In the face of the fall of the Chinese market, the European and American markets were eroded.

In order to keep its own market, Microsoft cut the price of Windows 3.2 system by half, and the price is $50!

Bill Gates said at a conference: "Linux has been growing so fast since it was released, we have to speed up! We have to develop better operations to put an end to it!"

"The Windows 95 system is our secret weapon, and from now on, we will invest more manpower and material resources in the development of the system! We will increase the number of developers of the system to 100,000, and we will develop Windows 95 as quickly as possible. In January of next year, I hope that the logo of our operating system, Windows 95, will be on the !! Times Square"

"Piracy is rampant in the Chinese market, and although we have not been able to make a profit in China, we cannot allow the linuxOS 1.0 system to take over our market. Bill Gates flashed a glimmer of light, "Ballmer, you immediately organize people to establish a Microsoft China Technology Center in China to provide technical support for Chinese users! We want to provide better services to retain user !!."

"Yes!" said Steve Ballmer.

Microsoft's strategy is to bundle software with the system and drive the sales of the system with software.

Microsoft's more well-known software is the database SQLserver and the office software.

Microsoft's database software, SQLserver, can compete with Oracle's Oracle database and IBM's DB2 database. The office software is basically a monopoly and unshakable. 1990 year. Microsoft completed Word 1.0 and became the dominant product in the word processing software sales market. By 1993. Microsoft put it again

Word 6.0 and Excel 5.0 are integrated into the Office 4.0 suite, allowing them to share data with each other. It greatly facilitates the use of users!

With SQLserver and office, Microsoft's operating system can be invincible!

As a publicly traded company, Microsoft has to disclose any major decisions.

When they announced that they were going to set up a Microsoft China Technology Center in China, Henry understood that Microsoft had not given up on the Chinese market!

It is an indisputable fact that the number of third-party software developers for linuxOS 1.0 is much smaller than that of windows 3.2. Moreover, Microsoft's two major software databases and office software, linuxOS1.0 can't catch up! Fortunately, the database is okay, there are oracle companies that support linuxOS1.0, and office software. Especially the Chinese office software, so far there is no decent work!

However, Henry was not impatient, because he knew that there was a company that specialized in developing Chinese office software!

This company is Kingsoft Corporation!

Kingsoft's predecessor was Hong Kong Kingsoft Company, and in 1988, 24-year-old Qiu Bojun joined the company to develop the word processing system WPS. Zhang Xuanlong, the CEO of Hong Kong Kingsoft Company, saw the hero, and then invested in Qiu Bojun and established Beijing Kingsoft Software Company in 1994.

Kingsoft has just been officially established!

It is also because of this that there is no copyright dispute! Otherwise, the WPS system developed by Qiu Bojun in Hong Kong Jinshan Company, then. WPS should belong to Hong Kong Kingsoft, not Kingsoft!

After the release of WPS, the market share once exceeded 90%. The main reason for completely crushing Microsoft's office is because WPS is in Chinese. Since Microsoft is not giving up on the Chinese market. Then Henry can only further enhance the competitiveness of Linux!

Obviously, WPS is a great choice!

Jinshan's WPS has risen and fallen several times. First brilliant, then obscure, and later, there was a "prism ~~ mirror door", WPS found an opportunity, resurrected, and became the government's designated office software!

Henry has studied Kingsoft Corporation, and WPS has been unknown since then, but in fact, it has been pitted by Microsoft! Microsoft's office has been beaten, and it should think about how to turn over. As a result, Microsoft approached Kingsoft and hoped that Kingsoft would share the WPS format with Microsoft, and that the two would be compatible with each other. Microsoft said, "Look, we all have office software, so why don't we sign an agreement and both sides read each other's files through the middle-layer RTF format of our own software?"

What does it mean that the WPS format is open to Microsoft? It means that Microsoft has seized the Chinese market with almost no effort. The user thought to himself, "I used WPS software before, and many files were in wps format, so I had to buy wps software." But now, since it can be opened with Word, then why bother to buy WPS software? Isn't Microsoft bundling Office software, and it's still a pirated !!?"

Microsoft found that it was impossible to sell genuine systems and software in China, and that China's intellectual property laws were not perfect, and piracy was rampant. Therefore, it simply condones piracy and then kills other competitors, including Kingsoft. And this time Microsoft's conspiracy almost brought Kingsoft out of business!

WPS office software, since then obscurity.

Henry has decided that he wants to crush Microsoft's conspiracy, and he wants to take a stake in Kingsoft!

"Microsoft is playing conspiracy, conniving at piracy, I don't know how many Chinese software companies have been pitted, my stake in Kingsoft is really to support justice and save Chinese private enterprises!!"

Subsequently, Henry ordered someone to ask Kingsoft to buy shares, preparing to raise $10 million to hold 55% of Kingsoft's shares!

At that time, 10 million US dollars was almost 100 million yuan, which shocked both Zhang Xuanlong and Qiu Bojun! They never imagined that Kingsoft Software Company would be so valuable! 10 million US dollars was only 55 percent of the equity, and the total market value of the company was close to 200 million yuan!!

Zhang Xuanlong was already moved, and in early 1994, he had just established Kingsoft Software, and he invested 2 million yuan in Qiu Bojun at that time. I didn't think that the company had just begun. Someone actually wants to invest, and they only need 55% of the equity of nearly 100 million yuan!

Zhang Xuanlong said: "Ask Bojun." Agreed, with a financing of 10 million US dollars, the development speed of Kingsoft is far from comparable to what it is now, we can develop more software, we can expand channels!"

Qiu Bojun thought for a while and said: "The other party's company is called Hongnian Technology, although it is a company registered in China, but the parent company that controls this company is a foreign-funded company, Williams Electronics Company. That is, the company of Henry Williams, the richest man in the world!"

"That's right. Zhang Xuanlong nodded and said, "Previously, Hongnian Technology launched Hongnian Computer and used the linuxOS1.0 Chinese system, it seems that Henry Williams is ready to enter the operating system." This investment in Kingsoft is a layout in China!"

Zhang Xuanlong looked at Qiu Bojun and asked, "Do you want WPS to go abroad?

"Going abroad?" Qiu Bojun was stunned for a moment, this question, he never thought that WPS is a Chinese office software. How to go abroad?

Zhang Xuanlong said: "We can develop the English version of WPS, the French version, etc., but without a promotion platform and allies, it is impossible to challenge Microsoft's position in the office software industry in any case!"

"What do you mean. Henry Williams can help us!" asked Qiu Bojun.

"Who else but him?" Zhang Xuanlong said with a smile, "Henry Williams has the Linux system, and he has the financial resources and strength. The easiest challenge to Microsoft!"

Qiu Bojun's face showed a look of excitement, but. Still with a hint of scruples, he said: "But a 55% stake means we lose a controlling stake in the company!"

"That's right. But as the saying goes, there are gains and losses, and if Kingsoft wants to develop into an international company, we have to pay more! The windows 3.2 system is bundled with office software, which poses a lot of pressure on us, and now, we must look for a backer!" Zhang Xuanlong said with a trace of seriousness.

As an investor, Zhang Xuanlong naturally hopes that the company's development will be as big as possible, so that he can obtain higher returns. A controlling stake in the company was of little use to him. Therefore, I tried my best to persuade Bojun to agree to Hongnian Technology's shareholding!

Qiu Bojun thought about it, and finally nodded.

After asking Bojun for approval, Hongnian Technology immediately signed a contract with Kingsoft and completed the transaction. After the financing of Kingsoft Software, the shareholding ratio is 55% of Hongnian Technology, 30% of Qiu Bojun and 15% of Zhang Xuanlong.

Soon after, Hongnian Technology and Kingsoft held a press conference. At the press conference, the two companies announced the financing and shareholding agreement, and then announced the next development plan: "WPS will be available on the linuxOS1.0 system, and the software will be free. However, wps files on windows can still be opened normally in linuxOS1.0 systems!

As soon as the news of the press conference came out, it immediately caused a sensation in China, and the main reason for the sensation was that Hongnian Technology had raised nearly 100 million yuan to Kingsoft Software. At that time, 100 million yuan was equivalent to an astronomical amount, and ordinary people only had a few hundred yuan a month, so how many years did 100 million yuan have to be earned!

The envious saliva of countless people remained.

When Microsoft got the news, it was very surprised. Without paying attention, Hongnian Technology actually won the largest share of China's office software market, Kingsoft Software, which posed a great challenge to Microsoft!

In particular, WPS software is free on the linuxOS1.0 system, but it is charged on the windows system, which is forcing users to choose the linuxOS1.0 system!

"Oh, ****!" Bill Gates couldn't help but curse when he heard the news!

Steve Ballmer said in a deep voice: "Bill, our office software must launch a Chinese version!"

"Well," Bill Gates nodded and said, "next year, when Windows 95 is developed, the Chinese version of Office will be bundled into the system!"

Ballmer smiled: "As long as our windows95 defeats the linuxOS1.0 system, WPS is not to be afraid!"

When Bill Gates heard this, he nodded and laughed: "That's right! WPS will have no chance of winning under the strong combination of our windows operating system and office office software!"

Bill Gates personally participated in the development of Windows 95, and he is full of confidence in this operating system! Windows 95 has made great improvements on the original system, and it will have a more powerful, more stable, and more practical desktop graphical user interface! In his previous life, Bill Gates did not hesitate to spend more than $300 million to promote Windows 95, it is conceivable that if Bill Gates had not been in the sky with confidence in the Windows 95 operating system, how could he have made such a crazy move?!

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In the Chinese market, a war between linuxOS1.0 and windows3.2 is being staged.

linuxOS1.0 open source, windows3.2 pirated, the fight is inseparable, like fire and water! However, due to the launch of cheap computers by Hongnian Technology, the number of users of the linuxOS1.0 system has increased. Microsoft is helpless about this!

After Henry let Hongnian Technology take a stake in Kingsoft Software, he did not stop, there are fewer third-party Chinese software on the linuxOS1.0 system, and Hongnian Technology wants to win over or acquire more software companies!

At this time, in June, the World Cup has begun, and this time it will be held in the United States!

ABC's espn sports channel won the rights to broadcast the 1994 FIFA World Cup in South America and North America, and Asia Television won the broadcast station in Asia!

And the European broadcast rights were snatched by Murdoch's News Corporation!

After the start of the game, countless fans did not expect that at the halftime of the game, the huge screen of the stadium actually played 20 seconds of advertisements for the two football games "FIFA1994" and "FIFA Football Manager"! 3D graphics, dynamic music, real game experience, detailed player data, etc., all aroused the interest of the majority of fans! Just when people were curious about which company made the game, a row of words appeared at the end of the advertising screen.

"Firefly Games!"

(PS: There are guests here today.,Only two chapters were updated.,I couldn't do it.,So,I'll add more tomorrow.。 This chapter is more than 4,000 words, which is not less. If you have a ticket or something, please support it!)

(To be continued.) )