Chapter 1385: Microsoft’s Plan

"Lianxiang Yinshan Software's office software has launched multilingual versions, almost no less than ours, and the price in each region is more than half of ours. How do you think we should deal with this situation?" Bill? Gates asked quietly.

"Even thinking about Yinshan Software Company, it seems that Feng is a shareholder, right? We should talk to Feng to avoid this kind of vicious competition. We should unite to raise the market barriers, divide the market at the same time, and have healthy competition. Only in this way can we ensure the greatest benefit Ah." said one director.

Paul Allen waved his hand angrily: "If it can be done so easily, what kind of board meeting is needed? Feng came the day before yesterday, but he didn't agree to cooperate with us. As a result, the market competition against us started yesterday. Let us be defenseless at all."

When he said this, Paul Allen also felt a little hot. When Feng Yu left the day before yesterday, he warned them that he would immediately compete with them for the market. But they began to think that it was just the Chinese market.

Although the Huaxia market is huge, its profits are at the lowest level, so they didn't pay much attention to it at first. As a result, some precautions could have been made in time, but they were ignored by themselves.

The director opened his mouth and said nothing. That's right, Feng was kicked out from Microsoft, and now he is the richest man in the world, so it's normal for him to be arrogant.

Coupled with Feng being so young, youth means that it is not easy to compromise and easy to be impulsive. For the sake of face, it is normal to burn money and fight.

In his opinion, isn't it true for all young people, and the richest man in the world is no exception.

Ballmer frowned and asked, "Even if Feng wants to compete with us, then we will compete. With our capital scale, are we still afraid of Yinshan Software Company?"

"Steve, do you know what you're talking about? Money, it's money. How much will our profit be reduced if we cut the selling price in half? And once we do that, it means our share price It will fall, and investors will distrust us!" Paul Allen angrily yelled.

"That's it. So, is there any good solution for Mr. Allen? Or you can persuade Lianxiang Yinshan to raise the price? Or you can let us double the price of the other party when the quality of the product is not as good as the other party's?" Can it still sell well? I need to remind you that you are in charge of our office software R&D department now!"

"What do you mean? You mean that the R&D department I lead is lagging behind? When I took over, that WPS has already surpassed us in some functions!"

Paul? Allen was furious. Ballmer was making groundless accusations against him. Did he think that being the president and CEO of Microsoft would be very powerful? Back then, he shouldn't have been given shares and allowed him to join the board of directors!

"Since WPS surpassed us when you took over, why has the gap not only not narrowed but widened after you took over for so long? I don't know what I'm talking about, but you don't know? Now Is it time to pay attention to the immediate price? Now we should pay more attention to how to retain users and ensure our market share.”

"Our office software is now the most used in the world. All other office software are compared with ours to make an evaluation. The advantage of this is that we have become the industry standard. Their other software companies, It all depends on our faces."

"Now? There is a product that is ahead of us in several functions, and none of them is weaker than us. What does this mean? It represents an upgrade of the industry standard, and we are not the ones who set this upgrade standard. ! This is the office software research and development department you lead, and this is what you have been doing for the past few years!"

"You have your own company, but you want all kinds of power from Microsoft. Are you really responsible? You put more energy on your own company. Now that this happens to Microsoft, you have to take responsibility. Great responsibility!"

Ballmer's remarks shocked the other directors.

This is clearly tearing his face, asking Paul Allen to give up his power.

Ballmer is already president and CEO, what else does he want to do? That's right, Ballmer, the top executive, can't command the department under Paul's management at all. In addition, the two have deep grievances. It's not too surprising that this happens.

It's just their surprise, this time, why didn't Bill interrupt Ballmer? Could it be that Ballmer's remarks were acquiesced by Bill?

Paul Allen also discovered the problem. This time, no one supported him, and everyone looked at him with complaints and criticisms, including Bill Gates.

However, Paul Allen absolutely does not want to hand over power. The easiest way now is to divert the topic, or divert other people's attention.

"Okay, then according to what you said, what should we do now? Cut the price by half, and we can grab the market back? If you cut the price, won't the other party lower the price? Look at the selling price in the Huaxia market, and you will know that even Xiangyin How low is Mountain Software’s cost.”

"No, at least in the English-speaking market, we have an advantage. Although the cost of their Chinese engineers is lower, the native language of those engineers is Chinese. And the other language versions they release are all in cooperation with some companies. It also means that they have to give up profits to each other, thus raising their costs."

"We are different. We have our own branches in many countries and have recruited many employees. Many of our versions are translated by ourselves. Our cost in this regard is lower. Maybe we are not rivals in the Chinese market. But in other countries, we still have an advantage."

Before Ballmer finished speaking, a director suddenly said: "Who said that in the Chinese market, we will definitely lose?"

Everyone looked at the director. The situation was so clear, could there be another turning point?

"What do you think will happen if we no longer protect against piracy and don't require activation codes?"

Everyone was shocked. In this situation, piracy is rampant, so that there is no market for genuine copies. Wait a minute, what does he mean, steal the market with bootlegs, like they did?

But this is a way of harming others and benefiting oneself?

"We don't need to update this version. Three years later, we will launch a new version. The current method is to make even Xiangyinshan have no profit and let them lose money. The investment they need to develop this software is not a small amount. ? If they can’t be sold, it will definitely hit them hard.”

"As for Microsoft, we lose two to three billion a year, which is nothing at all. As long as the market is still in our hands, we will have a steady stream of profits in the future!"

... (To be continued.)

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