The continued hot sales of Alcatel mobile phones has indeed stimulated many people.

It has continuously set new sales records. Seven million mobile phones were sold out in less than half a month. The P3 was sold at a higher price on the eBay platform. Various scalpers made a lot of money by reselling the P3 mobile phone. There were even gangs who wanted to grab it.

There are endless news that more and more machines are becoming popular.

Not only the machine, but also "small" games such as "Happy Xiaoxiaole" have exploded in popularity. The number of users has exceeded four million, and the revenue has exceeded five million US dollars. It only took a few days to attract money.

Amazing.

The performance of P3 mobile phones not only makes major mobile phone manufacturers fearful, but brands such as Nokia also want to develop their own operating systems to compete with Symbian and suppress Alcatel mobile phones. They have always wanted to flex their muscles in the mobile phone system industry.

Microsoft is also a little restless.

"The British company Sendo has already stated its attitude that next quarter, after the agreement period ends, it will switch to the Symbian system. WP's share of the mobile phone system will further decline!"

In Bill Gates' office, listening to Terry Meyerson, the head of WP system, crying and looking at the sales of mobile phones equipped with WP operating system, he couldn't help but have a headache.

In the past few years, it seems that Microsoft has been at its peak. Revenue, stock price and market value have all reached record highs. However, for Bill Gates and Microsoft, life is not as good as the outside world.

Not to mention the antitrust lawsuit, it is now in a stalemate. Microsoft is working on public relations in one state after another. It seems that there is no hope of ending this lawsuit. This is like the sword of Damocles hanging over Microsoft's head. I don't know why.

Time will fall!

Microsoft's entry into the Internet industry also went through a hard battle, and even now, it doesn't know whether to say it won or not.

Netscape, which wanted to compete with Microsoft, has completely come to an end. Microsoft has become the dominant player in the browser industry. But the embarrassing part is that after gaining the browser industry, Microsoft suddenly found that it drew its sword and looked around at a loss. The Internet

New giants have already emerged in the industry.

Several major Internet giants, led by ICQ, AOL, and Yahoo, have firmly occupied social networking, portals, search and other industries. Microsoft has the IE browser with a market share of more than 95%, but it has only raised another one that is also unprofitable.

Apart from the MSN portal, it has no other function.

In any case, Microsoft has taken a ride on the Internet and has not been left behind.

But the mobile phone industry, just like when Microsoft first entered the Internet industry, got up early and rushed to work late. The WP system was originally developed together with Symbian. What was the result?

Looking at the current mobile phones equipped with WP system in his hands, which accounts for less than 2% of the entire mobile phone operating system market, Bill Gates couldn't help but feel tired.

"There is definitely a market for mobile phone systems. The advertising revenue of the Symbian system in the new quarter is said to have exceeded US$400 million, and there is also software sharing!

Analysts on Wall Street and the game industry estimate that the revenue of "Happy Xiaoxiaole" this year may hit a record of more than 100 million U.S. dollars. The Symbian system relies on software and game sharing, and its revenue this year may exceed 3 billion U.S. dollars.

US dollars, the fees allocated to developers will also reach one billion US dollars, and there may be more than 200,000 or more software developers joining the Symbian System Alliance in the future!"

Terry Myerson worked hard to convince Bill Gates, telling him that mobile phone operating systems have great potential, and even if they are far from as profitable as computer operating systems, there will definitely be money to be made in the future.

Bill Gates looked at Terry Meyerson in front of him, and naturally knew what he meant. He wanted Microsoft to invest more resources and funds in WP system, and even did not hesitate to have another mobile phone battle with Alcatel mobile phone.

The operating system war of the century!

But this time, Bill Gates did not respond immediately to Terry Meyerson, and was obviously hesitant.

"Before developing the WP system, I personally approached Nokia President Ollila, but he rejected Microsoft. He would rather cooperate with Symbian than join the WP camp, even if Microsoft licenses the system to Nokia for free!"

Speaking of this, Bill Gates was obviously dissatisfied with Ollila. Ollila was afraid that the mobile operating system would be dominated by Microsoft like the computer system, leaving Nokia under the control of Microsoft, and rejected Bill Gates' proposal.

alliance.

As a result, Nokia failed to make WP cheaper, and was still choked by Symbian.

"Microsoft now needs to cooperate with Bruno Song. Microsoft's Xbox console has now sold more than one million. Xbox console OEMs and games are inseparable from Xueleshan Games!"

Bill Gates bluntly told Terry Meyerson that it was impossible to expect Microsoft to completely fall out with Song Yang and have a battle with Song Yang in the mobile operating system. Even Microsoft could not afford such a price.

!

Now Microsoft and the company owned by Song Yang have a lot of cooperation. Microsoft game consoles are completely OEMed by Sega and bear the Microsoft label. Almost all the games on the Microsoft Xbox game console are supplied by Xueleshan.

In addition to the host business, as for the Internet business, Hotmail mailboxes are jointly owned by Microsoft and the North American Global Investment Foundation. Song Yang is Microsoft's biggest ally in the Internet. Falling out with Song Yang means that Microsoft is about to start again in the Internet industry.

They are fighting alone, not to mention that they are still facing an antitrust lawsuit. To be honest, Microsoft has many more mortal enemies than Alcatel mobile phones!

"Perhaps, now we can contact Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson and other manufacturers. If we rejected Microsoft's proposal back then, we may not reject Microsoft's cooperation now!"

Terry Myerson said unwillingly that in the past few years, he has tried his best to attract more mobile phone manufacturers to join the WP system camp, spending money to let Samsung, Japan's Mitsubishi, Sony and other mobile phone manufacturers produce mobile phones equipped with WP

Mobile phones using the system were sold, but the sales were dismal and users did not recognize the WP system, leaving Terry Meyerson somewhat helpless.

Now, with great difficulty, news has spread that Nokia and other manufacturers are dissatisfied with Alcatel mobile phones and Symbian systems. Terry Meyerson naturally does not want to give up. If he can bring Nokia, Motorola, etc. into the WP system camp, Terry

·Myerson feels that the mobile operating system industry may be revolutionized!

Looking at Terry Meyerson's expression, Bill Gates finally nodded slowly and gave up on the mobile operating system. Both he and Microsoft were a little reluctant.

"The Microsoft board of directors will give another funding to the WP operating system department. You can find mobile phone manufacturers such as Nokia, Motorola, and Ericsson. Microsoft is willing to cooperate with them. If necessary, it can open source codes such as mobile phone text messages to them."

Hearing what Bill Gates said, Terry Myerson was overjoyed. With Bill Gates' support, he felt that the WP system could compete with the Symbian system again!

After the success of P3, the entire mobile phone industry has a feeling of undercurrent. Alcatel mobile phones and Symbian system are vaguely becoming the "big devil" of the mobile phone industry. Countless mobile phone manufacturers want to defeat the big devil to prove themselves.

Song Yang also heard about Nokia and Microsoft's small moves in the mobile phone industry, but he didn't take them too seriously.

During this period, his thoughts were mainly focused on the simmering Internet industry. Besides, whether Nokia can develop its own mobile phone operating system or cooperate with Microsoft, Alcatel mobile phones cannot stop it. However, even if they

With cooperation, you don’t need to worry too much about Alcatel phones.

As long as the minds are not on the same page, they may make some big moves at first, but with the same domineering style of the two companies, they will definitely make trouble on their own as time goes by. It was not like Nokia and Microsoft did not do this in their previous lives.

I have cooperated, but the result is that I am not a fool, I have killed myself.

Ever since attending the Alcatel mobile phone conference, Google's two founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, have been waiting for ICQ's venture capital or acquisition call, and even the entire Google has made preparations.

Preparation for selling oneself.

But after waiting for more than half a month, when the day lilies were almost cold, Google did not wait for the acquisition call from ICQ. It was as if the business card Irene gave them on the day of the press conference was just a flash in the pan. In the meantime, Google received other

The company made a tentative offer, but ICQ made no move. Other venture capital companies are also waiting and watching, unwilling to make a move easily.

"I heard that there have been some changes in ICQ's internal management. The dispute between Eileen Doherty and Edgar Bronfman Jr. is very fierce. ICQ may not acquire Google, even if Eileen Doherty has this idea!

"

In Google's small office, Khosla, one of KPCB's venture capital partners, mentioned the information he had found to Page and Brin. Khosla also supported the establishment of Google a lot. He had previously wanted to facilitate the establishment of Google.

The person who Excite acquired Google, KPCB Ventures, also invested in Excite, but Khosla’s proposal was rejected by Excite’s president.

After hearing the news from Khosla, Larry Page and Sergey Brin felt helpless. They did not expect that problems could occur within ICQ.

At this moment, the phone on the table suddenly rang. After Larry Page answered the phone, he couldn't help but look surprised when he heard the person on the other end reported his identity!

(End of chapter)


Chapter completed!