Boss Jia pointed at Ma Yun's nose and scolded him for an hour. He scolded Ma Yun with all the scoldings except that he did not buy Ma Yun's family. Ma Yun could only endure it. After all, Ma Yun was a complete idiot. He did not realize that Microsoft was targeting him. He even needed Boss Jia to remind him.
"But Microsoft is too much. It's fine if they want you to apologize and compensate them, but they want you to shut down your QQ account and stop you from going online without their approval. Who do they think they are? The Internet Emperors?" Boss Jia was angered by Microsoft, and scolding Ma Yun was just a way to vent his anger.
But Boss Jia is puzzled. He does not understand why Microsoft is so overboard.
In his previous world, Microsoft did not do anything to QQ and MSN, no matter how fierce the competition is. Why did they do it this time?
Hmmm … Boss Jia had overlooked an important issue.
QQ in his previous world is only a local tyrant. They only own the Hua Xia market, and they cannot compete with MSN overseas. Of course, Microsoft will not target QQ.
But now, when QQ is launched, it will be in the global market. MSN's market share had been squeezed out, and Microsoft will use some monopolization tactics.
This is what Microsoft did when they were competing in the browser market. If not, how can IE dominate the world?
"Alright. Tell me, what should we do next?" Boss Jia asked Ma Yun after the person finished scolding him and calmed down a little.
"I will listen to you, Chairman!" Ma Yun replied obediently.
"Alright. Since you are listening to me, I only have one thing to say. Do what you are supposed to do!" Boss Jia sneered.
"Chairman, can you be more specific?"
"He will sue his court, and I will operate my QQ account!" Boss Jia smiled. "How about this? You will release an announcement to the public. Tell them everything that happened these few days. Don't beat around the bush. Just tell everyone that in order to promote MSN, Microsoft can add a patch to the system to make things difficult for QQ. QQ will crash! "
"So direct? We don't have any evidence. What if Microsoft sues us for defamation? "Ma Yun asked.
"Can't you tell the truth without evidence?" Boss Jia snorted and said, "As for him suing us for slander, that's exactly what I want. I can't wait for him to sue us in court."
"The innocent knows that they are innocent, and the muddy knows that they are muddy. Things have happened, and that is the truth. He is suing us for defamation, and the court will investigate this matter. They will be able to find evidence that Microsoft is targeting us, and everything will be revealed! "Mr. Jia laughed. Ma Yun nodded. He sighed that he was too inexperienced.
"Other than that, we can't just let others sue us. You can go to the Chinese and US courts and sue Microsoft for monopolizing the entire computer system industry. At the same time, you are using your monopoly advantage to oppress your competitors." Boss Jia continued to cut Ma Yun's throat, which made Ma Yun shiver.
"Chairman, if this is the case, we will not rest until Microsoft is dead!" Ma Yun said worriedly. "It's not just QQ. I'm afraid the whole Daqian will have a conflict with Microsoft!"
"What a joke. Are you afraid of fighting with others? Are you going to be a coward and let others beat you up? I, Jia Yapeng, am not that stupid. "
"Microsoft is the one who should be afraid if we start a war with them. They should be able to survive until 2020, but they had tolerated me. I will make sure they won't even survive until 2010!" Boss Jia said. Ma Yun shivered when he heard this.
"Also, QQ's normal operations must not be stopped. It must get better and better. I will make those Microsoft bastards angry!" Boss Jia licked his lips and then said, "Have you finished developing the new version and new functions of QQ? Show me!"
"Yes! We have a version called QQ 1999. Although it's still in the pre-research stage, the various functions have already been adjusted. We were originally going to release it in early 1999! "Ma Yun nodded and handed a document to Boss Jia.
"Oh … these features … are not bad!" Boss Jia glanced at the 1999 version of QQ, and his eyes lit up. Then, he slapped the table hard and said, "There's no need to wait for the January 1999 version. Send it out tomorrow and update the entire internet with QQ 1999!"
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After the court filed the complaint, Microsoft thought QQ would beg for mercy and apologize. But they did not receive any apology from their opponents. Instead, they saw a new version of QQ announcement.
This was a system message sent to all users, informing them that QQ had launched a new version of QQ 1999.
In this 1999 version, in addition to the optimization of the QQ interface, the improvement of the layout, and other small things, the most important thing was that QQ introduced two new functions. One was the file transfer function. Users could directly transfer files of no more than 1MB through the QQ chat box.
In addition, there was also a status function. After users logged into QQ, they could set their login status.
In the past, QQ will display the user's status and the icon will be colored.
But after adding the status function, users can set three different statuses: online, offline, and busy.
If they are busy, they will tell others not to disturb them.
If he didn't want to be disturbed at all, he could set himself to be invisible. This way, his avatar would always be greyed out, indicating that he wasn't logged in, and no one would come to chat with him.
After seeing the new version of QQ, MSN immediately held a meeting to discuss the impact of these two new features on the market.
At the beginning of the meeting, everyone in MSN expressed their disdain for these two new features. In their opinion, these two features were meaningless.
Take the file transfer function for example. A 1MB file is too small. It can't do anything. Moreover, users used QQ to chat and communicate on the Internet.
Why would they do something as boring as file transfer? Isn't this something they only do at work? This is inconsistent with instant messaging software's pursuit of leisure, entertainment, and social functions. This function is meaningless and will only use up more system memory.
There was also the stealth login function. In the eyes of the MSN team, this function was even more nonsensical. Since you would log into an instant messaging software, it meant that you wanted to communicate with others. Then why would you put yourself in stealth and busy mode? You don't want others to disturb you? You don't want to communicate? Wasn't this a contradiction?
Moreover, this is cheating to many users. Users will definitely not want to guess if their friends are invisible. This will only increase the user's disgust. It is a very ridiculous function.
Anyway, after the MSN team analyzed these two functions, they felt that they were useless and there was no need to pay attention to them. MSN only needed to do a good job of communicating with users and constantly improve the smoothness of the conversation. It was enough to provide a pure chat experience. There was no need to add any fancy functions.
But QQ did not take the beating quietly and still introduced new features at this time. This is asking for a beating, and Microsoft is furious for the third time.
But before they can express their anger, and before QQ can apologize on the internet and the media, a report titled "Monopoly Violence: A Small Company's Complaint" was published on the internet and the media. The conflict between Microsoft and Alibaba was exposed to the public.
It also exposed all of Microsoft's wrongdoings. At the same time, news of Alibaba suing Microsoft for monopoly also spread.
On the second day after the article was published, Microsoft's share prices plunged by 4.2%. This is the biggest drop in Microsoft's share prices since 1998.
"Jia Yapeng, Mr. Jia, must you all blow this up?" After this incident, Bill Gates immediately called Boss Jia through a middleman.
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