Chapter 2394 Risk it all

In the past two years, Zhou Buqi almost took every request from Kurian and gave him great support. However, I plan not to adopt his opinion this time.

This is related to Ziweiyun's future development, so don't act on impulse!

Ziweiyun is Zhou Buqi’s most important core business, even more important than social business.

Cloud computing is the infrastructure of the Internet. It is a long-term business. The larger the scale and the stronger the technology, the stronger the vitality. Social business is different. The market situation is changing and the unpredictability is too high.

Cloud computing is like a department store. The business model is to rent out stalls and shops, collect rent every year, and ensure income during droughts and floods.

The business model of social business is to rent a stall in a department store and open a store.

At present, Helo, Ucgram and other products are booming, and they are considered the most popular stalls in the entire department store.

But the risk factor is too high.

I don’t know when, a store that is more popular with consumers may open next door.

If Zi Weiyun's importance hadn't been too high, Zhou Buqi would have started a fight with Odobi long ago, and there would be no need to discuss the various trade-offs.

It's okay now. After what Kurian said, Zhou Buqi found the best solution immediately.

You can achieve your goals commercially, and you can also boldly move forward under the idealistic trend of next-generation technology standards. It can be said that you have to have your cake and eat it too!

Zhou Buqi made an appointment with Shantanu Narayan, the Indian CEO of Adobe, and wanted to have a good chat.

The other party was also very polite and said that he would come and visit.

Zhou Buqi is quite relieved.

I feel that Ziweixing is now considered a technological master, especially in the field of cloud computing, it has led the world. This eliminates the need to spend money to buy technology. On the contrary, you can rely on technology to negotiate and change markets.

Some are happy and some are sad.

Microsoft is in big trouble.

The stock price continued to fall.

Since the press conference, Microsoft's stock price has fallen by 7.3%, and its market value has evaporated by US$16.2 billion. The main reason is that the Window8 system, which Microsoft has high hopes for and the outside world is eagerly waiting for, was screwed up.

Coupled with the failure of the tablet Surface proposed in the summer, as well as the failure of the previous mobile operating system and the failure of the acquisition of Nokia's mobile phone business, IE's market share is getting lower and lower...

All things considered, Microsoft is really at an imminent time.

Will Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer step down?

Obviously, he doesn't want to.

He's still struggling.

He placed his hope on Zhou Buqi.

Zhou Buqi thought he was waiting for the CEO of Adobe to visit him. Unexpectedly, the CEO of Microsoft came all the way from Seattle to visit him.

The attitude is called sincerity.

Even a little humble.

"Zhou, you must help me this time!"

Ballmer spoke earnestly and sighed repeatedly.

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "How do you say this? Microsoft is a leader in the technology industry and my senior. It is only for us to keep learning."

Ballmer sighed: "Microsoft's stock price is a bit unstoppable."

Zhou Buqi said: "I believe Microsoft will be able to overcome the difficulties soon."

Seeing that he was so good at wrangling, Ballmer was not in the mood to talk in circles with him, "Let's talk about a deal with UC Group. As long as you want to sell it, Microsoft will definitely buy it."

Zhou Buqi joked: "Any price will work?"

Ballmer was relatively calm about this, saying calmly: "I can accept the premium, and the board of directors can also accept part of the premium. But if this is a ridiculous deal, this deal will only go to waste."

Zhou Buqi said: "My principle has always been mutual benefit and win-win results. When it comes to prices, I have always been very fair."

Ballmer breathed a sigh of relief, "So, the UC Group case can be restarted?"

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "Compared to half a year ago, the scale of UC Group is much larger now, and the number of UC Browser users has increased by 50 million."

Ballmer nodded, "The more, the merrier."

UC Group has many products, and Microsoft doesn't look at those bits and pieces. The main thing it focuses on is UC Browser.

This is critical.

The IE standard has been deeply ingrained and cannot be changed even if you want to, so that the IE browser cannot make any changes under the impact of HTML5 under the new situation.

If you want to change it, then scrap IE and start again.

This is what Microsoft did in its previous life.

They gave up their own private standards and chose to join the HTML5 camp. Even the browser kernel directly used Google's, which was a complete surrender.

This life is different.

The emergence of Ziweixing is a new change.

UC Browser is developing very well, with more than 200 million users worldwide. Although there are more than 100 million users in Greater China, this is also very valuable.

This gives Microsoft the opportunity to walk on two legs.

While adhering to its own IE standards through the IE browser, it also caters to the emerging HTML5 standards through the UC browser. As long as one succeeds, Microsoft will not be left behind by the times at the strategic level.

Zhou Buqi said: "Then let's talk?"

Ballmer said frankly: "I hope to finalize this deal as quickly as possible!"

"What about the price?"

"$3.85 billion!"

"It should be a little lower..."

Zhou Buqi frowned slightly.

But he was cursing in his heart.

Depend on!

Microsoft is indeed Microsoft, it is so rich! A broken browser can be sold for so much money, and looking at this situation, it is obvious that there is still a lot of room for negotiation.

In Zhou Buqi's mind, the expected price of UC Group is US$5 billion, part of which will be sold to Microsoft and part to Baidu.

Baidu can sell at least US$1.5 billion...

This has officially started negotiations, which has already reached the standard.

The timing of this negotiation was mastered so well!

Ballmer didn't want to turn this case into a tug-of-war. He also wanted to release the good news quickly and boost Microsoft's stock price.

It's now the end of October.

In a few months, next year's board of directors and shareholders' meetings will be held.

We must quickly take advantage of these few months to do something big. Otherwise, he will definitely not be able to make it through the shareholders' meeting early next year, and he may take the blame and step down.

Ballmer asked him directly how much he wanted.

When it comes to negotiation, you have to bargain.

Zhou Buqi would not be polite to him and directly offered $5 billion. He said that as long as Microsoft agrees to the price, the contract can be signed tomorrow!

Ballmer was silent for a while.

Zhou Buqi's heart lit up.

It was a shock.

There seems to be something going on!

What the hell!

This Ballmer, in order to consolidate his position, is going all out. This is really using the interests of all shareholders to seek power for himself. It is so shameful.