Chapter 1553: Linked to Each Other and Complementary to Each Other

Bill Gates is not so short-sighted.

What he saw was not such a sales success of Microsoft systems.

What he looks forward to is overall prosperity. Only in this way can he achieve greater victory.

So when WIN84 was selling like hotcakes and gaining a lot of reputation, Bill Gates urgently held a board meeting and promoted a cooperation treaty.

This cooperation is for Kirin Computer Company.

Yin Jun is the boss of Kirin Computer, but because when he purchased the shares, he automatically gave up half of his voting rights to Bill Gates and Paul Allen, so his voting rights are actually only 25%, while Bill Gates has more than 25%. 40%.

It stands to reason that the shares of these two people have exceeded an absolute majority of two-thirds. It is normal to promote the company's articles of association and treaties, and there is no need to hold a meeting to discuss it.

But Bill Gates is not so arbitrary. He is very good at communicating with the board of directors, technology and operations departments, and never acts alone.

Especially this time, when Microsoft's WIN84 sales momentum was so good and received unanimous praise, Bill Gates actually asked to pass a bill to sell WIN84 to Kirin Computer Company at a stepped price.

Kirin Computer guarantees that every computer sold will have Microsoft's WIN84 system pre-installed.

Less than 200,000 units are sold every year, and the price is US$600.

Sold for 200,000-500,000, the price is 400 US dollars.

If 1 million units are sold, the price will drop sharply to US$200 per set! !

Good guy!

Although the recording of software CDs is not valuable, and the millions and tens of millions of them are totaled, it is less than 0.5 US dollars, but the cost of knowledge contained in it, as well as the subsequent R&D and maintenance funds, must be paid internally.

So Microsoft has every reason to sell at a high price.

Especially when they are leading the market, by a long shot.

If a set is sold to Kirin Computer for US$200, then Kirin Computer will make a fortune!

A machine equipped with Microsoft Windows system will generate at least US$500 more profit.

If they sell 1 million units, that's a net profit of US$500 million!

The most important thing is that this profit was given to them by Microsoft in vain. Do you think it makes sense to put such a thing on Microsoft's shareholders and company personnel?

At first everyone was firmly against it.

Even if you, Yin Jun, are the largest shareholder, you can't treat one with favoritism!

Therefore, Bill Gates could only make the decision to make this big sale after holding a meeting to discuss and clarify the interests.

The basic point of the decision is that this price reduction only involves the WIN84 system. If Microsoft develops a new generation of software, the agreement will not continue and the price reduction will not exist.

And a very important point is that the extent of the price reduction is linked to Kirin Computer's sales performance.

The more computers sold, the more people will use computers equipped with Microsoft systems, and the greater Microsoft's influence will be, which will greatly affect the choice of this group of people when they buy a computer next time.

Generally speaking, as long as Microsoft continues to make progress, these users will eventually become staunch supporters of Microsoft.

Giving profits to Kirin Computer means helping Microsoft open up the market, allowing more people to join in using new smart computers, and letting them join the ranks of using Microsoft Windows systems.

These two points are the most important foundations, and they are also the fundamental reasons why Bill Gates' plan was finally approved and approved by everyone.

Microsoft's heavily discounted operating system is of course beneficial to the sales of Kirin computers.

Today's computer is far from being a mass product in the future. It is still a high-tech product.

IBM computers with the best performance are very expensive, with low configurations costing around US$3,000 and high configurations costing US$3,500 or even US$4,000.

Including Microsoft's operating system sales, the cheapest one costs about 3,800 US dollars, and the expensive one costs 5,000 US dollars.

If Kirin Computer can lower the price by three hundred or five hundred, it will save a lot of money for Americans.

But the problem is another.

No matter how good Kirin Computer's sales are, it relies on IBM to get where it is today.

IBM's production lines are limited, and they do not only have one dealer, Kirin Computer. Therefore, although the Kirin Computer sales network has expanded greatly, relatively speaking, the sales capacity of the network has never been saturated.

There is no other way. We can only grab so many computers every month and we can only sell so many.

IBM also has a sales exclusivity agreement.

If you sell computers from other companies, you are no longer allowed to buy from IBM!

This has blocked the access of many dealers and put Kirin Computer in a dilemma.

Of course, those who feel the dilemma are only the middle and lower-level employees, while the senior people have already begun to prepare to create their own computer brands and launch their own assembled computers.

In the secret laboratory, various assembly and performance debugging have long been mature.

The hundreds of engineering machines that were pieced together have already been subjected to very strict tests, and the performance of the original IBM has increased from 70% to about 80%.

After signing the contract with Microsoft, with such a large profit, the senior management of Kirin Computer made up their mind to officially launch the computer assembly plan.

Lists of various parts and components were immediately sent to various manufacturers.

The first batch of orders involved 1 million computers.

It's not that Kirin Computer is too arrogant, but that they have been in this market for more than half a year. As a pioneer in selling computers, they already have a great advantage.

Moreover, this booming market is too huge. Boss Yin Jundu predicts that the number of computers in the world will exceed 1 billion. Even if there are not that many, based on the total capacity of 100 million, these 1 million computers are nothing. ?

In the United States, the most developed country in the world with a population of 300 million, if Kirin Computer cannot even sell 1 million computers, what ambitions does it have?

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As everyone knows, the thoughts of Kirin Computer's executives are exactly what Bill Gates and Microsoft want to see.

They have paid so much just to see the computer market expand step by step and become popular all over the world!

However, Bill Gates is still not cunning enough and does not have too far-sighted thinking.

In his view, with the development of computers, as long as there are sufficiently high-quality computer hardware configurations and Microsoft software support, many interesting programs will appear.

Whether it is work or entertainment, if excellent programs continue to appear, more and more people will be attracted to use computers.

This is also the most important factor for Microsoft and Kirin Computer to reach a strategic partnership.

With Bill Gates's personality, this licensing price is really a bargain. If it weren't for the overwhelming sales of WIN84, he wouldn't be able to convince him that the losses could be recovered elsewhere.

Of course he had good intentions.

But it's not enough.

Because computers and mobile phones have the same development trajectory.

What made computers advance rapidly and achieve a qualitative leap was when computers were connected to the Internet.

Just like when mobile phones became smart phones and the world was connected by mobile phones, the types and speed of development were astonishing.

In today's 1984, computers can of course be connected to the Internet, but not only the network speed is slow, but also the Internet has to be dialed up by telephone, which is very inconvenient.

Unless it is very necessary, 80% of today's computers are running on a single machine.

As a result, the computer's functions are greatly wasted.

Therefore, while the number of computers continues to increase, Yin Jun must also speed up the construction of network speeds.

Kylin Network's multi-protocol routers, switches, fiber optic transmission, network transmission, etc. have already established a framework.

Multi-protocol routers have even entered practical use.

Although there is no global network now, several universities, high schools, and several companies in a city have begun to try to connect to the Internet through this multi-protocol router.

Involving the entire networking of thousands of computers, it is a very delicate and complex project, which is also a test for the laboratory.

However, since the Posaks, who know the most about multi-protocol routers, presided over the test, the problem was not that big.

If there are no surprises, the second phase of testing can begin in the first half of this year.

The entire city of Boston, where Stanford University is located, will use this multi-protocol router.

As long as a city's network can be connected well, then New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, etc. will be able to connect to the network in the same way.

Network connections, bringing users all over the world into one network, are only one aspect of success.

Another success factor is network speed.

Simply put, it is the network transmission speed.

At least for now, network transmission speed is the most important.

As for the later server carrying capacity, that will all happen later.

There are no large-capacity and demanding online games such as Warcraft, so there is no need to worry so much about carrying capacity.

If you want people to prefer using computers in addition to work, then you must let them fly in the online world.

There was a word in the 1990s that vividly expressed the meaning of surfing the Internet - surfing!

Surfing the Internet is just like surfing, you can stand on the cutting edge of the trend, and it is as exciting and interesting as surfing.

These all require network speed to ensure.

Without Internet speed, just relying on current dial-up Internet access, it takes a minute or two to open a web page, and pictures often cannot be opened... With such a network, it is easy for anyone who is impatient to give up.

Yin Jun worked hard on optical fiber signal transmission.

Let optical fiber lines carry these transmissions faster and higher, thereby increasing the speed of network access and outflow, and finally giving people a good online experience.

With Yin Jun's guidance in the right direction, experts in charge of this field are also constantly studying optical fiber transmission technology and discussing how to improve the carrier capacity and how to maximize the performance of computers without wasting network signals.

But this cannot be done overnight.

If you want to increase the speed of optical fiber transmission and make the Internet smoother, it is impossible to do it without a year or two.

This is based on the fact that Yin Jun purchased a large number of patents and convened a large number of relevant industry experts.

If they were left to work on their own, they would be like Cisco in its previous life, which only started to make efforts in the mid-1990s to greatly improve network speeds.

For Yin Jun, ten years of waiting is really too long, and he cannot tolerate waiting for that long.

Even if it can't be achieved in one fell swoop, we should start from now on and continue to let people see progress. This is the right way to move forward!

Once the Internet becomes faster, the influx of people using computers will increase.

Once this market expands, more people will use Microsoft's Windows system.

Once more people use it, various talents will emerge, thus greatly enriching various applications.

In this way, the prosperity of the Internet will come.

The improvement of film special effects technology planned by Yin Jun is only one of the achievements achieved.

A more far-reaching impact is yet to come!

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