At the beginning of 1998, when Jinshan Software was at its weakest, Mr. Jia did not hesitate to buy the entire Jinshan Software for less than 30 million USD. After that, Jinshan Software merged with Beilibeili and became one company.
The former Chairman of Jinshan Software, Qiu Bojun, was depressed. So, he exchanged his shares for cash and quit Jinshan Software.
The former General Manager, Lei Jun, was retained by Boss Jia to become the Vice President of Beilibeili. He is the newcomer in front of Ma Yun.
"Chairman, as per your instructions, we have reconvened a large number of programmers to develop WPS. We have also added English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, and more than 10 other major languages in the world." Lei Jun excitedly reported to Jia Yapeng.
"Ma Yun, look. This is the weapon we will use to attack Microsoft!" Boss Jia said with a smile.
"That's it?" Ma Yun's face clearly revealed a trace of disdain. This caused the Thunder Monarch, who was originally full of smiles, to look at Ma Yun with some dissatisfaction.
"Of course!" Boss Jia laughed. "Actually, I am very interested to know what will happen if WPS does the same thing to Microsoft!"
"Chairman, are you going to promote WPS's pirated software all over the world and take over Microsoft's office software market as revenge?" Ma Yun asked.
"No. There is no need to go through so much trouble. There is also no need to fish for fame. We will not engage in pirated software. We will give it to each other for free!" Boss Jia laughed.
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November 1st, 1998. Microsoft's Chairman, Bill Gates, woke up in the morning and took out today's newspaper from the mailbox at his door. As usual, he started reading the newspaper. After taking a look at the newspaper, Bill Gates smashed the coffee cup in his hand on the table.
The coffee cup shattered, and the black coffee splashed all over Bill Gates. He did not notice it, and his face turned pale.
The news that made Bill Gates hit himself was not news. It was an advertisement that took up an entire page of the newspaper.
"Daqian WPS office software, your best work assistant!"
This was the slogan of the advertisement. However, this sentence was not important. What was important was that it occupied the center position of the entire page. It almost filled the entire page with a line of words: "Daqian WPS: Worldwide Forever Free."
Five minutes later, the executive in charge of the office called. Bill Gates, who was supposed to be on vacation, asked all the executives to return to the company for a meeting immediately.
"Chairman, according to our investigation, this kind of advertisement didn't just appear in the New York Times. Ten major newspapers in the United States have published the same advertisement. At least 500 newspapers in the world have published the same advertisement. It can be said that more than 80% of the users are covered! "
"Chairman, not only that, this Daqian WPS is available for download in 132 different countries around the world. You don't need to pay anything, and you don't need to pay anything. You just need to click download on the website, and you can download the complete Daqian WPS office software! "An executive reported.
"Not only that, Chairman, you know, there is a steam game store in front of my house. I pass by that store every day when I go out. As a result, I found out today that there is a huge poster at the door of this steam game store that almost occupies the entire door. It is the advertisement of this Daqian WPS. "
"This advertisement clearly states that they have all the functions of our office, and not only can you download it online, but you can also buy the installation disk directly in the steam game store. The steam game store does not charge any other fees, only 1 USD per disk! "
"1 USD per disk!" Everyone at the scene took a deep breath. The disk of their office software was worth 99 USD per disk, and an empty disk on the market was indeed sold for 1 USD per disk.
"Crazy, this Daqian is crazy. What's the benefit of doing this? These advertisements are at least tens of millions of USD, and the steam game store … Well, this is Daqian's own business, and they don't charge money, but this is too crazy. They actually invested so much money for a software that doesn't charge money. This is unbelievable. Don't they want to make money?" The executives said in disbelief.
"No, it's not that they don't want to make money, they don't want us to make money!" Bill Gates licked his lips, and then said helplessly.
When Bill Gates said this, the other executives also reacted. This WPS is forever free worldwide, so obviously, whether it is individual users or corporate users, they can use it without paying anything.
On the other hand, Microsoft Office, which has occupied most of the market, is different.
First, Microsoft Office is a fully paid software. Although individual users can use pirated software, this is because Microsoft will not pursue the responsibility of pirated software. Many individual users will still choose to spend money to buy the original Office software.
As for corporate users, they will not be able to escape from Microsoft. Currently, 78% of the world's companies are using Office, and the remaining 22% are using Apple's paid Office software.
On the other hand, Microsoft's profits from the licensing fees alone exceed 3.8 billion USD annually.
More importantly, this is only the licensing fees for the Office software and not the buyout fees. The licensing fees are collected once a year. In other words, the 3.8 billion USD profits are like leeks that can be harvested every year.
The Office software had become Microsoft's fourth biggest source of profits, and Microsoft cannot afford to ignore it.
But now, the free Daqian WPS had appeared. Even an idiot would not know how the companies, who spend more than 3.8 billion USD on Office software, will treasure WPS.
There was a problem if WPS wanted to completely take over the Office market. That was, although WPS was free in name, the user experience was extremely bad. It was far worse than Office. Most importantly, it was not compatible with Office's office format. If it could not open the old version of Office files, then the threat would not be great.
But when a few Microsoft testers walked over with their test reports, Bill Gates knew he is in trouble.
According to the testers' report, WPS has 98% of Office's functions. At the same time, WPS also added at least dozens of new functions, and these functions were very practical. Even these testers couldn't help but want to switch Office to WPS after using it.
Yes, these functions were summarized by Boss Jia based on the future office software. Of course, it would be able to hit the market where it hurts.
Secondly, the smoothness of the software was comparable to Office. Even when dealing with certain tasks, the response speed was faster.
Finally, there was the compatibility issue. WPS was perfectly compatible with all the old versions of Office files. It was even compatible with Apple's office files.
Simply put, unless you are using a computer file from before 1970, there is no file that WPS cannot open.
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