Extraordinary Genius

When Lao Zhang was angry, Feng Yu called Wilson to ask Microsoft about the lawsuit and when it would be settled.

A little blow to Microsoft at this time can also make you think of Silver Mountain less trouble.

Microsoft suddenly lowered the price of the XP system a while ago, thinking it could affect the sales of the XOS system, and even thinking of a Silver Mountain announcement destroyed Microsoft's trick.

Lenovo Silver Mountain asserts that the XOS system will guarantee system update maintenance for at least five years.

And what that means is, for whom, you can see it at a glance.

Think about Microsoft, two or three generations of systems, when 2000 came along, 95 stopped updating maintenance, and when XP came along, 2000 stopped updating maintenance.

Doesn't Microsoft claim to be launching VISTA soon? Doesn't it say that the XP system is about to stop updating and maintenance?

In other words, they spent very little money on the original XP system, but it didn't take a year, and nobody fixed the bug. How can the system be secure? Problems arise and how can they be solved?

The result is that although Microsoft's XP system has fallen, and it has fallen very sharply, unfortunately not many people have bought it. Because Microsoft's official does not say how long the XP system will continue to be maintained, which seems to be the same as if the XP system will stop updating once VISTA appears by default.

Who buys systems that only last a few months? Didn't VISTA say it was very different from XP? So instead of boosting sales, XP is selling worse.

Coupled with the fact that Microsoft is no longer pre-installed by Lenovo Group, and that many manufacturers have signed agreements with Lenovo Silver Mountain, cheaper systems can reduce the selling price of their products and increase competitiveness, of course they will not be excluded.

Not to mention that Silver Mountain paid a price for this, like the price of selling the system, and it made some of it available to these PC vendors, so many vendors now have pre-installed XOS computers.

Bill Gates was furious on the board, blaming everyone in charge of product sales and development. Making new products faster and more market-oriented while contacting PC vendors to restrict sales of pre-installed XOS systems will certainly surprise them even more.

In fact, those manufacturers had already had enough of Microsoft's bullying, and they couldn't help but have a system vendor come forward and beat Microsoft up. They make as much money on a PC as a Microsoft system.

At a profit margin, Microsoft makes the most money selling a computer. How does this balance the minds of PC manufacturers?

Not to mention, how could they not support the conditions given by Silver Mountain and increase their profits? In the business arena, there are no eternal friends, only eternal interests, not to mention they are never friends with Microsoft!

Especially as you know, PC sales of pre-installed XP systems have deteriorated since XP systems will soon stop being updated and maintained, and PC manufacturers have quite a few words for this.

In turn, they now ask Microsoft to announce that it is in their interest to maintain XP for at least three years. Unfortunately, Microsoft did not agree.

But Microsoft cares more about what they're accused of monopolizing globally than about poor system sales. They don't want to lose the power of this bundled sales model, which can deprive their software of the greatest competitive means.

Of course, it would be better if they could and would not be fined. Now, in many countries, there's nothing wrong with this kind of bundling. They bundle most of it, don't they?

Especially since Silver Mountain's office software has been sold globally, they cannot afford to lose that advantage, otherwise they will have to be sold at lower prices and lower their profits.

They never thought that even Huaxia would sue them for Microsoft monopoly, and they also heard that after Huaxia's anti-monopoly law was passed, the first accusation was that they were Microsoft, which was clearly deliberately targeted!

In the first two sessions, their lawyers tried to distinguish between them, but the results were minimal.

Huaxia's legal system differs from the common law system in its essence. Huaxia's side is governed by the law. According to the judgment prescribed by the law, the various provisions are very detailed, and the presiding judge's ruling is the main rule.

In Europe and the United States, on the other hand, it is rough, and judgments are based mainly on jurors' votes, in accordance with past practice. And their media, the public, can influence the verdict.

In the Huaxia Faculty, the media public, although influential, mostly affects the severity of sentencing, rather than the guilt and illegality.

So Microsoft is now a nail on the board and will be found guilty of violating the law and will be punished. As to the amount of the fine, because the amount was too high, the Huaxia draft antitrust law provided for only one downline, five million RMB.

What they have to contend with now is the amount of the fine. In the current situation, Microsoft is very disadvantaged.

Huaxia's attorney, Wilson, who has been working for Feng Yu, also took advantage of the gap in the law and demanded a ruling based on the amount on the British and American side, so he proposed a high fine amount.

What made Microsoft angry was that Huaxia was clearly a gangster, and most people actually thought that the fine was reasonable. And Wilson is off-site, saying that Microsoft treats the market differently, which makes Bill? Gates wants to scold the streets!

We treat each other differently? We used to sell products in Huaxia at the lowest prices in the world! Why didn't you tell me about this difference? Now that we're up, shouldn't we? Your GDP in Huaxia is already the best in the world.

We don't want to treat the market differently now, which is why we're in such a situation. We're not wronged!

Today, this is the third court session, and both sides have started a lip and mouth battle over the amount of the fine.

Wilson's aggressive, linguistically persistent setup of traps has tired Microsoft's attorneys.

Microsoft representatives, their faces are getting uglier and uglier. They find that things are really moving in the worst direction. They are typical of Huaxia political axe, kill the chicken example monkey, they are the chicken!

Although Microsoft's defence on behalf of lawyers continued, it was not helpful, and the court found Microsoft guilty of monopoly in court, fined RMB 1,836 million, and had to disclose the source code of some products. This number sets a new record for Huaxia's political axe fines, and hasn't been broken in years to come!

When he came out of court, a group of Chinese and foreign journalists came up, and the strong performance on Huaxia's side made many people unexpected. Direct rejection of out-of-court settlements resulted in final judgements at three sessions. Order Microsoft to pay a fine within a limited time, otherwise Microsoft's company account in Huaxia will be sealed!

Regarding monopolies, Microsoft lost again!

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