Just when Yu Wenfei and his entourage checked into the hotel and began to rest.

In another upscale hotel not far from their hotel, Ballmer, Larry Page, and Sergei were talking secretly in the living room of the presidential suite, where he was staying.

In the room, there was no one in the room except for the three of them.

Because what they want to talk about is not convenient for too many people to know.

"Well done! After hearing that you stopped advertising on Facebook, they began to reveal that they wanted to bring in strategic investors. ”

Ballmer held a glass of red wine and greeted the two young men sitting across from him.

Compared to the tall and muscular Ballmer, Larry Page and Sergey are as thin as chickens.

The two of them are still like college students, wearing crewnecks and jeans, and they don't look like CEOs of big companies at all.

"Hehe, we also abided by the business rules, and the company originally planned to expand its business in the field of Internet social networking, and Facebook is also a potential competitor for us. Naturally, we can't let our competitors grow for some advertising money. ”

Larry Page said with a smile.

"Google has the largest entrance to Internet traffic and has now surpassed Yahoo, so how to keep this traffic is the biggest strategic direction of our company in the next few years. Sergey added.

Ballmer nodded, "Yes, it's not enough to have traffic, you must also be able to keep traffic and monetize it! MSN's development is not too smooth, and the company will make a big move to integrate our Internet-related service components. ”

Microsoft, a traditional IT giant, can't help it in the face of the vigorous development of the Internet industry in recent years.

IT IS SAID THAT THEY WHO HAVE INTERNET EXPLORER AND WINDOWS SYSTEM SHOULD BE THE GIANTS OF THE INTERNET!

Why can't Microsoft get a piece of this trillion-dollar, or even trillion-dollar huge sunrise market?

Therefore, with strong technical reserves and huge human resources, Microsoft is engaged in MSN to enter the network instant messaging, MSN portal, and its own search engine.

That's the way giant companies do things.

Once you identify that an industry is worth investing in, that action is thunderous, and it is rushing to eat the entire industry!

Unfortunately, in the Internet industry, Microsoft does not have a monopoly foundation.

Although IE has the highest market share, Microsoft does not count what websites users go to through IE browser.

It's not like Microsoft hasn't used its brains in this area to get some tying up or something.

However, competitors are not used to it.

In the past two years, in Europe and the United States, "anti-monopoly lawsuits" have been launched against Microsoft, which has made Microsoft anxious, and the company has almost been split into several.

............

Larry Page and Sergei glanced at each other, and the two of them were surprised by Ballmer's candour.

"So...... Is Microsoft going to go online?" asked Larry Page tentatively.

"That's right! Online social networking is a big sweet cake, who wouldn't be tempted. Therefore, when I heard the news that Facebook was going to expand its shares and introduce strategic partners, I immediately rushed over. Ballmer put down his glass and said with a smile.

He was very honest and made it clear that Microsoft was very interested in Facebook.

Sometimes, it's weird to do business.

A company may be invincible in a certain field and cannot find a rival at all.

But after entering the related industry, I can't adapt to it.

Even if a lot of money is invested and many elite talents are poached, it still cannot achieve the desired effect.

In this case, this company does not have the genes of the industry!

This is the case with Microsoft, a company that doesn't have the DNA to do social at all.

OTHERWISE, ACCORDING TO THE MARKET SHARE OF WINDOWS SYSTEM AND INTERNET EXPLORER BROWSER, THERE SHOULD BE NO INTERNET COMPANY THAT CAN COMPETE WITH IT.

MSN was also launched very early, and it should have dominated the Internet industry a long time ago.

But the reality is that neither portals, nor online instant messaging, nor search engines are doing very well.

Microsoft's top management doesn't think it's their own problem, they feel that it's just because the company hasn't put too much effort into the Internet business before.

As long as you pay attention to it and increase the investment of capital and manpower, you will definitely be able to dominate the world just like in the field of computer systems and in the field of the Internet!

Therefore, Ballmer's future strategy for the company is to continue to invest heavily in the Internet, especially in the social field, in a few years!

And, indeed, there's a big plan to execute.

That is, to integrate all of Microsoft's Internet-related businesses into one.

IT'S CALLED "WINDOWS LIVE"!

Once integrated, it is difficult to find opponents in the market.

This includes all the core services of the Internet, such as instant web messaging, e-mail, web portals, search engines, etc.

Provide users with one-stop service!

............

Larry Page and Sergei looked a little cautious, although in the Internet industry, Google is doing much better than Microsoft.

But this is Microsoft.

Once Microsoft wants to seriously do the Internet industry, no company dares to take it lightly.

"If you're going to do your own Internet business, why are you interested in Facebook again?" Sergey asked.

Ballmer laughed.

"Facebook is a very mature social model on the Internet, and the company has already proven its success.

The business unit in mainland China alone has a market value of tens of billions of dollars.

Now the North American company is doing the international version of Facebook, facing the world!

It's a huge market, and it only took a few months to reach nearly 50 million active users!

Who wouldn't be tempted by such a unicorn company?

Even if we do Microsoft do a similar business ourselves, I'm afraid it will be difficult to compete with it.

This time, the two of you should have similar thoughts to me, otherwise, Google has a huge traffic entrance, so you might as well make your own social networking site. ”

Sergei smiled bitterly, this old guy is really an old fox, he knows exactly what he thinks here.

Yes, everyone is a giant in the industry, and naturally there are no fools.

The bright future of the international version of Facebook is very clear.

Although you can also make a similar website to compete with Facebook.

However, even if it is as strong as Microsoft and Google, it is difficult to guarantee that it can achieve the same effect as Facebook.

Now that we have the opportunity to take a direct stake in this unicorn company, of course, we can't let it go......