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Chapter 3081 Software Services

In the evening, Zhou Buqi will participate in family entertainment.

Not accompanying the wife, but accompanying the children.

You have to play games with them, watch cartoons with them, and as a father you have to act like a father and participate in some parent-child activities.

Fortunately, the children have to go to bed at nine o'clock in the evening.

The adults' nightlife can begin.

For example, an outdoor pool party.

Wang Langli has participated in it several times, but she still feels a little embarrassed and her heart is beating fast, and she can't wipe her face.

Sun Wanran couldn't bear to watch and asked her, "What's wrong with you?"

Wang Langli felt a little guilty, "What's wrong with me?"

Sun Wanran glanced at Boss Zhou who was surrounded by beautiful girls in the swimming pool and asked, "Hasn't it been done yet?"

Wang Langli whispered, "The boss said there's no rush."

"He's not in a hurry, and neither are you?" Sun Wanran said unhappily, "Why are you so stupid? He hasn't taken the initiative to pursue a girl in years, why don't you understand?"

Wang Langli blushed, said "Oh", and asked weakly: "What should I do?"

Sun Wanran said, "What should we do? Just tell me! Go find him and explain everything to him. Then go to his room tonight. It's that simple."

Wang Langli bit her lip and stopped talking.

  How could she feel comfortable with this?

Sun Wanran rolled her eyes at her and asked, "Then what do you want to do?"

Wang Langli whispered: "Why don't you go and tell the boss..."

Sun Wanran laughed and said, "This is your lifelong event, and you still need my help? I can help, but wouldn't that destroy the tacit understanding between the two of you?"

Wang Langli said in a delicate voice: "Aren't you the chief secretary?"

"I'm not, Ning Yaxian is." Sun Wanran was not in a position to take on the responsibility. "I'm at most the deputy general manager. Ning Yaxian is about to leave. She has a higher EQ than me and can speak English, Japanese, and French. There will be no place for me in the future."

Wang Langli was a little embarrassed, "I'm not familiar with her..."

Sun Wanran said, "Okay, your boss will go back to the study to work soon, come with me!"

……

At night, there must be working hours without fail.

Senior Sister Zhen Yu is here too.

Zhou Buqi had a private talk with her first, "Don't rush to sell Microsoft's stock. After talking with Kurian today, I discovered something new. Microsoft's growth momentum is still very strong. It has only been a few months, but the software service sector has already surpassed Oracle and SAP by more than $20 billion. Especially since Nadella is Indian, he is very shameless."

Zhen Yu didn't sell much Microsoft stock to begin with, so she couldn't help but laugh when she heard this, "Isn't Nadella the CEO of Microsoft?"

Zhou Buqi said, "Yes, I'm talking about him! How shameless! He is trying to plagiarize me! He is targeting Ziwei Cloud and is forcing me to do it! Ziwei Cloud's two core software services are Weishu and Netdisk. The annual revenue of the two softwares exceeds 80 billion US dollars, and Microsoft is forcing me to do it right away!"

Zhen Yu didn't know much about business matters, but she understood what he meant. "Microsoft has also launched a cloud storage service and collaborative office software?"

Zhou Buqi said: "The online disk business has always existed, but it was not done well before. Microsoft did not have any Internet thinking and used software thinking to make online disks, which of course did not work. Now Nadella is different. He uses the open thinking of the Internet to operate online disks and even changed the name from SkyDrive to OneDrive. Look at the name, this is an attempt to become the first in the industry!"

Online storage products are a losing business in the country.

Even the best-performing Weidian and Baidu Netdisk still lose hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

It is different overseas, where there is stronger spending power and more paying users.

Under Kurian's leadership, EverDrive, a cloud storage product under Ziwei Star International and affiliated to Ziwei Cloud, has become the world's largest cloud storage product, with more than 3.8 million users worldwide, including more than 7000 million paying members. The annual membership fee alone exceeds US$50 billion.

It is more than the total of the second, third, fourth and fifth ranked online disk products, and can be said to be the only one that dominates the market.

Online storage has become Ziwei Cloud's most profitable product, and it is a software service product.

Although Microsoft is a software giant, Kurian is not bad either, as his main business is software.

Having planned ahead for so many years, he is very confident in Ziwei Cloud's software services.

Microsoft adjusted its strategy to "cloud first". To focus on the development of Microsoft Cloud, it naturally had to target the industry leader. The first thing was to change Microsoft's thinking from software to Internet thinking, and use Internet thinking to promote the newly renamed Microsoft OneDrive.

Zhen Yu asked, "The online disk business shouldn't pose any threat, right? I'm also using an online disk, and I think EverDrive is the best online disk. Rather than a cloud service, it's more like a C-end Internet product."

Zhou Buqi nodded. "Indeed, online disk products have strong Internet attributes. Even if Microsoft wants to switch and pose a threat to EverDrive, it is almost impossible. However, they have Office, which is their trump card. Microsoft can earn tens of billions of dollars every year by selling Office software. Now they not only want to provide Office cloud services, but also want to develop a team collaboration product around Office."

"Imitating Weishu?"

"Correct!"

"This is really scary."

Zhen Yu also realized the threat. Office is a super giant, and it is a must-learn office software for many white-collar workers in the workplace. They are familiar with the shortcut keys. Even if Google Docs, Weishu and other products also include the functions of the office suite, white-collar workers in the workplace are not in the computer industry, and they don’t know how to use it. Even if they can use it, they are not as proficient as office software.

This will in turn require companies to only purchase office software.

Many universities' computer exams for non-computer industry students test the use of Office, rather than competing products such as Weishu and Google Docs.

Usage habits and usage thresholds are destined to make the office suite last forever.

It is impressive that Microsoft is going to launch a collaborative office software based on Office to compete with Weishu.

Zhou Buqi said: "This is gossip. It is said that Microsoft is developing it internally and it may be launched in the next one or two years. I believe this is true. Ballmer may not do such a plagiarizing thing. Now Nadella has taken over and he has no such concerns."

Zhen Yu nodded slightly, "It seems that Microsoft still has great potential!"

Zhou Buqi said, "Fortunately, I have acquired LinkedIn. If Microsoft had bought LinkedIn and integrated it with Microsoft Cloud, the cloud computing market would have really changed. Even if it couldn't shake Ziwei Cloud's position as the industry leader, it would have significantly reduced Ziwei Cloud's market share."

"Okay, I understand. I understand Microsoft's expectations." Zhen Yu is now relaxed because she is very rich. Her family has more than 20 billion US dollars in their account. "Alibaba is going public. What do you think? Should I hold it for a long time or cash out at the right time? Or should I take advantage of the IPO opportunity and get a share of the cash out?"

Zhou Buqi said, "Goodbye, Boss Ma is in a state of panic right now. His equity is very complicated, and many people want to cash out and make a fortune. He is too busy to handle it. Let's not make things more complicated. Let's wait until the ban period is over and then slowly sell it out."

"Also, Netflix is ​​going to issue a bond, but Netflix's debt is already quite high, and the interest required by financial institutions is too high. They asked me if I could make a show of subscribing to $5 million."

Zhen Yu is also confident.

Even though her family still has more than 40 billion U.S. dollars in debt, she is already planning to buy bonds from other people and borrow money from them.

After all, Netflix is ​​very important and is the core asset of the Zhou family.

It is only natural that major shareholders should express their views.

Zhou Buqi said, "Then go buy it! The investors' current concerns are probably related to us. Isn't Ziweixing Global going to launch a new streaming platform? Many investors are waiting and watching. They are worried about Netflix's future. Let's make a statement and give the outside world some reassurance."

Zhen Yu laughed and said, "If you think about it, our shareholding and interest in Netflix is ​​higher than that in Ziweixing Global. Netflix's interests are more in line with our interests."

Zhou Buqi said: "They are looking at power, so it's not surprising."