Chapter 2908

Lin Feng is going to sell short of Microsoft. This is a very strong news.

Lin Feng's aim is to attack Microsoft. Is it a counterattack against Ballmer's listing China as a key anti piracy area? How many hands will Lin Feng sell short of Microsoft?

The answer came out very quickly.

Microsoft's total share capital is 8.38 billion shares, and its current share price is $18.2 per share, with a total market value of about $152.516 billion. Lin Feng directly sold 100 million shares of Microsoft. At present, the share price of Microsoft is at $18.2, and Lin Feng sold short for one week. Today is February 26, that is March 5. Lin Feng will close his position. At that time, for every $1 decline in Microsoft's share price, Lin Feng will make $100 million. For every $1 rise, Lin Feng will lose $100 million.

This is a very shocking index gamble. Of course, this is by no means the largest amount of futures index gambling. After all, wall street plays a bigger game everywhere. So many venture capital companies quietly go bankrupt and financial giants sink because they play this kind of futures index gambling, and they wrongly evaluate the market situation, which leads to many bankruptcies, just because they play too much. Lin Feng's 100 million stock futures index is nothing. The total amount is only $1.82 billion.

This is nothing compared to Lin Feng's assets. The reason why it is amazing is that Lin Feng directly pointed out the matter. In the past so many times, no one will say everything. Because once you make it clear, then the other party will try every means to fight against you. If you want to sell short, the other party will make its stock price very high. If you want to be long, the other side will sell short. It's such a good thing to do. Therefore, even if those financial tycoons want to attack a stock, they will never say so clearly like Lin Feng.

"Damn it! This guy is against us Ballmer's forehead was blue and blue.

Lin Feng told the outside world that he was shorting Microsoft in the face of the whole world‘ Microsoft has just announced three things, and has launched a patch for vista, and will officially launch vista on March 1. This is good news. If Vista solves the problem of high energy and low efficiency, it will bring huge profits to Microsoft again. After all, after the launch of Microsoft's system, the corresponding other supporting software will sell a lot.

For example, "office" is the most cheating office software in history. Every time Microsoft's system is upgraded, office will be upgraded, and every time it is upgraded, users will have to pay for it. Of course, even if Microsoft does not upgrade its system, it will also launch the corresponding upgraded version every year. For example, "Office 97", "office 98"... "Office 2003" and so on! Are these "office" software really different?

For ordinary users, the difference is not big, except for a slight change in the interface, you can't feel any other changes. And for this, you have to pay a lot of money to buy genuine. Therefore, the launch of the official version of "Vista" is definitely the biggest good news for Microsoft.

But Lin Feng is short! Global short selling of 100 million Microsoft shares. It makes Ballmer angry. Of course, he is angry now, and no one will discuss with him. In the past, he was able to discuss with Bill Gates, but now Bill Gates has completely faded out of the management of Microsoft and no longer interfered in the daily affairs of Microsoft, which makes Ballmer have to find a way to deal with Lin Feng's short selling.

A week! Ballmer gritted his teeth and decided to at least double Microsoft's share price in a week. Yes, that's double. He's going to make Lin Feng lose $1.8 billion. Although the money is not much, he just wants to let Lin Feng lose money and vent his anger. Of course, if you want to vent your anger, you must come up with all kinds of countermeasures.

The first thing!

"Release the news, let those computer magazines publicize the official version of" visita ", improve the problem of high energy and low efficiency in the past, will be the best operating system in the history of" Microsoft. " Ballmer told the Minister of public relations.

This is Ballmer's first move. As long as "Vista" is excellent, no matter what happens, "Microsoft" will win.

All of a sudden, under the public relations of Microsoft, the major computer magazines in the United States vigorously advocated the excellence of "visita" and threatened that the official version of "Vista" would run at least three times faster than before after correcting several major loopholes in the beta version. The strict requirements on hardware were reduced by 50%, and the efficiency of memory management was increased by 130%. These computer magazines blow "Vista" like the strongest operating system in history.

"Hey, are you exaggerating! If you want to say that Microsoft's operating system has always been like that, it's just because of its good compatibility! As long as programmers in the industry know, the best operating system in the industry is apple. Microsoft has a lot of bugs and slow speed, but its popularity is high! " Ellison looked down at the flattery.

"Well, Ellison, you are a professional programmer, but I am a program idiot. This kind of flattery, look, so many numbers, how eye-catching ah, a look exciting ah Lin Feng was laughing.

"Well, Lin, are you all right! How can you help Microsoft talk and be so happy! You see, now the stock price of Microsoft is going up by $2 because of the sale of the legal version of Vista, and these computer magazines have spared no effort to promote it. You have already lost $200 million. Darling, if you go up like this, you will lose a lot. Although you have money, it's not a way to lose money like this! What a shame! You can't lose by wagering against Microsoft Ellison was worried when he saw Lin Feng's relaxed look.

Lin Feng is a smile, leisurely to Ellison poured a cup of coffee.

"Larry, don't worry, don't worry. It's still too early to really win or lose! At least until March 1st. Now, it's not the time! " Lin Feng smiles.

March 1, the day when Vista goes on sale. Ellison nodded. Indeed, it's useless to be in a hurry now‘ "Vista" is in the hands of "Microsoft." Microsoft says it's good, but it's good. The outside world doesn't know. If you want to argue, don't you stick your face to others. Why don't we wait until March 1, when the system goes on sale, to see if it's really as good as Microsoft says.

"But, Lin, if you don't fight back, Microsoft will continue to attack. Moreover, it will directly affect the stock of your company! " Ellison said, pointing to the "second world" where stock prices have fallen slightly.

Because of Lin Feng's short selling and gambling, Lin Feng's "second world" and "Microsoft" shares are tied together. Of course, it's not the kind of people who are both prosperous and loser, but the posture that you go up and I go down and you go down and I go up. In this case, if Lin Feng doesn't respond all the time, the stock price will fall sharply.

"Oh, Ellison, drop it, it doesn't matter. If you can fall, you can rise back. Anyway, as far as I'm concerned, I never intend to sell the company's shares. What's more, my "second world" has plenty of cash. At present, I have more than $20 billion in cash reserves, which is enough to meet my daily needs. What's more, once I really encounter any difficulties, I can borrow directly from my "second bank", so the stock price is nothing to me! It's just a bunch of numbers! " Lin fengxiao said.

Ellison shook his head helplessly. I'm afraid Lin Feng is the only one who doesn't value the stock price. After all, the wealth of most super rich people is in the stock price. For example, Allison's assets were about $27 billion before. Now, despite the $18 billion loan, his assets are $1.3 billion. This is because Oracle's share price rose by 200% after receiving $18 billion from apple, which makes Allison qualified to be on the Forbes list again. But there is no doubt that there is a big gap between this and the previous $27 billion. The reason for this is that Oracle's share price is almost delisted.

Lin Feng didn't make any response here, which was a bit beyond Ballmer's expectation. However, Ballmer is also cruel. Since Lin Feng doesn't speak, he doesn't care if Lin Feng has any back moves. In a word, he wants to attack first, attack again, and fight Lin Feng in a hurry. He doesn't believe Lin Feng can keep calm all the time.

Next, Ballmer's second move is to crack down on piracy.

Microsoft, together with the United Nations Anti Piracy Association, went to the China Administration for Industry and Commerce and asked the Ministry of industry and commerce to crack down on piracy in China. It also directly put pressure on China through the U.S. Department of Commerce to crack down on piracy and put an end to piracy of any Microsoft software. At the same time, "Microsoft" issued a notice that "Microsoft" will crack down on piracy in the near future. All people who install pirated "Microsoft" system software will have a black screen every hour. The system will prompt users to refuse to use the pirated version, and will require users to use the genuine version. Otherwise, they will be sued by "Microsoft".

The crackdown on piracy has directly shocked the industry. Before that, when Microsoft announced its crackdown on piracy, the outside world did not take it too seriously. After all, piracy is rampant in Asia, which has become a public knowledge. Any software company in the world has taken a laissez faire attitude towards it. I think this is inevitable. It's just a waste of money to crack down on piracy. It's a temporary blow, but not a lifetime. At most, when you crack down, the pirates will be restrained. If you relax, the pirates will make a comeback again. These pirates are very clever in using the guerrilla tactics of "enemy advancing, enemy retreating, enemy advancing". Therefore, few people believe that Microsoft will fight against piracy.

But I didn't think that this time Microsoft came to play really. But even so, what impact will this have on Lin Feng? You mean business scolds Huai and says that Lin Feng connives at piracy, which embarrasses Lin Feng a little at most. What's the use of your attack?

Ballmer gave a cold smile. What's the usage? Hey, hey, Lin Feng is going to lose face this time（ It's not finished yet. If you like this work, you are welcome to start (Qidian. Com) to vote for recommendation and monthly ticket. Your support is my biggest motivation.)