My rebirth is different

Chapter 876 Reaching a Tacit Agreement
Just when Yu Wenfei and his party checked into the hotel and began to rest.

In another high-end hotel not far from their hotel, Ballmer, Larry Page and Sergey are having a secret conversation in the parlor of the presidential suite where he lives.

In the room, apart from the three of them, there were no outsiders.

Because what they want to talk about is not convenient for too many people to know.

"Great job! I heard that after you stopped the promotion of Facebook ads, they began to express their intention to introduce strategic investors."

Holding a red wine glass, Ballmer greeted the two young people sitting across from him with a red face.

Compared with the tall and strong Ballmer, Larry Page and Sergey are as thin as chickens.

The two of them still looked like college students, wearing T-shirts and jeans, and they didn't look like the bosses of big companies at all.

"Hey, we also abide by the business rules. Originally, the company planned to expand its business in the field of Internet social networking, and Facebook can be regarded as our potential opponent. Naturally, we can't let our competitors develop and grow for some advertising fees."

Larry Page said with a smile.

"Google holds the largest Internet traffic entrance, and has now surpassed Yahoo, so how to retain these traffic is the biggest strategic direction of our company in the next few years." Sergey added.

Ballmer nodded, "Yes, it's not enough just to have traffic, we must be able to retain the traffic and realize it! We, Microsoft, have been working hard in this direction. The development of MSN is not too smooth , Next, the company will make big moves to integrate our Internet-related service components.”

A traditional IT giant like Microsoft, faced with the vigorous development of the Internet industry in the past few years, can't help it.

Ordinarily, they who have IE browser and WINDOWS system should be the giants of the Internet!
Why can't Microsoft get a share of this huge sunrise market worth trillions of dollars, or even trillions of dollars?

Therefore, relying on its strong technical reserves and huge human resources, Microsoft is launching MSN to enter the Internet instant messaging, MSN portal website, and its own search engine.

This is the style of doing things of giant companies.

Once a certain industry is recognized as worthy of investment, the action will be thunderous, and it will come to take the whole industry!

It is a pity that Microsoft does not have a monopoly foundation in the Internet industry.

Although the IE browser has the highest market share, what websites users go to through the IE browser is not counted by what Microsoft said.

It's not that Microsoft hasn't used their brains in this regard, trying to do some bundling or something.

However, competitors are not accustomed to it.

In the past two years, "anti-monopoly lawsuits" against Microsoft have been launched in various countries in Europe and the United States, which has caused Microsoft to be devastated, and the company was almost split into several companies.

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Larry Page and Sergey looked at each other, and they were so frank about Ballmer, they were surprised by their advantages.

"So...Microsoft is also going to develop in the direction of social networking?" Larry Page asked tentatively.

"That's right! Social networking is a big sweet cake, who wouldn't be tempted. So, this time, when I heard that Facebook was going to expand its share capital and introduce strategic partners, I rushed over immediately." Ballmer Putting down the wine glass, he said with a smile.

He was very frank, and made it clear that Microsoft was very interested in Facebook.

Sometimes, being a business is weird.

An enterprise may be invincible in a certain field and cannot find rivals at all.

But after entering the related industry, I couldn't get used to it.

Even if a lot of money is invested and a lot of elite talents are poached, it still cannot achieve the desired effect.

In this case, the company does not have the genes of the industry!

This is the case with Microsoft, a company that simply does not have the genes for social networking.

Otherwise, according to the market share of WINDOWS system and IE browser, no Internet company should be able to compete with it.

MSN was also launched very early, and it should have dominated the Internet industry long ago.

But the reality is that neither portals, instant messaging, nor search engines are doing very well.

Microsoft's top executives don't think it's their own problem. They feel that it's just because the company didn't invest too much energy in the Internet business before.

As long as you pay attention to yourself and increase your investment in capital and manpower, you will surely be able to dominate the world just like in the field of computer systems and in the field of Internet!
Therefore, Ballmer's future strategy for the company is to continue to invest heavily in the Internet, especially in the social field, within a few years!

And, indeed, there was a big plan to execute.

That is to integrate all of Microsoft's Internet-related businesses.

Named "WINDOWS LIVE"!
Once integrated, it will be difficult to find rivals in the market.

Because it will include all the core services of the Internet, such as instant network communication, e-mail, portals, search engines, etc.

To provide users with one-stop service!

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Larry Page and Sergey looked a bit cautious, although in the Internet industry, Google is doing much better than Microsoft.

But, this is Microsoft.

Once Microsoft wants to take the Internet industry seriously, no company dares to underestimate it.

"Why are you interested in Facebook when you're going to start your own Internet business?" Sergey asked.

Ballmer laughed.

He said meaningfully: "Facebook is a very mature Internet social model, and this company has already proved its success.

The market value of the mainland business department alone is tens of billions of dollars.

Now the North American company is doing the international version of Facebook, facing the world!

This is a vast and huge market, and it only took a few months to achieve nearly 5000 million active users!
Who would not be tempted by such a unicorn company?
Even if we, Microsoft, do a similar business by ourselves, I am afraid it will be difficult to compete with it.

This time the two of you came here, you probably have the same idea as me, otherwise, Google has a huge traffic portal, so why not just build your own social networking site. "

Sergey smiled wryly. This old guy is indeed an old fox. He knows exactly what he is thinking.

Yes, everyone is a giant in the industry, so naturally there are no fools.

They are all very clear about the bright future of the international version of Facebook.

Although I can also make a similar website to compete with Facebook.

However, even if it is as strong as Microsoft and Google, it is difficult to guarantee that it can achieve the effect of Facebook.

Now that I have the opportunity to directly invest in this unicorn company, of course I can't let it go...

(End of this chapter)