Chapter 554

"Hello, Mr. Ding Lei."

"So are you, Mr. bill."

It was a surprise.

An uninvited guest came to Netease today.

And this unexpected guest is very familiar.

The uninvited guest is Bill Gates, the founder and CEO of Microsoft.

Although Ding Lei once dealt with bill, and in the last West Lake sword Internet forum, Ding Lei and bill talked for a while. However, for Bill's unexpected arrival, Ding Lei still seemed very surprised.

However, no matter how unexpected.

Microsoft is the world's most famous IT giant.

Whether it is his fame or status, it is important all over the world.

Bill's visit to Netease is obviously not as simple as visiting.

"Mr. Ding Lei, your Netease is one of the most famous Internet enterprises in China. I like your Netease very much."

"Mr. bill flattered us. Microsoft has always been the object of our study."

"Mr. Ding Lei, I am an American. I like to be direct. I came to you today to reach a cooperation with you Netease."

"Please."

This is exactly what Ding Lei wants.

He was still thinking about what Bill was looking for himself.

"I would like to ask, how many users are there in your Netease bubble?"

"This..."

Ding Lei didn't answer the question at the first time.

Netease started instant messaging several years ago.

Their Netease bubble is Netease's instant messaging software.

Only once they compete with YY of Huanyu technology, their Netease bubble has long become an edge product.

"Mr. Ding Lei, I don't mean anything else. I just want to know."

Probably saw Ding Lei's hesitation, Bill explained.

"Although there are still some users of Netease bubble, it has become a niche product, and the number of online users is only hundreds of thousands."

This kind of data can be known only by careful investigation.

Not to mention the strength of Microsoft, Ding Lei didn't hide it after thinking about it.

With that, Ding Lei subconsciously looked at Bill: "Mr. bill, are you going to do instant messaging?"

"Mr. Ding Lei, Microsoft started instant messaging as early as last year."

Bill smiled.

"Oh, yes, you have MSN this instant messenger."

Although Microsoft is an operating system company, its business is far from just operating systems.

Microsoft has business in browser, database, office software, instant messaging... And so on.

MSN was first launched in 1995.

However, MSN was mainly used for dial-up Internet access at that time.

Later, MSN gradually became a platform for portal websites.

As of last year, that is, 2003, Microsoft entered the instant messaging market and launched MSN instant messaging software.

However, at that time, MSN mainly served Europe and America, and did not launch the Chinese version.

This time obviously means the Chinese market.

"Mr. bill, you have too much business. You have monopolized the operating system. Why are you interested in instant messaging?"

"I wasn't particularly interested in instant messaging before, but later I participated in a West Lake sword forum. You were there, Mr. Ding Lei."

"Mr. bill, you were listening."

"Yes, although I was listening and didn't comment, I focused on one person."

"Chen Yu?"

"Yes, that's him."

Bill smiled and said, "it's Chen Yu. He made me realize the importance of instant messaging."

"Indeed."

Ding Lei also sighed.

In fact, he has long recognized the importance of instant messaging.

Therefore, Netease has laid out the layout of instant messaging early.

Unfortunately, it's not that you realize how important instant messaging is that you can do it.

Compared with Huanyu technology, their Netease bubble has been half dead.

In other words, in fact, they did not compete with Huanyu technology.

At that time, Huanyu technology competed more with penguin's QQ.

But Huanyu technology defeated QQ, and their Netease bubble ended.

This has some bad consequences for the fish pond.

But Ding Lei also knows that this is just self consolation. The real reason is that Netease bubble is not doing very well.

"So we want to cooperate with your company."

"We hope to acquire your Netease bubble. Of course, we can also compensate you. You Netease can own certain shares of MSN. Of course, the share proportion will not be very large. I hope Mr. Ding Lei can understand."

"Acquisition?"

Ding Lei was surprised: "the strength of Microsoft is obvious to all. With the strength of your Microsoft family, you can launch your own instant messaging software. It doesn't matter whether you buy our Netease bubble or not."

Ding Lei said so, but he was not willing to sell the Netease bubble.

Whether Netease bubble is an edge product or not, it has always been Netease's instant messaging business.

No matter how bad it is, it can be regarded as a strategic layout.

"Hehe, I know Mr. Ding Lei is reluctant. But I have studied Huanyu technology. They are not such an easy company to deal with."

"Sorry, I can't reply to you now."

"Mr. Ding Lei, you can think about it. We are very sincere."

Although Ding Lei didn't accept it for the time being, bill was not angry and left Netease with a smile.

……

"Brothers, does anyone play Warcraft together?"

"What's fun about Warcraft? We're playing Kyushu."

"I'll go. Kyushu is rubbish. Do you also play Kyushu?"

"Garbage?"

"Isn't it?"

In a game group, a hardcore Warcraft fan recommended world of Warcraft to the group.

He likes Warcraft too much.

This is not only because he is a world of Warcraft fan, but also because world of Warcraft has indeed achieved the top in the world.

Kyushu ol is not that he hasn't played. Compared with Warcraft, it's rubbish.

"My grass, can you talk well?"

"I speak well. I know you disagree, but I can prove it to you one by one. For example, can Kyushu ol compare with the picture in terms of atmosphere and refinement?"

In order to convince them, the friend cut two real pictures of the game.

Indeed, it can be seen from the picture that although Kyushu ol is also atmospheric, the picture is slightly rough.

However, as many Kyushu fans, of course, they were not happy and immediately said, "OK, your picture is very good. Why is the number of online users so much worse than Kyushu ol?"

"That can only blame Netease. Netease can't work. It has nothing to do with world of Warcraft. Well, let's talk about skills. World of Warcraft skills are linked one by one. Each professional skill has its own characteristics and mutual restraint. In addition, this is also reflected in the equipment. Do you have any ol in Jiuzhou?"

"Don't talk nonsense about Kiba. We just want to ask, why are you so few online in world of Warcraft?"

"Er... Let's talk about the map system again. We have achieved seamless connection in Warcraft, that is, seamless map. Do you have it in Kyushu?"

"The number of online users in Kyushu is about to break 700000."

"Our world of Warcraft background is bigger than your Kyushu."

"The number of online users in Kyushu is about to break 700000."

"Our mission system blew up your Kyushu."

"The number of online users in Kyushu is about to break 700000."

"I said... Can you stop talking about the number of people on the line?"

"OK."

"Our world of Warcraft PVE system is the most powerful of all online games."

"The number of online users in Kyushu is about to break 700000."

“……”

The friend who recommended world of Warcraft in the group is not good.

Even if he said how about world of Warcraft, the other party came and went, just one sentence, the number of people on the line in Kyushu.

Yes.

The friend admitted that Kyushu has a lot of people online, much more than world of Warcraft.

But is it better than world of Warcraft with a large number of online users?

No, No.

"Brothers, we have to launch a wave of publicity on the Internet."

The friend was a little excited. He felt it necessary to contribute to the promotion of world of Warcraft.

Those guys are really brain cripples. They have to make a big move.

"How to publicize? It's useless for Netease to publicize so much. Can we do it?"

"Why not. Netease is too rubbish. Relying on them, our popularity in world of Warcraft will become worse and worse. Instead, we might as well attack some real players. We go to various websites, circles, forums, YY groups and blogs on the Internet to publicize them all."

"What are you promoting?"

"Publicize the comparison between world of Warcraft and Kyushu ol, and let all players know whether world of Warcraft is fun or Kyushu ol is fun. In the evening, I will write a comprehensive evaluation post, and you can copy and send it out."

"OK, wait for your evaluation."

Many world of Warcraft irons are looking forward to it.