Chapter 1159 Let's Go to Hollywood to Harvest

Ballmer is a pure businessman, talking about business and talking about things as they stand. When talking about business, he was very strict, and many words were full of threats, and he was not polite to Zhou Buqi at all.

After talking about business, he became a friend who has known each other for many years, and he was extremely enthusiastic.

Speaking of Tsinghua University students coming to practice, they also agreed. The hourly salary is a little lower than Google, $20 here in Silicon Valley, and $18 at the Seattle headquarters.

Even $18 is a sky-high price for Ziweixing.

Ballmer poured Zhou Buqi a glass of whiskey, and said happily: "Recently, a new strip club opened in the city, and a group of beautiful girls from Eastern Europe came. I will take you there tonight!"

Zhou Buqi smiled, "Isn't it convenient?"

Ballmer said: "It's nothing inconvenient. It's not open to the outside world. We are VIP customers. Now that the economic situation is not good, a group of people from Eastern Europe have come. Many of them have no formal procedures, and many of them are virgins. No matter what they do What, they dare not call the police."

Zhou Buqi was taken aback.

But don't recruit some underage girls for the sake of excitement, or have some abusive gameplay, that's too bastard. Originally, he wanted to make friends with Ballmer and go out together at night. Hearing his tone, there is no need for it now. A group of unidentified beautiful girls from Eastern Europe must have violated the law.

Capital society is really evil!

Quickly refuse.

Ballmer also wants to get close to Zhou Buqi, business is business, personal friendship is personal friendship. He also appreciates such a talented young man.

"Then go to the football game tomorrow?"

"Football? I don't know much about it. Basketball is okay."

Now, Dayao is still playing in the NBA, and sports fans basically want to watch the game.

Ballmer is a basketball fan. After he resigned from Microsoft, he bought the Los Angeles Clippers in later generations, spent crazy money, and directly built a bad team into the top team in the league.

It's a pity that the new NBA season hasn't started yet. Ballmer proposed again, saying that they would go to a country bar at night to listen to music, and Zhou Buqi agreed. I said silently in my heart, even if it is a light music bar, it should be low-key, Remy Martin can drink, but ocean horses cannot be ridden!

Be careful when going out.

Ballmer still wants to cooperate with Zhou Buqi.

Microsoft's online business has not been doing well, and this year's failure to buy Yahoo has frustrated Ballmer. Seeing that companies such as Google and Facebook are getting stronger step by step, Microsoft's online business is gradually shrinking. Not only is MSN withdrawing from the mainland market, but its global market share is also decreasing.

Twitter could be a big part of that.

Zhou Buqi also intends to sell Twitter's shares to Microsoft, and now is not a good time. Anyway, if you don't sell it to Microsoft, you can also sell it to Google or Facebook.

One of the most popular applications in Facebook's open platform is Twitter. Through this application, Twitter and Facebook, two very competitive social networking sites, can communicate with each other.

Twitter messages can be synchronized to Facebook at the first time, and Facebook messages can also be automatically forwarded to Twitter.

This is obviously not possible in the country.

Except Ziweixing, no one is willing to lend their own platform resources to competitors for use. There is only competition, not competition.

After having two drinks together in the evening, Ballmer mainly asked about Twitter, saying that if the deal is completed and Ziweixing’s business development in the United States, Microsoft will definitely do its best to help!

Zhou Buqi was more reserved and smiled.

The financial tsunami has broken out, and Silicon Valley will also experience a severe wave of layoffs. At this time, Ziwei Star entered the market to provide jobs, and the United States could only welcome it with a wave of hands.

Hang it first!

Let's talk about it later when we really encounter difficulties.

Zhou Buqi was betting on the sidelines, what kind of actions Ballmer will take to deal with the pressure of domestic public opinion, especially the piracy argument.

A very important public opinion is to accuse Microsoft of conspiracy, saying that Microsoft deliberately condones pirated operating systems and pirated office software in the domestic market, and uses pirated versions to suppress domestically produced operating systems and domestically produced software. I hope that netizens and various institutions, enterprises, and universities can recognize the reality and return to domestic production.

This is a fact.

But this is not a conspiracy, it is an overt conspiracy.

It was the Chinese government who spent a huge price and finally won it over.

A few years ago, when the domestic operating system was promoted in China, similar methods were used. The result is that Microsoft's needle tip has not shown any weakness to head-to-head, and has continuously filed lawsuits against various companies and units that use pirated Windows systems, filing thousands of lawsuits a year. Not counting domestically, they went back to the United States to sue companies listed in the United States, and even went to the WTO to sue, which caused extremely bad effects.

Later, it took more than a billion dollars to settle the situation, allowing Microsoft to replace the president of the Greater China region and change its strategy towards China.

Now domestic software is doing this again...

I really don't have a long memory.

Well, it is estimated that the relevant leaders have also thought about it, the operating system is too difficult, it is an insurmountable mountain. It is not realistic to push the local operating system with domestic technological strength. But how simple is office software? It is nothing more than Word, PPT, Excel, etc., very simple small software, it should not be difficult to replace it with domestic products!

This is a typical layman leader being fooled by an expert expert.

Generally speaking, the more complex a project, the greater the amount of code. For example, an App may only have 50,000 lines of code; Google Chrome has 7 million lines of code; Android system has 12 million lines of code; Windows XP system has 40 million lines of code.

And Microsoft Office has a full 45 million lines of code!

The most fundamental reason is stability, fluency, and a series of ecological services behind the software.

It is very simple to make a piece of software, but this is office software, which is aimed at many enterprises and universities, and will undertake many important businesses, such as financial statements, document analysis, and so on.

Once the product is unstable, it may cause huge losses.

Ordinary office software, when encountering a slightly larger document, the response time will be very long, which will affect the efficiency. More importantly, it supports hundreds of languages ​​around the world.

In China, Microsoft Office can easily open a document written in German, Arabic, and Algerian, and then start working.

Ordinary office software can't recognize so many complicated languages ​​and characters. After opening, it is a mess of characters, so it is impossible to carry out international business. Enterprises and institutions that are truly capable of purchasing genuine office software often need to be in line with international standards.

At this point, even WPS, which has worked hard for more than ten years, cannot do it. Not to mention those domestic offices designed by a group of third-rate programmers who have only been in business for a few years.

In Zhou Buqi's view, WPS can be promoted in some small and medium-sized enterprises with a low degree of internationalization, second-tier universities, and government agencies below third-tier cities. And this group often does not need to purchase the genuine version, just download the cracked version from the Internet, and they will rarely be held accountable.

In the core field, Microsoft Office is still inseparable. This is the main group that has the financial strength to complete genuine purchases. It will inevitably lead to the current situation that the main procurement target of domestic office software is Microsoft.

Even WPS can't compete.

What's more, those emerging domestic offices that are not popular?

Well, some people may think that Kingsoft is a private company with limited capabilities and lack of courage. If it wants to compete with a giant like Microsoft, it still has to rely on the national team.

This matter has nothing to do with Zhou Buqi.

The usage rate of Ziweixing's internal office series products is relatively low, mainly using the "tick" developed by itself for office work, which is much more efficient than office!

This is the next generation of office software!

If you can't compete with Microsoft on the same track, change the track.

"Dick", an enterprise-level office software that integrates many functions such as chatting, meeting minutes, documents, video conferencing, and ERP systems, will be the mainstream of digital office in the future.

However, Zhou Buqi always felt that he should do something, no matter what, Microsoft was an outsider. You can't just watch Microsoft ruthlessly attack the country, and let your country suffer a big loss like it did a few years ago.

Unfortunately, Ballmer is not Bill Gates.

This man is a cold-blooded animal.

Talk to him about women, and he can happily push the blonde babe in his arms into your arms. Talk to him about business and friendship... Sorry, no friendship!

At around 1 o'clock in the morning, Zhou Buqi returned to the hotel, not in a good mood.

Feng Mu'er dozed off on the sofa, woke up, and said with a smile, "Boss, there is good news."

"Oh? What?"

"The news from New York says that our funds will arrive no later than next Monday!"

"So soon?" Zhou Buqi showed a smile on his face, "Well, it really is good news!"

Feng Muer said: "The guy with the big nose said that if you want to go to the UK to buy a club, he can help. Now that the economy is in crisis, what investment banks need most is big clients. You can find Goldman Sachs and Morgan Sleydan to operate together. He also said that you'd better set up a club. Family companies, in the name of the company, can save taxes. Now the whole world is pushing for corporate tax cuts.”

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Well, this kind of thing needs to be done by a professional. Eh? Where's Sun Guanran?"

"She's a little tired, let's rest first."

"Well, get ready and go to Los Angeles tomorrow."

"Ah?" Feng Muer was slightly taken aback, "Tomorrow... no, it's today, it's early in the morning. Aren't you going to Google?"

Zhou Buqi waved his hand, "Let's wait for a while! This kind of big company is still strong and full of confidence. The impact of the financial tsunami is relatively slow, and it has to wait for time to ferment. Compared with giants like Microsoft and Google , or Hollywood is more fragile. It’s better to go to Hollywood to harvest first.”

hey-hey!

Whether it's Disney, Warner Bros., or NBC Universal, MGM, Paramount, Sony Pictures... they all lost half their lives!

The risk of making a movie is too high, so it is necessary to introduce foreign capital to share the risk; the investment in making a movie is too high, and Hollywood movie companies can't get that much cash flow at all, so they can only go to the bank for loans.

In other words, the current Hollywood giants are facing debt pressure, and at the same time, they are also suffering the painful consequences of the divestment of platter capital...

Microsoft can stand it without giving Boss Zhou face, but Hollywood can't stand it.