Chapter 989: Microsoft Eyes WPS

After listening to Fang Chen's set of eyebrows for the palace of life, the nose is the star of wealth, the two eyebrows are the palace of brothers, and the tail of the eyes is the palace of husband and wife.

Bill Gates and Melinda's eyes suddenly changed when they looked at Fang Chen.

At this time, Fang Chen couldn't help but have an indescribable, inexplicable mysterious aura in their eyes.

Despite the decline of modern theology, there are still a large number of people in the United States who believe in God, and even more than 40 percent of adults still believe that there really is a God in this world.

In their eyes, Fang Chen was basically the same as those priests and paladin families that had been passed down from generation to generation in ancient times.

"The tail of the eye is the husband and wife palace, the auspicious culprit who dominates the relationship between husband and wife, the tail of your husband and wife is full and round, smooth and wrinkle-free, and it looks like the relationship between husband and wife is about to make great progress, so I can conclude that Bill and Melinda are about to make good things happen to the two of you. And Melinda obviously doesn't know anything, so it naturally means that Bill is hiding from Melinda to make small moves. Fang Chen was talking nonsense.

Regardless of whether Bill Gates and Melinda believe it or not, Fang Chen himself believed it first.

Besides, he is indeed a family student, if you don't believe it, you can invite the old man to come over to testify, and you can definitely make Bill Gates and his wife stunned.

It's just that his feng shui physiognomy rhetoric was not learned from the old man, but from watching those movies in his previous life.

Only in his life did he know that the old man could look at the face, and the ancestors of the family had looked for the dragon and the acupuncture, how could it be the origin of family learning, and the old man taught it himself.

Not to mention Bill Gates and his wife, after listening to Fang Chen's rhetoric, Wu Maocai was stunned for a moment, and wondered in his heart, could it be that the fourth lady really taught this dragon search point and feng shui physiognomy to the ninth master?

But he hadn't heard of it!

But the problem is that what the Ninth Master said is indeed quite like that.

As for the fact that Bill Gates and his wife were already completely dumbfounded, Melinda couldn't help but be overjoyed, but she hoped that Fang Chen could have such a layer of mystery.

If what Fang Chen said is true, then her marriage to Bill Gates is not a real match made in heaven appointed by God.

"Fang, you and your family are amazing. After thinking for a while, Bill Gates sighed inexplicably.

To be honest, he didn't believe Fang Chen's rhetoric, but he couldn't find a better explanation.

After all, he was going to propose to Melinda, and Fang Chen had no reason to know in advance.

But now, Fang Chen does know.

In this way, Fang Chen's rhetoric, it seems that he must believe it.

Think about it again, Fang Chen has created one miracle after another in the past few years.

A Chinese boy with no background has created such a huge business empire in China and Russia, where there is no free market at all, and modern business deserts are worth almost the same as him.

He would rather think that Fang Chen did have unspeakable mysterious powers, and was even blessed by God, otherwise, wouldn't it seem that he was too incompetent.

As the first billionaire in the computer software industry, his assets have increased 100-fold in just five years, and most importantly, he is only 38 years old this year, and he is the youngest billionaire in the United States and even in the world, and he is undoubtedly proud.

However, with Fang Chen, he can now only be called the youngest billionaire in the former world.

Fang Chen successfully pushed the title of billionaire forward by 20 years, reaching a level that has never been seen before or since.

The eighteen-year-old billionaire, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he really couldn't think of a second possibility besides inheritance.

After thanking Fang Chen again and chatting a few more words, Bill Gates' face suddenly changed, and he said, "Fang, have you heard of Kingsoft Software?"

Kingsoft Corporation?

Fang Chen was stunned for a moment, he couldn't have imagined that from Bill Gates's mouth, it would pop out of Kingsoft Software.

The famous Jinshan, he naturally knows, but Jinshan has nothing to do with Microsoft, right?

These two are completely unbeatable.

It can be said that Jinshan has accompanied the development of Chinese people and computer software in China.

But all Chinese people who have used computers have almost certainly dealt with Jinshan.

"Kingsoft Word Tyrant", "Kingsoft Poison Tyrant", "Kingsoft Typing", "Kingsoft Guardian", "Kingsoft Quick Translation" and so on are all products of Kingsoft.

I don't know, how many people's typing journey started from "Jinshan Typing".

It can be said that Jinshan is the first company in China to play the whole family bucket, I don't know how many years earlier than Baidu and 360.

Even if you haven't used these office software, you have always played one of the games such as "Zhongguancun Apocalypse", "Swordsman Love", "Swordsman World", "Sword Network III", "Legend of Moon Shadow" and so on.

By the way, there is WPS, which is almost the earliest in China, and the most popular file processing software, before the emergence of Microsoft Windows system, the era of DOS system, WPS is almost every personal computer must install software.

WPS?

Thinking of this, Fang Chen's face couldn't help but change, and the eyes that looked at Bill Gates suddenly became a little subtle.

After about two turns in his mind, the corners of Fang Chen's mouth turned slightly, his breath was calm, and he said with a Zhizhu in his hand: "Bill, do you want to cooperate with Kingsoft Software?

Bill Gates paused for a moment, and then exclaimed in disbelief: "Fang, you really have special powers, and you even know this." ”

To be honest, he really had a feeling of being seen through by Fang Chen now, as if in front of Fang Chen, he was like a red fruit.

Seriously, although he likes to wear very few clothes, such as a shirt and beach pants, in his house, swinging unscrupulously, and even singing and dancing, it does not mean that he likes to be seen through at a glance.

Fang Chen chuckled absently, not feeling a little proud at all because of Bill Gates's shock.

But anyone who knows about the public case between Bill Gates and Kingsoft, to be precise, Microsoft Word and WPS, will suddenly guess why Bill Gates mentioned Kingsoft.

Although for a long time in later generations, Kingsoft WPS did not have too much market share in Huaxia office software, but it still lives in the computers of many users with the banner of free.

Especially since the end of 2004, the country started the use of genuine software by governments at all levels, and Kingsoft WPS has won many results by virtue of the golden body of domestic software.

According to statistics, in 2004, WPS obtained almost all the provincial government purchase orders in government procurement, and its market share in office software procurement accounted for 56.12%. State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, banks, etc. are all representative customers of Kingsoft WPS.

But between 1995 and the millennium, Kingsoft WPS almost completely disappeared from the world, Kingsoft was once faced with the possibility of bankruptcy and career change, its then general manager, Lei Jun, that is, later Rebus, the singer of the famous song "AerYOUOK", was considering transforming Kingsoft into selling health care products.

After all, the Giant Group, which was a neighbor of Jinshan back then, sold brain platinum and sold it very well.

And the reason why Jinshan fell into this situation, the initiator is undoubtedly Microsoft.

Time back to five years ago, in the spring of that year, an ordinary technician named Qiu Bojun was invited by Xiangjiang Jinshan to develop a software day and night.

Due to the pressure of the development process, his hepatitis recurred three times, until a year later, in 1989, WPS 1.0 was launched, which also opened a legendary product.

At this time, Qiu Bojun didn't know that a year later, another software was launched on the other side of the ocean, which almost killed WPS and became WPS's lifelong enemy.

And this software is Microsoft's Word.

From 1989 to 1994, in these six years, WPS ushered in its most glorious moment, once occupying more than 90% of the market share.

At that time, almost all the software used by the Chinese people in the word processing system on the computer was WPS.

"At that time, the emergence of WPS fed a group of booksellers, a group of people engaged in training classes, a group of typing ladies, and promoted the popularization of computers. Qiu Bojun once said proudly.

WPS can be said to be in full swing under the leadership of Qiu Bojun, and even writing WPS books can sell well.

Of course, at that time, Qiu Bojun and Lei Jun also wrote "In-depth DOS Programming" and "In-depth Windows Programming".

At this time, because of the WYSIWYG Word with a graphical interface, it began to be favored by users, and in the same year, Microsoft entered China with Windows 95 and Word.

Microsoft has also repeatedly sought Kingsoft in the hope that the latter will reach an agreement with them to make WPS and Word compatible.

The ill-intentioned Microsoft brought Windows 95 and office software to negotiate with Lei Jun, the then head of Kingsoft, and in order to avoid losing both, Lei Jun finally agreed.

Not long after, Lei Jun said angrily: "We fell for Microsoft!"

After agreeing to be compatible, Microsoft successfully pry away WPS users through the document format, and in the context of "foreign moons are always rounder", domestic WPS began to be no longer in the limelight.

At that time, China was in the software era, and selling software became the main means of making money. But rampant piracy, coupled with Microsoft's attack, in the mid-90s of the last century, Jinshan was already facing no rice cooking, and it was only one step away from bankruptcy.

Later, Lei Jun recalled this time in a dialogue with reporters, saying that a large number of employees in Jinshan had left, and the leadership, including him, even considered whether to transform into health care products.

Microsoft's purpose is obviously not just to attract traffic, but to eliminate WPS as a potential competitor.

"Don't do WPS, you can't do it, you might as well join us. Not long after, Microsoft threw the temptation of $750,000 in annual salary to Qiu Bojun.

However, what Microsoft didn't expect was that Qiu Bojun not only did not accept it, but also sold the villa rewarded by Jinshan, raised 2 million, and continued to bury himself in the development of a more advanced version of WPS.

Even Kingsoft has successively developed more than 20 software such as "Kingsoft Word Tyrant", "Kingsoft Poison Tyrant", "Kingsoft Shadow Tyrant", "Kingsoft Quick Translation", "Swordsman Love", etc., which is to renew the life of WPS.

Qiu Bojun said that he just wants to fight Microsoft to the end!

WPS is like a lone warrior marching on the battlefield, walking slowly but with great determination, and the WPS has been upgraded many times since then, and it is difficult to recover the defeat.

But fortunately, WPS still has a group of domestic users who have not abandoned it, and in 2004 received strong support from the government, and when the era of mobile Internet came, Lei Jun, who had founded Xiaomi at that time, decisively transformed WPS from desktop software to mobile software.

WPS, which has gone all out to go mobile, has finally found a track that is different from Microsoft Office.

As it turned out, this direction was simply the right one, and WPS wouldn't have been able to regain its momentum so quickly without an aggressive shift to mobile.

At that time, Microsoft was not unaware of the opportunities of the mobile Internet, but it was reluctant to make $28 billion in annual revenue from PC desktops, and Word was hesitant to turn around than WPS. Coupled with WPS's free strategy, Office lags behind on the mobile side.

It wasn't until the end of 2015 that Microsoft announced that the mobile version of Office was fully free, and it suddenly found that WPS had gained a foothold on people's mobile terminals, and even brought fruitful results to WPS.

WPS Mobile covers more than 50 countries around the world, and ranks first in the Android app rankings by a wide margin over Microsoft and other competitors.

Especially in Huaxia, WPS occupies 90% of the Android and Apple systems, office software application markets, and even the computer side has increased to about 40%.

Even, in 2018, Fang Chen heard that Kingsoft Office was planning to be listed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board.

From the first market share in China, to being beaten down by Microsoft, slumping, and then returning to the top.

In the past 28 years, WPS, a small office software that has been stumbling with Microsoft giants, has been listed, which has undoubtedly written a legendary history of Chinese domestic software.