Chapter 1414
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"Mr. Chairman, what's the situation of the instant messaging software market now? Is Microsoft ready? "A director asked worriedly." We must not make the same mistake as 51Search! "
When 51Search is mentioned, everyone in Microsoft is gloomy.
51Search was once placed on Microsoft's bed, and Microsoft had sent their top executives to negotiate for the acquisition of 51Search.
If the acquisition is successful, 51Search, the most powerful search engine in the internet era, will become a subsidiary of Microsoft. Microsoft's share prices will be at least doubled.
After all, 51Search's share prices are now at 102 billion USD. It is less than 30 billion USD away from Microsoft's share prices.
At that time, that d * mned executive actually gave up on acquiring 51Search just because it was worth tens of millions of USD. He gave up on this super internet company worth hundreds of billions of USD.
All of Microsoft's shareholders had the urge to kill that executive. As for that executive, he was chased out of the meeting.
Because of his infamous mistake of giving up on 51Search, no other internet or financial companies will hire him for the rest of his life.
Although this executive is innocent, even if Bill Gates is in charge of the acquisition, he will not bear to spend tens of millions of USD.
After all, tens of millions of USD is enough to build three 51Search. No one expected 51Search's market value to increase by more than a thousand times within three years. That's because internet technology stocks are magical in any era.
Cough … back to the main topic.
Because of their failure with 51Search, Microsoft's shareholders immediately thought of 51Search when they hear about instant messaging software.
It could be said that these shareholders had a keen sense of smell.
"We are already planning for it. MSN is our instant messaging software!" Bill Gates replied, "In the middle of 1997, we launched MSN. Now, we have a total of 18 million registered users worldwide, 10.25 million active users who have logged in within a month, and 3.28 million super active users who have logged in less than three days apart!"
"This is a good result!" The directors are overjoyed when they heard MSN has so many customers. But Bill Gates shook his head. "But our results are only ranked second in the market."
"What? How can an instant messaging software surpass us?!" One of the directors is shocked.
"Yes, it's an instant messaging software called QQ. According to the information we have, QQ has 25 million registered users worldwide, 13.25 million active users who have logged in within the past month, and 5.8 million super active users!" Bill Gates said.
"That's good. The gap is not too big!" One of the directors is relieved.
"But we are lagging behind. Why did we lose to them?" Another director asked.
"Because we are one step behind them! QQ was one year ahead of us. At the same time, for nearly 10 months, QQ had no competitors and could monopolize the entire market! "Bill Gates explained.
"That's not surprising. We are one year behind. It's already very good that we can catch up with them!" The directors all nodded and praised, but Bill Gates looked worried and said, "We can't be so optimistic. At present, QQ's data is in the lead, and the other party has begun to conduct large-scale marketing in this market all over the world."
"For example, the marketing campaign in Fusang last month was very effective. They have almost occupied the entire Fusang market. It is very difficult for our MSN to get the market in Fusang!"
"At the same time, countries all over the world can see QQ's campaign. This means that QQ has begun a campaign to defeat our MSN and dominate the market!" Bill Gates sighed.
"So what if they advertise? We also occupy so much of the market. They can't take it away! "One of the directors grinned and said disdainfully.
"No, they can really take away our market!" Unexpectedly, Bill Gates shook his head and said with a serious face, "Respected directors, software is different from other software!"
"Other software can exist at the same time. Once the user has it, it is very difficult to take it away. But instant messaging software is different! " Bill Gates sighed. "Instant messaging software, in the end, is a software for people to communicate with each other. So whether a software is useful or not does not depend on whether the software's functions are comprehensive. It depends on how many friends you have using the software."
"Let's make a very simple assumption. A person can contact 20 real-life friends on QQ. At the same time, on our MSN, we only have 5 real-life friends. So which software do you think this person will use most often? "Bill Gates asked.
"Of course it will be QQ!" The directors said without hesitation.
"That's right. If the software has more friends, then the user will naturally prefer to use one software, thereby reducing the time to use another software."
"That's not the scariest part. The scariest part is the remaining five MSN friends. When they realize that the number of friends they can contact on MSN in real life has decreased by one, and the number of friends they can contact on QQ has increased by one, what will they do?"
"Gasp!" Hearing Bill Gates's words, all the directors took a deep breath. This scene was very scary just thinking about it!
"So, instant messaging software is different from other software. It can't be inclusive! If a software can occupy enough users, then the software itself doesn't need to carry out any monopolistic measures. The users of other software will naturally give up their original instant messaging software and gather in this software at the same time. "
"In the end, more than 90% of the users will gather in the same instant messaging software. Then the entire market will become unshakable. No software can defeat the giant opponent. Unless the software has the ability to attract all the Internet users in the world to their software at the same time, those users will return sooner or later! "
"Dear directors, instant messaging software is a winner-take-all market. As long as one person wins, he will occupy the entire market. The rest of the competitors will only end up in their graves! "Bill Gates concluded.
Winner-Take-All. This was a term that all the Microsoft employees were very familiar with. This was because the biggest winner-take-all product in the world was the PC operating system.
Whoever wins will take over the entire GUI operating system market. There will be no other power!
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