitors has reached 20,000 with 15,000-20,000 files downloaded each day. User programs and games are the most popular targets, but the highest download figures appear at the special anti-virus programs.

In 1999, Software Basis was launched with "only" a thousand software products; by now its visitors can find more than 7200 files in an increasing number of categories, providing a unique choice on the Hungarian market. As a result of these facts, in the past years the number of visitors has reached 20,000 and the number of downloaded pages 200,000. Based on its increasing popularity, it has been included in the [origo] "TechBázis" section; ever since that time, it has been reliably meeting a constantly growing demand of visitors looking for software products.

At present, users can search in a daily updated choice comprising 12 categories; these include games, drivers and anti-virus programs. The site responds to new demand on an ongoing base; for example, the special category "Windows XP" was added recently. Close to 20% of the downloadable files are freeware, 80% shareware (prepared for test purposes) or demo versions.