rebirth from small pockets

Chapter 302 Jiang Taigong Fishing (2)

Long-lasting China, five thousand years of culture!

In this long history, countless historical allusions have been passed down.

For example, Jiang Taigong goes fishing!

Almost everyone with a little bit of culture knows this allusion, and even many people with little culture know it!

After all, whether it is folklore or some film and television works, there are interpretations of this allusion!

There is even a subtitle in this allusion, which is called Jiang Taigong fishing - those who wish to take the bait!

This describes Jiang Taigong fishing with straight hooks without bait, and fish that are willing to take the bait will take the bait themselves.

It is also compared to willingly falling into a trap set by others.

At this moment, Chen Li and Ma Xiaoyun are ready to be Jiang Taigong for a time!

Of course, it's a bit embarrassing to use Jiang Taigong to describe myself.

But what Chen Li wanted to do this time was really similar to what Jiang Taigong used to fish by the river with a straight hook.

It's just that Jiang Taigong used a straight hook, while Chen Li and Ma Xiaoyun used the "Y2K Ultimate Patch".

The man Jiang Taigong fished for was King Wen of Zhou, and he was planning for world affairs!

Chen Li and Ma Xiaoyun were fishing for big companies that were interested in the "Y2K Ultimate Patch", and what they were looking for was just some yellowish and white stuff.

The company the two want to catch could be Microsoft, IBM, or even Dell, Intel, Apple, Fantasy, Yuan Zheng, and other companies closely related to Internet computers.

As for who the final target is, it depends on who is willing to be King Wen of Zhou.

In the allusion of Jiang Taigong fishing, Jiang Taigong successfully helped the Zhou family conquer the world in the end.

But when it comes to Chen Li and Ma Xiaoyun, they don't care about anything!

They only promise that the "Y2K Ultimate Patch" is indeed real and effective. As for who "King Zhou Wen" is and whether it can succeed, that depends on the other party's own operations.

Originally, Chen Li and Ma Xiaoyun thought that this matter might need some fermentation before they would have the opportunity to fish.

But I never expected that Microsoft would come out right away.

Chen Xiu has thought about this problem, and he thinks it is probably related to the current difficulties that Microsoft is encountering.

Uh~ Okay! It’s actually the dilemma that Microsoft China is encountering.

One is the leader in the software industry, and the other is the country with the most population in the world.

Originally, the collision between the two should actually produce countless sparks.

If you look at it from the perspective of Chen Li, a reborn person, this seems to be the case.

But if you look at it from the perspective of an ordinary person in the Internet software industry in 1999, Microsoft China seems a bit embarrassed now!

Microsoft is probably the first Internet giant to enter the country. This company set up an office in China as early as 1992.

Yes~ It was the year that Bill Gates became the richest man in the world, and Microsoft even entered China.

That year, Bill Gates became the richest man in the world, which can be said to be a global sensation.

At that time, in the Chinese market, making money or not was not very important to Microsoft headquarters. It was mainly about promoting technology.

Of course ~ this is actually a strategy of Microsoft. It seems to be promoting technology, but in fact it is cultivating the market.

In other words, Microsoft is actually very optimistic about the future development of China, the most populous country in the world, so it comes here first to take advantage of it and get acquainted with it!

I have to bear it, at this point, Microsoft's vision is still very precise!

Since then, China's computer Internet industry has developed extremely rapidly. In terms of market size, the potential and financial prospects are absolutely huge.

At this stage, Microsoft began to localize the software and also began to establish cooperation with agents.

In the beginning, the sales of the software were very small. It can be said that the money earned was not enough for a good meal.

However, since Microsoft has a huge business, it naturally doesn't care about the small gains and losses.

After all, Microsoft is more optimistic about the future "money" prospects of the Chinese market than its immediate interests!

But seven years have passed, and the door to China's software market has yet to open to Microsoft.

Although in the past few years, some local personal computer manufacturers in China have begun to bundle Microsoft's Window operating system. Microsoft's Kia server products and enterprise-level products have also begun to be sold in China, but sales are very difficult and performance is very poor!

In addition, Microsoft has been criticized in recent years, and the impression of "power" and "monopoly" seems somewhat less positive.

So even though China's computer users are developing at a terrifying speed, the benefits that Microsoft can derive from it are limited.

As the leader of the industry, Microsoft certainly does not come to China to do charity.

No matter how much Microsoft has invested in China, it will naturally need to ask for hundreds of times, a thousand times or even countless times in return. This is in Microsoft's interests.

But it is obvious that the current benefits Microsoft obtains from the Chinese market are very different from the standards it originally expected.

In the world's most populous country, the rewards Microsoft can get are far lower than they expected.

This is so embarrassing!

Obviously, the report card handed over by Microsoft China is very poor.

How bad is it?

Just last year, Bill Gates publicly stated in an interview with Fortune magazine

"Chinese people don't want to spend money to buy software, they like steal!"

If the word steal is translated into Chinese, it probably means stealing~or plagiarism!

In other words, at that time Bill Gates was actually saying that Chinese people were thieves.

This statement by Bill Gates last year caused quite a stir in China.

Chen Li didn't know what others thought, but he was quite angry anyway.

Chen Li was so angry that after he got a computer, he directly replaced the original genuine win95 with a five-yuan pirated win98!

But after the anger passed, all that was left was helplessness!

Because although what Bill Gates said is hard to hear, it is actually the truth.

Pirated software is quite popular these days, and it can be said that the vast majority of users are using pirated software.

The reason for this phenomenon is, in the final analysis, the price of genuine software. It is simply too expensive.

Take the win98 just released by Microsoft as an example. The price of a genuine win98 system is as high as 1,198 yuan, and the price of an Office 97 standard version is as high as 7,400 yuan!

Last year, as the capital of China, the average annual salary in Yanjing was just over 10,000.

This means that a Yanjing person’s income from working for a year can only buy a win98 system and a set of Office 97 standard version office software!

If you include other computer hardware and consumables, you basically have no choice but to eat or drink!

Hmm~ But this example is meaningless, because the average salary is probably the most uneven thing in the world.

But generally speaking, ordinary users cannot afford to use genuine Microsoft software these days.

Compared with the genuine system that sells for as much as 1,198 yuan, this can be solved for five yuan. Who the hell still uses the genuine system?

Isn’t free Office software great? How can you spend thousands of dollars to buy office software that you may not necessarily use on a daily basis?

Of course, this is only one of the reasons why Microsoft failed in the Chinese market. There are still many other reasons.

For example, Microsoft’s “bad” corporate image!

You must know that after Microsoft entered the Chinese market, it was "hostile" by many domestic peers!

After all, Microsoft is too big and too powerful. If such a company enters the country, it may cause great harm to the entire industry!

Even if Microsoft claims to be helping China develop software-related technologies, who would believe it?

For a long time, the labels "hegemony" and "monopoly" have been firmly attached to Microsoft!

So ~ this may be one of the reasons why Microsoft China is so eager to come to our door!

Once Microsoft gets the "Y2K Ultimate Patch" from Ma Xiaoyun, as long as Microsoft is not stupid and can use this patch reasonably, then Microsoft may be able to take this opportunity to restore the "bad" image of its own company!

Uh~ Okay! This is actually just Chen Li’s guess. Whether this is the case or not, Chen Li actually doesn’t know!

But ~ this is not important anymore. Anyway, Chen Li and Ma Xiaoyun have already discussed the corresponding countermeasures. Let Ma Xiaoyun handle this matter!

Moreover, it is probably not an easy task for Microsoft to get this patch from Ma Xiaoyun.

Because just after Ma Xiaoyun ended the call with Chen Li, this guy made another call.

"Hey~ Mr. Zhou!"

"I just had a phone call with Mr. Chen. That matter is settled!"

"That's right!"

After the phone call ended, in a slightly crowded office in Yanjing City, Zhou Hongyi put down her mobile phone, picked up the landline phone on the table and dialed another number!

"Lin Gong~ What I told you last time is true."

"Today Yuanzheng Technology and Xiaoma Technology have held a press conference!"

"Yes, yes, it's really solved!"

"I heard that people from Microsoft have already gone to find them, and they seem to be preparing...!"

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(End of chapter)