When Boss Jia is looking at his photolithography machine, a group of people is having a meeting on the other side of the ocean. The focus of the meeting is our Boss Jia.
To be more precise, our Boss Jia's assets.
"Dear directors, this is my report. In summary, I believe that the three major entrances to the future of the Internet era are the three I just mentioned. They are the browser, the search engine, and instant messaging!" A bespectacled man with an ordinary face, who looked no different from a scholar, finished reading his report at the board meeting.
But no one in the world dares to look down on this man. When people see him, they will exclaim, "Damn! The World's Richest Man!"
That's right, this scholar with glasses was the world's richest man, Bill Gates, who was sitting on a fortune of 51 billion USD. He had been the world's richest man for three consecutive years.
But the problem is, our Boss Jia's wealth is more than 100 billion USD.
After all, Boss Jia had earned almost 160 billion USD from the financial crisis.
That's true, but the problem is that Forbes magazine, which is responsible for compiling this list, obviously doesn't know that Boss Jia has so much money.
And Boss Jia obviously didn't want Forbes to know about this. Otherwise, those international hot money who had lost a lot of money in Hong Kong would definitely destroy Boss Jia physically.
That's why Forbes magazine's No.1 ranking is still Mr. Bill Gates. As for our Boss Jia, he is ranked 56th on the World's Richest Man list with 8 billion USD.
Well, because Boss Jia refused to be listed, the Da Qian Group did not have a market value. Forbes Magazine was unable to find out more secret information. After going around in circles, they could only estimate that Boss Jia had a net worth of 8 billion USD. One could not blame them for being too wrong.
Back to the topic, Bill Gates is attending Microsoft's board meeting. This is one of the most important board meetings in 1998. Chairman Bill Gates will be reporting Microsoft's results for the third quarter of 1998 and their future plans for the company.
At this conference, Bill Gates published a report that was very famous in the future of this world, "The Three Entrances to the Internet Age".
In this report, Bill Gates first told all the directors that the future was not the computer era, but the Internet era. The Internet would gradually become the world's number one industry, with the greatest benefits. Whoever could control the Internet would be able to control all the wealth in the future.
This is to tell the directors how important the Internet is to the future.
After that, Bill Gates continued to say in the report that the most important thing for a company on the internet was the entrance.
This entrance can be used by netizens to access information, and it can also be used by the company to access netizens.
If the Internet is compared to a house, then the entrance is the door of the house. Whoever controls the door will control the entire house.
After that, Bill Gates points out the three most important entrances. They are the browser, search engine, and instant messaging software.
Bill Gates does not need to explain the importance of the browser and search engine. All the directors know the importance of these two entrances. After all, these two entrances are the two biggest Internet companies in the stock market.
Microsoft still has 51 Search.
"Until now, 80% of the world's browsers are our Internet Explorer browser, or browsers that use Internet Explorer as the core. That's why Microsoft has gained control of the browser market. We only need to consolidate our control in the future. We don't need to worry about other things!"
"As for the search engine, I'm sorry. We have failed. The world's most successful search engine is 51 Search. At the same time, they have more than 80% of the market share, just like our Internet Explorer. Although we had launched Bing Search, it was too late. 51 Search had already taken over the market share. Unless they make a mistake, it will be hard for us to have a breakthrough! "Bill Gates said regretfully.
Bill Gates had lied. 51 Search's market share is more than 95% and not 80% like Bill Gates said.
But Bill Gates's claim is more than 80%, and he is not wrong. But when it comes to search engines, Bill Gates and the rest of Microsoft are depressed.
Microsoft's Bing Search was launched in January 1998. Bill Gates had invested a lot in this search engine and even changed the default IE browser to Bing Search. All the netizens will enter Bing Search's homepage when they open IE.
This move is very effective, and Bing Search had taken over 25% of the market share.
But Microsoft soon realized Bing Search's market share is dropping. Many netizens changed their browser's homepage back to 51 Search when they realized Bing Search had changed their browser's homepage.
After 51 Search found out about Microsoft's actions, they posted on the media that if Microsoft does not stop this, 51 Search will sue Microsoft for monopolizing the search engine.
At this time, Microsoft is suffering from the United States' anti-monopoly investigation and does not dare to play with Bing Search anymore. They quickly changed their homepage back to a blank page, and Bing Search is finished. The total number of users on Bing Search is less than 100,000.
If it weren't for their pride, Microsoft would have taken the entire website offline.
But because of this, Microsoft's attempt to take over the search engine market had failed miserably. Bill Gates had lost the will to continue his challenge.
That's why the board of directors did not react to Bill Gates's words. These two battlefields will not change the outcome of the battle. Instead, they are interested in the third entry that Bill Gates mentioned.
Instant Messaging Software
Many of the board of directors had never heard of this term, and instant messaging software is one of the most important things in Bill Gates's report.
"Instant messaging software is a communication software that allows users to communicate freely on the Internet at any time and anywhere. This software controls the entrance of the netizens' social network. To some extent, this entrance is even more important than a search engine. If we can take the entire entrance and let all the netizens chat through our software, can you imagine how terrifying the benefits we can reap from it?" All the chairmen couldn't help but nod at Bill Gates's words.
That's right. If they can control instant messaging software, they will be able to control all the netizens' communications. This way, they will be able to control the entire world's information!
Therefore, it wasn't unreasonable for the Americans to create trouble like the Prism Gate. They were the countries that were interested in surveillance and invasion of personal privacy.
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