Chapter 1949

"Steve, how are our win7 sales?" Bill Gates is sitting in the main seat of the conference room, with a cup of cold coffee in front of him.

"From the perspective of the amount of paid downloads, the situation is not very optimistic. There is a certain gap between the CD sales volume of online shopping mall and that of even think Yinshan, but we are the leader in using the CD sales volume of retail channels of PC manufacturers. " Steve Ballmer replied.

At first, Ballmer was the third largest shareholder of Microsoft, and also served as the director, President and CEO of Microsoft. There are many stock rewards. Now he has more than 10 billion dollars, no less than Paul Allen.

Paul Allen snorted, "we Microsoft have been overtaken by Chinese products in the most advantageous products, and we don't know how some people manage the company these years."

Other directors have been used to the conflict between Paul Allen and Ballmer for a long time. When they quarrel, they never interfere. Only Bill Gates can persuade them, and no one else can help them.

It's rare that Ballmer didn't answer back this time. He continued: "one more thing we must pay attention to is that even if Yinshan borrows the influence of SUPERWAY, yingweida, Kingston, etc., it has signed a very unfavorable agreement with those PC manufacturers, which is enough to ensure that our products, even if they are more popular, can't completely defeat Lianxiang Yinshan."

"But if we think Yinshan's products are more popular than ours, we may be severely suppressed, so I think we should really enter the hardware field, at least to make a brand of our own, tablet computer, is a good springboard."

Ballmer has always advocated Microsoft to make its own PC brand. At the beginning, the tablet was also made under his proposal. Unfortunately, it was a product that lost money, which made Paul Allen laugh.

"Didn't we sign an exclusive cooperation agreement with Cheney company? Enough to compete with Lianxiang group in the Asian market. There are also brand cooperation between Europe and the United States, such as Huipu and Daier. There is no need to develop our own electronic product brands. We do software, which you should remember. " Paul Allen warned.

Manufacturers don't make money at all. From the market value of those PC manufacturers, we can see that the market value of Microsoft is not as high as that of think, wear and Huipu.

"Besides, as long as our products sell better, even if Yinshan is the same as the fruit company at most, the sales and profits are far from threatening us. We are Microsoft, the first software company in the world. The operating system we make is the best in the world. Our users are also the most in the world! "

Some directors think the same as Paul Allen. They still think that Microsoft is the most powerful company in the world and its products are the best in the world. They are sure to trample on Yinshan.

It's not just the PC operating system, but after their next generation of smartphone operating system is launched next year, they will also firmly hold this market in their hands.

Some directors, like Ballmer, think that they should not despise their rivals, especially Feng Yu's company. Every enterprise that despises Feng Yu is finally trampled on by him.

And since the other side can make HOS form a big alliance, how can Microsoft deal with it in case that even Yinshan wants to form a big alliance with XOS and open part of the source code? Although this possibility is very small.

And the cooperation between Lianxiang Yinshan and Lianxiang group is not comparable to that of fruit companies. After all, Lianxiang group ranks first in PC production and sales in the world. Many products have led the trend and led the R & D direction of major manufacturers.

How can such an enterprise with capital, technology and creativity be ignored? What's more, Feng Yu is still the largest shareholder of Chaowei, Kingston, yingweida, etc., which can affect the whole PC industry. How can we despise it?

Bill Gates suddenly asked, "you guys, do you think it's necessary for the system of fruit company to exist?"

Everyone is in a daze. Is the chairman going to crush the fruit company?

"Have you ever thought about whether we can buy fruit company?"

The former fruit company was the one they had to support to survive. In order to prevent the monopoly, Microsoft was forced to split up, even a huge fine.

Fruit companies have been able to occupy only a small share of the market, and then Microsoft can make a lot of money, many concerns do not exist.

But now even think of Yinshan's existence, Microsoft has a strong competitor in the software market, which is far greater than the threat of fruit company.

Microsoft no longer needs fruit companies to prove that they don't have a monopoly. And fruit companies have to compete with them, separate their market, such competitors, why Microsoft still let its development?

The program of fruit company is different from the source code of Microsoft, but the ability of those software engineers to develop application software is world-class.

If we can swallow the fruit company, it is very important for Microsoft. Ballmer's plan to build his own brand of electronic products is directly completed, and is simpler than his own.The idea of buying a fruit company doesn't conflict with Paul Allen's, and the company deserves to be a subsidiary of Microsoft.

Fruit company's PC share is not high, but it still has certain advantages in office, which will not cause other PC manufacturers too much resistance.

It can even be used as a test to test the attitude of those PC manufacturers. After thinking about Yinshan, will those PC manufacturers resist Microsoft's making their own electronic brand so strongly.

Originally, Microsoft was considering whether to purchase a mobile phone brand for its own operation. Now when it is established, many businesses are too late to recruit relevant managers. If they want to do it, they can't do it too small. That doesn't conform to Microsoft's identity.

When talking about cooperation with wordy, Microsoft once thought of buying shares in wordy love brand, but finally gave up after some consideration. This is a brand jointly created by wordy and Ericsson. Unless all of them are purchased, it will not help Microsoft to expand its brand influence.

It's all settled by buying fruit company.

Whether it's a traditional PC, a new tablet, a smart phone, or even a super MP3 or something, fruit companies have them, even e-paper books.

With the help of Microsoft's strong brand effect, capital and technical advantages, it is possible to win any wind and rain brand or even think about it.

Balmer hesitated: "bill, although the sales of fruit companies are declining, the brand is still very good in North America, has a great influence in Europe, and has a good profit. If we want to acquire it, it's too difficult. I'm afraid that the political axe won't pass. "

Paul Allen said, "what if we, like Feng Yu's subsidiaries, don't cross shareholding each other and remain independent, but let their shareholders be a group of people?"

Ballmer is silent. It seems feasible to operate in this way, but can it succeed?

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