Rebirth 98, the rise started from ripping off Microsoft

Chapter 773
Seeing the hesitant expression on Jack Ma's face, Lu Yiming said, "What? Are you still worried that someone will use your data? We can set up a special supervisory agency to prohibit the leakage of these data, and never allow anyone to share these data. It is used as a weapon of commercial competition, but can only be used in research and development in the field of artificial intelligence."

"Ok."

Jack Ma didn't put up too much resistance. After all, Lu Yiming was the major shareholder of Ali, and it was useless for him to object. If Lu Yiming was upset and there was a estrangement between the two parties, the loss would not be worth the gain.

Lu Yiming himself is not afraid of these data leaks, so Jack Ma naturally has no reason to hide it anymore. Lu Yiming will never dig a hole for Ali to jump in, right?
Of course, the most important thing is that Lu Yiming has invested in big data and cloud computing for several years, and spent a lot of money. He is too far ahead in technology, so he has to agree, otherwise even if Ali catches up, I'm afraid it will be too late. If you catch up to the year of the monkey, you may not be able to catch up.

Join if you can't beat it.

Lu Yiming's push for one-click login to QQ caused far more commotion on the Internet.

Although this function has brought many customers to the products under his name, correspondingly, many users have registered the partner's products with this function.It can be said that the function launched by Lu Yiming has achieved a certain degree of equality to a certain extent.

Those who originally questioned Lu Yiming's monopoly were all very surprised, because this wave of operations was equivalent to Lu Yiming distributing the user traffic that originally belonged to QQ to other platforms and websites for free.

Although the user stickiness of QQ has also increased, but in general, it still pays more and receives less.Because all the functions are done by QQ, other software is just access.Lu Yiming didn't count the cost of this part at all.

For a while, many people who slandered Lu Yiming silently shut up.

Many people felt that Lu Yiming had lost a lot this time, and that he was making wedding dresses for others.Because the number of QQ users is very objective now, and the volume of many platforms is still very small. After accessing QQ and logging in with one click, it is equivalent to gaining countless potential users.However, QQ itself did not attract many new users because of this operation.

Beijing, the headquarters of Microsoft Xiaguo.

"Mr. Chen, are you looking for me?"

"Lao Luo, sit down."

Appearing in front of Chen Yongzheng was Luo Chuan, Deputy General Manager and Greater China Director of MSN Division.

Chen Yongzheng asked with a serious expression: "Lao Luo, what happened recently? Why did the MSN data drop so sharply?"

Luo Chuan frowned slightly, and said with some doubts: "There are still new users every day, and the data has not dropped."

MSN entered the Xiaguo market, relying on the basic disk of the operating system, the promotion has been very smooth, MSN has become a favorite chat and communication software for many white-collar petty bourgeoisie.

Many people who use MSN despise QQ, thinking that QQ is low-end and used by country bumpkins, and high-end people like them must use foreign products to conform to their identity.

Chen Yongzheng said with a serious face: "Although the absolute number of users is increasing, the growth rate is falling off a cliff, and the entire market share is shrinking. You can't deny this, right? So can you tell me what happened? What happened? The cake is getting bigger and bigger, but our share is not expanding, but shrinking.”

Luo Chuan's brow was covered with sweat when he was asked, and finally had no choice but to say: "You have also seen the big move made by Yixun recently, Mr. Chen, what can I do? We can't use the means that Lu's richest man can use."

The platforms that realize the one-click login function are all Internet companies invested by Lu Yiming. In this regard, although MSN has Microsoft as its backer, there is absolutely no way.

In order not to take the blame, Luo Chuan said to Chen Yongzheng again: "Actually, I have already tried to talk to Ma Jieke and others, and expressed my intention to cooperate, but they didn't talk to me. What do you think I can do?" Well."

Chen Yongzheng knew that Luo Chuan was telling the truth, but he always emphasized the difficulties, obviously he couldn't deal with the head office.And when he came to Luo Chuan today, he actually had something very important to announce: "Actually, I came to see you today, so I wanted to tell you that someone from the headquarters might be parachuted down to take over your current job."

When Luo Chuan heard this, he became impatient and hurriedly argued, "What's the matter? How can you just change it? I've already said it, and he's not bad at me."

He is now the head of the department, he says what he says, and his power is only under Chen Yongzheng.Now the headquarters has to parachute a person to take over, so there is no need to think that the level must be above him.

This made it difficult for him to accept for a while.

Thinking about all these years of hard work in the company, there is hard work without credit, and now the head office is airborne, this is simply not taking him seriously.He was very unconvinced and asked, "Who is going to be sent by the head office?"

Chen Yongzheng glanced at Luo Chuan, and said a name that made Luo Chuan's heart skip a beat: "Xiong Minghua."

Luo Chuan originally wanted to protest a few words, but after hearing the name Xiong Minghua, he immediately swallowed all the prepared remarks back into his stomach.

Xiong Minghua received a bachelor's degree in information system engineering from the National University of Defense Technology in 1987, and a master's degree in information search from the National Defense Science and Technology Information Center in 1990.It is a proper technical master.

There is no doubt that the headquarter parachuted this boss down because they planned to compete head-to-head with QQ in terms of technology.After all, Microsoft relies on the big killer of Windows. If MSN still can't compete with QQ, it will be a very embarrassing thing for them.

On this day, Lu Yiming was eating ice cream and playing computer with the air conditioner on, when he suddenly received a message from Zhang Xiaolong: "Boss Lu, things are not going well."

Lu Yiming was slightly taken aback. Zhang Xiaolong is famously calm and calm, with a personality of "X coldness". Usually, he rarely communicates with others, let alone having any moments of intense emotion. Today he can say such words, Something very serious must have happened.

"What's wrong? Is there something wrong with our company?"

After all, Zhang Xiaolong now has QQ, MM and the future operating system in his hands. If there is a problem, it will definitely not work.Lu Yiming showed a rare nervousness.

However, Zhang Xiaolong said: "The problem is not our company, but MSN. Xiong Minghua is coming."

Hearing that Yixun Technology was okay, Lu Yiming was relieved, but when he saw the word Xiong Minghua, he was really surprised.

"he?"

In his previous life, he was a senior code farmer who had been in the Internet circle anyway. Others didn't know the identity of Xiong Minghua, but Lu Yiming had heard of the big guy's name.

Xiong Minghua, who was born in 1965, is now in his prime. He is definitely in the prime of life. He is full of energy, experienced, and a golden age for scientific research.

He not only participated in the version development of IE3.5 to IE5.0 at Microsoft, but also witnessed the whole process of how Microsoft "strangled" Netscape. In 1999, he also entered the Microsoft Windows department and participated in the development of Windows2000 and MSN.

Xiong Minghua is therefore considered to be the most senior product leader of Microsoft's MSN business unit.

In the last life, Xiong Minghua later directly joined the Goose Factory as the co-CTO.During his 9 years in the Goose Factory, he not only led QQ and WeChat to become the No. [-] instant messaging software in Xiaguo and even the world, but also trained a large number of young and middle-aged cadres, who later grew up to be the leaders of various departments of the Goose Factory. people.

It has to be said that this is definitely a talent.

What is the most expensive in the 21st century?
Talent!

Lu Yiming exclaimed in admiration: "This is a great man. Microsoft actually let him out, good thing, great thing!"

"Great thing?"

Now that Lu Yiming is not in front of Zhang Xiaolong, otherwise Gaodi would have to give him a big hand to feel his forehead to see if he has a fever before he utters such nonsense.

Brother, MSN is our competitor. Now that they have replaced a powerful person in charge, shouldn't you say "damn it's broken"?Can this be a great thing?

More or less a bit outrageous.

"Mr. Lu, why can't I understand what you said? How did this become a great thing?"

Lu Yiming said confidently: "Of course it's a great thing. It's too wasteful for a top talent like Xiong Minghua to be placed in a place like MSN. We have to find a way to recruit him. Yixun lacks such talents!"

Looking at the text Lu Yiming typed in the chat window, Zhang Xiaolong was speechless for a long time.He really couldn't figure out where Lu Yiming got his confidence, so he ran to poach Xiong Minghua.

"Mr. Lu, I hope you are more sensible. He is doing well in Microsoft. He has a high position and authority. It is impossible for him to join Yixun. Although you are the richest man in Asia, he is now relying on Microsoft, the world's top high-tech enterprise."

Lu Yiming said, "How do you know it won't work if you haven't tried it?"

Zhang Xiaolong: ..."

Do you still need to try this?Don't you have a B number in your heart?
Undoubtedly, Zhang Xiaolong did not believe that Lu Yiming could invite Xiong Minghua to Yixun.

Asking himself, he felt that if he stood in Xiong Minghua's position, it would be absolutely impossible for him to switch from Microsoft to Yixun.

It doesn't mean to look down on Yixun, but compared with the world's top companies like Microsoft, it is not at the same level in terms of social status or development prospects.

this is the truth.

However, Zhang Xiaolong would not try to persuade Lu Yiming or anything. After all, Lu Yiming is the boss, he is just a wage earner, and the boss can think whatever he likes.

A plane landed at the Capital International Airport. After a long flight, Xiong Minghua finally set foot on the land of Xia Kingdom again.Walking out of the international arrival gate with the suitcase, he soon saw a welcome sign with his name on it, and walked over.

"Hello, are you Mr. Xiong Minghua? I am the driver of Microsoft's Xiaguo headquarters, and my surname is Song."

"Master Song, hello, I'm Xiong Minghua, and this is my passport."

"Get in the car, please. I'll get you your luggage."

"Thank you."

Sitting in the car, Xiong Minghua looked at the bustling scene outside the window. After a ten-year absence, he set foot in his homeland again, which made him feel full of melancholy. He said: "The motherland has changed a lot in these years."

Master Song responded with a smile, "Isn't that right? Traffic jams are starting to occur frequently in the capital now. The streets are full of cars, and everyone's life is much more promising."

Xiong Minghua fell silent for a moment. Since he graduated with a master's degree, he has been busy with work. First, he went to IBM's New York headquarters and worked as a senior engineer in the Internet department. He participated in the development of the first generation of Internet-based personalized news and business information transmission system. .

In 92, he served as the manager of the software development department in a Sino-US joint venture company affiliated to the Software Research Institute of Xiaguo Academy of Sciences, responsible for the development of graphics-based automatic testing software.

A year later, he went to KT International in Connecticut as a software architect and developed a number of software products with invention patents.

It was not until 1996 that he joined Microsoft America as a project manager that his work gradually stabilized. He was successively responsible for the development, management and design of major core products such as the web browser Internet Explorer, the window system Windows2000 and MSN, and became the most senior Chinese senior at Microsoft. One of the project managers.

This time, Xiong Minghua was sent by Microsoft headquarters to be in charge of MSN Xiaguo localization research and development and transformation.

Everyone knows that Microsoft's arrangement is to allow MSN and QQ to compete in Xiaguo's Internet market.

The car soon arrived at the Microsoft Xiaguo headquarters.A banner had already been hung at the entrance of the headquarters, and a group of executives stood at the entrance waiting for Xiong Minghua's arrival.

Xiong Minghua got out of the car, and Chen Yongzheng rushed up to greet him, and said enthusiastically, "Mr. Xiong, long time no see. Welcome Mr. Xiong to come back to Xia Guo to preside over the work. This is Mr. Luo Chuan. You two should see each other less often, right?"

Xiong Minghua nodded slightly, stretched out his hand to Luo Chuan, and said, "Boss Luo, it's a pleasure to meet you."

Faced with Xiong Minghua, the person who came to seize power with him by air, Luo Chuan was of course unhappy in his heart, but after all, at this level, he still has the dignity he should have, and immediately shook hands with Xiong Minghua with a smile on his face. Say, "Welcome."

Chen Yongzheng said: "Boss Xiong, you haven't been back for so many years, I specially prepared a reception banquet for you tonight..."

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Xiong Minghua: "There is no rush to eat, I just came back from abroad, and I don't know the specific situation of MSN in China, can you let me know the current situation first? "

Chen Yongzheng didn't speak, but turned his head to look at Luo Chuan.

Luo Chuan had no choice but to say: "As far as the current situation is concerned, in the domestic instant messaging market, MSN is probably at a [-]-[-] split with QQ, but QQ recently launched a one-click login function, which opened up many channels, which also led to Many users are more willing to sign up for QQ than to use our MSN."

Although no one stipulates that people who have registered for QQ cannot register for MSN, but now QQ has more application scenarios than MSN, and it is more convenient to use. Everyone is more willing to use QQ instead of MSN.Under such a trend, MSN will definitely be marginalized over time.

Luo Chuan analyzed the current situation with Xiong Minghua, and then quickly comforted him: "Mr. Xiong, don't worry, we have stabilized the basic market of MSN in Xiaguo. For example, white-collar workers and office workers in the city like it very much. Use our MSN."

By saying this, I naturally want to prove to the head office that I am not just idle, and I have also made achievements.

The reason why the situation is unfavorable now is not that he is incompetent, but that the opponent is too powerful.

Inside and outside the words, they are all skills of throwing pot in the workplace.

And Xiong Minghua obviously couldn't accept this explanation, but he didn't lose his temper on the spot. After all, the head office sent him here to clean up the mess, not to make it worse.

"Have you installed QQ on your computer? It's the latest version. I want to experience this QQ first. After all, you can win every battle if you know yourself and your enemy."

Although QQ is now very popular in China, it has not launched an international version, so Xiong Minghua has not used this thing yet.

After hearing Xiong Minghua's words, everyone looked at me and I looked at you, but they didn't dare to speak.After all, their MSN and QQ are deadly rivals, and of course their employees use MSN.

However, an unknown person yelled, "It's installed on Li Zhengkai's computer."

Among the crowd, a young man was scared to pee when he heard this.

He is Lu Yiming's high school classmate Li Zhengkai.

He turned his head to look at the source of the voice, but only saw a pile of black heads, and he had no idea who was calling.

On the contrary, everyone around focused their attention on Li Zhengkai.

A person works at Microsoft, but a competitor's social software is installed on his computer, and his colleague finds out when he is still using it...

No matter how you look at it, this is an act of courting death, right?
Li Zhengkai raised his head and saw Luo Chuan's obviously unfriendly eyes, and he even screamed in his heart: "Fuck, Lu Yiming, I'm really going to be hurt by you this time!"

After graduating from university, Li Zhengkai finally passed the interview and joined Microsoft. He didn't want to lose his job because of such a trivial matter.

Lu Yiming in the distance did not expect at all that he was inexplicably blamed again.

However, Xiong Minghua is not a person who is good at office politics, and his obsession with technology is relatively pure.He didn't even think there was anything wrong with Li Zhengkai's approach.

After entering the company, Xiong Minghua came to Li Zhengkai's station and asked Li Zhengkai to log in to his QQ.

Facing the surrounding leaders, Li Zhengkai felt as if he was being publicly executed.But now that the atmosphere has been set up here, he has no other choice, so he has to bite the bullet and log in to his QQ.

Luo Chuan gritted his teeth and looked at Li Zhengkai: "You boy, you are quite proficient. It seems that you use QQ a lot on weekdays!"

Li Zhengkai was about to quibble, but Xiong Minghua asked: "How is the user experience of QQ? Compared with our MSN, what are the advantages?"

Hearing Xiong Minghua's question, Li Zhengkai was startled into a cold sweat, and quickly said: "It must be our MSN that is more useful. The simple style is very classy and international at first glance. As for QQ, it is that the students in the school I use it, and I usually use it occasionally to contact my classmates in college and high school, but I rarely use it."

Xiong Minghua raised his head, his eyes were fixed on Li Zhengkai's eyes: "In front of me, there is no need to deal with these falsehoods, what I want is the truth."

Li Zhengkai was speechless, he was not a fool, he naturally knew that the "truth" that Xiong Minghua wanted to hear was definitely not the real "truth".

But as an excellent employee, Li Zhengkai still showed his professional attitude and said: "Mr. Xiong, MSN is more popular in the business field at present, and our main user group is mainly white-collar elites, because the promotion is Real-name system, so in business meetings and work communication, most professionals are more inclined to use our MSN."

"As for QQ, it's a social software for young people, and its style is more entertainment-oriented, and because it's a screen name, many people regard QQ as a tool for picking up girls."

This is actually very euphemistic. At this time, QQ is used by many young people to make appointments with P.

In fact, in the eyes of Microsoft, the real-name system is king, because only the real-name system can bring the most direct commercial benefits.

After all, those who use MSN are white-collar elites and business people. Although the number is a little small, it cannot stand up to the high quality.

Compared with the student users of QQ, of course office workers are richer and have more spending power.

After listening to Li Zhengkai's analysis, Xiong Minghua's serious expression immediately relaxed a little, and he said, "You have done a good analysis, it seems that you have put in a lot of effort in your work."

Li Zhengkai was very excited to receive Xiong Minghua's praise, and at the same time he was relieved to be recognized by Xiong Minghua. It seems that installing QQ by himself should not be a reason for him to be fired from Microsoft.

I'm studying my opponent!

Hearing Xiong Minghua's praise for Li Zhengkai, Chen Yongzheng's expression softened a lot, and he hurriedly said: "Li Zhengkai installed QQ on his computer to study his opponent. Mr. Luo, don't be too nervous."

Luo Chuan suddenly felt his scalp go numb.

Can this involve me too?

The other employees who originally wanted to see Li Zhengkai's jokes immediately felt a little sour. They didn't expect that Li Zhengkai would be appreciated by the airborne Xiong Minghua.

(End of this chapter)