Of course, it was useless to rely on free.
Because of piracy in China, many users used Office for free.
Office was free, and so was WPS.
Without a doubt, Office was more awesome than WPS. Why should I use WPS?
Therefore, in this case, free was only the prerequisite. Providing better services than Office was the goal.
In Chen Yu's suggestion, Jinshan provided a simplified version of WPS.
The so-called simplified version was to give up some of the less commonly used functions, and only keep the most commonly used settings.
This also reduced the size of the entire WPS from 1G to 50M.
Although this didn't seem like much.
In 2004, the Internet in China wasn't particularly fast.
If users used downloading, for programs larger than 1G or even 500M, it would generally take a few hours to download.
Just like downloading an online game client.
Many users would often take more than 12 hours to download.
For those with poor Internet speed, it might take more than 24 hours to download.
Can you imagine using a software to download for a day and night?
Although this was basically impossible in the year 2020 of his previous life.
Even downloading a few dozen gigabytes of seeds wouldn't take a day and night.
But the conditions at that time were like this.
Because of this, if WPS was only 50M, it would be extremely attractive.
At least when users wanted to use Office, they might consider downloading Office. But when they saw that it took a day and night to download Office, they saw that it only took ten minutes to download WPS.
Which one would they be more willing to download?
Not to mention 2004, even in the year 2020 of his previous life, comparing 1G to 50M, people would rather download 50M.
Although WPS wasn't as powerful as Office, it could still be used.
And because of its small size, many of the commonly used functions were placed in the navigation bar.
You didn't have to look for it all the time. It was more convenient than Office.
This was one of the reasons.
Secondly, WPS was connected to the Internet.
In the past, whether it was WPS or Office, it was an independent program.
It was like a standalone game. It didn't connect to the Internet.
But Chen Yu didn't think this would work.
Although Office didn't need to connect to the Internet, if it was Lenovo, he could add more functions.
This was like an input method software.
Did the input method software need to connect to the Internet?
He could indeed not connect to it.
But he could connect to it.
Once connected to the Internet, a series of services would appear.
For example, providing more beautiful template materials.
This material included form materials, picture materials, and online font materials.
Speaking of which, when many users used the office software, he only knew how to type and could more or less complete a form. However, if one were to say that he was proficient in office software, then he really wasn't. Sometimes, many people didn't even know how to make a form. Even if he knew how to do it, he didn't know how to make a better looking form.
It's all good now.
It doesn't matter if you don't know how to do it.
There are all kinds of templates in WPS. You just need to click on the download button and the survival form will appear in your office software.
Wasn't it simple?
Wasn't it awesome?
This was even easier than using TikTok to shoot awesome videos in his previous life.
Other than that, there was an even more powerful function.
This function was the cloud storage function.
This involved cloud services.
Although it would take a few years for this concept to become popular, Chen Yu still brought it up at this time.
As long as the user uses WPS, then the content they generate using WPS will automatically be uploaded to the cloud service.
This way, even if there was a power outage, the cloud service could still save your documents.
On the other hand, you wouldn't have to use a USB drive to bake your documents after using WPS.
Because there was a server, the next time you logged in to another computer and entered your account, the documents you previously edited would be in the server.
It could be said that these services were specially created for Microsoft Office.
Although he didn't have much technology, it was very practical and easy to promote.
When Qiu Bojun heard Chen Yu's suggestion, he was extremely shocked.
He never thought that WPS could be changed like this.
Although WPS hadn't been released yet, with these functions, Qiu Bojun was confident that he could fight a good battle with Microsoft Office. With that thought, Qiu Bojun felt that it was a pity that he gave up so many shares. But later on, Qiu Bojun thought it through. If it weren't for Chen Yu, he probably wouldn't have thought of this strategy in his lifetime.
Even if he could think of it, he wouldn't have the money to promote it.
One had to know that with just these few functions, it would be impossible to promote them without spending money.
Jinshan WPS had been losing money for a few years in a row and couldn't take out much money.
The best choice was to cooperate with Huanyu Technologies.
…
"Mr. He, congratulations."
"Thank you."
"Mr. He, how long have you been in China?"
"Ten years."
"So long."
"Yes, but I really like China."
The newly appointed president of Microsoft China, "He Lebing," chatted with a few subordinates during lunch break.
Although MSN's business hadn't launched a huge counterattack against YY, Microsoft's resources were already tilted towards China. With enough time, MSN would definitely replace YY's position in the future.
But there was still one thing that gave him a headache.
That was the cooperation between MSN and Microsoft. A group of companies didn't dare to cooperate with Microsoft again.
For example, Alibaba.
Originally, they used MSN as Alibaba's customer service, but accidentally, MSN became a dating app.
With that thought, He Lebing cursed Tang Jun in his heart.
D * mn it, if it weren't for him, MSN would have millions of users long ago.
But after thinking about it, He Lebing didn't blame Tang Jun anymore.
If Tang Jun hadn't stepped down, he wouldn't have been able to become the president of Microsoft China.
"China is indeed a good place. There are more than a billion people here, and the future of the Internet market is huge. But that Huanyu Technologies isn't easy to deal with. "
"Huanyu Technologies is indeed powerful, but they're just a company that has just risen. They look strong, but they won't last long. Of course, we can't underestimate them. If the Tang Jun incident happens again, we'll all be finished. "
He Lebing was a pragmatic person.
Although pragmatic people didn't have such strong ambitions, they were still practical and knew when to stop.
He knew that the battle between Microsoft and Huanyu Technologies was going to be a protracted battle. It wasn't something that could be decided overnight.
At this point, he had to be patient.
Whoever could last until the end would win.
"Alright, good luck, everyone."
After a brief chat, He Lebing returned to his office.
There were still many things he had to do.
The president of Microsoft China wasn't just responsible for MSN Instant Messaging.
He was also responsible for all of Microsoft's businesses in China.
For example, the operating system.
For example, the office software business.
Of course, there was also the IE business, the database business, and the gaming business.
He Lebing, who had just become the president of Microsoft China, had to familiarize himself with all of these businesses.
Although he was already familiar with them before, he wasn't the president before, so there were many data he couldn't see.
Now that he was the president, he could see all of the data he didn't have access to before.
"This …"
At first, He Lebing was just trying to understand the data.
But when he carefully analyzed the data, He Lebing found a problem.
There was no problem with the operating system.
The problem was with the office and IE businesses.
These two businesses had always been the same as the operating system. There were almost no problems with them.
Because these two businesses were very stable, and there weren't many competitors.
Even if there were some competitors, they were just cats and dogs that couldn't be brought to the table.
But …
Now that he looked at the data, he was shocked.
"Why did the office and IE businesses suddenly drop by so much?"
"This is impossible."
He Lebing was a little panicked.
Although MSN was important, it was only Microsoft's peripheral business.
It would be best if they could do well. If things didn't go well, Microsoft wouldn't collapse.
But the office and IE were Microsoft's core businesses.
Although the data showed that the drop was only about 5%.
But for the China market, a drop of 5% was terrifying.
More importantly, a drop of 5% was a sign that a strong competitor had appeared.
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