"This is a hacker! This is a hacker's trick! The Daqian is committing a crime!!! " It was said that Bill Gates was furious in his office at that time. He even wanted to call the police, but his secretary stopped him.
What a joke. Without any evidence, the police will not intervene. Or rather, they do not know how to intervene. After all, even the best Microsoft engineers cannot find the source of the spam. Calling the police will not help. Instead, they will become a laughing stock.
But Microsoft's engineers are not incompetent. They quickly came up with a way to block the spam. Although they are still unable to block all the spam, they can prevent the servers from being in 404 mode all the time.
If the users really want to download the patch, they can download it in one or two hours.
But most of the users had lost interest because of the terrible download experience. So, according to the statistics, the number of users who completed the update is only about 1 million.
Not even 1% of the users, let alone 10%.
Everyone in Microsoft is furious. But Microsoft is still confident. First, 1 million users are unable to use QQ.
Secondly, even if it was difficult to suppress QQ with updates and patches, there would be hundreds of thousands of new Windows users around the world every month, and these new users were all using the latest version of the Windows system.
When these systems are installed, QQ software will be blocked. This way, QQ will not have any new users.
More importantly, Microsoft had secretly added MSN software into all the new systems, and it will be automatically updated after the system is installed.
So, in the future, all the new computers will come with MSN software. To Microsoft, this is a huge blow to QQ.
In less than one or two years, MSN will defeat QQ and become the world's leader.
Ma Yun was very anxious when he received the news. But this time, he did not deal with the problem himself. Instead, he went to see Boss Jia and asked for his opinion.
"There is always a back and forth!" Boss Jia looked at them and smiled. Then he said, "Since they have thrown so many punches, it is naturally our turn to make a move!"
"Make our move?" Ma Yun paused for a while. He does not understand how his QQ software can attack Microsoft.
What right did he have to attack the Windows system?
"This has nothing to do with you. After all, you will not be able to win against Microsoft. That's why you need help from your allies!" Boss Jia laughed.
"Help from my allies? Who is it?" Ma Yun paused for a while.
"Me!" Along with a candid reply, a tall man with dark circles under his eyes like a panda walked in.
"You are …!" Ma Yun looked at the man in confusion. He does not know who this man is!
"I am Lei Jun. I joined the company earlier this year. But President Ma Yun, I want to tell you that you are not alone. All of Daqian's employees. We will help you against Microsoft!" Lei Jun said with a smile.
"How?" Ma Yun asked curiously.
"This!" Lei Jun placed a CD in front of Ma Yun. Ma Yun glanced at it and found that the letters "WPS" were clearly printed on it.
"WPS? Isn't he dead?" Ma Yun exclaimed when he saw WPS.
When it came to WPS, it was a legend.
In 2020, many users are using WPS as an alternative to Microsoft Office. They felt WPS is a free strategy to snatch the market share from Microsoft Office.
They felt WPS is a super Microsoft Office.
But no one knows that in the 1990s, Microsoft Office had also snatched the market share from WPS.
Before 1994, the most used office software in Hua Xia is Jinshan Software's WPS software.
WPS is a self-developed office software in Hua Xia. At that time, there are many more convenient designs, which Office does not have. Of course, later on, these offices were all built, and they were exactly the same as the previous ones.
That's why the real plagiarist is not WPS. It's Microsoft Office.
Before 1994, WPS owned 70% of China's office software market, leaving Office far behind. Because of its Chinese operating interface, WPS was more suitable for the Chinese people's habits.
In 1995, Microsoft recognized WPS as a competitor. At the same time, under the instructions of Microsoft's Hua Xia President, Microsoft developed a Chinese version of Office. At the same time, Microsoft "kindly" borrowed some of WPS 'innovations and started to attack Hua Xia's office software market.
Then, in just one year, the WPS was completely defeated.
This strategy is very simple. It's free.
Some people might feel it's weird. Isn't it Hua Xia's strategy to make things free? Since when did it become Microsoft's strategy?
Also, didn't Microsoft charge for their programs? Since when did Microsoft release its programs for free?
Most of Microsoft's software is free, but most of the Windows operating systems are pirated. That means Microsoft Office can also be pirated.
That's why after Microsoft released their latest Office, 5 RMB per copy pirated Office CD took over the entire Hua Xia market. Even if WPS's software is sold cheaply, it still costs more than 50 RMB per copy. It's nothing compared to the 5 RMB pirated CD.
That's why the pirated Office software took over the entire Hua Xia office software market. WPS's market share was reduced to a small percentage and disappeared.
From 1997 to 2010, there was almost no sound of WPS in the market.
It was only after Jinshan Software made use of their gaming business and set WPS's software to be free did they regain the Hua Xia market share.
How did Microsoft make money from pirated versions of their software to take over the Hua Xia market?
It's simple. Microsoft had never expected to make money from individual users. Microsoft had turned a blind eye to the poor individual users. They did not care about the pirated software and operating system. They relied on these things to gain more users.
Microsoft's real customers are the corporate users. It's just like how Daqian had spent a lot of money to buy the original Windows operating system for their internet cafes.
Ordinary users can use pirated versions of their software, but if a company dares to use pirated versions, Microsoft will sue them. If the company wants to continue operating, it must pay for the original version and let Microsoft reap the profits.
From Microsoft's financial report, more than 80% of Microsoft's profits are from the corporate users.
The corporate users cannot reject Microsoft's profits. When the world's individual users are using Microsoft's operating system, other operating systems will not survive. The corporate users can only choose to use Microsoft's operating system.
This is Microsoft's model of using free software to form a monopoly and reap profits from this monopoly.
Microsoft might be a company that values intellectual property and protects against piracy, but they are a company that started from piracy. They do not pirate other people's products. They let others pirate their products.
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