"Chairman, should we report this to the headquarters?" The secretary asked softly after recording Ma Yun's orders.
"Report to the headquarters? What's there to report about such a small matter? There's no need to inform Chairman Jia! "Ma Yun rejected without hesitation.
Well, if this kind of thing were to be reported, then it would be too shameful. Ma Yun would be too shameless.
Anyway, it's not an unsolvable problem, and he can solve it himself!
— — —
After Ma Yunming used his scheme to build a walkway, Microsoft's side stopped their activities.
First, it was Ma Yun's sincere apology letter that calmed the Western staffs down. Also, QQ had removed the download channel from the system. QQ seems to have given in.
Next, he would have to watch QQ continuously collapse, and then the users would be forced to collapse, and finally switch to MSN in the beautiful ending.
But in the next week, Microsoft noticed the number of complaints on QQ's official forum was decreasing, and the number of users did not decrease. Instead, the number of users is increasing.
Moreover, the operation of QQ did not seem to be hindered at all. This made the MSN project team very confused. Then, they began to research.
After spending another week, they found out that although QQ had stopped infringing in name, in the forums and chat messages between users, all kinds of ways to avoid crashes, as well as private download addresses, were crazily spreading among the players. They had all been fooled by QQ.
Microsoft employees are sometimes stupid, and sometimes they are not. They knew they had been fooled by QQ.
They were enraged once again, and this time, it was even smoother than the previous time. Therefore, this time, they did not intend to give QQ a chance to play with them.
In October 1998, a shocking piece of news appeared. Microsoft filed a complaint to the United States Court. They are accusing QQ of illegally deleting the system, destroying the system patches, and violating Microsoft's security agreement. This is a serious breach of contract.
They made a serious appeal to the court. First, they wanted Alibaba to issue an apology to Microsoft through the world's news media. Secondly, they wanted Alibaba to compensate Microsoft with 30 million USD in damages. Lastly, they wanted Alibaba to shut down QQ's server and stop infringing on Microsoft's operating system. Alibaba would only be able to restore QQ's operating system after it passed Microsoft's official review.
When this incident was exposed, the entire global IT industry was stunned. Ma Yun was also stunned. He does not understand why Microsoft is not letting him off for such a small matter.
What did he do to offend Microsoft? Are the foreigners so stubborn?
Ma Yun was only an English teacher, and he was shocked by Microsoft's lawsuit. He sat in his office in a daze for a few hours. The entire company was in an uproar, and many of the higher management felt that the company was finished. When they were about to resign, a group of people suddenly entered the company.
"Who is that?! Microsoft's people are here? "Seeing this group of aggressive people, Dong Xuebing asked. Many people in the company asked in fear.
But soon, they recognized the leader of the group and exclaimed. "Jia Yapeng! He is the richest man in Hua Xia! Why is he here?!"
"Nonsense. Don't you know that our company's biggest investor is Manager Jia? Our Manager Ma used to be a Daqian executive?" An old man in the company explained.
"Oh!" Only then did the newcomer nod his head. As for the old man, he put back the things that he had tidied up on his desk.
"Old Wang, didn't you say you are going to resign?" The newcomer asked curiously.
"Why should I resign? I thought Chairman Jia is looking down on our company. But now, he is here, and our company will be fine. Why should I run away?! "Old Wang laughed.
Newcomers might not understand Old Wang's thinking, but this kind of thinking was very common in the entire electronics industry.
After all, Boss Jia had never lost a battle since his debut. Old Wang had fought several lawsuits in the United States, and he had never lost a case.
Now that Chairman Jia is here, this matter will be resolved!
— — —
"Why are you lying on your desk? Is this enough to scare you to the ground? " Boss Jia directly broke into Ma Yun's chairman's office. Seeing Ma Yun lying on his desk, Boss Jia questioned him impolitely.
"Chairman! Why are you here? " Ma Yun was startled. His originally worried mood had already disappeared without a trace. He hurriedly stood up and said.
"If I don't come, am I going to watch you get beaten up?" Boss Jia snorted. "Let me ask you. Why didn't you report this to me?"
"Chairman, it's not like this. It's not that I don't want to report this to you. I think this is not a big deal. It's just a system patch, and I didn't expect Microsoft to make such a big fuss. It's not that serious!" Ma Yun said blankly.
"Haha … I thought you are more mature than Ma Huateng. I didn't expect you to be the most naive one!" Boss Jia snorted. "You still can't see the root of the problem, and you still think this is a small problem."
"Looks like I don't even need to ask. You must still think that this problem is due to the system patch and not Microsoft targeting your QQ!"
"What?! Microsoft is targeting my QQ?! "Ma Yun was shocked.
"Your naivety is beyond my imagination!" Boss Jia was also furious. "Please think about it. Microsoft's patch. Other than your QQ, which other software is affected by their patch? Is there another software in the world that can do the same thing? "
"This …" Ma Yun's expression became extremely ugly. Indeed, until now, only his QQ in the entire world had problems because of this patch.
"It's obvious that this is a patch made by Microsoft to target QQ. Their goal is to make QQ crash continuously and cause users to have a mental breakdown. In the end, users will give up using QQ and switch to MSN."
"Have you forgotten whose product MSN is?"
Boss Jia's series of questions made Ma Yun completely dumbfounded.
"But Microsoft is a big company. It's a company from the United States. It's a free country. Why would they do something that will interfere with fair competition?" Ma Yun asked.
"You are hopeless!" Boss Jia was suddenly very disappointed with Ma Yun. God knows how this kid got to where he was in his previous life. Back then, he had taken Alipay from Yahoo so shamelessly and straightforwardly. Boss Jia had thought that he was a black-hearted guy.
But now, it seems like Ma Yun is still a fool.
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