Back To 1995

   Chapter 872 Catch a late episode

  Alcatel mobile phones continue to sell well, which has really stimulated many people.

Continuously setting new sales records, 7 million mobile phones were sold out in less than half a month, and P3 was sold at a higher price on the eBay platform. All kinds of scalpers made a lot of money by reselling P3 mobile phones, and some gangs even tried to grab them. The news that more machines are starting to become popular is endless.

Not only the machine, but the "small" game "Happy Xiaoxiaole" has also exploded into an astonishing popularity. The number of users exceeded 4 million, and the revenue exceeded 5 million US dollars. It only took a few days to attract money. Amazing.

The performance of the P3 mobile phone not only makes the major mobile phone manufacturers feel jealous, but brands such as Nokia want to come up with their own operating system to fight against Saipan and suppress Alcatel mobile phones. They have always wanted to show their strength in the mobile phone system industry. Microsoft, and some can't sit still.

   "The British Sendo company has already stated its attitude that in the next quarter, after the end of the agreement period, it will switch to the Saipan system, and the share of WP in the mobile phone system will further decline!"

  In Bill Gates' office, listening to the cry of Terry Myerson, the head of the WP system, and watching the sales of mobile phones with the WP operating system in his hand, he couldn't help but have a headache.

   In the past few years, it seems that Microsoft has been flourishing for a few years. Revenue, stock price and market value have all hit record highs, but for Bill Gates and Microsoft, life is not as good as the outside world.

Not to mention the anti-monopoly lawsuit, it is now in a stalemate. Microsoft is doing state-by-state PR. It seems that it is far away to end this lawsuit. This is like a Damocles sword hanging over Microsoft’s head. I don’t know what Time will fall!

   Microsoft entered the Internet industry after a lot of hard work. Until now, I don’t know whether to say it won or not.

Netscape, which wants to compete with Microsoft, has completely come to an end. Microsoft has become the overlord of the browser industry, but the embarrassing part is that, after gaining the browser industry, Microsoft suddenly found that it was dazed and confused. New giants have already emerged in the industry.

Several Internet giants headed by ICQ, AOL, and Yahoo have firmly occupied the social, portal, search and other industries. Microsoft has an IE browser with a market share of more than 95%, but in addition to raising an equally unprofitable Outside of the MSN Portal, there is no other role.

  In any case, Microsoft is a hitchhiker of the Internet, and it is finally not left behind.

   But the mobile phone industry, like when Microsoft entered the Internet industry, started early in the morning and caught up with the late episodes. The WP system was originally developed with Saipan. What happened?

   Looking at his hand, the mobile phone equipped with the WP system now accounts for less than 2% of the entire mobile phone operating system market. Bill Gates couldn't help but feel tired.

   "The mobile phone system definitely has a market. Saipan's advertising revenue in the new quarter is said to have exceeded US$400 million, and there is also a software share!

Analysts from Wall Street and the game industry estimate that the revenue of "Happy Xiaoxiaole" this year may hit a record of more than 100 million US dollars. The Saipan system relies on software and games to divide the revenue this year. The US knife, the fee distributed to the developers, will also reach one billion US dollars. In the future, there may be more than 200,000 or even more software developers to join the Saipan System Alliance! "

  Terry Myerson tried to convince Bill Gates that the mobile operating system is promising, even if it is not as profitable as the computer operating system, but it will definitely be profitable in the future.

Bill Gates looked at Terry Myerson in front of him, and naturally knew what he meant. He wanted Microsoft to give the WP system, and then invest more resources and funds, even at the cost of an Alcatel mobile phone. The battle of the century for operating systems!

   But this time, Bill Gates did not immediately respond to Terry Myerson, and was obviously hesitant.

   "Before developing the WP system, I personally asked Ollila, the president of Nokia, but he rejected Microsoft. He would rather cooperate with Symbian than join the WP camp, even if Microsoft licenses the system to Nokia for free!"

Speaking of this, Bill Gates is obviously dissatisfied with Ollila. Ollila is afraid that the mobile phone operating system will be occupied by Microsoft like a computer system, making Nokia subject to Microsoft and rejecting Bill Gates' proposal alliance.

   As a result, Nokia did not get cheap WP, and was still strangled by the Symbian system.

   "Microsoft needs to cooperate with Bruno Song now. Microsoft's Xbox console has now sold more than one million. The foundry and games of the Xbox console are inseparable from Snow Mountain Games!"

Bill Gates bluntly told Terry Myerson that it was impossible to expect Microsoft to completely turn against Song Yang, and to fight Song Yang in a mobile operating system battle. That kind of price was as strong as Microsoft and could not afford it. !

   Now, there is a lot of cooperation between Microsoft and the company in Song Yang’s hands. Microsoft game consoles are entirely Sega foundry, with the Microsoft label, and the games on Microsoft Xbox game consoles are almost all supplied by Xue Leshan.

In addition to the host business, in the Internet business, the Hotmail mailbox is jointly held by Microsoft and the North American Global Investment Foundation. Song Yang is Microsoft's biggest ally in the Internet. Turning face with Song Yang means that Microsoft will start again in the Internet industry. I have fought alone, not to mention that I am still carrying an anti-monopoly lawsuit. To be honest, Microsoft's mortal enemy is much more than Alcatel mobile phones!

   "Perhaps, now you can contact Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson and other manufacturers, who rejected Microsoft's proposal back then, and may not necessarily reject Microsoft's cooperation now!"

Terry Meerson said unwillingly that in the past few years, he has tried his best to attract more mobile phone manufacturers to join the WP system camp, and spend money to let Samsung, Nippon Mitsubishi, Sony and other mobile phone manufacturers produce WP-equipped mobile phone manufacturers. The mobile phone of the system was sold, but the sales were bleak. Users did not recognize the WP system, which made Terry Myerson feel helpless.

Now, with great difficulty, there is news that Nokia and other manufacturers are dissatisfied with the Alcatel mobile phone and Symbian system. Terry Myerson naturally does not want to give up. If Nokia and Motorola can be pulled into the WP system camp, Terry · Myerson feels that the mobile operating system industry may be turned upside down!

   Looking at Terry Myerson's expression, Bill Gates finally nodded slowly, and gave up the mobile operating system like this. He and Microsoft were a little unwilling.

   "The board of directors of Microsoft will give another funding to the WP operating system department. You go to Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson and other mobile phone manufacturers. Microsoft is willing to cooperate with them. If necessary, you can open source codes such as mobile phone messages to them."

   Hearing what Bill Gates said, Terry Myerson was overjoyed. With the support of Bill Gates, he felt that the WP system could beat the Saipan system again!

After   P3's big sale, the entire mobile phone industry felt a little undercurrent. Alcatel mobile phones and Symbian systems have become the "big devil" in the mobile phone industry. Countless mobile phone manufacturers want to defeat the big devil to prove themselves.

   Song Yang had also heard a few things about Nokia and Microsoft's small moves in the mobile phone industry, but he didn't take it too seriously.

During this period of time, his mind was mainly on the Internet industry, and besides, Alcatel mobile phones couldn't stop it if Nokia could not make its own mobile phone operating system or cooperate with Microsoft. However, even if they With cooperation, Alcatel mobile phones do not need to worry too much.

As long as the heart is not on the same rope, there may be some big moves at the beginning, but with the same domineering style of the two companies, after a long time, they will definitely make a fool of themselves. I have cooperated, but the result is not a piece of chicken feathers, and I have played myself to death.

After attending the Alcatel mobile phone conference, the two founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, have been waiting for ICQ's venture capital or acquisition call, and even the entire Google has done a good job. Preparing to sell yourself.

But after waiting for more than half a month, when the day lily was almost cold, Google didn't wait for ICQ's acquisition call, as if the business card Irene gave them on the day of the conference was just a flash in the pan. In the middle, Google received other The company's tentative offer, but ICQ did not move, and other venture capital companies are also waiting and watching, and are unwilling to make an easy move.

"I heard that there have been some changes in ICQ's internal management. Erin Doherty has a fierce dispute with Edgar Bronfman Jr. ICQ may not buy Google, even if Erin Doherty has this idea! "

In Google’s small office, Khosla, one of KPCB’s venture capital partners, mentioned to Page and Brin the news he had inquired. Khosla also supported the establishment of Google a lot. The person who bought Google by Excite, KPCB Ventures also invested in Excite, but Khosla's proposal was rejected by the president of Excite.

   Hearing the news from Khosla, Larry Page and Sergey Brin felt helpless for a while. They didn't expect that there could be problems within ICQ.

   At this moment, the phone on the table suddenly rang. After Larry Page answered the phone, Larry Page couldn't help showing a surprised look on his face when he heard the self-reporting portal from the other side!

   (end of this chapter)