Although Wanhu's visual operating system appeared earlier, it is not so easy to go public outside of China.

Although Microsoft's graphics operating system is still in the process of being opened, they have already registered a large number of related patents.

If you want to sell the graphics operating system in North America, the world's major countries and regions, those regions that can afford to use computers. They had to apply to Microsoft to get their patents licensed.

However, Microsoft, as a company that mainly focuses on software business, a company that relies on operating systems and office suites to survive, even if they allow 10,000 households to enter their core areas, the conditions they will offer, 10,000 households will basically not accept.

Of course, there is still a way to release your own operating system without obtaining a patent license.

The simplest and easiest way to do this, of course, is to bypass their patent barriers and go where they don't block.

In the end, it is the case that the graphics operating system is completely distributed independently, and no one's patent rights are infringed, and it is this patent that prevents Microsoft from releasing their operating system, so it chooses to cross-license. It's all a solution.

Of course, they can also directly seize their patent loopholes and sue in court, demanding that their patents become invalid.

However, this method is not only costly to find those nasty lawyers, it is also a waste of time.

The point is, even Microsoft's patents are really problematic. Microsoft can also keep throwing money at it and squandering financial resources. Drag it on until your opponent goes bankrupt or your own product is released.

At present, Wanhu is trying both methods.

However, none of them are easy to follow. After all, Wanhu is a new player in this hand, and Microsoft has played this hand very well.

In fact, legislation was pushed to allow the Diet to discuss and revise the part on patent rights. Something that was previously considered non-physical cannot be patented. Things like software code, but after pushing for legislation, like the core code of Microsoft's operating system and office suite, is already protected by patents.

And in patent protection, there are also many patents on the design of their operating system.

These principles are as annoying as those "right-angled rectangle" appearance patents that Apple later worked on.

Wanhu can only try to modify his operating system without annoying Microsoft, and avoid opening all the pitfalls.

However, no one expected that the opportunity would appear so quickly.

Not long after the start of 1993, the American company sued Microsoft, claiming that Microsoft's operating system and office software violated antitrust laws.

If the court finds Microsoft guilty of antitrust laws, Microsoft will be forcibly broken up. Like Rockefeller's oil company and AT&T.

The easiest way to avoid violating the antitrust law is to support an adversary.

This is like why Intel even chose to lend a helping hand to AMD during its most difficult time, providing low-interest loans to AMD and providing financing to help them tide over the difficulties.

Because AMD is down, Intel will be hit even harder because of antitrust laws.

Intel is helping AMD by itself.

Even AMD himself lost hope and wanted to say goodbye, Intel would pull it back and tell him to live strongly.

Compared with Apple's old rival, Wanhu, a third-world country company, looks less aggressive.

As a result, all kinds of barriers that Wanhu worked so hard to bypass were easily bypassed.

However, Microsoft also has conditions for giving the ladder.

The condition is that Microsoft does not sell three copies of the operating system, and 10,000 households can sell one set.

After a long discussion, the decision-makers of Wanhu believe that although this regulation is very strict, it is good to be able to enter the US market now.

As a result, Wanhu sent someone to sign this agreement, and Wanhu's graphical operating system finally entered the United States.

Selling operating systems and any software is actually about the same as video games.

The development cost is relatively small, and the cost of advertising and storage media is the majority.

Microsoft's operating system is basically priced at around $300. Of course, there are some brands of computers that will have a built-in operating system when they are sold.

While Wanhu is talking to manufacturers about built-in things, on the other hand, they are trying to enter the field of vision of consumers at a low price of 66.6 US dollars.

You know, $66.6 is actually the price of the most expensive video game cartridge in this era.

There aren't many games that can be sold at this price, and basically the latest masterpieces of the Super Mario Bros. series, as well as the high-cost production of various manufacturers, can sell for this amount of money.

You know, that's nearly $67 in purchasing power, which was not the same at the time and later.

It's like buying a top-of-the-line computer in the nineties and buying a top-of-the-line computer thirty years later, which is also tens of thousands of dollars, hundreds of thousands of dollars.

But tens of thousands of people in that era could buy a house in the core urban area of Beijing.

The price of a computer purchased later may even be as small as the space occupied by the computer desk.

As for why Microsoft's operating system can be sold for $300, Microsoft's office suite can be sold for $99.99.

Or is it because people have different attitudes towards entertainment and things that can make money.

How much money is spent with Microsoft, whether it is a business or an individual, I think I can earn it back.

And after buying a video game and playing it, unless it is sold to a second-hand store to get some blood, otherwise, there is basically no possibility of recovering the cost.

What the?

You said that you can earn a prize if you buy a game, practice hard, and win the competition?

First of all, not every video game will have a competition. Also, if there is a game, it is not necessarily winn.

It is inappropriate to compare a thing with a very small probability with a high probability thing.

Could it be that if a homeless man picks up a 100 million dollar knife in a trash can and becomes a billionaire, he can become a beggar and become a billionaire?

Of course it's not like that.

The visual operating system sold by 10,000 households at 66.6 US dollars will also be given away from 10,000 office suites. This price is probably the most expensive compared to the game.

But compared to Microsoft's software, it's so cheap that I don't have friends.

However, even with such a low price, there are still not many people who choose to buy Wanhu operating systems and office suites.

Because, Wanhu's software format and program format are completely incompatible with Microsoft's system. Even some of the games published by Wanhu themselves cannot run on the visual operating system of Wanhu, which is very embarrassing.