Chapter 1401 Tonight Is Different From the Past

When the news that the Huaxia Trade Commission sued Microsoft for a monopoly and claimed 2.3 billion RMB was reported, the Huaxia Internet suddenly became heated.

"I'm not mistaken, when did our Huaxia become so strong that we dare to sue Microsoft?"

"Hey, what's new about this? How long has it been since the CCTV sued those foreign companies, and you forgot? Let me tell you, the leaders of this year are too tough!"

"I just work in IT. Microsoft was sued in many countries before, but we here in Huaxia didn't say anything at all. Now we finally made a move."

"You don't know, do you? I'm a lawyer. We didn't have an anti-monopoly law in China before. This is not the draft anti-monopoly law that was just passed a few days ago. There was no basis for suing others before. Now we can. "

"Hey, you said that upstairs, does it mean that this anti-monopoly law was created just to sue Microsoft?"

"Pfft~~~Then Microsoft is too honorable. In order to sue him, our country even came up with a special law!"

"Anyway, I support the country. Penalties like this ten or eight times a year are equivalent to generating income!"

"But that's Microsoft, can we win? And Microsoft just invested so much money in China, isn't it kind? Besides, it's a company from the United States."

"The traitor upstairs, the identification is complete!"

"What happened to the United States? What happened to Microsoft? Are we Huaxia afraid of them? If you can't do it, just do it. I can go to the battlefield at any time!"

...

Feng Yu browsed the forum. There were too many posts about suing Microsoft on the Internet. The vast majority of people expressed their support, while some expressed their indifference, and a very small number of people were speaking for Microsoft.

These people may be employees of Microsoft, or they may have made these remarks deliberately to gain attention, but their posts were quickly flooded.

Some of Huaxia's government staff were also watching the discussions among netizens on the Internet. Seeing such support from netizens, they felt much more at ease.

It seems that their worries before were unnecessary. People with a little sense should understand that this move is very beneficial to Huaxia.

Huaxia is very happy here, but Microsoft feels angry.

Originally, just after the EU was sentenced to lose the case, the island countries, South Korea and other countries jumped out and began to sue Microsoft, and did not accept any out-of-court settlement.

They were thinking about how to deal with these two countries, and Huaxia jumped out and started to sue them.

This is not over yet, and then an organization called the Eastern European Business Union also popped up, representing many Eastern European countries to file a monopoly accusation against Microsoft, and demanded that the ruling be made in accordance with the EU's ruling.

There are also some countries that have already negotiated out of court and are ready to sign the agreement, but they will not sign it now, demanding more and better conditions, otherwise they will continue to sue Microsoft.

They figured out that Microsoft would not be able to take care of multiple regions, so it would inevitably compromise quickly in some places. Otherwise, these countries and regions would sue Microsoft at the same time, and Microsoft would be exhausted and suffer a lot of losses.

Microsoft's bundled sales in the past few years have seen great results. The market share of their bundled products has been rising steadily. Now that they are not bundled, there is no major problem.

But if they can continue to bundle, they can continue to expand their market share and guarantee higher profits.

If it can't be bundled all at once, there will definitely be many users who choose products from other companies out of certain psychology.

Microsoft cannot guarantee that the products of other companies will not be useful, and those who dare to launch similar products have their own characteristics.

If they cannot be bundled, they will not be able to continue to maintain their advantages, and it is uncertain when the market share will drop, and the loss will be huge.

So Microsoft would rather go to court and lose money than get rid of these bundles.

...

"China and Eastern Europe have also started to sue us for monopoly. How should we deal with this matter?" Bill Gates asked in a deep voice.

"Our sales in China and Eastern Europe are not very good, especially in China. How low was the price of our Windows system at the beginning. Even so, many of them must have installed a pirated system. Are you embarrassed to sue us?"

"If someone uses a pirated version, it doesn't mean that others can't sue us. But this is a reminder to us, why can't we sue Huaxia for this? They use pirated versions, so we can claim compensation, right?" said a director.

"Claim, how to make a claim? How to determine whether someone else is using a genuine or pirated version? Will someone obediently turn on the computer and let us test it?"

"We can add a system patch. Through this patch, we can automatically check whether the system is genuine or a pirated version. If it is a pirated version, then we will give the other party a black screen, so that the other party has to buy the genuine one."

"Black screen? Is this a bit serious? This will make many potential customers feel bored with our brand. And if it delays some important things of the other party, they will claim compensation from us in turn. They can excuse that they don't know their Pretend to be a pirated version, so we will get into trouble again." Someone retorted.

"No, we can keep popping up reminders to remind the other party that they are using a pirated version, and not only can detect the system, but also detect whether our other Microsoft products are genuine. After an hour, we will give a black screen, and the black screen is not completely The black screen can be recovered by debugging the monitor, etc., which will not affect the use, but it will be very troublesome."

"I agree with this approach." Ballmer said.

In this way, not only can it stimulate the other party to replace the original version, but it can also detect how many pirate users there are, so as to negotiate with Huaxia and strive for an out-of-court settlement. Otherwise, you will sue your Huaxia team for insufficient protection of intellectual property rights, which has harmed the interests of our Microsoft.

Bill Gates thought for a while, then nodded: "This method is fine, how long will it take to make it?"

"It can be done by the end of this year at the latest." Paul Allen raised his chin with a proud expression on his face.

When you have no choice, the technical department led by me will come up with a solution, right? Hmph, how can Microsoft do without me!

...

"Hey, did you see that a Microsoft representative showed up, what did he say, they don't admit to this accusation at all? Shameless!"

"Hey, what did you say to provide customers with better choices, meaning that their products are the best? Pooh, Microsoft's office software is not as easy to use as Silver Mountain, what a bragging!"

"Ah? It's not an exaggeration upstairs, even thinking that Yinshan's is really easier to use than Microsoft's? That's Microsoft, the number one in the world, aren't you a fool?"

"What are you exaggerating? Bill Gates used to be the richest man in the world. Isn't he being squeezed out by our Huaxia President Feng now? Don't always look at things with old eyes. Our Huaxia's technology is developing rapidly. Today is no longer the same as before! "

... (To be continued.)