Chapter 1541 Magician
"Daqian, this is killing people and killing people. He is going to destroy our office business!!" Many people said in anger.
The Office business accounts for about 12.2% of Microsoft's total profits, and is an important business that Microsoft must never lose.
The strength of this WPS is almost as good as Microsoft's office. It can be imagined that when free WPS appears, all manufacturers who have purchased office may not renew the next year and will switch to free WPS. After all, there are not many state-owned enterprises in the United States, so why can they save money?
This Daqian launched an office software like WPS, but it actually puts forward a free policy. It is obviously not intended to make money. It just wants to disgust Microsoft to retaliate against Microsoft's restrictions on QQ.
But even if they know this, the directors at the meeting had no choice. After all, they could stop others from using free things?
"Can we limit this WPS like we used to limit QQ!" A director asked for advice and thought that since Microsoft can use patches to limit QQ, it can also use patches to limit WPS.
Bill Gates seemed to be quite interested. Anyway, one ban is ban, and two bans are also bans, which seems to be no big deal.
"No, no!" Microsoft's important political support, former New York Governor Camede said immediately.
"Why?" Bill Gates asked with a frown?
"Chairman, do you want the antitrust investigation to start immediately?" Camede quickly said, "The antitrust lawsuit initiated by Daqian has consumed a lot of my energy, and I have barely let the court use the excuse of insufficient evidence to suppress it first."
"But if WPS is banned this time, it will probably take less than a week and the antitrust investigation will officially begin!"
"Not it!" Bill Gates said in disbelief, "There is 1 and 2. Since the QQ matter is over, why can't WPS do it?"
"Because QQ does not infringe on the interests of the company, but WPS infringes on it!" Camede said helplessly, "Mr. Chairman, QQ is just an instant messaging software used by individuals. Even if it is banned, it is no big deal. The number of people will cause problems for individual users."
"But more than 80% of the genuine users of office software are enterprises. Now that you ban the WPS they can use for free, they will inevitably feel that their legitimate rights have been violated. Microsoft shamelessly uses its monopoly rights to eliminate competitors for economic benefits, so that it can continuously charge authorization fees from them, thereby accumulating a lot of dissatisfaction with Microsoft."
"I'm afraid that as long as Daqian launches an anti-monopoly investigation again, many American companies will respond. If we want to use means to delay the investigation, it will be completely impossible!" Camede said.
"..." Bill Gates was silent. He was not stupid, so he quickly understood that what Camad was right.
The competition between QQ and MSN is not very obvious. Microsoft said that QQ will cause damage to system security and many people believe it. However, Microsoft banned WPS because of this, which is quite obvious. Fools will understand that Microsoft is using its monopoly to eliminate competitors in order not to lose the interests of office and to use its own monopoly.
At that time, companies and users around the world will probably support Daqian’s free WPS, and Microsoft will become the leader of thousands of people.
"Thank you, Mr. Camede, for reminding me, I almost made a mistake!" Bill Gates quickly thanked, and Camede also smiled and said that this was what he should say.
"In this way, won't we just watch Daqian take away our market and our profits?" A director said angrily, "Mr. Camede, how should we deal with Daqian?"
"This..." Camede's expression turned dark, and then he smiled bitterly, "I only talk about the pros and cons. As for the method, I don't care about my business. Please consider it yourself!"
"..." Everyone was speechless by Camad's words, but they were asked to find a way, but they couldn't think of it for a while.
"Chairman, I have something next to you that I don't know whether to say it or not!" Suddenly, a director spoke.
"Oh! Our Mr. Magician actually spoke, please speak!" Seeing the director talking, Bill Gates immediately laughed.
Because this director who spoke is the famous magician Mr. Harry Potter.
Well, the magician is just a joke about Harry Potter. After all, Harry Potter is now famous all over the world. At the same time, the first movie "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" swept the global market with a final box office of 1.2 billion US dollars. If no dark horse emerged in the movies in November and December, it would basically lock in the 1998 global movie box office rankings.
Then, Harry Potter, general manager of the United States Priority Foundation, who has the same name as the protagonist Harry Potter, naturally got the nickname Magician.
In fact, this is not just a nickname obtained because of the same name. In everyone's eyes, the general manager of Harry Potter in reality is definitely worthy of the title of magician.
After all, his US Priority Foundation, under the leadership of Harry Potter, has invested in more than 20 companies, and the stocks of these companies have all soared.
Someone has done statistics. As of 1998, the stock price purchased by the US Priority Foundation has increased by 16 times in total than the price they bought. It is the king of investment funds. The current total assets have reached the level of US$168 billion, and they are qualified to enter the top 10 investment funds.
It is estimated that SoftBank Fund before 2018 can be comparable to the US Priority Foundation in terms of investment results.
Later, a small rule was even formed in the market, that is, any stocks purchased by the United States Priority Foundation will inevitably rise sharply in the next month.
On the contrary, the stocks sold by the US Priority Foundation will also fall sharply.
Because countless people will stare at the operations of the US Priority Foundation and then follow them to operate together.
Although their wisdom may not be as smart as Harry Potter, can they still follow the same example?
Of course, some people say that this is a very dangerous behavior. For example, those who followed Soros now basically have completely lost all their money. This is the consequence of learning from the same thing. After all, as long as they are humans, they will eventually make mistakes.
However, this rule should not disappear until the US Priority Foundation really makes a mistake.
Chapter completed!