Chapter 409: Microsoft is caught in a monopoly case

In fact, there are a lot of viruses that are prevalent in the world, and many of them exploit Microsoft's system vulnerabilities. You know, Microsoft's operating system, he is simply a home of vulnerabilities. There are as many vulnerabilities as there are loopholes. If you plug this hole today, there will be another one tomorrow. So, a lot of the time, we see, Microsoft is patching every day. Figuratively speaking, if Microsoft's operating system is compared to a piece of clothing, then this piece of clothing is a piece of clothing covered in patches.

The Blaster Virus, if remembered correctly, exploited an RPC vulnerability in Microsoft. RPC, or Remote Procedure Call Protocol.

Probably for most people, they don't know about this agreement. But it doesn't matter. All it takes is to determine that this one protocol has a loophole. Now, Blaster exploits this vulnerability and doesn't need to send any email, no other action, just a scan. If your computer is connected to broadband, you may be infected with the virus. Therefore, since the discovery of the shockwave virus, its infection ability is very strong, and for ordinary users, there is basically nothing to prevent.

However, now that the virus has come out, Chen Jiayi wants to make good use of Microsoft's vulnerabilities to hype.

In any case, the biggest threat to the operating system built with the core of the Tang Dynasty in the future is still Microsoft. Because, no matter how bad Microsoft's operating system is, there are still many people who are used to using it. This habit has been cultivated for many years, and it is more difficult to change. Now, if Chen Jiayi wants to defeat Microsoft, in addition to developing his own operating system, he also needs to take advantage of various unfavorable news for Microsoft. If the world can join forces, there may be an opportunity.

And this RPC vulnerability is a good opportunity to exploit.

"Jiafeng, if you look at the RPC aspect, perhaps, the virus is using the RPC vulnerability to infect it."

At this time, Chen Jiayi reminded Lu Jiafeng.

Chen Jiayi still remembers this virus deeply, when he was in 2003, he had just entered college, although he studied computer science. However, for a person who has just entered college, he is actually a rookie. Moreover, Chen Jiayi did not listen carefully at that time. So much so that in the face of the threat of the shockwave virus, he had no way to defend himself.

Later, I checked it from the news report. Chen Jiayi knew that this shockwave virus turned out to be using RPC loopholes. This is the only way to erupt on a large scale all over the world. According to later records, the terrifying shockwave virus, in the first week, the shockwave virus attacked the world's sewing computers.

Now that he has returned from rebirth, the current Chen Jiayi is no longer the Chen Jiayi of the past. The understanding of this virus is also relatively clear. Moreover, Chen Jiayi even felt that this virus was really good.

"Okay."

"However, if it is researched, it can only be used within the Tang Dynasty Company, and it will not be announced for the time being."

Since RPC is pointed out, it also means that a way to kill the shockwave virus has been found. Chen Jiayi believes that with Lu Jiafeng's ability, after he hangs up the phone, he will only need 2 hours at most to discover the virus and develop a special killing tool. However, Chen Jiayi did not want to crack the virus so quickly.

Because, Chen Jiayi also wants to make good use of the virus to hit Microsoft. If it is extinguished so early, then wouldn't it be a help to Microsoft? Besides, at present, the Tang Dynasty Guards are not engaged in the field of anti-virus, and even if such a thing is developed, it will not have much effect on the Tang Dynasty Guards.

"I understand."

Although Lu Jiafeng can't figure it out, where can some of the plans at the top be figured out by just thinking about it? Thinking about it later, now that Tang Dynasty Company, as a world-class technology company, naturally has to set up some situations in the world field. Presumably, this time the virus crisis, Chen Jiayi just wants to make good use of it.

After the two talked on the phone, Chen Jia returned to the house.

Three days later, the world's major antivirus manufacturers still have not developed a special tool for the shockwave virus. However, the virus began a large-scale outbreak in the past three days. To date, 20 million computers worldwide have been infected with the virus. Experts predict that with the current intensity of the shock wave, it is possible that 70% of the world's computers will be infected in a week.

This incident has also become the most dangerous virus in the world in history. ,

Many people are worried that they will be infected with the virus if they are online for half an hour now. Especially for business users, their computers have countless company information. If you can't work properly due to a virus, or if you lose data due to a virus, it will be extremely harmful to the enterprise.

Therefore, many companies in the world have unplugged network cables during this period of time. Many media outlets have also launched various virus topics for this virus crisis. Some people are even alarmist, saying that this is the harm brought about by high technology. It is recommended that all people in the world go back to the era of pen and paper and give up computers.

They believe that only in this way will the harm from the outside be reduced to zero.

However, this kind of behavior that should be swallowed and wasted is naturally not approved by everyone. This is the age of technology, and if we abandon high-tech, it will set the world back for 50 years. This is even more powerful than any global virus. However, just when everyone was worried from time to time, a senior researcher at McFee, the second antivirus manufacturer in the United States, announced, "It has been confirmed that the virus exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft's system, and we are doing our best to analyze it, and I believe that soon, this virus will be thoroughly studied." "Well, it's Microsoft's fault again."

In fact, McPhee is a cooperative unit with Microsoft, and originally, they released this news only for business introduction. After all, in many cases, McPhee and the world's major antivirus software are checking and killing viruses based on Microsoft's operating system. Today's announcement of this news can be regarded as one of the business.

However, with the help of well-intentioned people, this news was immediately amplified countless times. The article states, "Since the Microsoft operating system interview, we have been worried about the threat of viruses. Although, other operating systems, like Apple's operating system, they also have virus invasion. Even, the world's first virus appeared on Apple computers. However, relatively speaking, Apple computers and their operating systems are far less exposed to the threat of viruses than Microsoft's operating systems. We are not surprised to ask, the world's most popular Windows, do we still support him so much? ”

Under the influence of this, everyone gave fierce criticism of the Windows operating system.

Many people believe that it is Microsoft's Windows, under his monopoly, that has kept the world's operating system from much innovation.

People who have been using the Windows operating system are also threatened by viruses from time to time. Because, Windows is too easy to use. He has a lot of vulnerabilities, and even if they are discovered, Microsoft can't solve them on its own. For example, the memory overflow vulnerability ......, which many hackers are still exploiting to invade computers around the world.

Such criticism began with online media. Gradually, Microsoft monopolized and the like, and traditional media also joined in. Especially the traditional media in Europe. They believe that Microsoft's Windows monopoly has seriously hindered technological progress. As with this blaster virus, the biggest threat is not the blaster, but Microsoft's Windows. As long as Windows maintains a monopoly, then in the future, viruses like Shockwave will become more and more difficult to solve in the world.

Moreover, at this time, IBM and Apple, as Microsoft's old rivals, also believed that monopoly could only hinder technological progress. See, Apple has never wanted to monopolize whether it is developing Apple computers or its operating system. That's why Apple and IBM's products are evolving so fast day by day.

Windows, on the other hand, restricts not only the development of software, but also the development of hardware. Just like a 64-bit personal computer, in our Apple, he can use it quickly. However, the operating system of Windows has been used for a long time. It also makes the world's personal computers not get much of a replacement. In the face of 64-bit computers, they can only say that they are incapable, after all, 64-bit computers have considerable requirements for memory and CPU.

In addition, software vendors around the world have also expressed strong dissatisfaction with the Windows system. They have always claimed that their software products could have done better. But due to the constraints of the Windows operating system, there are many functions that they can't achieve... Of course, there are many more attacking Windows.

The most technical is the Linux operating system, although it has recently been replaced by the Tang Dynasty kernel. However, the Linux kernel has been released for a long time after all, and it has accumulated a lot of experience. Even the Tang Dynasty kernel was developed on the basis of the Linux kernel. In other words, in the core of the Tang Dynasty, many Linux technologies can be implemented. In this way, some people who studied the Linux operating system at the beginning did not study the kernel of the Tang Dynasty, which was not very difficult. ,

For this group of people, they compare the Linux kernel with the Windows line. From the management of processes, to the use of software, as well as the speed of the operating system, and even in terms of security, the Linux operating system will be compared to Windows. Of course, when it comes to entertainment, Linux is really inferior to the Windows operating system. However, Linux's support for entertainment is also great. It's just that under the monopoly of global Windows, Linux can't focus on entertainment research at all, so it has to go to the professional side, for example, to the host operating system, or supercomputer direction.

If Windows does not have a monopoly, they believe that the Linux operating system, its entertainment, will definitely be better than Windows.

In the face of threats from major manufacturers around the world, the huge Microsoft has demonstrated its strong public relations capabilities.

First of all, they sent someone to contact McPhee Antivirus Company about the following time, and McPhee was under pressure from Microsoft, and McPhee changed his story, saying that there is no evidence that the Shockwave virus is using Microsoft's operating system. It is possible that he is exploiting some software or hardware vulnerability, and we will continue to analyze it until we finally find out.

Like this trend of breaking his word and fattening, McPhee also expressed helplessness. After all, Microsoft and McPhee are joint ventures, and Microsoft has provided McPhee with some of the source code, which has kept McPhee's antivirus technology ahead of other software. Fortunately, for the average user, they don't care much about who posted the message.

This is just the first step in Microsoft's announcement.

In the second step, Microsoft, with Bill's authorization, strongly opposed the monopoly case.

They believe that Microsoft does not have a monopoly, it is just an inevitable product of market competition. Other operating systems can't compete with Windows, how can it be called a monopoly of Microsoft's operating system? Just like Intel, Supermicro (AMD). Their CPUs are supported by manufacturers all over the world. This is why it has been favored by consumers. On the other hand, for VIA CPU, for the market, I believe that for Intel and Supermicro, they are very welcome to join VIA, but the market does not buy it.

Intel and AMD. They are all Microsoft's partners, and VIA is their competitor. A Microsoft spokesperson is not afraid to compare these companies. Having said all this, Microsoft means to tell everyone directly, "It's not that Microsoft wants to monopolize, but that everyone likes our products very much, do you want us not to sell these products to consumers?" ”

However, in the face of Microsoft's statement, it seems to be right on the surface. However, for insiders, Microsoft's monopoly explanation is not convincing. Because, they know. The reason why Microsoft was able to monopolize it was that in addition to the entertainment of its own operating system, it also maintained a very high level of cooperation with major hardware manufacturers around the world. For example, many hardware manufacturers' drivers only provide Microsoft's operating system, such as linux, and do not have drivers in this regard.

This is also the reason why the Linux operating system has not been developed to be entertaining.

In the face of such an explanation, there are finally people who are dissatisfied. The dissatisfaction of these people, in addition to Linux researchers and some other software vendors, finally led to a heavyweight guest. This guest, he is not a person, but an organization. This organization, called the European Union, is the EU's Antimonopoly Bureau.

The EU Antimonopoly Office said on the same day that it had recently received a monopoly request from Microsoft, and starting today, the EU began to investigate whether Microsoft has a monopoly.

This surprise attack was immediately echoed by the whole world.

Although other countries are not involved in the investigation of whether Microsoft has monopolistic practices, because they do not have a corresponding operating system in their own countries. Even if it is investigated that Microsoft has a monopoly, when the time comes, they will not be able to launch their own operating system. This is not investigated, but in fact, it is the same. However, this time the EU came out, and they made it clear that they strongly supported it.

According to sources, if the EU side confirms that Microsoft does have a monopoly on operating systems. Then, in addition to being fined high monopoly fees, Microsoft may also impose various clauses within its operating system to prohibit the monopoly of Microsoft's operating system in the future.

This news has greatly encouraged people in many countries who are studying operating systems.

Originally, they were secretly working on an operating system based on the kernel of the Tang Dynasty. Now, the EU authorities have once again raised the case of Microsoft's operating system monopoly. And, this time, with even greater determination than the last time. If the EU Antimonopoly Office can make a contribution to the Microsoft monopoly case this time, it will be of great benefit to the operating system they will launch in the future. ,

Even if the antitrust case is not established (because, Microsoft's relationship with the U.S. government is very good. And the U.S. government will make sure that Microsoft is okay, so they will definitely appeal. And the appeal, facing an international court friendly with the United States. Probably, this antitrust case will also be dissolved) They can also take the opportunity to hype up their own operating system.

Subsequently, the EU antitrust authorities said that after several days of hard work, we have a large number of key evidences that can prove the possibility of a monopoly on Microsoft's operating system. In the coming days, we will file a public prosecution with Microsoft and make a final judgment on whether Microsoft has a monopoly or not.

Japan.

Sony, Toshiba, Panasonic, .......

Several company CEOs, all brought together.

Because, today, they are here to welcome the new prime minister of 2002, Junichiro Koizumi, who took office just last year.

Speaking of Junichiro Koizumi, the Japanese prime minister, has always been the object of China's disgust. Countless novels have used "Koizumi" as a disgusting target of attack. And many readers and friends, he likes to attack Japan and some episodes of Koizumi. From this point, we can see that the Chinese people hate "Xiaoquan".

However, no matter how much the Chinese people hate Koizumi, they cannot stop Junichiro Koizumi's status in the hearts of the Japanese.

According to later records, from 1992 onwards, Japan entered a "difficult period". At this time, there was an economic crisis in Japan itself. From 1992 to 1998, the average annual GDP growth rate was only 1%, and in 1997 and 1998 there was even negative growth (-2.5% in 1998 and -0.5% in 2001).

As the Japanese economy enters a "difficult period." "Japan's cabinet is constantly changing, and there have been nine prime ministers in 10 years, and none of them has been able to save the Japanese economy from declining. It was not until February 2002 that Junichiro Koizumi's cabinet came to power and implemented a series of new reforms that brought the Japanese economy out of its predicament and into a period of recovery and comprehensive transformation. When Junichiro Koizumi came to power, Japan's national economic growth rate was -3.3%, and after he came to power, it reversed to 1.6%. Junichiro Koizumi steadily occupied the Japanese political arena for five and a half years, ending the fate of the Japanese cabinet "short-haul" and becoming the longest-serving prime minister in 20 years.

It can even be said that Junichiro Koizumi is the most influential prime minister in Japan in 30 years.

"Guys, I'm here today, and I just want to say one thing."

Koizumi finally flashed under the expectation of several CEOs.

He looked at the few people sitting there, these are the most influential CEOs of Japanese enterprises, and he said directly, "Can the operating system of our great Japanese empire be promoted to the world?" ”。 [This chapter is provided by [Spread Wings Update Group・Foreign Egg]]