The development of the world is always unexpected. The Daqian and Microsoft, who were about to fight to the death, suddenly stopped.
Microsoft removed the latest QQ update patch, and Da Qian also stopped promoting WPS. All the advertisements were removed from the shelves. Overnight, it was as if the whole world was silent.
Of course, a well-informed person soon got hold of the news and sold it to the media. As a result, the whole world soon knew about the bet between Da Qian and Microsoft against QQ and MSN.
The media immediately went to interview Microsoft and the Daqian. At first, Microsoft refused to admit it, but to their surprise, the Daqian admitted it.
They even announced the number of active users from both parties. QQ has 13.16 million Excellent users, and MSN has 10.71 million active users.
This made Microsoft furious. But soon, Microsoft realized that the war between QQ and MSN had become the hottest topic in the world. All sorts of related news were flying around the world.
If there was a hot search list at this time, then you would find that the popularity of QQ and MSN had increased by more than ten times in a short period of time. Almost everyone was enthusiastically discussing QQ and MSN, discussing who would win and who would lose. For a time, these two software almost occupied the core of everyone's chat.
However, although there was no trending search, Da Qian and Microsoft soon realized how popular it was this time. In just one day, the number of downloads and active users of QQ and MSN had increased by nearly 4 million. It was heading towards the 5 million mark.
Between QQ and MSN, one had been developing for two years, while the other had been developing for more than a year. In the end, the number of users that had accumulated over this period of time had reached one-third in a week.
This was obviously the traffic brought about by the bet. Those who had never heard of QQ and MSN, or those who had heard of them but had no interest in these two software, began to download these two software curiously after learning about the bet. They wanted to see which software was better and place their bets while they were at it.
That's right. Place their bets.
The United States and Europe's gambling industry is legal. When the bet between QQ and MSN was announced, the bookmakers immediately released bets for their customers to place their bets on QQ and MSN.
Many people who wanted to place their bets would download QQ and MSN as soon as possible. Then, they would see which one was better and which one they should choose. After all, the entire United States of America was extremely lively because of this incident. Naturally, the number of users would increase tremendously.
Bill Gates soon realized he must admit to this bet. If he does not admit to this bet, it will make him look guilty. If he is guilty, everyone will think QQ will win.
At the same time, Bill Gates realized that this was no longer a simple bet to decide if he should ban QQ. This was a major event that affected the future of Microsoft and Da Qian. If Microsoft lost this bet, Microsoft would become a joke to many people.
Also, if either QQ or MSN loses this bet, they will be the tears of an era. This is a battle that will determine the instant messaging market of the internet era. Microsoft must not lose!
Although Bill Gates feels his chances of winning are more than 80%, he is not someone who will underestimate his opponent. After realizing the importance of this bet, Bill Gates immediately made arrangements.
First, during a press conference, Bill Gates pretended to admit to this bet and said Microsoft is in an advantageous position now. Anyway, the results will be out in the end, and the winner will depend on who is better at bragging.
From Bill Gates's performance during the press conference, this bet is only a small game, and Microsoft will win.
Many people also believe this. Although QQ still has the advantage in terms of the total number of people, QQ is still a Chinese company. It is a backward and closed company that does not follow the market economy. How can it win against the free and democratic Microsoft?
After all, who will believe Brazil's score is 0: 7 in football?
So, in the United States and Europe, the odds of betting on Microsoft plummeted, and the odds of betting on Daqian skyrocketed to 1: 2.2.
But soon, Microsoft made a new move. Microsoft announced that all future operating systems will be bundled with MSN. This will allow users to contact each other more easily.
It's fine if this is the case, but all of Microsoft's software will be bundled with MSN's software. When the software is installed, MSN will be automatically installed.
Of course, if the user does not want to install MSN, they can choose not to install it. All they need to do is click on the 'Note' button, click 'Additional Software', and remove the 'Tick' button in front of MSN. It's very simple and only requires a few clicks of the mouse.
According to some people's statistics, MSN added 10 million new installs in just one month. According to their statistics, MSN could add at least 100 million new installs in the coming year just by relying on these bundled installs.
Although the number of installs is not equal to the number of active users, a 10% conversion rate is equivalent to 10 million active users. How can Microsoft lose?
Netizens scolded Microsoft for being shameless and started to bet on Microsoft to win. In an instant, Daqian's odds had increased to 1: 3.1.
On the other hand, Daqian is not so lucky. After all, Daqian does not have the resources to monopolize QQ. At most, they can only install QQ in all Hua Xia Internet cafes and install QQ in all Xiaomi PCs. At the same time, they can also uninstall MSN from their operating systems.
Daqian does not have any other tricks up his sleeves.
Oh, Taobao had announced that they will be adding online services in the future. At the same time, they will be partners with QQ. In the future, Taobao's customer services will be through QQ, and Taobao's buyers must download QQ to communicate with their sellers.
But these are not enough. All Hua Xia Internet cafes had already installed QQ, and the number of active users will not increase by many.
As for Xiaomi PCs, they are only selling about 800,000 units a month. In a year, they will only sell 10 million units, which is less than one-tenth of Microsoft's.
Taobao's sales are even lower. After all, not many people are buying things on Taobao now.
But in the dark, many evil forces who specialize in pirated Windows operating system CD-ROM received a secret message. If they remove MSN from the pirated Windows operating system CD-ROM and bind it to QQ, they will get 10 cents commission for every CD-ROM sold.
In an instant, QQ is famous among those pirated Windows operating system CD!
In any case, for the sake of this war, both sides had used all kinds of shameless methods. They had used everything they could.
But both sides seem to have forgotten that the outcome is not decided by these methods. It is the product itself.
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