Microsoft or domestic "anti-ridge" first defendant

What is the attitude of foreign companies about the anti-monopoly law to be introduced in China on August 1? On 23rd this month, Zhang, chairman of Microsoft China, was asked how Microsoft responded to China's anti-monopoly law, Zhang replied, "We do not have this problem, we have so much cooperation with the Government and the entire IT industry, we have no monopoly." ”

So far, Intel has been tight-lipped China's anti-monopoly law.

Domestic enterprises as "anti-ridge" enlightenment

Internet Lab Chairman Xingdong, who has struggled with Microsoft Intel for nearly a decade, also confirmed in an interview with this newspaper the "China High-tech Monopoly investigation report", completed by a team of dozens of experts and scholars from the Internet lab, is expected to be launched in a joint lawsuit with domestic manufacturers The Enlightenment of antitrust law. “

In fact, not only office software in the shadow of Microsoft Life, most software companies are in the gap between the foreign giants to kill a way out. Taking the mechanical drawing software as an example, AutoCAD occupies more than 90% of the market share. In this environment, the domestic CAD manufacturers how to survive? "Although high-end CAD technology is still in the hands of European and American enterprises." However, hands-on than international manufacturers late nearly 20 years of domestic manufacturers are not without their own market space ", Guangzhou, China Dragon Technology Development Co., Ltd., deputy general manager Liu Yu introduced, now the domestic CAD manufacturers are forming a" domestic CAD Software Alliance ", by the end of May has nearly 10 joined this alliance.

Software giant or pro compulsory license

In the case of China's anti-monopoly law, the industry is highly concerned, Reuters news that the United States to pay close attention to this, worried that large U.S. technology companies are in trouble, and advised these multinationals to overcome psychological anxiety.

The main concern for American companies is that China's anti-monopoly laws may be tightly binding on companies that account for a large share of the market, particularly companies such as Microsoft and Intel, the report notes. Companies such as Microsoft may also face compulsory licensing. But Chinese companies are likely to be the most affected by China's anti-monopoly law.

At the same time, AMD is also biting Intel's abuse of market status, in South Korea, Japan, Europe, and even the United States to launch an antitrust investigation of Intel, so that Intel in the lawsuit to be tired of dealing with, in response to questions from reporters repeatedly pointed to the Intel monopoly.

"We are tired of carrying the banner of the anti-ridge."

Domestic software enterprises, in the face of the strong invasion of foreign software, has once raised a strong protest, but in the domestic laws are not perfect, several years of protests have no significant effect, they also verified the "bang, and then decline, three and exhausted" the classic argument. The clamour for antitrust is fading. Golden Hill Company Assistant President 王欣 to antitrust this topic, put forward "actually we carry this big banner already very tired" topic.

The Golden Hill struggle Microsoft 20 is a little discouraged now

Although today's Jinshan has found its own position on the Internet, is no longer a pair of Shine, carrying the national banner of the petitioners image, "has been 20 years, in fact, we carry the banner has been very tired," Jinshan Assistant President 王欣 interviewed with emotion. All people use Windows, the same as their own lifeline in the hands of others, but the government should still do what the government should do, the software industry entirely rely on government support is not possible. The development of an industry ultimately depends on the national quality and value orientation.

WPS at present in Jinshan value chain system, although is the Jinshan business module in the most unprofitable business, but transport a lot of talent, "anyway, the Office software industry is already a shallow pool, can make the profit has been very limited, unless it is to find a good business model, now face the opportunity to transition to the Internet." ”

The Microsoft attack was "endangered"

Jinshan Assistant President 王欣 recalls that the last world in the early 90 years, Jinshan wps was a synonym for computers. At that time, the typing club of the streets and alleys, is basically using WPS in typesetting. "In the eyes of most Chinese, Office software is WPS."

At that time WPS wholesale price of more than 2,200 yuan, the annual sales of more than 30,000 sets, sales of more than 66 million. However, it is not expected that the WPS occupies an absolute advantage in the Office software market, because of Microsoft Office software attack, has been included in the ranks of "endangered" software.

"Under Microsoft, barren"?

王欣 jokingly said that the industry has a proverb, called "under Microsoft, barren." 1994, WPS heyday, Microsoft entered the first thing in China, is how to put WPS's old users to the word platform. Microsoft Initiative to Jinshan threw an olive branch, hope and Jinshan WPS in document format compatible. Shenjiazheng, one of the leading figures in WPS97 and later versions, said both sides read each other's files through the middle-tier rich-text format of their software. "It was naïve at the time," he recalls. "Jinshan WPS user gradually from WPS into Word clan, Jinshan and Microsoft Exchange documents of a paper agreement, became Jinshan from Sheng to decline of the turning point."

Of course, now WPS is facing the biggest enemy, not only Microsoft, but also piracy.

Wing-China technology calls for Microsoft as "first defendant"

July 5, Yong-Zhong technology general manager Cao Shen put forward a point of view: called on the government to include Microsoft as China's anti-monopoly law "the first defendant."

Yong-Zhong Technology is a representative enterprise of Office software, as one of Microsoft's long-term rivals, Cao Shen has been hoping that the government will increase its vigilance against the phenomenon of Microsoft monopoly. In Cao Shen's view, "Anti-Monopoly law" let the body of the single force thin domestic software manufacturers see the advent of opportunity. "Microsoft has been abusing its monopoly position in China, using technology monopolies and market monopolies to depress domestic companies and allow people to bear higher prices than the international markets," he said. "Cao Shen said. He said that if the government does not come forward, Yong-Zhong technology is also ready to fight against Microsoft, "We are not afraid of it, is gathering evidence of various aspects." ”

The holding of the gap between Granville and Bloom

10 years ago, China's Taiwan Province chip manufacturers Granville has had a brilliant performance, including IBM, Hewlett-Packard and other major customer support so that Granville's chipset market share of up to 70%, in 1999, Granville acquired the United States chip manufacturers Centaur and Cyrix, thereby entering the X86 computer processor market.

Tapping into the CPU market has caused Intel's "ban", a patent lawsuit against Granville, one side launched a strong market offensive, the result of a number of patent disputes with Intel, although the power reached a mutual authorization agreement was a big injury, in the chipset market share fell to 20%, the market value also shrank by 61%.

Today, Granville after nearly 5 years in the chipset, Low-power processors in the field of efforts to become the next Intel, AMD, after the third largest CPU manufacturers. Although for the former crackdown on their opponents do not want to comment, but Wei Sheng Electronic general manager Chen Wenqi had frankly, in the opponent's survival is not easy.

Technology monopoly, what can you do?

Microsoft's domestic "bundled sales" unchanged for a century

Microsoft, the software giant, has become a monopoly for rivals, governments and users to denounce prosecution, and in foreign countries, Microsoft has repeatedly used the monopoly of computer operating systems to promote the sale of its application software products, to other software manufacturers have brought a fatal blow.

There are "victims" both at home and abroad.

In China, most individual users still use pirated Microsoft software, accusing Microsoft of being a monopoly. But China's companies, industries, and government departments in the gradual adoption of genuine software in the process, still failed to escape Microsoft's control, and China's software companies are more complaining about Microsoft.

A senior person familiar with Microsoft's IT business recalls to reporters, when Microsoft first entered the Chinese market, by condoning piracy to achieve the goal of free promotion, market popularization, after the completion of the monopoly of the facts, Microsoft began to aggressively anti-piracy, including the suspected piracy of enterprises, industry users to court, the amount of compensation for less than hundreds of thousands of yuan , many tens of millions of dollars, the person said, "received Microsoft lawyers ' intimidation" of enterprises and individual users are countless, but also through China's accession to the WTO time, frequent use of piracy issues to pressure China. ”

Government procurement is more than a condescend

In the procurement of government departments, still visible Microsoft "Hoodwink", bundled sales, crowding out competitors are still Microsoft's usual tricks. According to an industry insider, in software procurement from a national ministry 5 years ago, Microsoft had faxed to the Ministry's procurement department that it had to buy Microsoft Office products or would refuse to sell Windows operating systems to each other; In the last two years, when homegrown software matured and became the mainstay of government procurement, Microsoft has resorted to a very different bundle, according to industry sources, in a southern province of government procurement projects, in order to fight against Jinshan, Yong-Medium domestic rivals, Microsoft agreed to give the department free Office software, provided that the other party must purchase Windows operating system.

It experts said that Microsoft has not been to the domestic office software too much development of various interfaces and technical standards, resulting in domestic Office software and Microsoft Office more or less compatibility problems.

Intel has been convicted of monopoly by a domestic PC factory

A representative of a domestic second-tier PC manufacturer also told reporters, "all AMD attended the meeting, Intel refused to attend, including the media held a variety of conference forums, in view of the monopoly in the industry many event organizers can only ask Intel, this will undoubtedly greatly reduce the exposure of AMD." "In addition, Intel has a requirement for partners to cooperate with PC vendors who are not allowed to attend AMD-sponsored meetings and are not allowed to speak for AMD as manufacturer representatives."

Intel's biggest competitor on CPU products, AMD, said Intel's monopoly "guilt", including the use of direct cash payments, differential pricing and market subsidies, to force Dell, Sony and other key customers to sign an exclusive agreement to prevent these vendors to buy AMD products, the use of discounts, Subsidies and the provision of market development funds and other means to force other major clients such as NEC, Acer