The development of the world is always unexpected. Daqian and Microsoft, who seem to have been killed, suddenly magically stopped at this moment.
Microsoft removed the latest QQ update patch, and Daqian also gave up the promotion of WPS. All advertisements were taken off the shelves. Overnight, it seemed that the whole world was quiet.
Of course, well-informed people soon got the news and sold it to the media for the first time. As a result, people all over the world soon learned about Daqian's gambling with Microsoft on QQ and MSN.
The media immediately took the news to interview Microsoft and Daqian. At the beginning, Microsoft didn't admit it, but what Microsoft didn't expect was that Daqian admitted it at once.
They even announced the number of active users currently confirmed by both sides, of which the total number of excellent users of QQ is 13.16 million, while the total number of active users of MSN is 10.71 million.
This made Microsoft very angry, but Microsoft soon found that with the news recognized, the war between QQ and MSN became the focus of attention all over the world, and all kinds of relevant news flew all over the world.
If there is a hot search list at this time, it will be found that the popularity of QQ and MSN has increased more than ten times in a short time. Almost all people are enthusiastically discussing QQ and MSN, discussing who loses and who wins these two software. For a moment, these two software occupy the core of everyone's chat.
However, although there was no hot search, Daqian and Microsoft soon realized the heat this time, because in just one day, the download volume and the number of active users of QQ and MSN soared by nearly 4 million, running towards the number of 5 million.
QQ and MSN have developed for two years and the other for more than a year. As a result, the accumulated users have completed 13 in a week.
These are obviously the traffic brought by gambling. Those who have never heard of QQ and MSN, or have heard of them but are not interested in these two software, after knowing this gambling, they all began to download these two software curiously, want to see who is better, and bet by the way.
Yes, it's a bet.
The gambling industry in the United States and Europe is legal. As soon as the gambling appointment of QQ and MSN comes out, the gambling companies with keen sense of smell have released their openings one after another, so that customers can bet on QQ and MSN.
Many people who intend to bet will naturally download QQ and MSN at the first time, and then see who is better and which one they should choose. Anyway, the whole country is very lively by this thing, and the number of users has naturally soared.
This Bill Gates soon realized that he had to admit it, because if he didn't admit it, it would appear guilty. If he was guilty, everyone would be more optimistic about QQ, and QQ would have an advantage.
At the same time, Bill Gates also realized that this seems to be no longer a simple bet to decide whether to block QQ, but a major event related to the future of Microsoft and thousands of enterprises. If Microsoft loses this time, I'm afraid it won't be Microsoft's laughter among many people.
Moreover, this time, if QQ and MSN lose, I'm afraid they will be unable to afford a defeat and completely become the tears of the times. This is a war that determines the instant messaging entrance in the network age. Microsoft must not lose!
Although Bill Gates felt that his odds of winning were definitely more than 80%, he was not a person who underestimated the enemy. After discovering the importance of this bet, Bill Gates immediately made corresponding arrangements.
First of all, at the next press conference, Bill Gates pretended to inadvertently admit the bet, and then directly said that now Microsoft is in an advantage... Anyway, the result comes out in the end. Whoever wins and loses in the process depends on whose mouth can blow more.
Anyway, judging from the performance of Bill Gates at the press conference, this bet is just a small game, and Microsoft will undoubtedly win.
Many people also firmly believe that this is the case. Although the total number of people now seems to be dominated by QQ, QQ is an enterprise operated by Chinese people. How can an enterprise that is closed, backward and does not comply with the market economy Beat Microsoft in the world of freedom and democracy.
After all, who would believe that Brazil will be kicked out 0-7 by others in football?
So, in the United States and Europe, the odds of buying Microsoft began to plummet, and the odds of buying Daqian began to soar, reaching a loss of 2.2.
But soon, Microsoft made a new move, that is, Microsoft announced that all systems sold in the future will be bound and installed with MSN, so that users can contact more conveniently.
If so, it's just that all Microsoft software will follow MSN software with the software, and then MSN will be automatically installed when the software is installed.
Of course, if the user doesn't want to, he can not install it. Just shock the details in the installation interface, click notes, click additional software, and then cancel the small check in front of MSN. It's very simple, just need to click a few extra mouse clicks.
According to the statistics of some interested people, MSN has added 10 million installations in just one month. According to their statistics, in the next year, MSN can increase at least 100 million installations just by relying on these binding installation routines.
Although the installation amount is not equal to the number of active users, as long as there is a 10% conversion rate, that is 10 million active users. How can Microsoft lose?
Seeing these measures, netizens scolded Microsoft for being shameless, and began to buy the opening won by Microsoft. In an instant, they gave Daqian's odds to chonggaodao at 3.1 for 1.
Daqian on the other side is not so lucky. After all, Daqian does not have such monopoly resources for QQ. At most, it is to install QQ for Internet cafes in China, and then pre install QQ for all Xiaomi computers in advance, and uninstall the pre installed MSN in the system.
Otherwise, there seems to be no other means.
Oh, by the way, it seems that Taobao announced that in the future, they will join the online service function and become a strategic partner with QQ. In the future, all customer services of Taobao will be carried out directly through QQ. Taobao buyers must download QQ to communicate with sellers normally.
However, these things are a drop in the bucket. In fact, QQ has long been installed in Internet cafes all over China, and there are not many star active users.
As for Xiaomi computers, the current monthly shipment of about 800000 units is only 10 million a year, less than one tenth of Microsoft's.
As for Taobao, there are even fewer. After all, there are not many people who buy things on Taobao.
But secretly, many black and evil forces specializing in pirated CDs of windows system have received a hidden message, that is, if they sell pirated CDs of Microsoft system, if they remove MSN and bind QQ at the same time, they can get a commission of 10 cents for each CD they sell.
For a while, QQ is famous among pirates!
Anyway, for the sake of this war, all kinds of shameless means of both sides have been used, and everything that can be used has been used.
But it seems that both sides have forgotten that it is not these that can really determine the results, but the product itself.