"Boss, Bill Gates had announced that he will be interviewing new employees personally. Now, many people are sending their resumes to Microsoft just to meet him." Masao Kameda said calmly.
Bill Gates's popularity is much higher than Masao Kameda, Zong Qingxian, and the rest. He had used his fame to turn the tables.
Feng Yu was watching a movie with sunflower seeds. He grabbed a handful of sunflower seeds and passed them to Masao Kameda. "Have a seat. Let's talk while we eat."
Masao Kameda paused for a second, but he still took the sunflower seeds and sat beside Feng Yu. But he did not eat any. Feng Yu can chat while eating sunflower seeds, but Masao Kameda cannot.
"Microsoft is just as we expected. They had hired a lot of new employees, and their salaries are still the same as before. They even increased their salaries slightly."
Feng Yu clapped his hands and took a sip of tea. He asked slowly. "Can you guess how many employees Microsoft has now? To prove that they are still powerful, and to spite us, they started to snatch people from us. Can't they see that we're in a period of expansion, and we have far fewer people than they do? "
Microsoft has tens of thousands of engineers and other workers. They had more than 150,000 employees in the world!
Based on Microsoft's profits in the past two years, these employees are nothing. Microsoft can easily afford to hire them with 200,000 RMB. But now, Microsoft's products' profits had dropped significantly.
Lenovo Kingsoft's Office software was affected by Lenovo Kingsoft's products, and they had lowered their prices. Their profits had dropped by a lot. Also, Microsoft XP is no longer selling, and VISTA is not selling well. Lenovo Kingsoft had taken away a large portion of their profits from these two companies.
By right, when profits are dropping, Microsoft should find ways to control costs, like laying off employees.
But Microsoft is not going to lay off employees. They are still expanding and hiring.
With less revenue and more expenses, Microsoft's profits will drop, and they can invest less in R&D. The gap between Microsoft and Lenovo Kingsoft will become smaller.
Feng Yu thought for a while. Maybe Microsoft wants to hire all their engineers away from Lenovo, Kingsoft, and other companies. This way, they will be able to maintain their lead.
At the same time, Microsoft has more engineers, and they can focus on developing new products.
Feng Yu suddenly realized something. "Kameda, is it possible that Microsoft is planning to expand?"
Masao Kameda shook his head. "I don't think so. I had discussed this with Ralph and the rest. If Microsoft wants to expand, they must develop new products. But shouldn't they be thinking of ways to regain their PC operating system market share? "
"They made such a big mistake this time. Our XOS sales are even better than before, but they're still fighting with us for engineers. Even if they want to expand, what can they do? Create new applications? "
Feng Yu turned off the movie and asked seriously, "Is it possible that they are planning to develop a new operating system?"
"Ah? This operating system has only been around for half a year, and they want to develop a new one? They had spent more than 10 billion USD, and they don't want to get back their investment? Their VISTA operating system is the most expensive operating system in history. "
Masao Kameda looked at Feng Yu in shock. Why does Feng Yu have such an unrealistic idea? Microsoft still has not solved the problems with this operating system, and they want to develop a new one? Where do they get so many ideas?
"But you should have seen how bad this operating system is, and Microsoft's sales are dropping. After this incident, Microsoft's sales are in winter. Many users are saying that Vista is not as good as XP. Microsoft's products are regressing. "
"If you are the leader of Microsoft now, what will you choose? Will you continue to hold on, or will you choose a new path to get back what you lost? "
Masao Kameda was stunned. That's right. Microsoft has reached a stage where there is no other way out. Without Lenovo Kingsoft, even if Microsoft's operating system is not selling well, the users will still be forced to buy VISTA because of the maintenance and updates for XP.
But now, the users have a new option. XOS, which has a better reputation than VISTA, and Microsoft will be courting death if they stop XP's maintenance and updates.
This can be seen from the increase in XOS sales after Microsoft announced this.
That's why if Microsoft continues to hold on, XOS will overtake VISTA in the future. But now, Microsoft wants to develop a new operating system, and they still have to stop the maintenance and updates for XP. Their engineers might not be enough.
Microsoft is different from Lenovo Kingsoft. All their products in different languages are produced by their own companies. Lenovo Kingsoft will be handed over to their partners.
This way, Microsoft can get the highest profits, and Lenovo Kingsoft can use those local companies to market their products.
If Lenovo Kingsoft is as powerful as Microsoft in the past, it will be more worthwhile to set up their own subsidiaries.
"Boss, aren't we helping Microsoft?" Masao Kameda realized he might have made a mistake.
He had told his boss to let Microsoft hire more people and increase their expenses. This will affect Microsoft's profits. But he did not expect this to be what Microsoft wants.
"It's fine. If we are thinking too much, then Microsoft will only be increasing their burden by hiring more people. If we are not thinking too much, then Microsoft is also hiring in a hurry, and their salaries are higher than usual. This will increase their burden as well. "
"That's why no matter what, Microsoft will lose! What we need to do now is to let everyone know that Microsoft is no longer the Microsoft of the past. We can no longer monopolize our technologies! "
In terms of PC hardware, or transistors in electronic products, all technological advancements could only guarantee an average of one to one and a half years.
Sometimes, the other party will catch up within half a year. Sometimes, it might take two years. But no matter what, it is not hard to catch up with the hardware.
Software is different. Just look at Lenovo Kingsoft's new operating system to compete with Microsoft. How many years did they take to succeed? The Fruit company had been in business for so many years, and they only have a small share of the market.
Now, Feng Yu wants to break Microsoft's legend. He wants Lenovo Kingsoft to be the best software company!
"Boss, I know what to do." Masao Kameda understood Feng Yu's intention.
Although Lenovo Kingsoft is part of Taihua Holdings, Wind and Rain Holdings is in charge of the European and US markets.
On this day, Bill Gates announced a piece of important news on behalf of Microsoft. Microsoft will restart the Tab tablet project!
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