Chapter 264 Microsoft is no longer calm (1 more please order)
Mr. Du thought Boss Wang was joking.
After all, it is the peak summer sales season, and both PC sellers and ordinary computer hardware vendors are purchasing mechanical hard drives in large quantities.
The consumption level of Xia Kingdom is getting higher and higher, and the people's demand for spiritual enjoyment is also increasing.
Both international manufacturers and domestic industry practitioners believe that the next ten years will be the explosive peak period for Xia Guo's PC industry.
The same is true for strength.
This is only the first week of July, and the sales of various types of PCs across the country have exceeded the level of half a month of July last year, which speaks volumes.
And because the price of mechanical hard drives has skyrocketed during this period, many sellers are rushing around to buy them.
At this critical time, when hard drives are in such short supply, some people actually want to return them!
Mr. Du said: "Mr. Wang, you have put a deposit with us! There are many merchants who want hard drives now. For the sake of our relationship for so many years, I left a big deposit for you. If you return the goods now,
My deposit will not be refunded."
Boss Wang paid tens of thousands of yuan as a deposit with Mr. Du.
Boss Wang thought for a moment. If he returns the mechanical hard drive at this time, he will definitely lose tens of thousands. According to the rules of the industry, the deposit will definitely not be refunded.
But now the price of mechanical hard drives is high, and carbon crystal hard drives are already available.
Now that high-end mechanical hard drives are in the market, after getting them, consumers will buy carbon crystal hard drives instead of mechanical hard drives some time ago. At that time, the loss will not only be tens of thousands of dollars.
After understanding this truth, Boss Wang said decisively: "Mr. Du, although we have been friends for many years, we still have to act according to the rules. Since I have already paid the deposit and now I want the goods, I still have to withhold it as it should."
Boss Wang said: "Mr. Du, I have something to do here, so I'll hang up first."
Mr. Du wanted to persuade him a few more words, but he didn't expect Mr. Wang to hang up the phone so decisively.
Boss Wang returned the mechanical hard drive, and Mr. Du was not in a hurry, because some time ago, many people asked for goods, whether it was Zhongguancun in Yanjing or Huaqiangbei in Shenzhen.
Just give Mr. Wang's goods to others.
But after Mr. Du made several phone calls, he realized that something didn't seem right.
Several businesses that originally planned to purchase large quantities of mechanical hard drives from Mr. Du now no longer want the goods.
At this time, Mr. Du was really anxious. He quickly asked several friends in his industry, and then got a key piece of information.
I don’t know which pirated system vendor developed Microsoft’s win98 system in depth. The current system can fully support carbon crystal hard drives.
Shenship's T1 series continues to sell well, and many hardware vendors are seizing the opportunity to purchase carbon crystal hard drives, preparing to make a fortune during the summer vacation.
The price of mechanical hard drives began to plummet. The price of 80G mechanical hard drives that originally returned to 1200 dropped to 800.
Even so, many users are still willing to spend almost the same price to buy carbon crystal hard drives.
Mr. Du was anxious now.
After all, the price increase of mechanical hard drives is decided by the company, and their purchasing price is also expensive.
He was just one of Seagate's agents in the Xiaguo market. He quickly contacted the United States with other agents and strongly demanded that the manufacturer bear the price risk this time.
Seagate, Western Digital, Maxtor and other manufacturers were stunned.
The sales of the products they exported to Xia Kingdom plummeted during the summer sales boom!
what is the reason?
Because installing a deeply optimized WIN98 system is something that computer dealers secretly do, it is impossible to publicize it in a big way. American hard drive manufacturers don't know about it at all.
Finally, Seagate learned through its own channels that the price of Xiaguo mechanical hard drives plummeted because at the same price, users preferred carbon crystal hard drives.
Weren’t carbon crystal hard drives banned by Microsoft using technical means?
Finally, Seagate and other hard disk manufacturers learned that a deeply optimized WIN98 system had appeared in Xia Guo, making Microsoft's ban useless.
This time, these hard drive vendors were shocked.
They quickly told Microsoft about this, hoping that Microsoft could find a solution.
United States, Washington, Monterrey.
Microsoft's technology department was the first to receive news from Seagate and other hard drive manufacturers, and their first reaction was disbelief!
This time Microsoft's update to the WIN98 system reshapes part of the underlying code and completely changes the logical method of hard drive identification. Moreover, this update covers both genuine and pirated systems, which can be said to be an indiscriminate attack.
Microsoft firmly believes that it has the most advanced technical talents in the world at its disposal, and it also believes that this ban on carbon crystal hard drives is foolproof.
Of course, nothing is absolute.
Microsoft's technology department is also prepared. This kind of ban will definitely not last a lifetime, and one day there will be technical means to break it.
But in the minds of Microsoft technicians, "one day" is definitely not a week after Microsoft just upgraded the system, but at least a year or two later.
After one or two years, the entire market has long forgotten about carbon crystal hard drives, and no business will take the risk of using carbon crystal hard drives.
And even if a technician can make the carbon crystal hard drive escape Microsoft's ban in a year or two, Microsoft's technicians are confident that they can plug the loophole as soon as possible.
However, in just one week, someone has lifted the ban on carbon crystal hard drives, and Microsoft's technology department was the first to not believe it.
But the matter was so important that Microsoft's technology department still reported the matter to senior management.
At this time, the American Computer Association and the Semiconductor Association also received the news and quickly called Microsoft to inquire about the situation.
Microsoft was one of the first American companies to enter Xia State, so it still has a wide network of contacts in Xia State.
The Microsoft headquarters went to the relevant personnel of Xia Guo Corporation and asked Xia Guo Corporation to investigate.
One day later, the website link for the in-depth optimization system was sent to the Microsoft Technology Department.
When the Microsoft Technology Department clicked in and looked at the content of the website, they knew they had met a master.
There are many ways to optimize and deal with the WIN98 system in Extreme System. Even Microsoft technicians have no better way to do these things.
The entire Microsoft technology department was silent.
They downloaded the deeply optimized WIN98 and tried it.
The entire system was extremely smooth during use, especially the use of the browser and player, which amazed Microsoft's technical staff.
It is indeed beyond Microsoft's imagination that a third-party company, a piracy company, can have such a deep understanding of the system and optimize the system to such a good level.
The most important thing is that the other party also set up a decent system maintenance center to maintain the Windows 98 system in the name of a third party. Microsoft really couldn't laugh or cry.
While everyone was experiencing the pirated Windows 98 system, they remembered one thing at this time.
Can this system support carbon crystal hard drives?
Microsoft's technical staff are not all about eating and not working. As soon as they saw this level of optimization and the completely castrated system update content, they knew that the carbon crystal hard drive could run.
Currently, Microsoft has a carbon crystal hard drive in its hands. After installing the carbon crystal hard drive, they ran a deeply optimized version of the Windows 98 system.
The results were as expected.
This time, the entire Microsoft technology department contributed a full 20 points of influence.