Lin Feng wants to short-sell 'Microsoft', which is super exciting news.

Lin Feng is sniping at Microsoft. Is this a counterattack for Ballmer’s listing of China as a key anti-piracy area? So how many hands will Lin Feng short Microsoft?

The answer came quickly.

The total share capital of 'Microsoft' is 8.38 billion shares, and the current share price per share is 18.2 US dollars. The total market value is approximately / textfirst.com billion US dollars. Lin Feng directly shorted 100 million shares of 'Microsoft', and the current share price of 'Microsoft' is 18.2 US dollars.

US dollar, and Lam Feng has been short selling for a week. Today is February 26th, which is March 5th. Lam Feng will close his position. By then, for every US$1 drop in Microsoft's stock price, Lam Feng will earn US$100 million.

, for every US$1 increase, Lam Feng loses US$100 million.

This is an extremely shocking futures bet. Of course, this is by no means the largest futures bet. After all, there are bigger games on Wall Street. So many venture capital companies quietly went bankrupt, and financial giants sank. Most of them were

Because they played this kind of futures betting and misassessed the market conditions, bankruptcies occurred one after another, just because they played too much. Lin Feng's futures betting of only 100 million shares is really nothing. All

The total amount is only US$1.82 billion.

Compared to Lin Feng's assets, this is nothing at all. The reason why it is amazing is that Lin Feng directly made this matter clear. In the history of so many futures betting, no one has ever made it clear.

Everything. Because once you make it clear, the other party will do everything possible to go against you. If you want to sell short, the other party will raise its stock price. If you want to go long, the other party will sell short. This kind of thing is too easy to do.

Therefore, even if those financial giants want to attack a certain stock, they will never say so clearly like Lin Feng.

"Damn it! This guy is working against us with all his heart!" Ballmer's forehead was filled with veins.

Lin Feng told the outside world so arrogantly that he was short selling 'Microsoft'. This is a slap in the face of 'Microsoft' in front of the whole world. 'Microsoft' just announced three things and also launched 'vista'

'Vista' patch will be officially launched on March 1st. This is good news. If 'vista' solves the problem of high energy and low efficiency, it will once again bring huge benefits to 'Microsoft'.

Profit return. After all, after the launch of Microsoft's system, corresponding other supporting software will sell a lot of sets.

For example, 'office' is the most deceptive and deceptive office software in history. Every time the 'Microsoft' system is upgraded, 'office' will be upgraded, and every time it is upgraded, users have to spend money to purchase it. Of course, even if

If the system of 'Microsoft' is not upgraded, then every year 'Microsoft' will also launch corresponding upgraded versions. For example, 'office97', 'office98'...'office2003', etc.! And these 'office' software are actually really different.

Is it big?

For ordinary users, there is not much difference. Apart from a slight change in the interface, you cannot feel any other changes. And for this, you have to spend a lot of money to buy the genuine version. Therefore.'vista

The launch of the official version is definitely the biggest good news for Microsoft.

But Lin Feng was short selling! He said that 100 million shares of Microsoft were short sold globally. This made Ballmer angry. Of course, now that he is angry, no one will discuss it with him. In the past, he could still discuss it with Bill

-Gates Discuss it, but now that Bill Gates has completely faded out of Microsoft's management and is no longer involved in Microsoft's daily affairs, Ballmer can only find a way to deal with Lin Feng's short selling.

One week! Ballmer gritted his teeth and decided to make Microsoft's stock price at least double after one week. Yes, that's 1 times. He wanted Lin Feng to lose US$1.8 billion. Although the money was not much, he was

If you want Lin Feng to lose money, you can vent your anger. Of course, if you want to vent your anger, you must come up with various countermeasures.

This is the first thing!

"Let the news out and let those computer magazines promote the official version of 'Visita', which has improved the previous high-energy and low-efficiency problems and will be the most outstanding operating system in the history of 'Microsoft'." Ballmer told the director of the public relations department.

This was Ballmer's first move. As long as 'Vista' is good, then 'Microsoft' will win no matter what happens.

Suddenly, under the public relations of 'Microsoft', major computer magazines in the United States continued to advocate the excellence of 'visita' and threatened the official version of 'vista'. After correcting several major loopholes in the beta version, the system ran

The speed is at least three times that of before, the harsh requirements on hardware are reduced by 50%, and the memory management efficiency is improved by 130%. These computer magazines praise 'vista' as the most powerful operating system in history.

"Hey, is it such an exaggeration? To say that Microsoft's operating system has always been like that is just because of its good compatibility. Do you deserve to brag like this! As long as programmers in the industry know that the best operating system in the industry is

Apple's and Microsoft's systems have many bugs and are slow, but their popularity rate is high!" Ellison saw these compliments with a look of contempt.

"Haha, Ellison, a professional programmer like you will naturally understand, but a programmer idiot like me will not. Such praise, look, so many numbers, how eye-catching, it is exciting to see it!

" Lin Feng chuckled.

"Hey, Lin, are you okay with your brain? How can you speak for Microsoft and be so happy! Look, the current stock price of Microsoft is because the genuine version of 'Vista' is going to be sold, and these computer magazines are sparing no effort to tout it.

It has already increased by 2 US dollars, so you have already lost 200 million US dollars. Darling, if it continues to rise like this, you will really lose a lot. Although you have money, it is not an option to continue losing like this! This is embarrassing! You

But when it comes to making a bet against Microsoft, you can't lose!" Ellison became anxious when he saw Lin Feng's relaxed expression.

Lin Feng smiled and poured Ellison a cup of coffee leisurely.

"Larry, don't be anxious, don't be anxious. It's still early to really decide the winner! We have to wait at least until March 1st. Now is not the time!" Lin Feng smiled slightly.

March 1st is the day when 'Vista' goes on sale. Ellison nodded. Indeed, there is no point in being anxious now. 'Vista' is in the hands of 'Microsoft'. 'Microsoft' says it is good, and it is good. The outside world

I don’t know. If you want to argue, that’s not to stick your face out and be slapped. It’s better to wait until it is officially released on March 1st and see if this system is really as good as Microsoft says.

"It's just, Lin, if you don't fight back, Microsoft will keep attacking. And it will directly affect your company's stock!" Ellison said, pointing to the "Second World" whose stock price dropped slightly.

Due to Lin Feng's short-selling bet, the stocks of Lin Feng's "Second World" and "Microsoft" were tied to the same line. Of course, it is not the kind where both prosper and lose, but you rise and I fall.

, the attitude of you falling and me rising. In this case, if Lin Feng never responded, the stock price would plummet.

"Haha, Ellison, let's go down, it doesn't matter. If it goes down, it can go back up. Anyway, for me, I never intend to sell the company's stocks. Moreover, my 'second world' is rich in cash.

The current cash reserves exceed 20 billion US dollars, which is enough to meet daily needs. What's more, if you really encounter any difficulties, you can borrow money directly through my "second bank", so the stock price is nothing to me! It's just

It’s just a bunch of numbers!” Lin Feng said with a smile.

Ellison shook his head helplessly. The only person who could care less about stock prices is probably Lin Feng. After all, the wealth of most super-rich people is in the stock price. Just like him, Ellison, whose previous assets were about 27 billion

US dollars, at present, aside from the US$18 billion in loans, the assets are at US$1.3 billion. This is because Oracle's stock price rose by 200% after receiving US$18 billion in aid from Apple, which allowed Ellison to regain

He has the qualifications to be on the Forbes list. However, this is undoubtedly a far cry from the previous net worth of US$27 billion. The reason for this is that the stock price of Oracle is almost delisted.

There was no reaction from Lin Feng, which was indeed a bit beyond Ballmer's expectation. However, Ballmer was also ruthless. Since Lin Feng remained silent, he didn't care whether Lin Feng had any follow-up moves. In short, he wanted to attack first.

Attacking, attacking again, Lin Feng was in a hurry, and he didn't believe that Lin Feng could remain calm like this.

Next, Ballmer took his second move - cracking down on piracy.

'Microsoft' teamed up with the United Nations Anti-Piracy Association to find the China Administration for Industry and Commerce, asking the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Commerce to strictly investigate China's piracy, and directly put pressure on China through the U.S. Department of Commerce, asking China to strictly investigate piracy and eliminate any pirated copies of 'Microsoft' software.

Behavior. And at the same time, 'Microsoft' issued an announcement that 'Microsoft' will crack down on piracy in the near future. All people who install pirated 'Microsoft' system software will have their computer screens appear black every hour.

behavior, the system will prompt the user to refuse to use the pirated version, and will require the user to use the genuine version, otherwise they will be sued by 'Microsoft'.

This crackdown on piracy directly shocked the industry. Before this, when Microsoft announced a crackdown on piracy, the outside world did not take it seriously. After all, piracy is rampant in Asia, and it has become a public knowledge that any software company in the world will not take it seriously.

They all have adopted an attitude of letting it go. They think it is inevitable. Fighting against piracy is just a waste of money. It only hits you for a while, but it won’t hit you forever. At most, when you crack down hard, the pirates will restrain themselves. If you relax,

, then the pirate merchants will come back again. These pirate merchants are very clever in using guerrilla tactics of retreating when the enemy advances, and advancing when the enemy retreats. Therefore, not many people believe that Microsoft will crack down on piracy.

But I never thought that this time 'Microsoft' came to play for real. But even so, what impact will this have on Lin Feng? You accused Shang Huai of saying that Lin Feng condoned piracy, which would at most cause Lin Feng a little embarrassment. You have struck a blow.

What can it be used for?

Ballmer smiled coldly. What's the use? Hey, Lin Feng is going to be embarrassed this time!
Chapter completed!