367: Big trouble for Weiruan's operating system!

The first ad slot is a small window that pops up in the bottom right corner of our desktop when you finish booting up and enter the desktop.

This small window will display convenient information such as the current boot time, local weather, humidity, and whether it will rain in the next two hours.

Of course, below this convenient information are advertisements, which will be played in the form of a 15-second silent short video ad.

The entire ad will play for 15 seconds and then automatically close. After the 5th second, users can directly click the “X” button to close this ad window.

After this, the second ad slot is in the desktop's “Start” option, where a graphic and text ad slot pops up below “Efficient Work” on the right side.

Besides this, the third ad slot is in “My Computer,” where there will be rectangular silent video or graphic and text ads below the C, D, and F drive interfaces.

As for the fourth ad slot, there will be a thin, long strip of graphic and text advertising at the very bottom of folders like the D or E drive.

The fifth ad slot will also have a thin, long strip of graphic and text advertising at the very bottom of Shuguang Computer Security Butler.

As for other places, there are none. Currently, there are only these 5 ad slots, after all, too many ads would cause trouble for everyone’s daily use.”

Hearing Lin Chen’s words and looking at the 5 ad slots and their specific displays on the projection screen behind him, the people who had just raised their hearts let them down again.

Because these 5 ads indeed do not affect their daily use; the first small pop-up can be closed directly by clicking the cross, and if not, it will automatically close after 15 seconds.

As for the ad slot below “Efficient Work” in the Start option, they don't use it much in their daily lives, so it has little impact on them, and they expressed acceptance.

After this, the video and graphic ad on the C, D, and F drives in “My Computer” also has no impact. Who would idly watch that long strip ad?

Similarly, the long strip graphic and text ad at the bottom of the fourth folder is also like this, but it does not affect people's daily use, and they can completely ignore them.

As for the thin, long strip graphic and text ad below Shuguang Computer Butler, they can also directly ignore it.

As for whether they have any resistance to these 5 ads, there is naturally a little resistance, but it is not significant. After all, it's impossible to accept no ads at all, right?

Free things are good to use, but they also need to allow people to support the operation and maintenance of Dawn Computer Operating System, otherwise, they will ultimately be the ones to suffer.

Therefore, they did not have much resistance to these two ad slots and all readily expressed acceptance.

In response, the President of Microsoft’s face was very gloomy after seeing the attitudes of the surrounding guests and audience.

Earlier, when he heard that Dawn Computer Operating System would be permanently free, he showed a sneer, thinking that a permanently free Dawn Computer Operating System would definitely not last long.

But when he heard that Shuguang Technology’s computer operating system would survive by collecting advertising fees, he frowned, and then a thought quickly made him discover the drawback.

Just as he was about to mock Shuguang Technology, believing that it would surely lead to user disgust and abandonment of Dawn Computer Operating System due to too many ads embedded in the computer system.

As a result, Shuguang Technology did not show their greed, but instead, very restrainedly, only had a mere 5 ads, and all these 5 ads were in non-core areas!

Under these circumstances, those 5 ads simply did not affect people's use, and this was bad news for Microsoft.

Their Microsoft XP system sold for as high as 178 US dollars. Although buying this XP system meant lifelong permanent use, it had to be admitted that the price was indeed a bit high.

This price was so high that it could already buy a relatively good low-end mobile phone, which naturally made many computer users feel pain and reluctant to spend money on it.

The final result was that many people would rather risk being sued by Microsoft than use pirated Windows operating systems, and this situation was not an isolated case but a widespread reality.

Although Microsoft Company would catch a few unlucky people in various countries every month and year to serve as a warning, under the lure of profit, many people still continued to use pirated XP systems regardless.

Under such circumstances, this naturally caused huge economic losses to Microsoft Company. It can be said that if those people did not use pirated XP systems,

but honestly used genuine Microsoft Operating System, then Microsoft Company's profit last year would not have been just 12.3 billion US dollars, it could have directly surged to 30 billion US dollars!

However, unfortunately, this is simply not achievable. After all, there are so many poor people in this world, and some truly cannot afford that much money. At this point, Microsoft Company cannot abandon the market and give other system companies a chance to rise, can it?

So Microsoft Company also reluctantly acquiesced, only occasionally catching a few unlucky people to tell those who could afford it not to risk using pirated versions, otherwise, there would be huge risks.

As for those truly poor people who cannot afford it, Microsoft Company tacitly allowed it. For example, individual users in countries like Great Summer, Africa, and India were implicitly allowed to use pirated versions without accountability.

Of course, regular companies in those countries would definitely be held accountable. They might let go of poor individuals, but they would certainly not let go of wealthy companies.

They would eliminate one by one until they were so scared they dared not use pirated versions.

Moreover, the professional version used by companies costs 278 US dollars. Selling one professional version earns much more than a home version, and they would not give up the profits they earned.

Therefore, the current situation is that regular companies in all countries worldwide cannot use pirated versions and must honestly buy genuine Microsoft Operating System.

Ultimately, they will definitely feel the pain. In this situation, as long as Dawn Computer Operating System does well with its office software ecosystem,

then it is estimated that more than half of the regular companies globally will betray Microsoft Operating System!

After all, a Microsoft XP Professional System costs 278 US dollars. 100 computers would cost 27,800 US dollars, and 1,000 computer systems would cost 278,000 US dollars!

This price is simply heartbreakingly expensive. I believe any company that sees this system expenditure will feel distressed!

What's even more troublesome is that every three to four years, Microsoft Company will launch a new generation of more powerful operating systems.

And this also means they will be 'harvested' once again. How could this not make them feel the pain?

However, fortunately, many companies worldwide have already purchased Microsoft XP Operating System. At this time, they naturally won't waste effort switching to any Dawn Computer Operating System.

But this crisis does not mean it is resolved. Companies that have already bought it will not waste time and effort switching to new systems, but what about those companies or individual users who have not yet purchased Microsoft Operating System?

Given a choice, they would definitely prefer to watch ads rather than spend 178 US dollars to buy the home version or 278 US dollars to buy the professional version of the XP system.

After all, isn't the free Dawn Computer Operating System more appealing? Why spend money to buy such an expensive Microsoft Operating System?