Rewrite the Technological Landscape

New Year’s Eve in 2003 is January 31st, so throughout January, all parts of the country began to enter the festive atmosphere of welcoming the New Year. Dafeng Group also reduced certain tasks to allow employees to slowly slow down the pace and have a good New Year.

However, in this January, apart from the annual meeting, Dafeng Group has two more important things. The first thing is the browser incident that happened at the beginning of the month.

Speaking of browsers, because there are too many browsers in later generations, many people may not think that browsers are so technologically advanced, and they may even think that browsers are just daily applications.

However, in fact, it is a big deal to make a browser in 2003, especially a browser developed entirely by ourselves.

Since Tim invented the first web browser in 1990, the development of the browser started with Netscape Browser 1.0 that appeared in 1994. As the most popular browser ever, Netscape has a market share of 90%. %.

However, the good times did not last long, because Netscape had to face the rival of Microsoft. Microsoft acquired it and released the well-known IE browser. The way that Microsoft defeated Netscape was also very simple and rude, with system binding.

Every computer with Windows operating system has its own IE browser. Netscape is naturally not an opponent of Microsoft. After Netscape was forced to open the code in 1998, a number of browser companies sprung up and faced more people. Competitor, Microsoft has developed better. Judging from the data released by Microsoft on January 3, 2003, Microsoft's IE browser has a market share of 95%.

After a round of competition, IE browser has become the absolute king. The browsers that have appeared in the past few years have also withdrawn from the market. From 2002 to 2003, IE browser achieved a 95% market share. Its peak, because in the next two years, Firefox appeared, and in a few years, chrome appeared.

On January 5, 2003, after Microsoft announced the market share of IE browser, it held a grand celebration and carried out crazy publicity, wishing to let the world know its success.

After all, netizens on the Internet do not have a prophet. Many people think that IE browser can no longer be defeated, because in your opinion, even if other companies are browsers, they cannot be much better than IE, but Microsoft has system bindings. With a 95% market share, how could others beat him?

This is like in 2019 when someone said that there would be a company developing a game of the same type to defeat King of Glory. Many people would not believe it, because everyone felt that Penguin’s WeChat and QQ binding was a line of defense that other companies would find difficult to break through. In addition, the king already has such a large market share. Except for the LOL mobile game, it is difficult for everyone to imagine any game that may defeat the glory of the king.

This is the interesting part of the technology industry. Many things that you think are impossible, you will find after turning over the history that they have actually happened. In the technology industry, everything is possible.

So in many cases, people who don't understand the technology industry will think that China Technology cannot surpass the United States.

In addition to being unbeatable, many media have also slapped headlines that no one dares to challenge, but I don't know if it is a manuscript written by Microsoft itself.

At the celebration banquet of IE browser, Joseph of the Browser Business Unit was in full bloom, accepting praise from everyone.

"To be honest, Netscape is really a respectable opponent."

"This is not my credit, this is the credit of the entire team."

"Fortunately, we responded in a timely manner, but we at Microsoft control the core system. In computer applications, no one is our opponent."

Joseph seems to be humble and high-profile, and some people in other companies are somewhat envious. Microsoft is really domineering by relying on a system.

Therefore, those who are interested still cannot help but want to choke a few words, "Mr. Joseph, I heard that another browser has been developed, which reduces the memory usage and improves performance. I don’t know if IE will have a big game this year. Update?"

"? Four years, how many browsers have been developed? Every time I say that the performance is better than us, the function is better than us, the result? Four years ago, there was a 25% market share, now only 2.5%." Drink A little bit more Joseph not only laughed outright, "You still don't understand what a browser is.

The user uses the browser to surf the Internet. How much influence does the browser itself have on the Internet? Do you take up a few megabytes of memory and add a few auxiliary functions, is it meaningful to users?

Not much. What users need is a safe, convenient and simple browser. We have controlled the needs of consumers. That's enough. We have been trying our best to beat us from the perspective of products. I can be here. To put it very clearly, with our knowledge and understanding of the browser as a product, no one can beat us simply through the product gap of the browser itself, unless someone replaces our Windows system one day, but I believe , That's even more impossible. "

Facing Joseph’s self-confidence and even arrogance, many people can only laugh. Microsoft’s pride is known throughout the world. They are proud from top to bottom, otherwise they will not miss so many trends of the times, but they have learned about Microsoft culture and Microsoft. The manager is actually understandable, because Microsoft has been instilling an idea to its employees. Microsoft is a leader in the development of science and technology in the world. As a leader, of course others will listen to us. There is no reason for us to listen to others.

Those who want to choke Joseph continued, "But the MSN of your company also uses the method of binding the system, why can't it always use the wind letter?"

The scene was a bit awkward.

I don't know if it was because of such a fuse at the scene. After the celebration banquet, Ballmer, who was just appointed as the CEO of Microsoft in 2000, held a management meeting.

First praised Joseph internally, and then Ballmer's gaze fell on Kevin, "Kevin, how is the competition between MSN and Fengxin? How did I hear that the new version is still not attractive?"

Kevin frowned. He knew that IE browser is a successful case of the binding system, but MSN is a failure case of the binding system. Many people in the company are not very happy with Kevin now and think he is a taint of Microsoft. In addition, Joseph was choked on the spot because of the failure of MSN tonight. Everyone sees him even more upset. "MSN is not the same as Fengxin's product positioning. We are just not facing the same user group."

"Really, then I now hope you can grab the user group of Fengxin, can you do it?"

Kevin was silent for a few seconds ~www.ltnovel.com~ In the face of everyone's eyes, he still spoke out, "I think the company does not pay enough attention to our MSN project team. Dafeng Group is using all of them to compete with us. "

"Are you sure that Dafeng Group is competing with you with all of them? It is said that Fengxin’s revenue accounts for less than 20% of Dafeng Group’s revenue? This year may be lower, and 10% may not necessarily be there."

"The browser project team also didn't give much help, and when it was first established, there were such powerful opponents as Netscape. Why is it that only your MSN project team has no results and is still raising demand.

Kevin finally felt very tired suddenly, "Is it..."

At this moment, Ballmer's cell phone rang suddenly. He glanced at the cell phone and his expression changed. After a few seconds, there was another message. Ballmer signaled to make a call. The director came to the room.

"What's the matter?" Ballmer asked directly.

"I just confirmed it again. It is China's Dafeng Group. They released a browser and quickly promoted it by rewarding and binding Fengxin. It has attracted millions of downloads."

"Through some means to promote browsers, many companies have done this, but users should have become accustomed to our browsers. Why do we need to mark emergency situations in the reported information?" Ballmer was puzzled.

The marketing director was embarrassed, "because, after using Dafeng Group's browser, netizens all commented that IE browser is shit."

The room fell into silence for an instant. This was the second embarrassment for everyone tonight. Instead, it was Kevin sitting in the corner who felt that hearing **** was such a refreshing thing for the first time.