Chapter 267 To Fight Against Piracy, to Defend Microsoft’s Interests (2/2)
This result was rather shocking!
It implied that Xing Hai computers were completely accepted and widely received by the mainstream market!
Compared to the rains and storms that Loongson had gone through over the past 20 years, on PC's, the results Loongson acquired after 20 years of hard work was inferior to Xing Hai computer's three hours of pre-sales.
Looking at this, Fu Weiwu felt bitter on the inside. But at the same time, he was pleased. After all, these computers were made by the Z's. The Xing Hai computer's success was every Z's success and deserved the pride of every citizen of the Z nation!
The Xing Hai computer's robust launching also officially announced that Western companies that have dominated the computer market for nearly 50 years was about to face a terrible opponent.
Most certainly, Intel was not indifferent in this matter. The company announced their countermeasures the following day Xing Hai First Generation computers were launched.
Price reduction!
CPU prices were scaled down significantly. Especially the i7-8700K that was benchmarked by the ”Qinglong First Gen” CPU. Its individual price plunged from 1600 dollars a unit to 800 dollars a unit. Directly slashed by half!
This was enough to show that Intel attaches importance to the Xing Hai computer. They do not want to be the second Google, not to mention losing the Z-country market!
It was not only so. Intel's chairman Brian Annick even dragged along graphics giant, Nvidia, hoping that they would reduce the prices of their graphics card to cope with the impact of the Xing Hai computers. They gave another graphics card company, AMD a similar calling.
These two graphics card companies replied swiftly.
Nvidia agreed to reduce the price of their GTX 1060 graphics card from 1600 dollars to around 1200 dollars. AMD on the other hand shown no willingness to cut down prices. They graphics card was already cheap by default. If they do so, won't they be starving by the streets?
Even for a full-blown price reduction, the price of a CPU and independent graphics card combined was still over 2000 dollars. Compared to the ”Qinglong First Gen” that could be a CPU and a GPU, they still do not possess any price/performance advantages.
Judging by the advanced Weave Architecture and the pricings and performances of core hardware's, Xing Hai Technologies had placed themselves in an invincible position!
Thereupon, Xing Hai Technologies's next target was placed on the head of Microsoft.
Chen Jin dispatched Ling Dong Jun to Kings City's copyright management agency. He gave the agency an advice, hoping that they would adopt his suggestion.
”What may you suggest?” the person in charge of the agency asked.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.
”Strictly crack down pirated Windows OS and fully promote the use of genuine operating systems. Let piracy disappear from our land once and for all.” said Ling Jun Dong while smiling.
”More than 90% of computers in the Z nation market is using pirated versions of the Windows system. Are you calling us to enforce strict anti-piracy policies?” The person in charge took a deep look at Ling Jun Dong, wanting to figure out something from his face.
Ling Jun Dong nodded mildly, ”Our GDP per capita is already over 10000 units. We are already a well-off society, even considered a moderately developed country. We should not continue to pirate the other people's operating systems and use their intellectual property for free. It will drop us a bad reputation internationally.”
”From what I know, the cheapest genuine win7 system is only 399 dollars. If it comes along with additional genuine software's such as word, PPT and Excel, the total price would only be at 888 dollars. I think the majority of consumers should be able to afford this amount of expenditures. It's only a meagre amount after all. There is really no need for us to continue using pirated versions.”
Ling Jun Dong shook his head, ”If consumers still think that the genuine software is too pricy and still chooses to not spend a single cent, we could only advise them to buy the Xing Hai computer which was incorporated with the Xuanyuan system. Our Xuanyuan system is free of charge, most of its software tools are so too, although there might be quite an amount of ads… their experience may be a bit worse than the genuine windows system.”
Of course, if users want to completely shut off harassment from advertisements, they could spend a little money to buy an ad-free version.
He spread his hands, ”It's not our problem that they choose to be thrifty right? If they do not want to spend, they could only settle for something less and opt for the Xing Hai computer.”
”In a few words, we wish to abolish piracy thoroughly and let the Z nation become a country that respects intellectual property! Even if Microsoft is our competitor, we still have an obligation to defend their interests in terms of Intellectual Property Protection!”
Ling Jun Dong's stern and righteous words however did not gain the applause that it deserved.
The head of the copyright agency flipped his eyes at him instead. Reluctantly, he gave him a thumbs up and said, ”I'll reflect this to my superiors. Will reply timely.”
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Three days later.
The National Copyright Administration announced abruptly:
From 25th of March onwards, an anti-crime campaign by the code ”HERALD” will be commenced. Authorities will clampdown every pirated operating system. The duration of this campaign has no limit. We strive to eradicate all forms of piracy within a years' time.
Boom…
This announcement brought about a huge response.