Chapter 3106: Fighting Piracy

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Sniping ‘Microsoft’, is Lin Feng going to snipe ‘Microsoft’ as a counterattack to Ballmer’s listing of China as a key area for anti-piracy? So how many shares of ‘Microsoft’ will Lin Feng short sell?

The answer came out soon.

The total share capital of ‘Microsoft’ is 8.38 billion shares, and the current share price is $18.2, with a total market value of approximately $152.516 billion. Lin Feng directly shorted 100 million shares of ‘Microsoft’. The current share price of ‘Microsoft’ is $18.2, and Lin Feng shorted it for a week. Today is February 26, which means March 5, Lin Feng will close his position. At that time, for every $1 drop in the ‘Microsoft’ stock price, Lin Feng will make $100 million, and for every $1 increase, Lin Feng will lose $100 million.

This is an extremely shocking futures bet. Of course, this is by no means the largest amount of futures bets. After all, Wall Street is full of bigger ones. So many venture capital companies have quietly gone bankrupt, and financial giants have sunk. Most of them are because of playing this kind of futures bet, and they have misjudged the market situation, leading to endless bankruptcies, because they play too much. Lin Feng's futures bet of 100 million shares is really nothing. The total amount is only 1.82 billion US dollars.

Compared with Lin Feng's assets, this is nothing at all. The reason why it is amazing is that Lin Feng directly made it clear. In so many futures bets in the past, no one has ever made everything clear. Because once you make it clear, the other party will do everything possible to oppose you. If you want to short sell, the other party will raise its stock price. If you want to go long, the other party will short sell. This kind of thing is too easy to do. Therefore. Even if those financial giants want to snipe a certain stock, they will never say it as clearly as Lin Feng did.

"Damn it! This guy is purely against us!" Ballmer's forehead veins jumped.

Lin Feng told the outside world so arrogantly that he was shorting Microsoft. This was a slap in the face of Microsoft in front of the whole world. Didn't Microsoft just announce three things, launch a patch for STA, and officially launch STA on March 1? This was originally good news. If STA solves the problem of high energy and low efficiency, it will bring huge profit returns to Microsoft again. After all, after the launch of Microsoft's system, other corresponding supporting software will be sold in large quantities.

For example, 'e', ​​the most deceptive and money-making office software in history. Every time the Microsoft system is upgraded, 'e' will be upgraded, and every time it is upgraded, users have to pay to buy it. Of course, even if the Microsoft system is not upgraded, Microsoft will launch corresponding upgraded versions every year. For example, 'e98', 'e2003', etc.! And these 'e' software. Are they really very different?

For ordinary users, the difference is not big. Except for a slight change in the interface, you can't feel any other changes. And for this, you have to pay a lot of money to buy the genuine version.

Therefore. The official version of 'sta' is definitely the biggest good news for 'Microsoft'.

But Lin Feng shorted it! He said that he would short sell 100 million shares of 'Microsoft' globally. How could Ballmer not be angry. Of course, he is angry now, and no one discusses with him. In the past, he could still discuss it with Bill Gates, but now Bill Gates has completely faded out of the management of 'Microsoft' and no longer intervenes in the daily affairs of 'Microsoft', which makes Ballmer have to find ways to deal with Lin Feng's short selling by himself.

One week! Ballmer gritted his teeth and decided that after one week, the stock price of 'Microsoft' would at least increase by 1 times. Yes, 1 times, he wanted Lin Feng to lose 1.8 billion US dollars. Although this money is not much, he just wants Lin Feng to lose money and vent his anger. Of course, if you want to vent your anger, you must come up with various countermeasures.

This is the first thing!

"Spread the news and let those computer magazines promote the official version of 'TA'. It has improved the previous high-performance and low-efficiency problems and will be the best operating system in the history of 'Microsoft'." Ballmer told the head of the public relations department.

This was Ballmer's first move. As long as 'STA' is excellent, no matter what happens, 'Microsoft' will win.

Suddenly, under the public relations of 'Microsoft', major computer magazines across the United States kept touting the excellence of 'TA', claiming that the official version of 'STA', after correcting several major vulnerabilities in the test version, will run at least three times faster than before, reduce the demanding hardware requirements by 50%, and improve the memory management efficiency by 130%. These computer magazines touted 'STA' as the strongest operating system in history.

"Hey, is it that exaggerated? To say that Microsoft's operating system has always been like that is just because of its good compatibility, is it worth it to brag like this? All programmers in the industry know that the best operating system in the industry is Apple, and Microsoft's system has many bugs and is slow, but it has a high penetration rate!" Ellison saw these flattery and looked down on him.

"Haha, Ellison, a professional programmer like you naturally knows, but a programming idiot like me doesn't. Such flattery, look, so many numbers, so eye-catching, it's exciting at a glance!" Lin Feng laughed.

"Hey, Lin, are you okay? Why are you speaking for Microsoft and so happy? Look, Microsoft's stock price has risen by $2 because the official version of STA is going to be released, and these computer magazines are touting it. You have already lost $200 million. My goodness, if it continues to rise like this, you will really lose a lot. Although you have money, it is not a good idea to continue losing money like this! It's embarrassing! You are betting against Microsoft, you can't lose!" Ellison was anxious when he saw Lin Feng's relaxed expression.

Lin Feng smiled and leisurely poured Ellison a cup of coffee.

"Larry, don't worry, don't worry. It's too early to really decide the winner! At least wait until March 1st. Now is not the time!" Lin Feng smiled slightly.

March 1st is the day when STA will be put on the market. Ellison nodded. Indeed, it is useless to worry now. ‘STA’ is in the hands of ‘Microsoft’. ‘Microsoft’ says it’s good, so it’s good. The outside world doesn’t know. If you want to argue, you’re just asking for a slap in the face. It’s better to wait until the official release on March 1 to see if this system is really as good as ‘Microsoft’ says.

“It’s just that, Lin, if you don’t fight back, then ‘Microsoft’ will continue to attack. And it will directly affect your company’s stock!” Ellison said, pointing at the slightly falling stock price of ‘Second World’.

Due to Lin Feng’s short selling bet, Lin Feng’s ‘Second World’ and ‘Microsoft’ stocks are tied to the same line. Of course, it’s not the kind of one rises and all fall, but the posture of you rise and I fall, and you fall and I rise. In this case, if Lin Feng doesn’t respond, the stock price will plummet.

"Haha, Ellison, let it fall, it doesn't matter. If it can fall, it can rise again. Anyway, for me, I never plan to sell the company's stocks. Moreover, my 'Second World' has plenty of cash. The current cash reserves exceed 20 billion US dollars, which is enough to meet daily needs. Moreover, if I really encounter any difficulties, I can directly borrow through my 'Second Bank', so the stock price is nothing to me! It's just a string of numbers!" Lin Feng said with a smile.

Ellison shook his head helplessly. I'm afraid that only Lin Feng can not care about the stock price. After all, the wealth of most super-rich people is in the stock price. For example, Ellison, his assets were about 27 billion US dollars before. Now, apart from the 18 billion US dollars in loans, his assets are 1.3 billion US dollars. This is because Oracle's stock price rose by 200% after receiving 18 billion US dollars in aid from Apple, which allowed Ellison to regain the qualification to be on the Forbes list. But compared with the previous wealth of 27 billion US dollars, there is undoubtedly a big gap. The reason for this is that Oracle's stock price is almost delisted.

Lin Feng did not react at all, which was indeed a bit beyond Ballmer's expectations. However, Ballmer was also a ruthless person. Since Lin Feng did not say anything, he did not care whether Lin Feng had any tricks. In short, he would attack, attack, and attack again, making Lin Feng flustered. He did not believe that Lin Feng could keep calm like this.

Next, Ballmer made a second move - cracking down on piracy.

Microsoft, in conjunction with the United Nations Anti-Piracy Association, found the China Administration for Industry and Commerce and asked the Ministry of Industry and Commerce of China to strictly investigate China's piracy, and directly put pressure on China through the US Department of Commerce, asking China to strictly investigate piracy and eliminate the behavior of pirating any software of Microsoft. At the same time, Microsoft issued an announcement that Microsoft will crack down on piracy in the near future. All people who install pirated Microsoft system software will have a black screen every hour. The system will prompt users to refuse to use pirated software and require users to use genuine software, otherwise they will be sued by Microsoft.

This crackdown on piracy directly caused a shock in the industry. Before this, when Microsoft announced the crackdown on piracy, the outside world did not take it too seriously. After all, it has become public knowledge that piracy is rampant in Asia, and any software company in the world has taken a laissez-faire attitude towards it. They think it is inevitable. Cracking down on piracy is just a waste of money. It can be dealt with temporarily, but not forever. At most, when you crack down on it, the pirates will be restrained a little. If you relax, the pirates will come back again. These pirates are very smart to adopt the guerrilla tactics of retreating when the enemy advances and advancing when the enemy retreats. Therefore, not many people believe that Microsoft will crack down on piracy.

But I never thought that this time Microsoft would play for real. But even so, what impact will it have on Lin Feng? You are pointing fingers at Lin Feng and saying that he condones piracy. At most, it will embarrass Lin Feng a little. What's the use of your crackdown?

Ballmer smiled coldly. What's the use? Hehe, Lin Feng is ready to lose face this time! (To be continued)m