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In early 1998, when Kingsoft Software was at its weakest, Boss Jia took action without hesitation and spent less than US$30 million to buy the entire Kingsoft Software, and then merged Kingsoft Software and Bilibili to become a company.

Qiu Bojun, the former chairman of Kingsoft Software, took the initiative to exchange his shares for cash and completely withdrew from Kingsoft Software.

The former general manager Lei Jun was retained by Boss Jia and became the vice president of Bicuru Bicuru, the newcomer he didn't know in front of Ma Yun.

"Chairman, as you told me, we have re-convened a large number of programmers to develop WPS, and added more than 10 major world language versions, including English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, etc.." Lei Jun reported to Jia Yapeng with an excited look on his face.

"Ma Yun, look, this is the weapon we use to attack Microsoft!" Boss Jia said with a smile.

"That's it?" A trace of disdain was obviously leaking on Ma Yun's face, which made Lei Jun, who was originally smiling, look at Ma Yun with a few dissatisfaction on his face.

"Of course!" Boss Jia smiled and said, "Actually, I'm very interested in knowing what Microsoft did to WPS and WPS did to Microsoft in turn, and what interesting situation would happen!"

"Chairman, do you want to promote WPS pirated software around the world and then embezzle Microsoft's office software market in retaliation?" Ma Yun asked thoughtfully.

"No, there is no need to be such trouble, nor does it require such fame and reputation. We don't engage in any piracy, we can give it to each other for free!!!" Boss Jia said with a smile.

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On November 1, 1998, when Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates got up from bed in the morning, then took out today's newspaper from the mailbox at the door, and started reading as usual, he just took a look and the coffee cup in Bill Gates's hand fell directly on the table.

The entire coffee cup broke instantly. When the black coffee saw Bill Gates, he didn't notice it at all, and his face was covered with ashes.

This was not a news that made Bill Gates beat him up, but an advertisement that occupied a page of the newspaper.

"Daqian WPS office software, your best work assistant!"

This is the advertising slogan of this advertisement, but this sentence is not important. What is important is that it occupies the C position of the entire page of the advertisement and almost fills the entire page with a line of text "Daqian WPS: Global Permanent Free"

Just 5 minutes later, the executive in charge of the office department called over, and Bill Gates, who was originally on vacation, asked all the executives to return to the company for a meeting immediately.

"Chairman, according to our survey, found that such advertisements are not only seen in the New York Times. The ten most important newspapers in the United States have published the same advertisements. There are at least 500 newspapers in the world, and the same advertisements have also appeared, which can be said to have covered more than 80% of users!"

"Chairman, not only that, this Daqian WPS has opened the download website in 132 different countries around the world. There is no cost or any payment. You just need to click to download on the website to download the complete Daqian WPS office software!" An executive reported.

"Not only that, Chairman, you know, there is a steam game store at my doorstep, and I pass by that store every day when I go out. As a result, I found that there was a huge poster at the door of this steam game store that almost occupied the entire door, which was the advertisement for this big WPS."

"This advertisement clearly states that we have some functions in our office, and we can not only download it online, but also buy installation disks directly in the Steam Game Store. The Steam Game Store does not charge any other fees, only a CD fee of 1 USD per card!"

"1 dollar per card!" Everyone at the scene took a breath. The CD of their Office software was worth $99 per card, and an empty CD on the market was indeed sold for $1 per card.

"Crazy, this Daqian is crazy. What's the benefit of doing this? The investment in these advertising is at least tens of millions of dollars, and there is also a steam game store... Well, this is Daqian's own industry does not charge money, but it's still too crazy. They actually invest so much money in a software that doesn't charge money. This is incredible. Don't they want to make money?" The executives said in disbelief.

"No, it's not that they don't want to make money, it's not that they don't want us to make money!" Bill Gates licked his lips and said helplessly.

After Bill Gates said this, other executives also realized that this WPS is under the banner of permanent free globally, so obviously, both individual users and corporate users are free and can be used without any cost.

On the other hand, Microsoft Office, which has occupied most of the market, is different.

First of all, Microsoft Office is a fully charged software. Although individual users can use pirated software, this is just because Microsoft will not hold pirated software accountable. There are still many individual users who choose to spend money to purchase genuine Office software.

As for enterprise users, it is impossible to escape Microsoft's clutches. At this time, 78% of enterprises around the world use Office office software, and the remaining 22% use Apple's paid office software.

In Office office software, Microsoft's net profit alone exceeds the amazing level of US$3.8 billion per year.

What’s more serious is that this is just the licensing fee for office software, not the buyout fee. The authorization is charged once a year. In other words, the profit of this $3.8 billion is the leek that can be harvested once a year, which is simply too delicious.

At this time, Office software has become the fourth-ranked source of profit under Microsoft, and is an existence that Microsoft cannot ignore at all.

But now, the free WPS has appeared. So if you think about it, how will companies that spend more than $3.8 billion to buy office software every year hold WPS in their hands?

There is also a problem with WPS to completely take away the office market. That is, if WPS is nominally free, its user experience is extremely bad and far less than office. The most important thing is that it is not compatible with the office format and cannot open the old version of office files, it will not be a big threat.

Unfortunately, when several Microsoft testers walked over with a test report with a gray face, Bill Gates knew that the crisis was coming.

Sure enough, according to the tester's report, 98% of Office's functions are available. At the same time, WPS has at least dozens of new functions, but these functions are very practical. Even these testers can't help but want to replace Office with WPS after using it.

Well, these functions are summarized by Boss Jia based on the office software for the future market, and of course it can hit the market pain points.

Secondly, the fluency of the software is completely comparable to that of office, and even when handling certain tasks, the reaction speed is faster.

Finally, there is the compatibility issue. WPS can be perfectly compatible with all old versions of office files, and even Apple's office files are still compatible.

Simply put, unless you take out the computer files from before 1970, there will be no files that cannot be opened by WPS.