On May 1st, 2000, on Labor Day, a shocking piece of news broke out on Wall Street. Intel and Microsoft had reached an agreement to exchange shares.
Both parties will exchange shares at a ratio of 2: 1. Microsoft will exchange 8 billion USD worth of shares for Intel's 4 billion USD worth of shares.
After the share swap, Microsoft will own 9.25% of Intel's shares, and Intel will own 5.98% of Microsoft's shares. Based on the shareholding ratios, Microsoft will become the second largest shareholder of Intel, and Intel will become the third largest shareholder of Microsoft.
Even a fool can tell this alliance means Intel and Microsoft will have further cooperation. At the same time, there is a new rumor in the market. Microsoft wants to exchange shares with Intel because they want Intel to design and build the next generation of CPU for Microsoft operating systems.
At that time, it was very likely that the new generation of Intel CPUs would only support the Windows system, or that only the Windows system could exert 100% of the computing power of the Intel processor.
But these are all rumors, and there is no public information to prove this.
After this news was announced, Intel and Microsoft's share prices shot up. Intel's share prices shot up by 22.2%.
Microsoft's share prices also shot up by 3.9%. If they continue to show positive signs, their share prices will rise further. At least, they can recover their fallen share prices.
Luckily, Hongmeng system is not listed. If not, Hongmeng's share prices will plunge.
Reporters immediately went to interview Hongmeng to ask about their views on Intel and Microsoft exchanging shares. Hongmeng replied that this is a cooperation between the two companies, and they have no opinions.
But Hongmeng believes Intel, as one of the world's top computer chip manufacturers, will not do something stupid like monopolizing the market.
Just like that, with Hongmeng's reply, the second battle between Microsoft and Da Qian came to an end. As for the outcome of the battle, everyone felt that Da Qian had won a small victory.
After all, Hongmeng had gained a foothold in the market and broke Microsoft's firewall. Hongmeng can compete with Windows operating system.
At the same time, Hongmeng had almost taken over the entire Hua Xia market. Although Microsoft still has about 20% of the market, the overall situation of the Hua Xia market is set.
Moreover, although there was no explicit text, many voices advocated for self-reliance, allowing Hua Xia people to use Hua Xia's own computer systems.
At the same time, Bilibili Software took the initiative to establish the Hua Xia Software Industry Alliance, encouraging all software companies in Hua Xia to join the alliance. With the help of the alliance, each company would be able to master the development process of the Hongmeng System and develop all kinds of software for the Hongmeng System. This would guide the development of the Internet industry in Hua Xia!
With the Hongmeng system occupying 80% of Hua Xia's market, these companies had no other choice but to develop software based on the Hongmeng system. Among them were NetEase, Jinshan, Sohu, Sina, and other rising internet companies. They all began to develop various software based on the Hongmeng system.
This shows that it is only a matter of time before the Hongmeng system takes over the Hua Xia market.
Of course, Hong Meng was still struggling to develop in the foreign market. Their market share was basically below 5%. This meant that the market share of any single foreign market was not higher than 5%. The world was still dominated by the Windows system, and this situation would continue until Windows XP was released.
But before that, both parties should coexist peacefully for some time. As for what will happen after Windows XP is released, only God knows.
But with the Hua Xia market, the future number one PC market in the world, Hongmeng system will not be defeated by Windows operating system.
It seemed that the entire war would develop just like the future of IOS and Android.
Although Microsoft is not worried about this outcome, they can only accept it. In fact, the losses to Microsoft are not significant. After all, Hua Xia market's annual revenue is less than 300 million USD. Microsoft can afford this loss.
However, for Mei Liang and Yang Yuanqing, this matter was extremely bad because Yang Yuanqing discovered that Mei Liang seemed to have unknowingly reached the end of the road!
At first, Yang Yuanqing was frustrated by the failure of the internet café market, but he did not think it will be fatal.
After all, the internet café market is not Mei Liang's market, and it's fine if he can't get it. The only loss is the additional 50 million USD in contract fees.
But Mei Liang will be able to recoup this cost next year. This is because Mei Liang does not need to pay Windows licensing fees next year.
After all, Microsoft's Hua Xia market is in a precarious state. Their CEO, Tony, had only visited Hua Xia once and is now in the United States headquarters. He does not seem to have any intention of returning.
Microsoft's headquarters had not appointed a new Hua Xia CEO, and the original Hua Xia executives are running the company. But this will affect the company's morale. Those who are smart and idealistic can tell Microsoft's Hua Xia market is not going to last long. That's why they are jumping ship and leaving the company. The company has lost its motivation and is now a pig waiting to die.
But this pig can no longer stay as a pig. As the only company in the market with Windows operating system, Mei Liang's Windows PC is hard to sell.
More than half of the large companies and units are refusing to buy Mei Liang's PC, even if Mei Liang gives them rebates.
It is not that they have become more aware, but a vague attitude is spreading in Hua Xia. Everyone knows that Windows will not stay in Hua Xia for long.
The most fatal thing is the release of an investigation report that caused the collapse of the Windows operating system.
The famous DD incident last year is still fresh in the minds of Hua Xia people, and they are still angry.
According to the latest investigation report provided by an international third-party organization, DD was able to hit the target so accurately because one of the computers was connected to the network and secretly sent a location report to guide DD.
As for why it was done, the report was very vague. It said that it could be a virus or some unknown program.
The overseas third-party organizations have to restrain themselves, but the domestic ones do not have to. Soon, many media outlets reported that the virus was a virus or some unknown program, and it was an automatic report from Microsoft's backend!
Microsoft's operating system collects all kinds of data in real time, and it will be sent to the Microsoft headquarters' data center on a regular basis. This is the root cause of the exposure. Microsoft betrayed us, Microsoft's operating system has a despicable backend!
As for the evidence, it is very obvious. Every time the system crashes, or there are various problems, there will be an error notification to Microsoft, right?
This is the best proof that Microsoft is secretly collecting data.
Well, regardless of whether this is true or not, the Windows operating system has completely exploded in China.
"Your house exploded!" This is the most common greeting used by many people when they find out that their friends or netizens are using Windows!
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