Dell, Huipu, Asus, Samsung, Acer, Toshiba, Sony, Panasonic, Acer, Shenzhou … all the major PC manufacturers had started to introduce netbooks. These cheap laptops had become popular.
The retail price is between 400 USD to 500 USD, and all of them are pre-installed with XOS.
Vista cannot be used, but XP can be used. But XP is rumored to be stopping its update service. If XP is pre-installed, who will buy it?
XP's security is not good, and without the update service, the system might crash anytime. Furthermore, all the new software supports XOS, but most of them do not support XP.
Within a month, the global sales of netbooks exceeded 5 million units. Among them, Lenovo's netbooks are still the best, followed by Dell, Huipu, and Asus. Fang Zheng and Tong Fang are next. The Japanese and Korean brands are not even in the top 10.
At this time, Microsoft found out that this Netbook is also a plot against Microsoft!
To provide consumers with a cheap entertainment notebook, perhaps this was one of the reasons, but more importantly, it was to promote the XOS system.
This month, Lenovo sold less than 10 million laptops, and half of them are netbooks. The other half are also pre-installed with XOS. This shows that Lenovo Kingsoft's market share for laptops is more than Microsoft's!
No wonder Lenovo Group introduced such a cheap netbook. Many people said that Lenovo Group is trying to lower their profits and gain more market share. But they did not expect Lenovo Group to have such a deep meaning.
Lenovo Group is also the major shareholder of Lenovo Kingsoft. Lenovo Kingsoft's profits are also Lenovo Group's profits.
Just look at IBM. They had focused on hardware and lost money in the beginning. After that, they changed their strategy to focus on software development and hardware development. Their profits increased immediately.
Now, IBM is the world's second largest software company, only behind Microsoft. At the same time, IBM is still the leader in the IT industry.
Lenovo Group is trying to imitate IBM. They will focus on software and support with hardware. Or, Lenovo Group had combined IBM's and Fruit's strategies to create their own way of doing business.
Lenovo Group still has the support of Hua Xia and Eastern Europe. That is almost one-third of the world's population. Although the consumer economy in this market was a little poor, the potential was huge.
Also, Feng Yu had invested in AMD, Nvidia, Kingston, and Lenovo Group, which produces hard drives, optical drives, and USB drives. Even the world's largest crystalline silicon factory is in the hands of Taihua Holdings. Doesn't this mean that in a few years, Feng Yu will be able to influence the entire IT industry?
Bill Gates did not expect Feng Yu to be so ambitious. At that time, when Masao Kameda became the director of Softbank, was it also Feng Yu's idea to swallow up Softbank?
Luckily, Feng Yu did not succeed, and Masao Kameda had resigned. If not, Feng Yu might have surpassed Microsoft in terms of software.
Bill Gates does not know that Feng Yu has no intention of taking over Softbank. Softbank wasn't bad, but Feng Yu didn't like Softbank's business philosophy. It was purely a speculative business.
Invest in those companies with some potential, get them listed, increase the share prices, and sell the shares to make money. As for the future of those companies, they don't care.
Feng Yu despised this way of doing business. This is equivalent to cheating the investors, and the internet bubble is also caused by these people.
Of course, if Feng Yu can use this method to cheat the investors in Japan, he will not mind. But Softbank wants to control Hua Xia's companies and get them listed in Hua Xia, and they will be cheating the investors in Hua Xia.
Feng Yu will not let Softbank get what they want. Even if Softbank does not want to make profits from this method, Feng Yu will still get his men to invest in the companies he is interested in. He will give better terms or get the government to invest in those companies. He must not let Softbank take advantage of this opportunity!
Bill Gates does not know Feng Yu well enough, and he had made the wrong judgment on this matter. Feng Yu had asked Masao Kameda to go to Softbank for two reasons. First, it was to set up a joint venture with XOS, and second, it was to let Masao Kameda raise his family's status in Japan.
Now, it seems that both plans were successful, especially the marketing of XOS. Feng Yu is satisfied with this plan.
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"Bill, we must retaliate. If we let this carry on, XOS will be successful and will overtake the Fruit Company!" Paul Allen said anxiously.
Microsoft had purposely allowed the Fruit Company to rise. When the Fruit Company was about to go bankrupt, Bill Gates invested 100 million USD to help the Fruit Company get back on its feet.
This is because Microsoft needs a PC company to prevent Microsoft from monopolizing the market and being forced to split up or lower the selling prices of their operating systems.
If not, Microsoft's best option at that time would be to swallow up the Fruit Company.
Fruit Company had been under Microsoft's control all this while. Although it had some outstanding results and caused Microsoft to be in a difficult position, it was not a threat to Microsoft.
Just like Chao Wei and Intel, Intel had countless opportunities to trample Chao Wei to death. However, they didn't choose to do so, and they couldn't choose to do so.
Microsoft can tolerate Fruit Company and Lenovo. But this Lenovo Group, especially Lenovo Kingsoft, is something Microsoft cannot tolerate. This is beyond what they can tolerate.
But how are they going to retaliate? This is the biggest problem now.
Bill Gates had wanted to use VISTA to defeat XOS within 6 months to 1 year. He wants XOS to be like Fruit Company and have less than a fraction of their market share.
But now, it seems that Microsoft cannot suppress them anymore.
Their VISTA system did not sell as well as they had expected. Even the PC manufacturers said that the sales of PCs with the VISTA system were not good, and the market response was not good.
Firstly, the users are not used to it. The questions raised by some people during the product launch had all come true. The users felt that VISTA can only be used on PCs with high performance.
Another problem is the compatibility of the products, especially with other software. Many business office and professional software cannot be used. As for those who played games, many games did not support Vista at all.
That's why VISTA's sales are lower than they expected.
Bill Gates thought for a while. "Seems like we need to take drastic measures!"
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