Chapter 1030: Feng Yu's Advantage

Ballmer dare not agree to such harsh conditions, but he knows that he can't talk about anything here, so he can only say goodbye to Feng Yu and fly back to the United States. This matter should be handed over to the board of directors, or to Bill decides.

Microsoft's monthly board meeting, all directors have arrived, except Feng Yu.

"Hmph, there are people who don't pay attention to the company's rules and regulations. I think the amount of equity reward deducted from him was less last year. This year, he should not be given any at all!" Paul Allen said angrily when he saw Feng Yu's vacant seat.

The directors of Microsoft, who don't know that Paul and Feng Yu are not at odds, especially after Feng Yu became the second richest man in the world after Bill, this conflict has deepened. If Paul hadn't cashed out Microsoft's stock back then, but had invested in other companies, the market value of Paul's shares would be more than 20 billion U.S. dollars now, and the gap with Feng Yu would not be that big.

But now, it seems that Paul has no chance of catching up with Feng Yu. Regarding Paul's words, all of them wisely pretended not to hear, and no one wanted to intervene in the battle between these two big men.

"Okay, Paul, I'm ready for a meeting. There are a few main topics today. One is that after our WIN98 operating system was launched, the response was good and the product sold very well. The impression that our system is insecure...the last major topic, the issue of co-development of GBOX."

"Co-develop what? Or don't do it, and if we want to do it, we, Microsoft, will do it ourselves!" Paul said loudly.

Cooperate with Feng Yu, what are you kidding, why can Feng Yu cooperate with Microsoft?

"Paul, I don't think it's a good idea for us to develop by ourselves. First, we have no experience in hardware development. I don't need to talk about the reasons for this. Second, Feng Yu has the corresponding advanced technology, which is very beneficial to the product. important……"

"Wait a minute, we don't have experience in hardware development, does Feng Yu have it? Besides, we can acquire an experienced company, our cash is very sufficient, that Ren Tiantian, I think it's good." Paul interrupted Bauer silent words.

This Ballmer, always facing Feng Yu, was really blind to agree with Bill to give him so many share rewards.

"Paul, don't forget that Feng Yu owns several consumer electronics production and sales companies, as well as the shares of Lianxiang Group. In this regard, he is indeed stronger than our Microsoft. Moreover, Rentiantang has no way to acquire it, but they offer a sky-high price. That The price, no one can afford," Ballmer explained.

"Paul, please be patient and listen to Steve finish the situation." Bill Gates said with some displeasure.

Paul snorted coldly,

He lowered his head to take a sip of water, but found that there was an original force drink on the table. Seeing this, he became even angrier. Even if there is no coffee, black tea is fine, even cola is fine, why use this force?

Programmers like to drink, give them a drink, why do we prepare this on the board? ! I'm dying of thirst and I won't drink this stuff!

Ballmer continued: "The current situation is that we can't acquire a good game machine manufacturing company. Sega has been proved that it is not an opponent of Sunny and Ren Tiantian at all. And Suny's game console will use free LINUX system, Rentiantang chose to cooperate with IBM."

"We are now faced with two choices. As Paul said, we can set up a subsidiary or department to develop and produce game consoles by ourselves, or we can choose to cooperate with Feng Yu."

"However, our weakness is very obvious. We don't have hardware development experience, and we don't know how long it will take to catch up with Suni and Rentiantian technically. It doesn't matter if it's one or two years, but if it's ten or eight years , how much money will we lose, and how much energy will be involved?"

"It's different to choose to cooperate with Feng. Feng has a company that develops game consoles. It is the largest manufacturer and seller of game consoles in China and has a certain reputation in Southeast Asia. Moreover, Feng's company has sufficient hardware development experience. How popular are the consumer electronics products they design, I don’t need to list the data with you, do I?”

"Feng also established a game development company. After acquiring two companies in South Korea, he quickly acquired a company in Xiangjiang, a company in Baodao, a company in Daoguo, a company in Huaxia, and our North American blasting company. After that, it will be the largest game development company in the world, with more than a thousand R&D personnel and several mature game development teams. Everyone knows how Sega’s Saturn failed back then? They are because they provided There are too few games, so consumers don’t like it. At that time, their technology was not much different from that of Soni and Ren Tiantian.”

"Feng can not only provide us with a lot of game copyrights, but also take back some copyrights, so that they will not be used by Soni and Ren Tiantian. And the games they develop in the future will only be read by our system. There are also important One point, the patented technology of DVD is in the hands of two groups. One is the DVD Forum, which promotes the Fengyu-Philips standard, which is also followed by more consumer electronics manufacturers, with a market share of 70%. The other is the DVD Alliance, which promotes the DVD+RAM standard, and the market share of this standard is only in the early twenties.”

"If we want to make a game console, we need to adopt DVD technology. CD technology has been proved to be completely backward and will be eliminated by the game storage market. As for the technology of the DVD Alliance, Sunny is one of the initiators. Will they authorize us? Even if it is given, the price will inevitably be very high, which will seriously increase the cost of our products. As for the better Fengyu-Philips standard, everyone knows that it is the standard implemented by Fengyu Company, and we also joined the DVD forum, but We didn't participate in the research and development, so we couldn't get preferential conditions. If we want to use this technology, we also have to pay the patent fee. We can do it ourselves, so how much will the patent fee of this technology take up? "

"So now our best way is to cooperate with Feng Yu."

"Why can't we use VCD technology?" Someone asked.

"Most of VCD's technologies and patents belong to Feng, um, more than 95%. And if we want to surpass Sony and Rentiantang in terms of products, we cannot use technologies that are behind them." Ballmer explained.

"If you say that, then we can only cooperate with Feng, then I agree to cooperate." A director said.

Another director was more cautious: "Steve, have you agreed on the conditions for Feng to cooperate with us?"

Ballmer looked at Bill Gates, and said to the other directors: "Feng's condition is that he wants an absolute controlling stake in the cooperative company!"

Paul almost jumped up and shouted, "That's impossible!"

Delusion, this is wishful thinking, this Feng Yu is too arrogant, to cooperate with Microsoft, and still want a controlling stake? Who does he think he is? !

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PS: At this time, there are less than 150 employees in Bakuxue.