Chapter 1045

When Li Mu came to America, he made a series of combos.

The most direct result of this combination is the sharp rise of users of Paradise town in the United States.

Driven by two tens of millions of dollars of bonus activities, "Paradise town" can hardly stop like a wing, which makes the whole Microsoft MSN business department panic.

At present, MSN has four core businesses: MSN portal network, MSN network access, MSN Messenger and MSN hotmail.

Among them, msn-messenger is the MSN software for instant messaging. In addition, MSN portal and MSN mailbox are also important business segments of MSN, with more than 100 million users.

Among them, the one who is most afraid of YY is msn-messenger, which has the same positioning as YY, but the overall level is different from the instant messaging software of several times.

In their eyes, "Paradise town" is like the launching pad of YY, a nuclear bomb. As its users increase, the angle of the launching pad tends to be more vertical. Once the angle enters the ideal launching state of 90 degree vertical, YY will be released mercilessly by Li Mu.

Microsoft is very clear up and down, once YY uses "Paradise town" to achieve the perfect debut in front of the US netizens, MSN will suffer the disaster.

Today's MSN has been abandoned by YY for several times at the product level. Although the latest version has been quietly developed, and many of YY's unique functions have been copied in the latest version, Li Mu's deep understanding of the future Internet is still lacking, so even if the new version is developed, it is still much weaker than YY as a whole.

It is also easy to understand that for a long time, compared with the automobile manufacturers in developed countries, the domestic automobile manufacturers have a huge strength gap. Even if there are so many overseas successful models for reference, the domestic automobile still has a gap with the developed countries in engine, chassis, gearbox and other aspects, which is the objective fact of the technical gap.

Although Microsoft is powerful as a whole, it is not a universal enterprise in the Internet industry. MSN has always been a rotten product in the eyes of Li Mu in the last life, which shows that Microsoft does not really have the gene to make social communication software.

So, even if Microsoft wants to imitate Li Mu in this life, it should not have this gene or not, which is a defect that he can't make up.

Behind many of YY's humanized functions, there are technical patent barriers of Makino technology itself. How to solve users' chatting records roaming, offline files, how to support group chatting, how to solve the group message receiving and sending and storage logic, how to develop more advanced streaming media transmission technology, and how to realize nesting in the software, etc. are all what Microsoft MSN needs Solve the problem.

In addition, Microsoft can't compete with Makino technology only in terms of design aesthetics and interface friendliness.

Design Aesthetics needs a long-term precipitation to form its own set of things. It is difficult to form its own style simply by imitating and copying, which is very obvious in the automotive industry.

In the next ten years, even if there are so many overseas successful models of domestic cars for reference, it is still difficult to produce several truly original and really good-looking models, because of the lack of design aesthetics precipitation.

Of course, it's needless to say that a series of products are 100% copied by Zhongti's tape measure. However, Zhongti can do such a thing, but Microsoft will not.

Because of this, MSN is developing the latest version in-house, which still lags behind YY for more than one time in design aesthetics.

However, this new MSN, which is still behind YY by more than one era, has not been developed yet, and several functions have not yet been able to find effective solutions. According to the plan, this product will wait at least another two months to be tested, and then it will be released after the test is correct.

But now, MSN's team leader can't wait.

Once "Paradise town" begins to flow to YY, msn-messenger is the first one. It can be predicted that by then, all players of "Paradise town" will almost give up MSN and turn to YY in the first time.

In addition, there is MSN mailbox. YY itself integrates the mailbox function, and the user experience is much better than msn-messenger and MSN mailbox. If the user gives up msn-messenger and chooses YY, it can be sure that the user will give up MSN mailbox.

The only thing to be thankful for is that YY portal is not available in English yet, otherwise even MSN portal will be impacted by YY.

So, in the eyes of MSN team, YY is the number one enemy of MSN at present. In order to prevent YY from suddenly using paradise town to occupy the whole American market, Luis may, the head of MSN business department and one of the vice presidents of Microsoft group, held an emergency meeting, decided to launch the new version of MSN in advance, and asked that the faster the better.Lewis May's request made everyone feel nervous.

"The new version of MSN is still in the process of development," said the head of the development team. "The early launch of the new version of MSN indicates that it must stop development immediately, remove all sections that have not been completed, and then package the completed parts for testing. Even if we finish packaging today, the testing will take several days."

Luis Message: "how long does it take? Give me a clear time node! "

The head of the development team frowned for a moment and said, "about five days."

Louis may nodded and said, "you can wait five days. Do it as soon as you can."

The head of the development team added: "we still have a lot of functions that have not been developed. If we go online in such a hurry, our new version will not improve much on the basis of the old version."

Louis May asked him, "what are the functions that have been developed now?"

"At this stage, the only functions completed in the development are: friend custom grouping, user-defined notes, group chat. Other requirements have not been solved."

Louis may firmly said: "there is no choice. We must update our products before YY is fully launched. The current situation is not to let us slowly build a product that can rival YY, but to try our best to resist the impact of the other party before YY is fully attacked. So at this stage, even if there is only one new function To develop it, we must go online as soon as possible, otherwise once YY moves first, we will have no power to parry. "

Now msn-messenger is like a defense fortification. Before the YY landing war, Microsoft should do its best to improve the defense capability of this fortification. Even if there are only a few more machine guns, they should be deployed as soon as possible. Otherwise, once YY landing is successful and destroys Microsoft MSN's defense fortification completely, MSN will be completely late for upgrading.

The staff in charge of msn-messenger operation smacked: "we are still too weak in front of YY with so few new functions developed at present."

"There's no way to be weak!" Luis Met said: "we don't have much time. Li Mu has invested such a large cost in paradise town. The basic purpose is to push YY to the eyes of Internet users in the United States. We must upgrade the product as soon as possible, so there is still a chance to retain some users!"

Speaking of this, Louis may said: "now we are advancing in two directions together, one is to upgrade the product as soon as possible, the other is to continue to develop the product function in depth, and to speed up the speed, we should now like to send ammunition to the front line, do not put all guns and ammunition together to send them to the past, so once the enemy starts the war, our front line may not have When our guns and ammunition are delivered, they will be leveled by the enemy. We need to adopt the strategy of fast delivery. From now on, we need to update the first version as soon as possible. After the first version is updated, once new functions are developed, the second version will be updated immediately! "

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After the launch of "Paradise town Thanksgiving global competition", the enthusiasm of capital for Makino technology has increased a little, so that Makino technology Silicon Valley Branch has to receive a large number of VC employees every day, but the official reception of Makino technology is also perfunctory. All the VC employees who come to Makino can only mix a glass of water with Makino technology at most, and they The request to meet with Li Mu or Lin Qingya was mercilessly rejected by the company administration.

Among them, Sequoia is the most urgent.

A few days ago, Sequoia learned from Larry Page that Li Mu would reopen the financing negotiation window after the next move of Muye technology. This "Paradise town Thanksgiving global competition" made them think that this is the "next move" in Li Mu's mouth, so they thought that Li Mu would soon open the financing negotiation window, These two days have been frantically looking for an interview with Li Mu. Even Elon Musk has become a lobbyist for Sequoia, hoping to help Sequoia make an appointment with Li Mu.

However, Li Mu didn't give Elon Musk extra face. He just told Elon Musk that the opportunity for negotiation had not yet arrived.

This makes Sequoia even more nervous. The chance of negotiation hasn't arrived yet? Is there any other action behind Li Mu?

Finally, as a last resort, the headquarters of Sequoia asked the Chinese people of Sequoia to directly contact Ding Zhenglin, who is in charge of capital operation of Muye technology. Ding Zhenglin himself is a Sequoia. He has some old feelings. Let him make an appointment with Li muyue again. Even if he doesn't talk about financing first, he can only make an appointment.

Ding Zhenglin didn't read about Sequoia's old love. He replied to Sequoia's four words coldly: "not for the moment."

Li Mu's attitude is very straightforward: I will not talk about financing with you now, even if you come to the president of the United States to lobby.

Because Li Mu still had one of the last big killers not sacrificed, he made a series of moves in paradise town. Now, it's YY's turn to release the latest version.

At this moment, the Development Department of MSN is fully preparing for the update of the latest version. Compared with the original plan, this version is only a castrated version. However, in the eyes of MSN team, even the castrated version is better than nothing, and can't be suddenly caught by Makino Technology