Chapter 1045 The Last Big Killer

One second ★Small △ said § Net], wonderful novels are free to read without pop-ups!

When Li Mu came to the United States, he hit a series of combo punches.

The most direct result of this combination of punches is the sharp rise in the number of users of "Paradise Town" in the United States.

Driven by two tens of millions of dollars in prize money, "Paradise Town" couldn't stop as if it had wings, which made the entire Microsoft MSN Division tremble.

&nbsbs has four core business segments at this stage: MSN Portal, MSN Network Access, MSN-Messenger and MSN-Hotmail.

&nbsbsbs-Messenger is the MSN software used for instant messaging. In addition, MSN Portal and MSN Mailbox are also important business segments of MSN, with over 100 million users.

Among them, the most feared is naturally MSN-Messenger, which has the same positioning, but the overall level is different from the instant messaging software of several eras.

In their eyes, "Paradise Town" is like the launcher of this nuclear bomb. Every time its users increase, the angle of the launcher is closer to vertical. Once the angle enters the ideal launch state of 90 degrees vertical, this A nuclear bomb will be ruthlessly released by Li Mu.

Microsoft is very clear up and down, once the use of "Paradise Town" to achieve the perfect debut in front of the US netizens, MSN will suffer a disaster.

&nbsbsbs, at the product level, it has been thrown away for several eras. Although the latest version has been quietly developed, and a lot of unique functions have been copied in the latest version, it still lacks Li Mu's deep understanding of the future Internet, so even if It is a new version developed, and the overall is still much weaker.

This is also easy to understand. For a long time, domestic car manufacturers have had a huge gap in strength compared with those in developed countries. Even if there are so many successful overseas models for reference, domestic cars are still in the engine, chassis and transmission. There is a gap between the car and other aspects of the developed countries, which is an objective fact of the technological gap.

Although Microsoft's overall strength is strong, it is not an omnipotent company in the Internet industry. MSN has always been a bad product in Li Mu's eyes in his last life, which shows that Microsoft does not really have the genes for social communication software.

Therefore, even if Microsoft wants to imitate Li Mu in this life, it should not have this gene or not, this is his irreparable defect.

Behind many of the user-friendly functions, there are Muye Technology's own technical patent barriers, how to solve the user's chat record roaming, offline files, how to support group chat, and how to solve the sending and receiving of group messages and storage logic, how to develop more advanced Streaming media transmission technology, and the realization of nesting in the software, etc., are all problems that Microsoft MSN needs to solve one by one.

In addition, only in terms of design aesthetics and interface friendliness, Microsoft cannot match Makino Technology.

Design aesthetics requires long-term precipitation to form its own set of things. It is difficult to form its own style simply by imitation and plagiarism. This is very evident in the automotive industry.

In the next decade or so, even if domestic cars have so many successful overseas models for reference, it will still be difficult to produce several truly original and really good-looking models. The reason is the lack of design aesthetics.

Of course, there is no need to mention a series of products that are 100% copied by Zhongti tape measure department. However, Zhongti can do such a thing, but Microsoft will definitely not.

&nbsbsbs The latest version being developed internally is still more than one era behind in terms of design aesthetics.

And this new version of MSN, which is still more than an era behind, has not yet completed development, and effective solutions have not yet been found for several functions. According to the plan, this product will have to wait at least two more months for testing, and then After the test is correct, it will be released to the public.

&nbsbsbs' team leader can't wait.

Once "Paradise Town" starts to guide the stream, the first one is MSN-Messenger. It is foreseeable that by that time, almost all players of "Paradise Town" will give up MSN and switch to the arms of the first time.

&nbsbsbs mailbox itself integrates the mailbox function, and the user experience is much stronger than MSN-Messenger and MSN mailbox. If users give up MSN-Messenger and choose, it is certain that users will give up MSN mailbox.

The only thing fortunate is that the portal has not been launched in English for the time being, otherwise even the MSN portal will be impacted by that time.

&nbsbsbs team, in the eyes of MSN's number one enemy, in order to prevent the sudden use of "Paradise Town" to encroach on the entire US market, the head of the MSN business unit, one of the vice presidents of Microsoft Group Luis Ma Luis May held an emergency meeting , decided to launch the new version of MSN ahead of schedule, and the sooner the better.

Louis May's request made everyone feel inexplicably nervous.

The person in charge of the development team said: "The new version of MSN is still in the development process, and its early launch means that it must stop development immediately, remove all undeveloped sections, and then package the completed parts for testing. , even if we pack it today, the test will take days to run.”

Louis May asked: "How long will it take? Give me a clear time point!"

The head of the development team frowned and thought for a moment, then said, "It will take about five days."

Louis May nodded and said, "Five days can wait, you can do as soon as possible."

The person in charge of the development team added: "We still have a lot of features that have not been developed yet. If we launch it in such a hurry, our new version will not improve much on the basis of the old version."

Louis May asked him: "What are the features that have been developed now?"

"The only functions that have been developed at this stage are: custom grouping of friends, custom notes, and group chat. Other needs have not yet been resolved."

Louis May said decisively: "There is no choice, we must update our products before the full launch, the current situation is not for us to slowly build a comparable product, but requires us to attack in an all-round way. Before, we tried every means to resist the impact of the other party, so even if there is only one new function to be developed at this stage, it must be launched as soon as possible, otherwise, once we move first, we will be powerless."

&nbsbsbs-Messenger is like a fortification. Before the landing battle, what Microsoft has to do is to do its best to improve the defense capability of this fortification. Even if there are only a few more machine guns, it must be deployed as soon as possible, otherwise once the landing is successful, it will be destroyed. If it completely destroys the defenses of Microsoft MSN, it will be too late for MSN to upgrade.

The staff operating &nbsbsbs-Messenger smacked their lips and said, "There are only a few new functions developed so far, and we are still too weak in front of us."

"Weak can't do it!" Louis May blurted out: "We are running out of time, Li Mu invested so much money in "Paradise Town", the fundamental purpose is to push it to the eyes of netizens across the United States, we must as soon as possible By upgrading the product, there is still a chance to retain some users!”

Having said that, Louis May added: "We are now advancing in two directions, one is to upgrade the product as soon as possible, and the other is to continue to develop product functions in depth, and the speed must be accelerated, we are now like sending ammunition to the front line. , don't collect all the guns and ammunition and send them together, so once the enemy starts a war, our front line may be leveled by the enemy before our guns and ammunition are delivered. We have to adopt a strategy of rapid delivery. , from now on, update the first version as soon as possible, and after the first version is updated, once new functions are developed, the second version will be updated immediately!"

...

After the "Paradise Town - Thanksgiving Global Competition" event was launched, the enthusiasm of capital for Muye Technology increased a little bit, so that the Silicon Valley branch of Muye Technology received a large number of venture capital company employees every day, but the official website of Muye Technology The reception was also very perfunctory. All the VC employees who came to the door could at most have a glass of water in Muye Technology, and their requests to meet with Li Mu or Lin Qingya were ruthlessly rejected by the company's executives.

Among them, Sequoia is the most urgent.

A few days ago, Sequoia learned from Larry Page that Li Mu would reopen the financing negotiation window after Muye Technology's next actions were completed. This time, "Paradise Town - Thanksgiving Global Competition" Let them think that this is the "next action" Li Mu said, so they thought that Li Mu would soon open the window for financing negotiations. Sk has become a lobbyist for Sequoia, hoping to help Sequoia and Li Mu make an appointment for a meeting.

However, Li Mu did not give Elon Musk extra face, he just told Elon Musk that the opportunity to negotiate has not yet come.

This makes Sequoia even more nervous, and the opportunity to negotiate has not yet come? Could it be that there are other actions behind Li Mu?

In the end, as a last resort, Sequoia headquarters asked the people of Sequoia Huaxia to directly contact Ding Zhenglin, who is in charge of capital operation of Muye Technology. Ding Zhenglin himself is from Sequoia, and he still has some old feelings. Let him make another appointment with Li Mu, even if we don’t talk about financing first. It's okay to have only one meeting opportunity.

Ding Zhenglin didn't think about Sequoia's old love, he replied coldly with the words Sequoia Huaxia: "Let's not talk about it for the time being."

Li Mu's attitude is very straightforward: I will not talk to you about financing now, even if you ask the US president to lobby.

Because Li Mu still had one last big killer that he didn't use, he made a series of moves in "Paradise Town", and now, it was his turn to release the latest version.

The development department of &nbsbsbs is making every effort to prepare the latest version of the update. Compared with the original plan, this version is just a castrated version. However, in the eyes of the MSN team, even the castrated version is better than nothing. You can't be caught off guard by Muye Technology all of a sudden...