Chapter 020: Microsoft Invites
Since the second half of last year, the cooperation between China and Singapore in Wucheng Industrial Park has gone to Europe and the United States three times to attract investment, and remarkable results have been achieved. Within half a year, a total of contract foreign capital was introduced. 10,000 US dollars, the actual foreign investment to the 10,000 US dollars. So far, this industrial park, which has only been established for five years, has introduced a total of 100 million US dollars of foreign investment. The actual foreign investment in place is ugly billion US dollars.
Last year, Wucheng Industrial Park showed four characteristics in attracting investment: First, it introduced many high-tech projects from internationally renowned multinational companies. Second, the capital increase momentum of large companies is strong, and the newly introduced contract foreign capital is the foreign investment of foreign-funded enterprises that have already increased in the park. Third, the tertiary industry and modern high-tech agricultural projects have begun to enter in batches. Fourth, the good momentum of investment promotion in Wucheng Industrial Park, which is cooperated by Huaxin, has led to the introduction of foreign investment in the surrounding areas, and the five towns and towns on the periphery of the cooperation zone have introduced a total of 10,000 US dollars of contracted foreign investment in the past six months, an increase over the same period last year.
This year, Wucheng will once again show its great attraction to internationally renowned enterprises in terms of investment promotion with a leapfrog and abandonment exhibition, and start a new round of investment promotion activities.
To this end, Xiao Ding, secretary of the Wucheng City Party Committee, will personally lead a delegation to the United States to begin a large-scale propaganda and investment promotion campaign throughout North America that will last for more than a month. Under his leadership, Yue Bangwei, member of the Standing Committee of the Wucheng Municipal Party Committee and Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, Wang He, member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and Executive Vice Mayor, Hua Dongsheng, member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and Minister of Propaganda, Zhang Yao, member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and Secretary General of the Municipal Party Committee, and Zhao Jiemin, Gan Yongjun and Chen Ping, vice mayors, formed the highest standard investment promotion team in the history of Wucheng and took the plane to the United States on Kouyue Liri. Their first stop was San Francisco. Tomorrow. San Francisco City Hall will hold a large-scale business fair of "Century New Year, China Wucheng San Francisco Economic and Trade and Cultural Week".
San Francisco, known to the Chinese as San Francisco. Located on the San Francisco Peninsula on the west coast of California, USA, it is a mountain town with an area of square miles, surrounded by water on three sides, and a beautiful environment. The climate is warm in winter and cool in summer, and the sun is abundant, and it is known as the "most popular city among Americans". The population of the city is about Ewan, of which there are 10,000 Chinese. San Francisco Harbor covers an area of "square kilometers, and the Kinmen Strait is only one meter wide" and opens to the Pacific Ocean, making it an important naval base and a famous trading port. It is the gateway to the Pacific region and the Far East. At the same time, it is also the largest financial center in the western United States, mainly in the aircraft, rocket parts, metal processing, shipbuilding, instrumentation, electronic equipment, food, petroleum processing, chemical, printing and other departments. There are many Chinese and overseas Chinese, and the "Huaxia City" in the northeast corner of the city is the largest concentration of Chinese in the United States.
There is a reason why the Wucheng Investment Promotion Group chose San Francisco instead of Wall Street in New York for the first step. Wucheng Industrial Park was originally a high-tech industrial park, and the Chinese forces have deep roots in San Francisco, so choosing San Francisco as the first stop is not only in line with the exhibition direction of the park, but also in line with the idea of "doing problems" after the easy ones.
The "opening ceremony" of the Wucheng investment promotion delegation in San Francisco performed quite well, and many Americans were amazed by the enthusiasm of the American giants for the Wucheng Industrial Park. Americans accustomed to being the center of the world are very interested in Cisco, Siwa, HP, Dell, Intel, Peng, Motorola, Apple,. A large number of giants such as Brown, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay and even Microsoft have sent high-level delegations to participate in the Wucheng Business Fair, expressing considerable confusion and surprise.
Wu Cheng, this Jie. The name is really a little unfamiliar to the people on the west coast of the United States, if they say that they may still have heard of the "magic capital" in the east, but Wucheng, a city that is said to be only about 100 kilometers west of the "magic capital", many of them have heard of it for the first time, but this does not prevent them from paying attention to this city because of this large number of book giants extending an olive branch
"Fourth, the industry is the first pillar industry of Wucheng, in recent years, the scale of production continues to expand, the technical level is increasing, has formed a computer and peripheral equipment, network communications, consumer electronics, electronic components and electronic materials four categories of large-scale production capacity, formed to notebook computers, color liquid crystal displays, computer motherboards, mice and other representatives of dozens of four, product processing base, according to the plan "we are confident that in the next five years, Wucheng will become the world's largest four, Product processing and production base. ”
Xiao Zhen, who spoke in the purest New York accent English to the delegations of more than a dozen of the largest industry giants in the United States, talked about Wucheng IV, the industrial exhibition, and introduced in detail the excellent conditions of Wucheng, is undoubtedly the absolute protagonist of today. Unlike most Chinese officials, he was young, elegant, confident, and responsive, willing to take shrugged questions after his speech. This came as a surprise to this group of four-industry elite executives. In their opinion, the officials in Huaxia are all fifty or sixty-year-old old men, they are either stubborn and arrogant, or vulgar and greedy, or servile, and most of them are unresponsive, and they are incompetent people who can not talk about the key points in ten sentences, but today's performance of Xiao Zhen surprised and excited this group of self-proclaimed new wealth creators, this funny and elegant Huaxia mayor Americans generally do not understand the difference between the "secretary" and the mayor, and he is worthy of being the representative of the city called "paradise" in Wucheng, unconsciously, For the first time, they began to feel less unacceptable to the company's assignment.
You must know that as the "first high-tech consortium in the United States", the Xinlan Consortium has an extremely huge asset intervention in the entire American high-tech industry, especially the fourth, industry, and among the assets of more than a dozen American four-size giants that appear today, none of them do not have a large number of shares held by the Xinlan Consortium, and it also owns four general shares in Microsoft Corporation, which has the lowest shareholding in the equity of these dozen four-giant companies, which is still the result of Microsoft's equity concentration. The Xinlan consortium has reached absolute control over Cisco, Yahoo, Google, Amazon and eBay, and has become their third, fourth and second largest shareholders respectively for HP and Apple.
Therefore, when Qin Qin, the helmsman of the Xinlan Consortium, paid special attention to the Wucheng investment promotion delegation. Almost all four circles in the United States have "urgently mobilized" and sent a strong contingent of delegations to participate in this grand event held in the San Francisco City Hall. Of course, as the head of the investment promotion delegation, Xiao Zhen, secretary of the Wucheng Municipal Party Committee, was also concerned by more American politicians and think tanks.
Zhong Yu's diary: Secretary Xiao's speech was very successful, although the American TV station was not serious at all, but it was very interesting, the little old man who was probably fifty years old but was still an anchor told Secretary Xiao's speech in a particularly interesting way, I believe that Americans should have a good feeling about Secretary Xiao, although they demoted Secretary Xiao and became the mayor.
But the biggest gain is that I was particularly curious about Secretary Xiao's life experience is so amazing, I never thought that Secretary Xiao's Xiao would be Xiao Fei's Xiao! I was shocked, but after the shock, I took it for granted.
After a good night's rest, everyone was in good shape in the morning. The breakfast at the Hyatt Regency Hotel is very good, with a lot of variety, all kinds of pastries, fruits, juices, and barley porridge that Chinese tourists like. It's rare to come to the United States, naturally no one is late, we are out on time in the morning, and today's plan is a day trip to San Francisco.
Why is it called San Francisco? It turned out that there was a big gold mountain here, so people called it San Francisco. Some people call it San Francisco. "San Francisco" is the abbreviation of the English name "San Francisco", which is the same as "San Francisco".
Our first stop is Jiuqu Street, passing through the historic Chinatown. Chinatown is a product of a special historical period, at first it was an area demarcated to restrict the freedom of Chinese people, and the location was not good, but with the continuous improvement of the city exhibition and the strength of the Chinese country, now Chinatowns in various countries have become the center of the area, and they are becoming more and more beautiful.
The so-called Jiuqu Street is actually a very futile street, and the residents here call it what to do. The road of the place was transformed into a street with nine bends made up of flowers. It seems that with your heart, any place can become a landscape.
The streets of the United States are not particularly clean, and there are people on the streets who casually throw discarded mattresses and cabinets on the streets. There is a kind of oak camphor tree on the street that is particularly beautiful, growing like an umbrella, which is especially suitable for greening. Even though there is a distance of old meters between trees, the leaves in the air can still be connected.
Then we came to a Catholic church. This church is a bit special because Marilyn Monroe's second wedding took place here. There is a large lawn in front of the church, and in the center of the lawn there is a statue of Franklin, surrounded by six large trees. Children, old people, puppies and dogs are playing without dogs, and two cyclists simply put their bicycles on the lawn to sleep. Secretary Xiao is very silent here, and I have a feeling that he may be thinking of the education situation in China. At this time, the tour guide in San Francisco suddenly told me that this is also a paradise for famous gays, and it is "really" disgusting.
Next, we headed to the bustling Fisherman's Wharf. Hop aboard the Red Star cruise ship and cruise to the famous Prison Island and the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. There are people of all colors from all over the world on the small boats. Some people say that traveling to San Francisco is equivalent to going to the whole world, and it seems that it is not unreasonable.
At sea, we get a better view of San Francisco, and through the audio commentary, everyone knows about the history of San Francisco and some of the strange things about the Golden Gate Bridge and Prison Island.
In the bay, white sailboats can be seen everywhere, and cute seagulls fly freely in the air, which is very beautiful. There was also a seagull that flew onto the flagpole of our pleasure boat, and I caught it standing on the mast and taking off, and the wings of the seaweed were paired with the brightly colored Star-Spangled Banner.
At the end of the tour of the church, the Catholic church designed by Pei Xingming left a deep impression on everyone. From the outside, this church does not look like a church in the traditional sense, but a very special building.
The entire church from the air is a huge cross. With only four pillars at four corners, the church is extremely open and spectacular. Everybody here? Took quite a few pictures. Next to the church is the Chinese Consulate General in San Francisco, and opposite is a very modern high-rise building, which I know is a high-end apartment for the elderly. While marveling at the master's design, I couldn't help but sigh. Architecture is not a façade, anything is possible.
After that, we came to a duty-free shop owned by Chinese people. There are also famous brand goods from all over the world, as well as gold watches and commemorative gold coins with dollar coins on the plate", and to reward myself, I bought a bottle of perfume, which smelled really good, and although it was expensive, I thought he would like it.
After a hearty Chinese lunch, we went for a walk around the Golden Gate Bridge. The world-famous Golden Gate Bridge is one of San Francisco's iconic buildings and a product of the financial crisis, when the government built the bridge to stimulate domestic demand, and is now the longest cable-stayed bridge in the world.
The American tour guide, who was sometimes irritatingly straightforward, told us that it was also a world-famous suicide mecca, and that the bridge had been built since the old Nu year "was built in the Qin years." About four people committed suicide here and none survived. Even Josef Strauss, the designer of the bridge, committed suicide the year after the bridge was successfully completed and opened to traffic. It is said that the reason for Mr. Strauss's suicide was him, but he feared whether that bridge would have a tragedy in his lifetime. He didn't want to see the moment when the great masterpiece of his elaborate design appeared, when the bridge was destroyed and people died. It seems that it is really not easy to do something meaningful, and the pressure they face is often incomprehensible to ordinary people!
Under the bridge, there is an American basking on the lawn, which is the envy of many people. The man was very young, only a few years old, but he had five children, the eldest was about eleven or twelve years old, and they also brought a doll. It all adds up to a mouthful.
At the beginning of the net, everyone just took some photos, but then I don't know who took the lead, everyone went to find their family to take a group photo, the male owner was very happy, and the children also rushed up, which was very warm. This scene has aroused many people's great emotion, if there is a welfare and relaxed family planning policy in the United States, I would like to have more children in the future......
After returning from the pier, we made our way to the Palace of Fine Arts, which has a unique design. This is the site of the Pacific Panama International Exposition of the Old Occupation Year, and it is here that our Moutai wine deliberately broke the bottle and became famous all over the world. Another point to note is that the Panama Expo was held in San Francisco, not Panama, and the Americans only used the success of the Panama Canal to increase the popularity of the expo, which should be regarded as a classic case of brand leverage.
The Palace of Fine Arts is beautiful, and everyone took a lot of photos here. Due to the special location, the houses near the Palace of Fine Arts are very expensive. The tour guide told us that some time ago there was a white house to use. Sold for $40,000.
We also met a very beautiful American lady by the lake in the Palace of Fine Arts, and one of the group members came up to say hello. Heartbu, she took a picture. She gladly agreed. Later, almost all the members of the group were in harmony with the heart of the orange, and finally the leaders of our regiment encouraged me to take a photo with her, which was a comparison. The tour guide said that there are many celebrities living near the Palace of Fine Arts, and I think maybe she is a star in the United States.
Time flies, and the day's rich itinerary is quickly over. After a night's rest, we reluctantly headed to the San Francisco airport to fly to the prestigious Seattle with the Mayor of San Francisco, Mr. Halverde, "Going to Seattle was an unplanned trip. The Seattle area is home to leading economic groups such as aerospace, information technology, life sciences and biotechnology, clean technology and environmental industries, logistics, and international trade. The world-famous Boeing aircraft headquarters is still here, and it will be moved to Chicago soon, but it is clear that Xiao has no plans to attract investment from Boeing, and he led a delegation here because of Microsoft.
The Microsoft empire is very strong, but it has also had some troubles recently, and behind this trouble, it is said that there is still the shadow of Xinlan. Although Xinlan's shareholding in Microsoft is not gill, it is also one of the major shareholders, and if Xinlan really intends to strengthen its voice in Microsoft, even if it is a Microsoft empire, it is a little difficult to do. What's more, Microsoft's most critical trouble at the moment is not Xinlan's eyesight.
It has been more than two years since the boiling Microsoft Kui case, and during this time, Microsoft is still in... Four four o milk bundled in four browsers. At the same time, Microsoft's stock has climbed ugly more than a dollar in two years. Over the years, Microsoft's monster, with its operating system and huge financial resources, has expanded its sphere of influence beyond the information industry, and through joint ventures, partnerships, and partially-owned, wholly-owned enterprises, it has developed into an invincible and powerful empire.
The Sherman Antitrust Act, which was born in the year of the Big Industry, was "incredibly powerful." "From the "Meixiang Oil Company Case" to the "Intel Case" in the year of the continent. All of them show the profundity of their "mana". However, Microsoft's scale and product form compared with the traditional industrial era have stretched the Anti-Monopoly Law. In the face of the accusation of monopoly, Gates said calmly: "Microsoft only occupies the entire market, how can it be regarded as a decision?" "Microsoft's success lies in the development of the operating system, and at the same time its hegemony depends on it. The operating system is the core software of the computer and the nerve center of the microcomputer, and other application software runs based on the operating system. Microsoft is through the monopoly of its operating system, which has nothing to do with the pure volume share, just ask how many operating systems does a microcomputer need? , extending hegemony to the entire software industry, and constantly seeking new hegemony. However, the traditional legal system can no longer explain this unique economic phenomenon, and the whip of the century cannot beat the knife and the donkey of the century. Moreover, the U.S. government has always used both methods against others and itself, and suing Microsoft is by no means for the sake of users and competitors around the world. So for a long time to come, Microsoft's hegemony will not be somewhat restrained.
Admittedly, if there is no such ...... And... O..., far less than today, Microsoft's contribution is obvious to the world. It is the proportion of the market above... Four old o... This has brought Microsoft's profit to more than 4 and the company's market capitalization to more than the sum of other global cutting-edge software companies. Wealth and insecurity and capital's frenzy for profit** drive Microsoft towards hegemony.
Microsoft's blow to Netscape is well known to the world. However, how many people care about its blow to the national industry? Netscape finally failed because the Torch Billion Legs must be installed on Microsoft's products. When opening the program menu of a computer, we can see how much from the price foot to the four, from the show
Fierce o? And what about domestic software. Apart from... In addition to Wanghe Wang code input, how many domestic products are there? Microsoft's lawsuit against Yadu for piracy should be the final wake-up call. Recall that a few years ago, we didn't have much Microsoft in the ratio, and the genuine environment was much better than it is now. That's when Microsoft wanted to come in, and in the face of piracy, Microsoft adopted this strategy: "As long as they want to steal, I want them to steal ours, they will be addicted." So we can figure out how we're going to collect money someday in the next decade, and the cunning Gates has cracked down on all domestic software by using the lockdown function of pirated software and zero-tariff dumping. When our software dropped below the old yuan, Microsoft's day came early. Yadu was required to pay 10,000 yuan in compensation for using pirated software. With a huge compensation and negative effects, Microsoft is going to put a small and medium-sized business to death. If Microsoft succeeds, it will be true for all pirates, and the consequences will be dire. Not long ago, the United States bombed our embassy and "complemented each other." "His wolf ambition is clear to the world.
Whether it's the U.S. Department of Justice v. Microsoft, or Microsoft suing Yadu with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's handwritten letter, we can see the high leadership art of the U.S. government. The former suppresses Microsoft for the sake of its own interests, and the latter supports Microsoft to attack the interests of other countries. Compared with the United States, which has a relatively sound legal system, we do not yet have any laws and regulations that can crack down on this kind of hegemony, and if we do not come up with effective means, tomorrow's fourth industry in China will be completely the domain of foreigners.
Last year's cheap "genuine storm" set off by Kingsoft actually made software companies hungry to "eliminate pornography and illegal publications", which once again requires us to severely crack down on pirates and protect the intellectual property rights of all developers, including Microsoft. Let our programmers have enough to eat, after all, competition ultimately depends on strength.
We have never lacked a reserve army to show any strength, and the popularization of computers has given us hope for tomorrow. However, for a long time, we have regarded computer education as a pure profession, emphasizing theory over practice; The overall quality of professionals is not high; The product lacks cultural heritage and national characteristics" Xiao An sometimes thinks that perhaps only by changing today's education system can the gold content of domestic products be improved.
In the face of hegemony, we cannot "keep the enemy out of the country." "In today's globalized economy, we need advanced technology more than ever. So Shawke's view on Microsoft is that we should require it to localize its prices in order to strengthen cooperation and protect intellectual property rights. This will be conducive to the healthy exhibition of China's software industry.
After getting to know Microsoft, we must have a clear understanding of the national industry, so that we can better hurry.
Microsoft's hegemony has finally gradually led to the emergence of trouble, which is suspected of monopoly and violation of the "Anti-Monopoly Law". In fact, Microsoft and the government have a long history of fighting against the Kui Jie issue.
Microsoft has gained an absolute market advantage because it has repeatedly defeated its opponents and settled with the court on the same issue in China. In June of this year, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission conducted an investigation into possible conflicts between Microsoft and Siwa in the Belgian software market. That year, the U.S. Department of Justice received complaints from other software vendors and began to investigate Microsoft's market monopoly. Focusing on the market strategy, Micro decided to change its software use contracts with PC manufacturers and allow other software manufacturers to compete with it fairly, thus ending a year-long investigation. That year, the U.S. Department of Justice sued Microsoft again, alleging that it violated an agreement signed by Xinian to use unfair competition to force computer manufacturers to sell their browser software. At the time, Microsoft bundled browser software with its Windows operating system software, which dominated the market. That year, U.S. District Judge Thomas. Jackson signed an injunction requiring Microsoft to install the Bei Gang O browser software produced by other software vendors when installing the Windows Wang operating system. Forcing Microsoft to temporarily halt bundling. Next year, the U.S. Department of Justice and state attorneys general indicted Microsoft as a classmate, alleging that Microsoft unlawfully prevented other software vendors from competing with it in order to maintain its software's dominant position. In the same year, Microsoft improved its Windows software, and its market share of Windows media players increased significantly, and Microsoft's bundling method made its media players grow much more than competitors such as North Company
Xiao Zhen held a document in his hand and wrote briefly but clearly about Microsoft's "struggle" in recent years
April. Microsoft competes with hundreds of millions of users around the world through its heart
In July, the U.S. government reached an agreement with Microsoft in which Microsoft agreed to no longer require computer manufacturers to bring it.... … The operating system is installed as prerequisite software. This agreement was awarded to U.S. District Judge Thomas Panfield Jackson in the Year of the Goo Bill...... This. In the month of the Criticism, Microsoft opened an Internet browser called Four.
In a stunned year, Microsoft founder Bill Gates made adjustments to the company's Internet strategy...... In January, Microsoft launched the software, which is said to be not comparable in performance but is free for users to use.
In the old month of that year, Microsoft bundled its browser with the old platform. This led the U.S. Department of Justice to charge the company with violating an agreement approved by Judge Thomas Panfield Jackson in the bar.
Mouth month. On the same day, Judge Jackson issued a directive asking Microsoft to stop using the "Alpha" browser. or any newer version of the operating platform for bundling. Microsoft appealed.
In January, the U.S. Department of Justice launched an investigation into Microsoft's Internet business strategy. At the same time, it provides free heart-yo browser to users.
Tomorrow, the U.S. Department of Justice and the state of South Carolina later withdrew from a joint lawsuit accusing Microsoft of violating U.S. antitrust laws.
On June 10,000, the Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Microsoft, recognizing the company's right to integrate its browsers with the . Operating systems are sold in bundles.
June 10,000 ,... Complete integration with the Printing Browser.
Judge Jackson opened a trial in a case where Microsoft engaged in anticompetitive business practices and violated U.S. antitrust laws...... On the day of moonrise, AOL acquired and entered into. Judge Jackson believes that this move may have an impact on Microsoft's antitrust case.
February Knife Day of the year. The first stage of the trial is concluded.
In March, Microsoft negotiated an out-of-court settlement with the U.S. government.
In August, the courts of both parties presented all relevant evidence...... On May 1, Judge Thomas Jackson of the U.S. District Court released an investigation report on the fact of Microsoft's monopoly, saying that Microsoft's monopolistic sales of the "Windows" operating system harmed the interests of consumers, computer manufacturers, and other related companies...... On the day of the month, Judge Jackson appointed Judge Richard De Pessner of the Court of Appeals to hold confidential talks on the settlement between the government and Microsoft...... On Ugly Day, hundreds of California users accused Microsoft of selling different versions. They are charged extra when operating the system...... On Moonblade Day, Judge Posner summoned representatives of Microsoft and the state and the Department of Justice to discuss the possibility of a solution.
On the 6th, the U.S. Department of Justice and the old states drafted documents alleging that Microsoft violated the anti-claw law at least verbally.
Blade. Bill Gates resigned as an executive officer at Microsoft, claiming that he would concentrate on the development of Internet software.
On the day of the couple, Microsoft pleaded in a filing with the court that its business practices were lawful. In the face of many competitive threats, Microsoft does not have a monopoly power.
On May 10,000, the U.S. government said that Microsoft had been trying to avoid the fact that it owned and illegally made the power again. On the day of the scandal, Judge Jackson, in the final round of oral arguments in the case, compared Microsoft to the once-decisive oil company. Meixiang Oil Company was dismantled by the government about a year ago.
Key to the sun. Judge Jackson said he would rule on whether Microsoft had violated antitrust laws unless he received a proposal from a mediator or a joint proposal from both the government and Microsoft.
On March Sunday, Microsoft submitted a written proposal to limit the company's business practices, but it was rejected by the government and the old states.
On the closing day, Judge Jackson postponed the final judgment and allowed the out-of-court settlement to proceed, setting the 6th as the deadline for reaching an agreement.
Tomorrow, Judge Posner announced that negotiations between the U.S. government and Microsoft had failed to reach a final agreement, and his mediation failed.
On April 3, Judge Jackson announced in Washington that Microsoft had violated U.S. anti-Quay laws.
When Xiao Ke looked at these materials carefully on the plane, it was the day of the flight in April. That is, after Judge Jackson declared that Microsoft had violated the U.S. anti-Quarry law.
The challenges facing Microsoft are daunting. The U.S. Department of Justice's decision to split Microsoft is a fatal blow to this money-making machine. At. At one point, Microsoft became the first company in the history of the world to have assets of up to 100 million US dollars. That's the total equity in its market, while the total revenue is smaller, with billions of dollars.
One of the U.S. government's appeals to Microsoft on the basis of its product system were "horn points." … The products are assigned to one company, and the "scared" products are assigned to another
In the field of PC software, Microsoft is the dominant player in two of these markets. One is the operating system, which has a significant share of the global market. An operating system is a computer program that manages all the day-to-day operations that a computer needs to complete, such as Microsoft's....
Microsoft is also the market leader in the application software market, although not as monopolistic as it does in the operating system space. An application is a program that you use every day to do a specific task, such as word processing, worksheet crunching, or surfing the web.
The U.S. Department of Justice has charged Microsoft with a range of charges, including taking advantage of its de facto monopoly in the operating system market to crush competitors in the application software market. Critics argue that Microsoft has relied on similar high-pressure tactics to achieve such rapid growth over the past few years.
Xiao Zhen knew that Microsoft would not have fallen on this crisis if there were no accidents, but he was surprised by Microsoft's intention to invite his delegation to Seattle at this moment. Microsoft invited them to invest in Wucheng Industrial Park in the name of the company, but Xiao Ke felt that this statement was basically nonsense, and there was no need for Microsoft to invest in Wucheng. Because of this, Xiao Ding was a little surprised by Microsoft's invitation.
Unless, "There is really a shadow of Xinlan behind this anti-Li case, for example, Xinlan intends to use the anti-base method to break up Microsoft, so that Microsoft's strength will be greatly reduced, so that Xinlan's plan to annex or control Microsoft can be easier If there is really such a plan, if there is really such a plan."
If this idea is true, then Xiao Ding reluctantly feels that there is a certain reason for Microsoft to invite him, after all, even if his relationship with the Xinlan consortium is not well understood by the people of China and the United States, it is impossible for Microsoft's top management not to know.
However, this reason is absolutely not sufficient.
Xiao Zhen knows very well that Microsoft should know that he is not involved in the operation of the Xinlan Consortium at all, and although he is the so-called Shaodong of the Xinlan Consortium, he does not own even a dime of shares in the many groups and companies under the Xinlan Consortium, and his status as a Shaodong only comes from the fact that he is the only legal heir to Qin Qin.
Gates is unlikely to choose to convince himself and let himself convince his aunt again, this is not Gates's style, if he wants to convince anyone, he should choose to persuade directly, rather than through a metro, "It doesn't matter." of "outsiders".
Moreover, Xiao Ke knows that Microsoft will definitely fight back in the face of today's crisis, and at most half a year, Microsoft will definitely fight back strongly after it is ready. And the U.S. election at that time will definitely bring some good news for Microsoft. Even now, public opinion is beginning to predict that the Bush administration may not be so aggressive in continuing this antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft, especially if the US computer market continues to slow down.
So what happens if the computer market shrinks? Microsoft is more than just a PC software company. Soon, Microsoft will compete with Sony Island Heart, Nintendo and Sega to start operating video game consoles. Microsoft's Extinction is expected to be launched over the Christmas period, and it is said that the marketing budget for this product has reached a million dollars.
While video game consoles may be a new market, Microsoft is not going to give up its livelihood. In this billion-dollar annual market for electronic thieves, Microsoft's secret weapon is the personal computer. This is a streamlined PC that can be connected to a TV to play games more happily. The machine can also be used for playback. Quad Movie, which can also be used as a video recorder.
If Microsoft follows the example of other video game console manufacturers. Then it could sell it at cost price for $3 or less, and then make money with a percentage of the sales proceeds from each game sold. The game is easy to get because there are computer programmers everywhere. In addition, it is not convenient to adapt existing computer games. At the same time, Microsoft relies on a set of simplified versions for the so-called pocket PCs.... … Operating system software is gradually expanding into the laptop market. The pocket-sized PC seems to have inherited things like... And the usual style of some of Microsoft's most successful products: start badly, but never give up.
The first pocket-sized PCs were selling poorly, mainly because Microsoft's software was not ideal. However, with Microsoft's strong backing, the pocket PC has a second chance. The situation is gradually improving, and now it has achieved a share of the paste in the flat field, and the dominant place in the market is more than the muscle guy "about the inkstone."
Perhaps the new product that interests Microsoft the most is the old. … Blade...... The product was the first to try to bring popular user-oriented OS versions such as Horn Tugu and Tok
o… Estrogen is combined with more stable software, which has so far been mainly sold to businesses and professional users.
Albeit.... Blade. So far, it hasn't really hit the market, but the next version that hasn't been named yet, a reasonable hint: this version will be launched in the year of planing, which will make millions... Old. … Ranhu has a reason to upgrade. This is not because the new version is particularly good, but because the user version is too unstable and often malfunctions, so any improvement will be welcomed by the user. For Microsoft, this increase in sales revenue is expected to compensate for the decline in revenue due to the sluggish PC market.
Of course, Microsoft still has some troubles for the way forward, and its biggest headache is estimated to be regulatory matters.
Even if the company weren't split in two, Microsoft would be almost doomed to face something that would irritate it: some of the aggressive competitive behavior that had made it so successful would be curtailed.
Xiao Ke suddenly laughed, what does Gates think, he will know in a while, since he can't figure it out, why bother with more brains? It's better to take a look at the special plane sent by Gates to pick up himself and this investment group. He turned his head to see that most of the Wucheng cadres who took the "Gates special plane" for the first time were carefully observing the interior decoration of the Boeing plane, and Xiao Zhen couldn't help laughing
In the past, we helped the Yankees pay for the investment, and finally it was the Yankees' turn to reimburse us for the expenses and come to Seattle for a trip at public expense.