Rewrite the Technological Landscape

The New Year's Eve in 2003 was on January 31, so throughout January, all parts of the country began to enter the festive atmosphere of welcoming the New Year. Dafeng Group also reduced certain task arrangements, allowing employees to slowly slow down and celebrate the New Year.

However, in this January, apart from the annual meeting, Dafeng Group has two more important events. The first event is the browser event 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 such a technological thing, and even think that browsers are just a daily application software.

However, in fact, making a browser in 2003, especially a fully self-developed browser, was a big deal.

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

However, the good times didn't last long, because Netscape had to face the opponent of Microsoft. Microsoft acquired Spyglass and released the well-known IE browser, and Microsoft's method of defeating Netscape was also very simple and rude, and the system was bound.

Every computer using the Windows system comes with its own IE browser. Netscape is naturally not an opponent of Microsoft. The opponent, Microsoft, has developed even better. Judging from the data just released by Microsoft on January 3, 2003, Microsoft's IE browser market share has reached 95%.

After a round of competition, the IE browser has become the absolute king, and the browsers that have emerged in recent years have also withdrawn from the market. From 2002 to 2003, the IE browser reached 95% of the market share. Its pinnacle, because in the next two years, Firefox appeared, and in a few years, Chrome appeared.

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

After all, netizens on the Internet have no prophets. Many people think that the IE browser can no longer be defeated, because in everyone's opinion, even if other companies make browsers, they cannot be much better than IE. With a market share of 95%, how can others beat him?

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

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

So in many cases, the less people who understand the technology industry, the more they feel that it is impossible for Huaxia Technology to surpass the United States.

In addition to being invincible, many media have also typed the headline that no one dares to challenge, but I don't know if it is the manuscript written by Microsoft itself.

At the celebration banquet of the IE browser, Joseph from the browser business department was full of joy, accepting praise from everyone.

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

"It's not about me, it's about the whole team."

"Fortunately, we responded in a timely manner, but we, Microsoft, have the most core system. In terms of computer applications, no one is our opponent."

Joseph seemed to be modest and high-profile, and some people in other companies were somewhat envious. Microsoft relied on one system, and it was really domineering.

So some people still can't help but want to choke a few words, "Mr. Joseph, I heard that mozilla has developed another browser, which reduces memory usage and improves performance. I don't know if IE browser will have it this year. A major update?"

"Mozilla? It's been four years. How many browsers has Mozilla developed? Every time they say that their performance is better than ours, and their functions are stronger than ours. What happened? Four years ago, Mozilla had a market share of 25%, but now it's only 2.5%. "Joseph, who had drunk a little too much, couldn't help laughing bluntly, "You still don't understand what a browser is.

Users use browsers to surf the Internet. How much influence does the browser itself have on surfing the Internet? If you save 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, and that is enough. Mozilla has been trying its best to defeat us from the perspective of products. I can Here is a very clear statement, based on our knowledge and understanding of the browser product, no one can defeat us simply through the product gap of the browser itself, unless someone replaces our Windows system one day, but I Believe me, that's even more impossible. "

Facing Joseph’s self-confidence and even arrogance, many people can only smile. Microsoft’s arrogance is known to the whole world, from top to bottom. Otherwise, they would not miss so many trends of the times. Managers are actually understandable, because Microsoft has been instilling a thought in its employees. Microsoft is the leader in the development of technology in the world, so as a leader, of course others come to listen to us. There is no reason for us to listen to others.

The person who wanted to piss off Joseph continued, "The MSN of the Kegui company also uses the method of binding the system, so why can't we always use Fengxin?"

The scene was a little embarrassing for a while.

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

First, he praised Joseph internally, and then Ballmer's eyes 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 the IE browser was a successful case of the binding system, but MSN was a failure case of the binding system. Many people in the company are not very happy to see Kevin now, thinking that he is a stain on Microsoft. In addition, Joseph was choked on the spot because of the failure of MSN tonight, and everyone was even more upset to see him, "The product positioning of MSN and Fengxin is different, we just are not facing the same user group."

"That's right, then I now hope that you can grab Fengxin's user group, can you do it?"

Kevin was silent for a few seconds. Facing everyone's eyes, he still said, "I don't think the company pays enough attention to our MSN project team. Dafeng Group is competing with us with everything they have."

"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? It may be even lower this year, even 10%."

"The browser project team company also didn't give much help, and when it was first established, there was such a strong opponent as Netscape. Why is it that only your MSN project team has no results and keeps raising demands."

Kevin finally felt very tired suddenly, "Isn't it?"

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

"What's going on?" Ballmer asked directly.

"I just reconfirmed that it is Huaxia's Dafeng Group. They released a browser and quickly promoted it by rewarding and binding Fengxin. It has already attracted millions of people to download."

"Promoting browsers through some means has been done by many companies, but users should have gotten used to our browsers. Why should emergency situations be marked on the reported information?" Ballmer expressed his confusion.

The marketing director showed embarrassment, "Because, after using the Dafeng Group's browser, netizens all commented that the IE browser is shit."

The room fell silent for a moment. This was the second embarrassment for everyone tonight. On the contrary, Kevin, who was sitting in the corner, felt that hearing shit was such a refreshing thing for the first time.