"Microsoft proposes to acquire"

"Microsoft wants to buy a 10-day-old website for $3 billion"

Is Microsoft Crazy?

Is Bill Gates Crazy? 》

Microsoft's offer to the website shocked the attention of a North American audience, and also made the North American Internet temporarily lose its voice. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

But after people reacted, everyone frantically expressed their opinions, and the North American Internet was swept up by the takeover offer for a while.

The mainstream media also made a lot of their own opinions, either questioning Microsoft's incomprehensible decision, or analyzing the technical and market advantages of decent websites.

For a time, it became a household name in North America and even Europe.

Microsoft made a $3 billion offer, but the umbrella company did not immediately refuse, but remained silent for several days.

When Amazon's offer, Chen Fan was still able to make a decision and deny Amazon's acquisition.

But when Microsoft made a $3 billion offer, Chen Fan couldn't make a decision on his own.

To do this, he held a remote meeting in the United States.

The meeting was communicated in real time by the temporary chat group of WES and the transnational telephone, and the umbrella company did not install teleconferencing equipment, so the communication was mainly based on the text records in the WES group.

This time, only a small number of high-level personnel of the umbrella came to the United States, and the rest of the personnel were mainly personnel of the umbrella computer company, and there were also some technical personnel and financial personnel of the umbrella company, and many high-level personnel of the umbrella remained in China.

"There is a serious bubble in the new Internet economy, and there should be a certain consensus in the circle. Even North American economists and financial experts have some disagreements on where the new economy will go. From the stock market, there seems to be no end in the short term, but the bubble economy is always prone to collapse, and Microsoft should evaluate this accordingly. ”

Zhang Caiyun helped Chen Fan enter what he was going to say into the WES group, Chen Fan nodded, and she sent it out immediately.

Liu Wenhuan responded: "If Microsoft had easily blown up the Internet bubble, it would not have today's hegemony." ”

Chen Fan said: "Then guess what kind of considerations Microsoft chose to enter the Internet paid music market at such an opportunity? ”

Zhang Xiaorong said: "A behemoth with a market value of more than 400 billion, what is going on in his head, how can we guess? If you want me to guess, I guess $3 billion is a drop in the bucket for Microsoft, right? ”

In 99, the most turbulent moment of the new technology wave, Microsoft's market value in February has stood above $410 billion, and the highest in February reached 480 billion. Chen Fan also knows that by the end of '99, Microsoft's market value will exceed $600 billion -- this is still Microsoft's antitrust lawsuit, otherwise it seems effortless to break through $800 billion or $900 billion. Compared to Microsoft's astronomical market capitalization, $3 billion is really inconspicuous.

Chen Fan smiled, his gaze swept over Zhang Caiyun.

Zhang Caiyun sat in the seat with a serious face to help Chen Fan record, but her face secretly turned red.

Women always have a mysterious sixth sense, a natural sensitivity to the gaze that looks at them.

In fact, Zhang Caiyun has gradually become accustomed to the impact of Chen Fan's wealth, she is not a woman who really sees money, although her family is not wealthy, she also has a good family education.

After getting used to the impact of Chen Fan's wealth, the fact that Chen Fan is only 17 years old this year slowly came back to her mind.

When she first fell into Chen Fan's aura of wealth, Chen Fan didn't take the initiative to do something to her, and her sense of morality also made it impossible for her to take the initiative to do something to this 17-year-old little fresh meat.

Later, Zhang Caiyun calmed down, the treatment of the umbrella company satisfied her, and she didn't want to lose this satisfactory job because of doing something unethical.

But seeing Chen Fan seemingly tossing out a website at random, she was chased by Microsoft, the world's most valuable company, to acquire it for $3 billion, and she was still dizzy in her head.

Seeing the $3 billion takeover offer from Microsoft, Zhang Caiyun felt that her mind was blank for half a day!

$3 billion!

More than 24 billion RMB!

Zhang Caiyun couldn't figure out why this website that Chen Fan made casually couldn't figure out why it was so valuable?

Although Zhang Caiyun didn't dare to do anything out of the ordinary to Chen Fan, she occasionally thought: If Chen Fan did something "shameful" to her, she was afraid that it would be difficult for her to resist......

Chen Fan didn't notice that his little secretary had any "dirty" thoughts in his heart, otherwise he would immediately give her a large bag of strong decontamination powder.

He only felt that his little secretary had changed from the dissatisfaction and resistance when he first came to the very obedient appearance now, and he felt that his "leadership charm" had improved, and he was quite proud.

Chen Fan said: "Microsoft's entire product system is basically built on a closed application environment based on Microsoft's Windows operating system. Microsoft's commercial software can only run under the Windows system, such as Internet Explorer, Visual-Studio (Microsoft's integrated development tool), SQL-Server, and Office. At this time, they entered the Internet paid music market with no more than two intentions, either to use the market advantages of Windows to develop derivative products to make profits, or to develop new products to consolidate the strong position of the Windows operating system in the current market; It is unlikely that it will suddenly break through the original closed application environment and enter a new market area. ”

Zhang Xiaorong asked: "Are you judging that the Internet paid music market and Microsoft's monopoly on strengthening the Windows system will have a promoting effect?" ”

Zhang Ge replied: "There should be such a possibility. In the field of network audio, the MP3 format has occupied an absolutely strong position before. Although this audio format is not optimal, it is not so easy for anyone who wants to develop a new audio format to replace it. I think even if Microsoft wants to promote a new audio format, it will be quite difficult. ”

Zhang Caiyun had been helping Chen Fan enter the text, and at this time, her eyes lit up, and she reached out and covered her lips lightly. Only then did she fully understand what Chen Fan meant, her body swaying gently, and she felt a sense of satisfaction of being trusted.

She took her fingers to wrap the hair on her sideburns behind her ear, glanced at Chen Fan lightly, and continued typing while muttering, "You have robbed you of all the money......

of paying users is just over two million, and even though there is huge room for growth, Amazon's $900 million offer has already given a full premium, so it's no wonder that the Internet will not hesitate to reject Amazon's offer on the umbrella - in fact, this is also a confrontation of views on the valuation method of Internet technology companies, which is now extremely hot.

Imperial Alliance is not a small company, and their team of lawyers is not stupid, and they quickly expressed their willingness to settle after the situation with the RIAA turned around.

The riaa did not hold on to the Imperial League, and chose to reconcile with the Imperial League after paying a satisfactory price. But Ria is not a good person either, and as soon as he reconciled with the Imperial League, he turned his head and bared his fangs at the free music sharing sites on the Internet.

The riaa retaliated by taking 152 websites that share free music to court in one go, demanding that the sites be shut down and that they be compensated heavily!

These 152 sites that share free music account for almost one-tenth of the North American internet music-sharing sites!

For a time, there was a big mess in the Internet music sharing field in North America, and the defendants' websites were preparing to take countermeasures, and most of the music websites that were not sued in court also chose to close or transform themselves.

For a while, many companies announced that they were developing new audio formats that supported copyright protection, but at this time, there were no mature products coming out.

The riaa's frenzied revenge on North American music-sharing sites has made the development space even broader. In fact, at this time, the UMP format has the conditions to replace the strong position of MP3 on the Internet. Internet resources have always flowed from the paid field to the free field, and as long as it occupies the highest point of the global music website, it is not unimaginable that the ump format dominates the entire Internet field.

No wonder there is a lot of speculation on the Internet about Umbrella's rejection of Amazon's $900 million offer, but Microsoft unexpectedly offers $3 billion!

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Curiously, the stocks of all Internet companies on the NASDAQ won a big rally on the day Microsoft made an offer.

What's even more strange is that the stocks of the Internet concept in the domestic A-share market collectively blocked the daily limit on the day Microsoft made an offer!

However, after a few days of enjoying the thrill of swiping the screen on the North American Internet and even the mainstream media, Umbrella Computer (an American company) still ruthlessly rejected Microsoft's acquisition request.

This time, the North American audience said that we were very calm......

Umbrella Computer (an American company) made an announcement about this.

"Websites are not for sale."

North American audience: We already know.

"We are very optimistic about the future of the website, and we will do a good job and strive to become the best genuine music seller."

North American viewers: Well, you guys won!

"The website will not be sold in its entirety, but other capital investments are welcome."

North American audience: Your stock is so expensive, who will invest in you?

Numerous Venture Capitalists: ......

While others are still on the sidelines, they have just rejected Microsoft's umbrella and announced that it will become an independent company with a registered capital of $50 million, while at the same time transferring a 40% stake to the big four music distribution companies at an estimated price of $1 billion.

The umbrella got $400 million in money in an instant!