"Boss, Bill Gates claimed to interview new employees in person. Now many people are frantically submitting their resumes to Microsoft in order to meet Bill Gates." When Kameda Masao said this, he didn't A little depressed expression.
Bill Gates's popularity is still much higher than that of Kameda Masao, Zong Qingxian and others. He used his fame to suddenly turn the situation around.
Feng Yu was eating melon seeds and watching a movie. He grabbed a handful of melon seeds and handed them to Kameda Masao: "Sit down and chat while eating."
Kameda Masao was stunned for a moment, but he quickly took the melon seeds and sat next to Feng Yu, but he didn't eat them at all. The boss can chat and eat melon seeds at the same time, but he can't.
"Microsoft has indeed, as we expected, hired many new people and offered them the same salary as usual, or even increased a bit."
Feng Yu clapped his hands, picked up the tea cup and took a sip of tea, and asked slowly: "What do you think Microsoft is like now with bloated staff? In order to prove that they are still strong and to vent their anger on us, they started to steal people from us. Can’t they see that we’re in a period of expansion and our staff is much smaller than theirs?”
Microsoft has tens of thousands of engineers and other staff, and its global employees have already exceeded 150,000!
In terms of Microsoft's profitability in the past two years, these people are nothing at all, and they can easily afford two hundred thousand. But now the profitability of Microsoft's products has dropped significantly.
Office software was impacted by Lianxiang Yinshan's product market, and they themselves took the initiative to cut prices, which reduced profits too much. The XP system is no longer for sale, and the VISTA system is in trouble of slow sales. Their two most important profit channels have all been taken away by Lianxiang Yinshan.
Ordinarily, when profits decline, we should find ways to control costs, such as layoffs or something.
But not only does Microsoft not plan to lay off employees, it continues to expand and recruit desperately.
As revenue decreases and expenses increase, Microsoft's profits will become less and less, and the amount it can invest in research and development will become less and less. Then the gap between Yinshan and Microsoft will become smaller and smaller.
Feng Yu thought for a while, maybe Microsoft just wanted to recruit everyone away, so that companies such as Lianxiang Yinshan would not have more engineers to do research and development, so that they could continue to stay ahead.
At the same time, Microsoft has more engineers and can devote more energy to developing new products.
Feng Yu was suddenly alerted: "Keda, is it possible that Microsoft itself plans to expand its scale?"
Kameda Masao shook his head: "It shouldn't be possible. I have discussed this issue with Ralph and the others. If Microsoft wants to expand its scale, it will have to develop new products, but they should not be thinking of ways to restore their dominance in the PC operating system now. market share?”
"They made such a big mistake this time. Our XOS sales are better than before, and they are still competing with us for engineers. Even if they want to expand their scale, what can they do? Make new application software?"
Feng Yu turned off the movie and asked seriously: "Is it possible that they plan to develop a new operating system?"
"Huh? This operating system has only been around for half a year, and they want to develop a new one? So this has cost tens of billions of dollars, and they don't want to recoup their investment? Their VISTA system is priced at a historical peak."
Kameda Masao looked at Feng Yu in surprise, how could the boss have such unrealistic ideas? Microsoft hasn't solved the problems with this system yet, and they have to develop new ones. Where do they get so many new ideas
"But you have also seen how bad the reputation of this operating system is, and Microsoft's sales have been declining. After this incident, sales have entered a cold period. Many users even say that this VISTA is not as good as XP is easy to use, but Microsoft’s products have gone backwards.”
"At this time, if you were the leader of Microsoft, what would you choose? Should you continue to hold on, or should you bypass this path, open a new path, and regain what you lost?"
Kameda Masao was stunned. Yes, Microsoft had reached a point of no return at this time. If Lianxiang Yinshan hadn't come out to disrupt the situation, even if Microsoft's system was not easy to sell, users would have to buy the VISTA system because XP stopped updating and maintaining it.
But now that users have new choices, XOS, which has a better reputation than VISTA, then Microsoft is asking for a dead end if it really stops updating and maintaining XP.
This can be seen from the significant increase in XOS sales after Microsoft announced this.
Therefore, the result of Microsoft's strong support is that XOS will surpass VISTA in the future and suppress Microsoft to the bottom. But now that Microsoft wants to develop a new system and has not stopped updating and maintaining VISTA, or continues to update and maintain XP, their technical staff may not be enough.
Microsoft is different from Lianxiang Yinshan. Their various language versions of their products are all made by their own company. Lianxiang Yinshan is handed over to the cooperating company.
Microsoft can ensure maximum profits, and Lianxiang Yinshan can use local companies to promote its products. Each has its own advantages.
If you think about Yinshan being as powerful as Microsoft back then, it would naturally be more cost-effective to open your own branch.
"Boss, didn't we help Microsoft?" Masao Kameda realized that he might have done something wrong.
He told his boss to let Microsoft hire more people and increase Microsoft's expenses, thereby dragging down Microsoft's profits. But I didn't expect that this might play into Microsoft's hands.
"It doesn't matter. If we think too much, then Microsoft's recruitment will increase the burden on itself. If we don't think too much, then Microsoft will recruit people in a hurry, and the salary will be higher than usual, which will also increase the burden."
"So no matter what, Microsoft loses! What we have to do now is to let everyone know that Microsoft is no longer the Microsoft it was back then, and it can no longer maintain a technology monopoly!"
In terms of PC hardware, or in other words, in terms of transistors for electronic products, all leading technologies can guarantee a year to a year and a half on average.
Sometimes it takes half a year for the other party to catch up, and sometimes it may take two years. But no matter what, the hardware lead is not that difficult to catch up with.
Software is different. How many years did it take for Lianxiang Yinshan to develop a new system and fight against Microsoft? And the fruit company has been in business for so many years, but doesn’t it only have a small market share
Now Feng Yu wants to break the myth of Microsoft and put the halo of the best software company on Lianxiang Yinshan!
"Boss, I know what to do." Masao Kameda understood what Feng Yu meant.
Although Lianxiang Yinshan is affiliated to Taihua Holdings Group, Fengyu Holdings has always been responsible for related matters in Europe and the United States.
And on this day, Bill Gates announced a major news on behalf of Microsoft. Microsoft will re-promote the Tab tablet project!
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PS: Cangtian Baihe has opened a new book. It was his influence that led me to embark on the path of online writing.