Chapter 13 Microsoft's Involvement
While Takahashi was still talking to his wife, Villefort's G fat didn't have the slightest chance to be idle.
Business struggles have never had a bottom line or a lower limit.
If it weren't for the fact that the law has become more and more sound over the years, things like DuPont blowing up competitors' families may continue to happen.
Shopping malls are like battlefields, and in a certain era, this is not a metaphor, but a fact. However, fortunately, in modern society, the power of the state far exceeds the power of enterprises, so it gradually began to converge.
Perhaps, such as the punk works written by American science fiction writers, or even horror games such as "Resident Evil", the biggest villain is the company itself, maybe it has something to do with these histories.
After all, the Chinese have never experienced the history of being ruled by large corporations, and they remember it indeed.
However, it is not with the kind of super-large enterprises that do not move tens of thousands of people, hundreds of thousands of people.
The biggest feature of modern Internet companies is that they have few people.
That's right, it's just that there are few people, and the world's No. 1 software giant like Microsoft has only 4,000 employees.
If calculated according to Microsoft's total market value of $200 billion, the average market value of each employee is 0.5 billion, which was absolutely unimaginable before.
Of course, although Microsoft's most profitable core business is its operating system and office software, Microsoft has always coveted the game industry.
Whether it's Bill Gates' personal preference, or that video games are the easiest type of product to make a profit in the electronic software industry.
In conclusion, Microsoft has always wanted to enter the video game space.
However, Microsoft's move into the video game market has been a failure, starting with MSX many years ago.
At the beginning, the home console game market was very prosperous, and they cooperated with several major manufacturers to launch MSX.
Although the performance of the machine is okay, the expensive price and relatively bad games have dissuaded one player after another.
The single quality may not be superior, but the comprehensive quality is absolutely the first red and white machine, from the beginning of the sale, it has quickly occupied the market and become the mainstream of the market.
Actually, if you want to say that the red and white machine is really strong? No, in fact, it still depends on the foil of competitors.
Compared with the display effect of the competitors, the display effect of Red Edit, although it is far less than that of the arcade machine, can do two things, smooth and natural.
Smooth and natural means that the picture is smooth, natural, not really like a person in reality, completely realistic. It's like a cartoon, although everyone knows it's fake, but the movements are smooth and not stiff.
You know, a lot of inferior animations can't even do it naturally.
As a result, Microsoft's first attempt to enter the gaming field failed.
Later, after returning to the United States, after a period of hibernation, real-time strategy games began to catch fire, and the acquisition studio developed a high-quality real-time strategy game like "Age of Empires".
However, while Age of Empires is a game that has achieved great results on its own, it has not been able to drive the entire industry chain that Microsoft wants to have.
Later, Bill Gates invested in many video game companies, including the Villefort Valve Factory, which was founded by former Microsoft employees.
Microsoft has not interfered too much in the operation of these enterprises, and I don't know if he has a kind of thinking that there are no dates to play three poles, or whether the east is not bright and the west is bright.
However, in terms of practical results, it is indeed much better than Microsoft's own video game situation.
Is this because Microsoft doesn't have talent?
No, it's not.
Is this because Microsoft doesn't have the money?
No, it isn't.
So why?
Perhaps, it is because of the so-called corporate culture and corporate genes.
Any business, from the very beginning, has its own set of style.
Just like some Internet companies, they want their employees to wear suits every day and go to work like Wall Street financiers.
Although this seems to be regular, it often means that this kind of company is stereotypical about the development route and the production of products.
This kind of company was still mainstream when the Internet industry was just emerging, but now in the 21st century, especially with the rise of Google.
A trend of "freedom" began to prevail.
It's not untrue to say that making software is a matter of routine.
However, how to know what kind of software to make is what users need, and it is a matter of ideas.
This kind of thing can't get rid of a lot of market research, but it can't be done by a bunch of hard brains.
After all, these people are still more suitable for doing things that follow the rules.
Now, Villefort has a problem, and Bill Gates, who has high hopes for Villefort, will naturally not sit idly by.
However, he did not make a move to take advantage of the fire to buy all the shares of Villefort.
Instead, he began to help Villefort and solve the dilemma at hand.
If you really want to say it, Villefort's predicament is really caused by Villefort himself.
You know, in terms of business competition, it has never been said that you can't use some means. However, this refers to the fact that these means are not exposed, when they do not see the light.
The reality is that once these methods see the light, it is indeed you who are found to have done it. You can't do it if you want to.
The most wrong thing about Villefort is not that it attacked Villefort with five cents, but that it had its own employees do it in the company.
It may be that today's Villefort is not as good as it will be in the future, and he can go to Hawaii for a vacation.
After all, making games is making money, and compared with making money lying down on a platform, it is still in the category of sitting and making money.
Maybe the employees still need to earn a little extra money.
Of course, this is not to appreciate this method.
In fact, the laws of the vast majority of countries include factors that restrict this kind of bottomless competition.
Of course, the laws of different countries are created by different classes. Sometimes, it is not possible to simply assume that the laws of a certain country are good or good.
For example, the law in the United States, the richer the people, the more comfortable they feel, but for the poor, it is like hell.
And how are these poor people poor?
Is it really because you are lazy and stupid?
Sometimes, these poor people are the most pitiful compared to those who have the right to speak.
Even if they are knocked out of their teeth, there is no place to make a sound.