Chapter Ninety-Five: Internal and External Enemies
Microsoft is doing something similar, and its own security software is also under development.
However, Microsoft's current focus is still on competing with Netscape.
Microsoft's advantage is that it has a Windows system, and whatever software it wants to promote, it has better innate conditions than other competitors.
At present, Microsoft is also competing for the entrance to traffic, but it does not want to fight with security software, but through browsers.
Since entering the second half of the 90s of the 20th century, the Internet has entered an era of rapid development.
The advent of search engines has connected small ponds into an ocean, and the browser is the entrance to such a large ocean.
Netscape was born during this period, and not long after it started its business, its users even surpassed the users of Microsoft's operating system, and the installed platforms were all over Microsoft, Wanhu, Apple and other mainstream operating system platforms.
With such a large number of users, it is very simple to make a profit, even a simple text ad push can allow them to earn a good profit.
And after Microsoft found this profitable point, how could it give up, so they launched their own Internet Explorer browser.
They also have to compete for such an entrance to traffic.
Moreover, while competing for traffic entrances, Microsoft, which has deep pockets, also wants to complete upstream and downstream integration, such as the acquisition of Yahoo.
Unfortunately, Yahoo's asking price is as high as $4 billion, and Microsoft's ideal price is at most $3 billion, so the two sides are at a stalemate in the negotiations.
As a rising star, Google, although the asking price is relatively lower, has been held too many shares by Wanhu, and Microsoft has launched several acquisitions, all of which have been rejected by Wanhu.
Therefore, the other side is negotiating, and this side is competing with Netscape.
The 21st century is the era of the Internet, and although the Internet bubble has begun to appear, Microsoft still has to invest in the tide of the Internet.
Today, Microsoft brings together the world's top programmers and is the world's most valuable company.
Someone, there is money.
It's as if it will dominate the world as it wants.
As long as Microsoft can cover the field, they are involved.
This is true even in the field of mobile communications.
Microsoft recently unveiled a new miniaturized mobile phone at the World Consumer Electronics Show, which has a touch screen, a miniature window system in the phone, and can also open a series of office software such as documents and forms.
In Microsoft's words, it's a leap in productivity.
In the future, you don't have to face a bulky computer in the office, you can move in the car, on the subway, in bed, anywhere you can imagine.
At the show, many people tried what Microsoft called this innovation.
What's worse is that the battery life of this machine is relatively short, and the other is that the weight is relatively heavy. The third is that although the touch accuracy of the touch screen is good, the human finger is too large, and the interface of the system is too small, and the operation can only be completed better through the stylus.
So, in actual use, will the stylus be used without problems, or is there a greater probability of being lost?
However, the first generation of products is always imperfect, and some people who are looking forward to Microsoft feel that Microsoft's things can continue to be expected.
In this year, the programmer community has not yet felt that Microsoft is the villain and refuses to use Microsoft products.
Microsoft is indeed competitive, and has been exporting various new technologies and standards.
It's just that...... Big business has big business disease, and although Microsoft is already at a peak in technology, its affinity is not enough.
For example, although Netscape has lost the competition with IE recently, Netscape has open-sourced its own browser, and has gathered developers, and with the support of developers, a large number of users have used Netscape Browser.
As for IE, although it won this journey, it was forced to promote the software that took advantage of the monopoly position of the Windows system, but it got into a lawsuit.
Netscape is also negotiating with Microsoft in a lawsuit to build an operating system based on Netscape Browser.
The spiritual successor of this operating system in the future is the operating system of Google Chrome.
Every technology company is exploring the way through, and the battle for security software, although exciting, has not allowed these companies to stop and watch.
After another thirteen days, the war on security software has finally come to an end.
Won, Tom won safely.
In such a long time, Syman's iron shell still has no quick intrusion and cracked Tom's security software, and the viruses used to make trouble have been discovered by Tom Security, and now if these viruses are dormant, once they are activated, they will be killed by Tom Security within three seconds.
A cloud of mourning hung over Symantec.
Tom Security, a free security software, has survived, but how can they survive these paid security software?
Although there are some users who only believe that they have paid the price and spent money to buy things, the vast majority of users still like to embrace free things.
"No...... Why don't we do it for free......" someone suggested at the meeting.
"Free? no, if we were free, where would our income come from?" someone objected.
"We can also advertise it! If Tom Safe can do it, why can't we do it. Our software is far more mature than Tom's security, and we compete with it for the market, and it is not certain who wins!"
"Convene a general meeting of shareholders and vote. ”
At the shareholders' meeting, the shareholders and owners have the power to control the fate of Symantec. They were gathered at the moment, and the expressions on their faces were not good-looking.
They don't care what Symantec does, but they hate having less money.
First of all, there was a strong condemnation of all the personnel of this Symantec, and many shareholders believed that it was because of their mistakes in decision-making that they did not win the war, and they were responsible for the losses this time.
As a result, a large number of Symantec's middle and senior management were removed from the meeting.
Immediately afterwards, the group began to discuss the future system of ten thousand households.
After discussion, these people all believe that they should go the road of free security software.
However, they demanded that there should be no losses and no increase in the budget.
Everything has to be done under the existing conditions, and the transformation must be successful!
Symantec's new mid-level management has learned that the enemy is not only from the outside, but also from within.