Gates, Microsoft executives and related technical personnel have repeatedly watched the full version of the Firefly OS conference.
In order to understand more clearly what the conference is about, Microsoft's technical staff can also add subtitles to the conference.
After watching the press conference several times, Gates looked serious, and other Microsoft executives felt that the atmosphere in the conference room was quite unfriendly.
"You just said, what's the data over there?" Gates asked his assistant.
The assistant looked at the document in his hand and said: "According to data from Xia Guo District Headquarters, the number of computers in Xia Guo with Firefly OS installed is currently 153,200."
The assistant added: "This data is provided by the statistics center of Shenship."
Hearing this, Gates felt a little uneasy.
He felt unprecedented pressure and crisis.
There is no doubt that the 21st century must be the era of computers and the Internet.
In this era, the most important market was the Xiaguo Market.
Because Xia has a population of 1.2 billion, and their computer penetration is less than 1/10 of that of the United States.
With the improvement of the economic level of the people of Xia State, there will definitely be more and more users using computers.
Microsoft's chances of making a profit are getting bigger and bigger.
Even though pirated software is rampant in Xia's computer market, Gates feels he has found a corresponding way for Microsoft to make money.
Microsoft's method is to allow pirated systems to circulate among user groups, thereby cultivating users' habit of using the Windows operating system.
At this time, Microsoft can cooperate with PC companies such as Lianxiang and Dell. Let these PC companies pre-install their own genuine systems and charge according to the number of pre-installed units.
In addition, although Microsoft allows pirated systems to circulate in the canyon market, its eyes are firmly focused on high-end user groups such as large enterprises, hospitals, schools, scientific research institutions, and large Internet cafes in Xia State.
These high-end user groups are required to use genuine systems, otherwise Microsoft will take them to domestic courts or even international courts.
Compared with ordinary private users, these enterprises, scientific research institutions, Internet cafes, schools, hospitals, etc. are quite large in size, and Microsoft basically accounts for the profits they generate for themselves by using the system.
Under this situation, many large enterprises are afraid to use pirated systems, so they have to pay fees to Microsoft.
Of course, Microsoft's most profitable thing is its own Windows ecological chain.
Although users may not pay for using the Windows operating system, if you use the relevant software of the ecological chain automatically, these software have already paid a certain fee to Microsoft during the process of development and launch.
All of this is a means for Microsoft to make money.
Otherwise, you would think that Microsoft is so stupid. It can easily block Changtian Technology's hardware from running genuine software, and it can also easily block Xiaguo consumers from using pirated systems.
The reason why he didn't do this was that he was just playing a long game to catch the big fish.
But now the emergence of Changtian Technology's Yinghuo OS has broken Microsoft's illusion.
If all consumers in Xia Guo use the genuine Yinghuo OS, then where is the market for Microsoft's Windows operating system?
"150,000 computers. Are you sure that 150,000 computers have been installed with the Firefly OS operating system in less than half a month?"
The assistant was very sure. After checking the data again, he said: "It is indeed 150,000 units."
Gates was a little angry. He said: "I require your technical department to install Firefly OS and let our technical staff understand the difference between this system and our Windows XP. Why haven't you done this yet?"
These words made Microsoft's technical staff very aggrieved.
"We tried to download the system from the Yinghuo os official website published by Changtian Technology and installed it. However, our hardware devices did not seem to be recognized by the system."
"Later, I repeatedly checked the information and read some details of the press conference, and determined that Yinghuo OS can only be installed on computers equipped with Changtian Technology hardware."
After hearing the news, Gates' head was buzzing.
What is the purpose of Changtian Technology doing this?
The purpose is to promote his company's hardware products as quickly as possible.
This time, Changtian Technology does not need the reaction of foreign markets at all. It only needs to firmly control the Xiaguo market.
Taking 2001 as an example, the sales number of Xia Guo desktop computers was 8 million units. This is quite scary data. If these 8 million units were controlled by Changtian Technology, then Microsoft's XP would not survive at all in Xia Guo.
room.
Just after watching the press conference, Gates is still not sure about the performance of Firefly OS and whether it can pose a threat to Windows XP.
He immediately said to his assistant: "Notify Microsoft's Xiaguo District Headquarters to do everything possible to get me a few Shenchuan computers and send them to our laboratory. I just want to see what Yingying OS has to offer.
Due to its performance and magic, 150,000 units were installed in half a month."
Is 150,000 units a lot of installed capacity?
For Microsoft, which has tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of installed machines, this is just a small number.
However, in less than half a month, there were 150,000 installed machines in an instant, which has never happened since the birth of Microsoft WIN system.
In the past 10 years or so, many technology companies around the world have developed operating systems, but none of them has the installed base of more than 100,000 units in a short period of time.
The fact that Yinghuo OS can achieve such results shows that this operating system has been recognized by consumers, it has been accepted by the market, and it is only a matter of time before it gains more users.
Microsoft's profits come from monopoly.
If this monopoly is broken, how can Microsoft talk about profits?
Under the arrangements of Microsoft's US headquarters, something magical happened.
Purchasing staff from Microsoft's Xiaguo district headquarters actually went to the Shenchuan Computer sales point in Yanjing to buy Shenchuan computers.
And what makes the purchasing staff even more speechless is that he can’t buy it!
Because of the powerful performance of Yinghuo OS, more consumers are attracted to buy Shenchuan computers. As Yanjing is the headquarters of Lianxiang, domestic computers are dominated by Lianxiang, so Shenchuan's stock in Yanjing is not very large.
When purchasing staff Xiao Wang went to the Shenchuan store to buy computers, he found that the Shenchuan T1 series computers were sold out!
"We have the A series with lower performance, but we also need to transfer goods from Jizhou. This series also uses carbon crystal memory. Do you need to wait for a while?"
Xiao Wang was speechless and wanted to scold him. He was from the Xiaguo District headquarters of Microsoft. The computers he usually used were all flagships of major brands. The price was only 10,000 yuan. The salesperson of Shenchuan actually asked him to buy this.