When Lao Zhang was angry, Feng Yu was on the phone with Wilson, asking when the lawsuit against Microsoft would be settled.
Giving Microsoft some blows at this time can also save Lianxiang Yinshan some trouble.
Microsoft suddenly lowered the price of its XP system some time ago. It was thought that it would affect the sales of its XOS system. However, it turned out that Microsoft's little trick was ruined by an announcement from Yinshan.
Lianxiang Yinshan claims that the xos system will guarantee system updates and maintenance for at least five years.
What this means and who it is aimed at can be understood at a glance.
Think about Microsoft, which has a system generation of two or three years. When 2000 appeared, 95 stopped updating and maintaining it. When XP appeared, 2000 stopped updating and maintaining it.
Didn't Microsoft announce that it would launch Vista soon? Didn't it mean that the XP system would soon stop updating and maintaining it
In other words, although they spent a small amount of money to buy a genuine XP system, it took less than a year for the loopholes to be patched. How to ensure the security of the system? Various problems arise, how to solve them
The result is that although the price of Microsoft's XP system has been reduced, and the price reduction is very large, unfortunately not many people are buying it. Because no one from Microsoft officially came forward to say how long the XP system will continue to be maintained. This seems to be the default that after the emergence of Vista, the XP system will stop updating.
Who would buy a system that only lasts a few months? Doesn't it mean that Vista is very different from XP? Therefore, the XP price reduction not only failed to increase sales, but actually made the sales worse.
In addition, Lianxiang Group no longer pre-installs Microsoft systems, and many manufacturers have signed agreements with Lianxiang Yinshan. Cheaper systems can lower the selling prices of their products and increase their competitiveness. Of course they will not Exclusion.
What's more, Lianxiang Yinshan also paid some price for this, such as the selling price of the system, and also gave some profits to these PC manufacturers, so now many manufacturers have computers with pre-installed XOS system.
Bill Gates got furious in the boardroom and reprimanded everyone in charge of product sales and development. New products must be ordered to accelerate progress and be launched into the market as soon as possible. At the same time, they must contact PC manufacturers and ask them to limit the sales of models with pre-installed XOS system. Microsoft's Vista system will definitely give them a bigger surprise.
In fact, those manufacturers have long been fed up with Microsoft's tyranny, and they wish that a system vendor would stand up and give Microsoft a challenge. How much money do they make from one PC? How much money does Microsoft make from one system
In terms of profit margin, Microsoft is the most profitable when selling a computer. How can PC manufacturers balance this
What's more, the conditions given by Lianxiang Yinshan have increased their profits, so how can they not support it? In the business world, there are no eternal friends, only eternal interests, not to mention that they and Microsoft have never been friends!
Especially as everyone knows that after the XP system will soon stop updating and maintaining, the sales of PCs pre-installed with the XP system have deteriorated, and those PC manufacturers have also complained about this.
They are now asking Microsoft to announce that it will continue to maintain XP for at least three years, which is in their interests. Unfortunately, Microsoft did not agree.
But compared to the poor system sales, Microsoft is more concerned about the fact that they are accused of monopoly around the world. They don't want to lose the power of this bundling model, which would make their software lose its biggest competitive advantage.
Of course, it would be better if you can avoid being fined. Many countries now don’t think there is anything wrong with this kind of bundling. Most of what they bundle is free software.
Especially since Lianxiang Yinshan's office software has been sold globally, they cannot lose this advantage, otherwise they will have to lower their prices and reduce their profits.
They never thought that even China would accuse Microsoft of monopoly, and they also found out that after China's anti-monopoly law was passed, the first company to be sued was Microsoft. This was clearly a deliberate targeting!
In the first two court sessions, although their lawyers tried their best to distinguish, the effect was minimal.
The Chinese legal system is fundamentally different from the Anglo-American legal system. In China, it is stipulated by law, and the judgments are made in accordance with the legal provisions. The various clauses are very detailed, and the ruling of the presiding judge is the main one.
In Europe and the United States, the situation is relatively rough, and the verdict is mostly based on the juror's vote based on previous practices. And their media public, can influence the verdict.
In the Chinese legal system, although the media and the public have influence, they most affect the severity of the sentencing, rather than whether the person is guilty or has broken the law.
Therefore, it is now certain that Microsoft will be found guilty of violating the law and will be punished. As for the amount of the fine, because the amount is too high, China's draft anti-monopoly law only stipulates a lower line, which is five million RMB.
What they have to fight now is the amount of the fine. Judging from the current situation, Microsoft is very unfavorable.
The lawyer representing China, Wilson, who had been serving Feng Yu, also took advantage of the legal gap and asked for a ruling based on the amount on the British and American sides, so he proposed a high fine.
What makes Microsoft angry is that China is obviously biased, but most people think the fine is reasonable. And Wilson was building momentum off the court, saying that Microsoft treated the market differently, which made Bill Gates want to curse!
Do we treat it differently? Our previous product sales in China were the lowest prices in the world! Why didn't you say anything about this differential treatment? Now our selling prices have gone up, isn’t that right? Your Chinese GDP is already among the top in the world.
We just don’t want to treat the market differently now, which is why we have created such a situation. Are we wronged
Today is the third court session, and the two sides have once again started a war of words over the amount of the fine.
Wilson was aggressive and kept setting traps in language, which made Microsoft's lawyers exhausted.
The expressions of the Microsoft representatives became increasingly ugly. They discovered that things had indeed developed in the worst direction. They were regarded as typical examples by the Chinese government, killing the chicken to scare the monkeys, and they were the chickens!
Although Microsoft's lawyers kept arguing, it still didn't help. The court ruled that Microsoft was guilty of monopoly, was sentenced to a fine of more than RMB 1.836 billion, and must disclose the source code of some products. This number has set a new record for fines imposed by the Chinese government, and it will not be broken for many years to come!
When coming out of the court, a group of Chinese and foreign reporters gathered around. Many people did not expect the strong performance of China. Out-of-court settlement was directly rejected, and the final judgment was made in three court sessions. Microsoft is ordered to hand over the fine within a limited time, otherwise Microsoft's corporate account in China will be sealed!
Regarding the issue of monopoly, Microsoft lost the case once again!
… (To be continued.)