"The office software of Lianxiang Yinshan Software Company has been launched in multiple languages, which is almost as much as ours, and the price in various regions is more than half of ours. How do you think we should deal with this situation?" Bill? Gates asked in a deep voice.
"Thinking about Yinshan Software Company, it seems that Feng is a shareholder, right? We should talk to Feng to avoid this kind of vicious competition. We can unite to raise the market barriers, divide the market, and have healthy competition. Only in this way can we ensure the greatest interests. Ah." said one director.
Paul Allen waved his hand angrily: "If it can be done so easily, why do we need to hold a board meeting? Feng came the day before yesterday, but he did not agree to cooperate with us. As a result, market competition against us started yesterday. Leaving us completely defenseless.”
When he said this, Paul Allen also felt a little hot. When Feng Yu left the day before yesterday, he warned them that he would compete with them for the market immediately. But they began to think that it was just the Chinese market.
Although the Chinese market is very large, profits are among the lowest, so they didn't pay much attention to it at first. As a result, some precautions could have been taken in time, but they were ignored by themselves.
The director opened his mouth but said no more. Yes, Feng was kicked out of Microsoft, and now he has become the richest man in the world. It is normal for him to be arrogant.
In addition, Feng is so young. Being young means that he is not easy to compromise and is easy to be impulsive. For the sake of face, it is normal to rather burn money than fight.
In his view, aren’t all young people like this, and the world’s richest man is not immune to this.
Ballmer frowned and asked: "Feng wants to compete with us, so we should compete. With the scale of our funds, are we still afraid of Lianxiang Yinshan Software Company?"
"Steve, do you know what you are talking about? Money, this is money. If we reduce the selling price by half, how much will our profit be reduced? And once we do this, it will mean that our stock price It will fall, and investors will distrust us!" Paul Allen angrily yelled.
"That's it. Does Mr. Allen have any good ideas? Or you can persuade Lianxiang Yinshan to raise the price? Or you can let us sell twice as much as the other party when the quality of our products is not as good as the other party's. Can it still sell well? I need to remind you that you are in charge of our office software research and development department now!"
"What do you mean? Are you saying that the R&D department I led was lagging behind? When I took over, the PS had already surpassed us in some functions!"
Paul Allen was furious. Ballmer was making groundless accusations against him. Did he think that being the president and EO of Microsoft would make him great? We should not have given him shares and let him join the board of directors back then!
"Since PS had already surpassed us when you took over, why did the gap widen instead of narrowing after you took over for so long? I don't know what I'm talking about. You don't know, right? Now Is it time to focus on the immediate price? What we should focus on now is how to retain users and ensure our market share."
"Our office software is now the most used in the world. All other office software are compared with ours to make evaluations. The advantage of this is that we have become the industry standard. Other software companies, It all depends on our faces.”
"What now? There is a product that is ahead of us in several functions, and none of them is weaker than us. What does this mean? It represents an upgrade of industry standards, and we are not the ones who set this upgrade standard. ! This is the office software research and development department you lead, and this is what you have done in the past few years!"
"You have your own company, but you want all kinds of power at Microsoft. Are you really responsible? You focus more on your own company. Now that this situation occurs at Microsoft, you have to take responsibility A big responsibility!”
Ballmer's remarks shocked other directors. This is a clear show of disapproval and asking Paul Allen to give up his power.
Ballmer is already president and EO, what else does he want to do? Also, Ballmer, the top administrative leader, cannot command the department managed by Paul at all. In addition, the two have deep grudges. This situation is not too surprising.
What surprised them was, why didn't Bill interrupt Ballmer this time? Could it be that Ballmer's words had Bill's tacit approval
Paul Allen also discovered a problem. This time, no one supported him, and everyone seemed to look at him with complaints and criticism, including Bill Gates.
However, Paul Allen absolutely does not want to hand over power. The easiest way now is to change the topic, or draw other people's attention.
"Okay, then according to what you said, what should we do now? If we reduce the price by half, we can regain the market? If you reduce the price, won't the other party also reduce the price? Look at the selling price in the Huaxia market, and you will know that even Xiangyin Mountain software company how low the cost.”
"No, at least in the English market, we have an advantage. Although the cost of their Chinese engineers is lower, the native language of those engineers is Chinese. And the other language versions they release are all in cooperation with some companies. This means that they want to give benefits to the other party, thereby increasing their costs.”
"We are different. We have our own branches in many countries and have recruited many employees. Many of our versions are translated by ourselves. Our costs in this regard are lower. Perhaps we are not a competitor in the Chinese market. But in other countries, we still have advantages.”
Before Ballmer could finish speaking, a director suddenly said: "Who said we would definitely lose in the Chinese market?"
Everyone looked at the director. The situation was so clear. Could there be another turning point
"What do you think will happen if we no longer protect against piracy and no longer require activation codes?"
Everyone is shocked. This situation means that piracy is rampant, leaving no market for genuine products. Wait, does he mean to use piracy to seize the market, like they did in the first place
But is this a method that harms others but does not benefit oneself
"We can not update this version. Three years later, we will launch a new version. The current method is to make Lianxiang Yinshan no profit and make them lose money. The investment they need to develop this software is not a small amount, right? ?If they can’t sell it, it will definitely be a big blow to them.”
"As for Microsoft, our loss of two to three billion a year is nothing at all. As long as the market is still in our hands, we will have a steady stream of profits in the future!"
… (To be continued.)