After listening to Hulk's story, everyone sighed that Microsoft had picked up a treasure. At the same time, they felt that Jobs was too shameless. They did not expect him to be such a person.
Of course, some people felt that there was something wrong with the story. However, since it was personally endorsed by Bill Gates, it should be the true result after a detailed investigation. There should be no problem.
Bill Gates did a detailed investigation. For example, Hulk was indeed the chief designer of Apple's IMAC. Many of Apple's executives could prove this. There were also various internal photos to prove it. Anyway, there was no doubt about Hulk's identity.
Many people also heard that Hulk and Jobs had a quarrel in the office, and then Jobs announced that Hulk was fired. The two men often discussed IMAC together. These were all consistent with Hulk's words.
It was just that there was no definite answer as to whether IMAC was mainly Hulk's work or Jobs'. However, it was an indisputable fact that the two men developed IMAC together.
Even if Hulk lied, and the main credit was Bill Gates, then Hulk was at least a person with secondary credit.
Therefore, it was definitely a good thing to poach Hulk.
Hulk, who had made a popular product like IMAC, would get a perfect result if he was allowed to improve MSN.
However, Bill Gates did not blindly hand over MSN directly to Hulk. Instead, he asked him to conduct a comprehensive investigation of MSN and QQ a month in advance, summarize the advantages and disadvantages of the two, and finally figure out the reasons for these differences.
Therefore, the report that Hulk read today was also Microsoft's assessment of his ability.
Hulk was also very clear about this, so he held the report in his hand, coughed, cleared his throat, and then said loudly, "Everyone, at the beginning of the report, I want to say my conclusion first. That is, the reason why MSN temporarily lagged behind QQ is that we have always been following behind QQ. We have been learning addition from QQ, but we don't understand that subtraction is the most correct path!"
"Oh!" Everyone's eyes lit up, including Bill Gates. Among other things, this conclusion was very novel, and it greatly increased Hulk's confidence, so he continued, "Since I investigated MSN and QQ a month ago, I found that MSN has actually been following QQ for updates and improvements!"
"So this is often the case, that is, QQ updates a new function, and MSN will release the same function in less than two weeks. So until now, QQ and MSN are actually two software that are more or less the same."
"Other than the differences in the UI of the products, it's hard for me to find any differences between the two products!"
"And this is the main reason why MSN has never been able to surpass QQ, and the gap between them is getting bigger and bigger!" Hulk said loudly.
"How can that be the main reason?" When an executive heard this, he couldn't help but say angrily, "I admit that QQ and MSN are indeed very similar, but since they are two similar things, they should achieve the same results. How can the gap be wider and wider?"
This executive who spoke is the current MSN project manager.
When Bill Gates introduced Hulk, the director was keenly aware that Hulk might be here to take over his position. This made the executive very angry and very scared.
If his position is taken over by Hulk, then he will have to resign because of poor performance, and he will not be able to progress in Microsoft!
That's why he retorted after Hulk finished speaking.
"Mr. Bills is right. Logically speaking, two similar products should achieve the same results. Also, Microsoft has invested more in marketing and funds."
"But this result is based on the premise that both products are released at the same time and appear in front of the users at the same time!"
"But what about the actual situation?"
"As I said earlier, our products often have to wait for a week or two after the QQ update function before we can add the same function!"
"I understand. After all, we can't copy the other party's code and program. We need to write our own program. After the program is written, we need to test it. Only the best programmers in the world can do it in two weeks!"
"But no matter how good our programmers are, our functions are one to two weeks behind our competitors. These two weeks are enough for QQ to gain an advantage in the market due to our first-mover advantage. We will continue to consolidate our lead and widen the gap between our competitors."
"This is the main reason why we are lagging behind. How can a competitor who always follows behind the winner get the audience's support?"
"How can MSN, which has been following behind QQ, overtake QQ?!" Hulk said in a clear voice, and the executives nodded.
That's right. That's the reason why MSN can't surpass QQ. Even Bill Gates couldn't help but nod when he heard this.
This reminded him of Microsoft's success.
Microsoft's success was due to their GUI operating system, and they continued to develop new features. Their competitors could only follow Microsoft's lead and imitate their GUI operating system.
Microsoft's operating system had taken over the world's biggest market share, and the rest of the world's software started to adapt to Windows operating system. This further reduces their competitors' market share.
After all, a system without software adaptations will never be liked by the users.
In the end, Microsoft won and dominated the market share. This is how Microsoft became Microsoft.
But now, MSN has become one of those pitiful competitors, following QQ's footsteps. It's understandable why MSN failed.
Feng Yu had found the right person to help him. He had found the crux of the problem!
Bill Gates nodded. He is impressed by his ability to spot a hero.
"I know it's wrong for us to follow QQ, but we have no choice!" Even the director of MSN could only admit that Hulk was right, but he said unwillingly, "QQ was launched a year and a half earlier than us, and its functions have become a common practice in the market. If we can't have the same functions as QQ, then users will complain on the forum, saying that we don't have those functions, but QQ does. In this way, we can only follow behind QQ. There's no other way!"
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