Looking at Fang Chen, who had a slightly upturned mouth and a calm expression in front of him, Bill Gates covered his forehead helplessly, and talking to Fang Chen, an almost prophetic being, was undoubtedly a painful and happy thing.

No, he thought about it for a moment, to be precise, the pain was greater than the pleasure.

After easing his emotions, Bill Gates said bluntly: "Fang, I plan to cooperate with this Kingsoft software company, so that the WPS office software developed by their company can be compatible with the Word office software produced by our Microsoft company in a format." In this way, your Huaxia computer users can easily open our Word and WPS, and then edit the work, which greatly saves computer resources and reduces repetitive work. ”

Fang Chen didn't speak, but still smiled, looking at Bill Gates calmly, like an eternal sculpture.

Bill Gates subconsciously twitched the corners of his mouth, Fang Chen's eyes stared at him a little hairy, and he felt that all his plans had been pierced by Fang Chen.

But it shouldn't be, the fact that he intends to swallow WPS's market share in Huaxia is absolutely confidential, even more confidential than his plan to propose to Melinda.

At least his secretary and the people around him know about the marriage proposal, and most of the things about swallowing WPS are just thinking about it in his heart, at most, he has asked some of the vice presidents and senior directors below in a few words.

If even this Fang Chen could know in advance, it could only mean one thing, Fang Chen had placed a large number of people in his Microsoft Group, and the level was very high.

But is it possible?

Microsoft and Qingtian are not competitors, and none of them even have overlapping businesses, so Fang Chen is crazy to do this.

And most importantly, if Microsoft had been inserted and infiltrated so well, Microsoft would have ceased to exist a long time ago, and it would have been swallowed by people even with their bones.

It can only be said that there are legends in this world that can tell the prophet who can see thousands of miles, know everything, and know ten things.

Thinking of this, Bill Gates has a different kind of helplessness, being compared to others so easily, it is really the first time in the thirty-eight years that he has been born.

Seeing Bill Gates's somewhat depressed mood, Fang Chen smiled secretly in his heart, Bill Gates is still too young, and the setbacks he has experienced are not enough, and his heart is not as calm as he is in later life.

In later generations, Bill Gates often said, "Don't compare yourself to anyone else in the world." If you compare yourself to others, it is an insult to yourself. ”

"Success is a bad teacher, it misleads smart people into thinking that they can't fail. ”

That is, when commenting on their competitors, they will show some edge, "The vast majority of our competitors are doing quite poorly. They don't know how to bring in talents with business and technical talents, let alone how to fully organize and combine the strengths of these talents. They also don't know how to promote themselves all over the world. ”

However, after thinking about it, Fang Chen smiled self-deprecatingly, Bill Gates in the future has already reached the age of ear shunning, if his heart is the same as in the future generations, it will be really a ghost.

No matter how talented the existence is, with the changes of history, it will produce great changes, but sometimes such changes are not always beneficial.

"So, Fang, can you help me?"

Since his thoughts have been guessed thoroughly by Fang Chen, Bill Gates did not hide it, and said straightforwardly.

The reason why he is eyeing the matter of WPS is absolutely confidential in the company is because he feels that Fang Chen can help him solve the matter of WPS, so he does not need to disclose it to too many people.

Hearing this, Fang Chen couldn't help laughing, and said with a mocking face: "It seems that Jinshan, a small software company in China, didn't give you Bill Gates face." ”

Bill Gates's old face flushed slightly, but he still said stiffly: "It's the people below who came forward, Fang, you know, it's impossible for me to talk to Kingsoft in person, Kingsoft is too small compared to Microsoft." ”

Seeing this, Fang Chen chuckled undeniably twice, but didn't say anything.

He admits that Bill Gates's sentence is right, especially in the second half of the sentence, the market value of Microsoft Group last year was as high as 22.3 billion US dollars, which is 120 billion yuan when converted into Huaxia currency, and although Jinshan is living very well this year by relying on WPS, it can sell about 30,000 sets, according to the price of 2,200 yuan per set of WPS, Kingsoft earned more than 60 million yuan on WPS.

Although the market value and revenue cannot be simply compared, 60 million and 120 billion are really small, even if they are compared according to revenue, Microsoft's volume is more than 200 times that of Jinshan.

Naturally, it is impossible for Bill Gates to talk directly with Jinshan.

But!

This does not mean that Jinshan is not worth it, Bill Gates will talk to him personally, if he can make a final decision, he believes that Bill Gates will definitely not be stingy to meet with Qiu Bojun.

Besides, if you really don't put Jinshan in your eyes, why would Bill Gates ask him for help, right?

Fang Chen felt that the reason why Bill Gates did not have a face-to-face interview with Qiu Bojun was only because the initial contact was not pleasant, and Jin Shan rejected Microsoft's request.

In this case, how could Bill Gates do such a hot face and cold ass thing.

As for why Bill Gates will "condescend to the noble" and have to worry about Jinshan's WPS, it is really because Word, to be precise, the entire Microsoft Office, that is, the Microsoft Office suite is too important for Microsoft, and it just so happens that China seems to be a relatively large market, at least in the future.

In today's Microsoft, there are only two businesses that can make money, that is, operating systems and office suites, which bring Microsoft's revenue, accounting for more than 95% of Microsoft's total annual revenue.

And the most lucrative of the two is not Microsoft's operating system, but office suites, which now charge users $500 each.

And not only now, the product line is extremely scarce, but even in later generations, Microsoft, which has a large number of server products and tools, including Azure cloud computing, SQL Server, Exchange, and XBOX consoles and games.

In 2016, office suites contributed $25 billion to Microsoft's revenue, and server products and tools finally surpassed operating systems that year due to rapid growth, becoming the second most profitable project with nearly $20 billion in revenue.

The third is the most familiar and most commonly used operating system, which has contributed 15 billion revenue to Microsoft, and the revenue brought by the operating system has not changed much for ten years, and it is even one billion dollars lower than ten years ago.

Huaxia is the world's most populous country, but also the world's fastest economic growth, the most powerful country, enterprises in various countries have gradually attached importance to the Huaxia market, Huaxia market has become their company's first growth engine, and even an important pillar.

But Huaxia still has such a local snake as WPS, a sitting tiger, which is not available in the world.

In the field of office documents, there is no office software in the world that can compete with Microsoft like WPS.

Other countries either don't have such office software at all, or they are far inferior to Microsoft.

WPS was developed almost in conjunction with Microsoft's Word document, and the qualifications are comparable.

However, the most important thing is that WPS has been cultivated in the Chinese market by Jinshan in the past few years, which is more in line with the usage habits of Chinese people, and it can be said that Microsoft's office suite has not been able to have an impact on WPS, let alone occupy the Chinese market.

As for why Kingsoft was able to refuse Microsoft's request without hesitation, the reason is also very simple.

Although Windows 3.0 launched in 1990 has finally gained the recognition of users due to the huge improvements in the interface, user-friendliness, and memory management, especially the release of the multilingual version of the operating system, which has made Windows a great success all over the world and is the originator of Microsoft's Windows system.

It also allows Microsoft's operating system to finally compete with Apple's Macintosh computers and Commodore's Amiga in graphical interfaces.

In particular, version 3.1 is another huge upgrade and improvement for version 3.0, adding basic multimedia support for sound input and output, a CD audio player, and what Fang Chen considers the most important Minesweeper game.

As a result, 3.1 sold more than 3 million copies in the first two months of its release, creating an unprecedented success in the history of Microsoft's operating system.

And it is worth mentioning that the Windows 3.2 version is a Chinese Simplified version released by Microsoft specifically for Chinese users.

In other words, version 3.2 is only available in Huaxia.

Most of the pioneer users of the Microsoft operating system in China have only begun to contact Microsoft Windows in this version.

But the problem is that, according to history, version 3.2 was released next year, and now all computers in China still use the DOS system.

Since domestic users use the DOS system, Kingsoft naturally has no motivation, and there is no need to be compatible with the Microsoft Office suite developed with Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.

After all, there are no Windows users in China.

Under the gaze of Bill Gates, Fang Chen didn't say a word, his fingers tapped lightly on the tabletop, making a crisp sound, and the whole person was completely lost in thought.

The sound of Fang Chen knocking on the table made Bill Gates a little big, and even his chest was tight, and he felt that every time Fang Chen hit it, it was like knocking on his heart.

He couldn't help but feel the urge to escape.

Seriously, if it weren't for Jinshan's lack of oil and salt, he wouldn't have talked to Microsoft at all, and Fang Chen happened to have a lot of influence in Huaxia and could help him facilitate this matter, he would definitely have to escape.

I don't know how long it took, Fang Chen suddenly raised his head, smiled at Bill Gates and said, "Bill, I think I can help with this favor, and I can also help you with a bigger favor." ”