Ballmer did not dare to agree to such harsh conditions, but he knew that he could not negotiate anything here. He could only say goodbye to Feng Yu and fly back to the United States. This matter should be left to the board of directors, or rather to the United States. Bill decides.
At Microsoft's monthly board meeting, all directors arrived except Feng Yu.
"Humph, there is another person who doesn't take the company's rules and regulations seriously. I think the equity reward that was deducted from him last year was less. I should not give him any at all this year!" Paul Allen said angrily when he saw Feng Yu's empty seat.
Who among the directors of Microsoft doesn't know that Paul and Feng Yu don't get along, especially after Feng Yu became the second richest man in the world after Bill, this conflict became even deeper. If Paul had not cashed out his Microsoft shares and invested in other companies, the market value of Paul's shares would now be more than 20 billion U.S. dollars, and the gap with Feng Yu would not be that big.
But now, it seems that Paul has no chance of catching up with Feng Yu. All of them wisely pretended not to hear what Paul said, and no one was willing to intervene in the fight between the two big guys.
"Okay, Paul, get ready for the meeting. There are several main topics today. One is that after our In98 operating system was launched, the response was good and the product sold very well. However, some of the loopholes must be made up as soon as possible to avoid giving people a The impression that our system is insecure… The last major issue is the issue of cooperation with gBox.”
"What's the point of cooperation? Either we don't do it, we, Microsoft, can do it ourselves!" Paul said loudly.
Cooperating with Feng Yu, what a joke, why can Feng Yu cooperate with Microsoft
"Paul, I don't think it is a good idea for us to open it ourselves. First of all, we have no experience in hardware development. I don't need to say why this is the case. Secondly, Feng Yu has corresponding advanced technology, which is very important for the product. important… "
"Wait a minute, we don't have hardware development experience, does Feng Yu have it? Besides, we can acquire an experienced company, and we have plenty of cash. I think Rentian is good." Paul interrupted Bauer Silent words.
This Ballmer always turned towards Feng Yu. He was really blind before he agreed to Bill giving him so many share rewards.
"Paul, don't forget, Feng Yu owns several consumer electronics production and sales companies, as well as shares in Lianxiang Group. In this regard, he is indeed better than us at Microsoft. And Rentiantian couldn't acquire it, but they offered a sky-high price, that The price, no one can afford it," Ballmer explained.
"Paul, please be patient and listen to Steve finish explaining the situation." Bill Gates said with some displeasure.
Paul snorted coldly, lowered his head to take a drink of water, but found that there was a Force drink on the table. Seeing this, he became even more angry. Even if there is no coffee, black tea will do, even cola. Why do you need this force
Programmers like to drink. Give them a drink. Why should we prepare this on the board of directors? ! Even if I'm dying of thirst, I won't drink this!
Ballmer continued: "The current situation is that we cannot acquire a good game console manufacturing company. Sega has proven that it is no match for Sunny and Rentian. And Sunny's game consoles will use free LInux system, Rentiantian chose to cooperate with IBM."
"We are now faced with two choices. As Paul said, we can set up a subsidiary or department ourselves to develop and produce game consoles ourselves, or we can choose to cooperate with Feng Yu."
"However, our weaknesses are very obvious. We have no experience in developing hardware. If we want to catch up with Suni and Rentian in technology, it will take us who knows how long. If it is one or two years, it doesn't matter, but if it is ten or eight years , then how much money will we lose and how much energy will be involved?"
"But choosing to cooperate with Feng is different. Feng has a company that develops game consoles. It is the largest game console manufacturer and seller in China and has a certain reputation in Southeast Asia. Moreover, Feng's company has sufficient hardware development experience. How popular are the electronic consumer products they designed? I don’t need to give you the data, right?"
"Also, Feng established a game development company. After acquiring two companies in South Korea, he also acquired a company in Xiangjiang, a company in Baodao, a company in the island country, a company in China, and our North American Blast Snow company, integrating After that, it will be the largest game development company in the world, with more than a thousand developers and multiple mature game development teams. Everyone knows how Sega’s Saturn failed back then, right? They just provide There were too few games, which was why consumers disliked them. At that time, their technology was not much different from that of Sunny and Rentian."
"Feng can not only provide us with a lot of game copyrights, but also take back some copyrights and prevent them from being used by Sunny and Rentian. Moreover, the games they will open in the future can only be read by our system. There is also something important First, the patented technology of DVD is in the hands of two groups. One is the DVD Forum, which promotes the Fengyu-Philip standard, which is also a standard followed by more consumer electronics manufacturers, with a market share of 70%. Many, the other is the DVD Alliance, which promotes the DVD+Ram standard, and the market share of this standard is only over 20%."
"If we want to build a game console, we must use DVD technology. CD technology has been proven to be completely backward and will soon be eliminated by the game storage market. As for the technology of the DVD Alliance, Sunny is one of the founders. Will they authorize us?" Even if we give it, the price will inevitably be very high, which will seriously increase the cost of our products. As for the better Fengyu-Philip standard, everyone knows that it is the standard promoted by Fengyu Company. We also joined the DVD forum, but We didn’t participate in the research, so we couldn’t get preferential terms. If we want to use this technology, we also have to pay patent fees. Let’s get rid of Feng and do it ourselves. So how much of the cost will the patent fees for this technology alone account for? "
"So our best way now is to cooperate with Feng Yu."
"Why can't we use Vcd technology?" someone asked.
"Most of the VCD technology and patents belong to Feng, well, more than 95%. And if we want to surpass Sony and Rentian in terms of products, we cannot use technologies that are lagging behind them." Ballmer explained.
"If you say that, then we can only cooperate with Feng, then I agree to cooperate." said a director.
Another director was more cautious: "Steve, have you agreed on the conditions for Feng to cooperate with us?"
Ballmer looked at Bill Gates and said to the other directors: "Feng's condition is that he wants absolute control of the cooperative company!"
Paul almost jumped up and shouted: "This is impossible!"
Delusion, this is wishful thinking. This Feng Yu is too arrogant. He cooperates with Microsoft and actually wants a controlling stake? Who does he think he is? !
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ps: At this time, there are less than 150 employees in Baoxue. (To be continued.)