reborn in america

Chapter 192

As soon as Windows 95 was released, it was first reported by the media that it was a patent and copyright dispute. First, Bill said at the grand conference that their desktop GUI was original, while Eden was plagiarized, and he had already started to sue Eden for infringing on Microsoft. Patents as a reason to forcibly gain the upper hand.

However, before the media could prepare for it, he was directly slapped in the face by Adam the next day. Adam used the materials he had prepared a long time ago to release a wave of news to let the public know that Windows 95 infringed the patent that Eden had applied for earlier, and then In the following time, without giving the other party any time to react, they directly counter-sued Microsoft for infringing Eden's patents, and applied to the court to suspend the sales of Windows 95.

Originally, Bill and Microsoft repeatedly built momentum, launched new product launches with big money, and waited for the listing of Windows 95 to drive up the stock that fell due to the scandal. However, the stock did not pull up. Instead, it failed to meet market expectations and was deeply involved in the anti-plagiarism scandal. , and began to fall crazily.

Before, because Adam kept using the media to smear and lower Microsoft’s image, although Microsoft’s image in the public’s mind could not be said to have collapsed, it definitely had a lot of damage. It is released, so we are all waiting and watching. If 95 is really an epoch-making and amazing product, everyone will be happy. The market will continue to hold it. The stunning new desktop GUI has lost its halo, and that’s all. Although 95 is indeed widely praised for its desktop GUI, it also has many bright spots in other functions and applications, but it’s a pity that it was forced by Adam. Pulled into the copyright war, the media completely skipped the various applications and functions that should have been highlighted, and left a bad impression of mediocrity and plagiarism on the public mind. As a result, Microsoft's stock price fell almost like an avalanche after the release of 95. Almost understandable.

In just one week, due to the negative impact and the publicity of the copyright war, Microsoft’s stock price fell by more than ten percent, falling below $900 billion for the first time. It is not far from the Garden of Eden, which has rapidly expanded after swallowing waves and unicorns.

From the beginning of the hostility between the two parties, Eden was only two or three floors of Microsoft's market value, and one year later, one rose and the other fell rapidly. No wonder the Wall Street Journal began to calculate the time when Eden's market value broke [-] billion and Microsoft's market value lost to Eden.

However, although the market is generally optimistic that Eden can surpass Microsoft and become the real overlord in a short period of time in the future, Adam is very clear in his heart that Microsoft's current decline and Eden's strength are just because Microsoft has not prepared. I was hit by Adam with a sap, and I couldn't react, and Eden didn't launch a mature Super Eden until he really got rid of Microsoft's shackles on the operating system, and he couldn't be considered a real strong and overlord, because the so-called overlord, before he dominated During this period, no one can stop it, and the Garden of Eden at this time cannot be called.

But this does not affect Adam to continue to work hard. Taking advantage of his illness to kill him, he continued to track and hype about the copyright war between Microsoft. Adam used the puppet media in his hand to exaggerate and spread little by little about Windows95 blue screen and black screen. , a large number of BUGs, crashes, and low-quality browser mosaic and other black materials.However, because these are not rumors, but problems with 95% of the facts—because of the rush of progress, a large number of bugs exist, and the system is extremely unstable. Even if Microsoft wants to justify, it cannot ignore the problems of these facts.

First, some tabloids circulated, and then larger newspapers began to follow closely. Finally, the California Times, the largest newspaper in the United States, was exposed on several major pages. The vicious comments on the question, each comment is attached to the real identity of the user to verify that it is not fabricated by the California Times, in case Microsoft sues the California Times for spreading rumors.

These concentrated revelations about 95 products, especially under the concentrated reports of the California Times, a large newspaper with a sales volume of more than 300 million and an extremely influential newspaper covering nearly [-] million people in the United States, Microsoft's sales plummeted. However, sales in half a month fell to less than one level on the first day, which can be called the great defeat of the century.

With Adam pressing hard and Microsoft struggling to deal with it, Microsoft's market value finally fell below 800 billion and the trend has not stopped, while Eden has risen steadily, not only stabilizing its own market value of 800 billion US dollars, but also moving towards 900 billion. The direction is striding forward, and it can be expected that it will definitely exceed 900 billion before the end of the year, and there is not much suspense even breaking through [-] billion.

Now Eden's real shortcoming is that the Internet in the United States is not developing fast enough, the people covered are not wide enough, and the scope of his products is not detailed enough. But at this time, there is no doubt about calling him an Internet tycoon.

However, Microsoft is not a fuel-efficient lamp. Given that Adam’s Eden Company has three major products: Eden Browser, Inspur, and Unicorn, covering more than [-]% of Internet users, and monopolizing similar products, browsers, BBS, and portals account for The ratio exceeds [-]% of the total, and he can be called the giant of the Internet. The advertising alliance in his hand controls the life and death of all small Internet companies, so Microsoft opened up a third battleground, suing Eden Company for alleged industry monopoly, making the Internet industry completely Being controlled by a company, others cannot develop normally, so they requested to forcibly split Eden Company.

This accusation can be described as a single stone that stirred up thousands of waves. You must know that although Microsoft’s accusation of Eden’s monopoly is a bit funny and absurd, but after careful analysis, it is true that if Eden spins off the operating system company at this moment, in the Internet industry, the market value of Eden The proportion is as high as [-]%. It can be said that the value of the entire Internet industry is concentrated in the company Eden. This accusation seems absurd, but it is still somewhat credible.

Therefore, under the promotion of Microsoft, whether the Garden of Eden is a monopoly has really begun to be discussed by many media. Although most of them said that the Garden of Eden is not a monopoly, but with the fermentation of several days, more and more people are drawn into the discussion circle , More and more so-called data and evidence were brought out, so some people who were neutral or biased towards Eden even began to shake their original ideas, leaning toward Eden’s suspicion of monopoly.

Of course, how can Adam tolerate this accusation? Today’s Internet is just a wasteland. Because it was small in scale before and there was no possibility of profit, it was a desert. It was not until the establishment of Eden and the release of Eden Browser 1.0 that the Internet really became alive. , and Eden has only been established for a few years now, and the Internet is in its infancy, and the future is unpredictable. Eden has only occupied a small and insignificant place, so it can't be called a monopoly.

However, the people are easy to be deceived and brainwashed by propaganda. In the absence of scale and bad influence, Adam published a signed article for the third time this year in several major newspapers such as the California Times and the Wall Street Journal, denying the news about the Garden of Eden. The absurd statement of being suspected of monopolizing the Internet introduced the concept of the Internet to the public, and talked freely about the development and concept of the Internet in the future, envisioning the true scale of the Internet and what it can do in ten or twenty years, including watching movies, TV shows, videos Contact, etc., strongly appeal to all people with lofty ideals to invest in the Internet, to work hard for the development of the Internet and the benefit of people all over the world, and finally condemn Microsoft for self-interest, forcibly slandering the Garden of Eden monopoly with rhythm, which seems rational, but is actually destroying Such behavior in this nascent industry is disgraceful.

Adam's speech was written by Adam himself, and then it was revised and adjusted by more than a dozen people in related industries. Finally, Adam expressed his approval and released it later. Therefore, no matter the logic, the industry information involved, or even the language strength, it is impeccable.

Among them, Adam’s vision for the development of the Internet is naturally the one that attracts the most attention. The phrase “closer to reality than the world of science fiction” is a point mentioned by most media in their evaluations after Adam published a signed article. I have to say that what Adam described The world of Adam is extremely attractive. Although it is only a few lines, the Internet world he built is really a world that people envy and look forward to. The most exciting thing is that in Adam's vision , this unimaginable and wonderful world can be achieved in only a dozen or 20 years. Although everyone thinks that Adam has exaggerated imagination, it is really a wonderful dream to experience such an Internet world where public opinion explodes in his lifetime.

Therefore, the monopoly discussion that had been raging was directly drawn into the imagination of the future by Adam, and the statement about Eden's monopoly of the Internet that Microsoft spent so much effort to create suddenly became uninterested, and there was no public discussion.And there are indeed some untenable monopoly applications, and the news of the crusade against the Garden of Eden has been vigorous for a few days, and the sound quickly disappeared. Although Microsoft wanted to continue to bring the rhythm, it was a pity that no one responded, and it could only regretfully die down.

However, although the direction of the wind is a bit biased due to the news of Eden’s monopoly and Adam’s vision for the future development of the Internet, Microsoft is still the mainstream in the capital world and Wall Street, and its market value has dropped to nearly one-third in just one year. This can be regarded as a huge failure for Microsoft. Even though Bill has a strong control over Microsoft, it is difficult to withstand the strong pressure of the board of directors. At this time, the successive failures of NT and 95 have also made Bill gradually lose his position in Microsoft. Lost prestige, and for the first time in 20 years after Microsoft was founded, Bill began to lose control of the company he had created.

The author has something to say: I just came back, I have two days off on weekends, and I will continue to retreat next week, so I plan to save one or two chapters to save a week of skylights, but there is still no way to guarantee the update, forgive me.

I slept until ten o'clock, and I started writing after eleven o'clock. After posting, I went to have lunch