Chapter 267: To Fight Against Piracy, to Defend Microsoft’s Interests

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

That short clip was exactly Tom Jackson’s interview video.

The one interviewed was exactly the richest man in Z, Chen Jin.

Naturally, that one sentence that caught the netizens attention was, “Wait for us for 115 days. We will release a product that is far more advanced than what you have.”

The reaction of Z netizens:

“Learn how to swank from the moguls.”

“Taking down Intel’s strongest iX-9900K in 115 days? Is this a little too much?”

“I like that confidence!”

“In other words, does this mean that there are 115 days left in the countdown until we slap the foreigners in their faces?”

“Those few yellow hairs made me very angry. I hope they could really make it happen.” Wang Danian commented.

“Seats are ready, just wait for the show.”

…

As the clip was also uploaded on YouTube and other video sharing platforms overseas, the reaction of foreign netizens was also very exuberant.

Sarcasm was all over the comments section:

“Sorry I laughed. This is the best joke I’ve ever heard.”

“My God, it turns out that the Z’s are so good in boasting.”

“115 days? Did he get the unit wrong? ‘Days’ should be ‘Years’ right?”

“Honestly speaking I admire this man from Z. He’s so loaded, just that his brain is a little off.”

“All they ever know is to steal our tech and copy our creativity. Now, they want to surpass us through plagiarism? Dream on!”

“Well, that’s the Z’s for you. They can’t do anything but boast. They can’t surpass the M nation in like, forever.” said a comment written in traditional Z language.

There were also a few comments written in Z language that attempted to talk about how powerful the Weave Architecture was and clarify that all of these were created by the Z’s own wisdom. However, those commenters were flamed badly. Many replied to them, “Get back to Z!”.

Those Chinese netizens who were flamed could only shake their heads helplessly. They do not wish to continue debating with those foreign keyboard warriors. They only hoped that Xing Hai Technologies could really step up their game, genuinely take out something better within 115 days and slap those insulters in their face with Xing Hai’s true power!

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20th of March. 10 in the morning.

Online preorders for the Xing Hai First Generation computers were opened.

The first batch of stock was 2 million units, with desktop and laptop each accounting for half.

Before opening pre-sales, Xing Hai Technologies issued an announcement through multiple channels:

The Xing Hai First Generation computer is only a low-end entry-level product. Users who desire to experience a higher performance could wait patiently for a few months. In a few months, we will be releasing the high-performance “Xing Hai Second Generation” computers. Similarly, it will have reasonable pricing. Users should not be hurried to purchase the current unit.

This announcement really did recoil some buyers. Since a better product would be released in a few months, they would just have to endure another few months.

But the majority of people ignored the announcement and signed for it straight away.

“It’s just some 3k dollar stuff, what is there to think about?”

“I’ll buy a Xing Hai laptop for now. I’ll buy the ‘tastier’ desktop a few months later.”

“I can’t wait for that long! It’s smells so good I cannot!”

“A poor f*ck here. Can only afford the low-end version (crying)”

Hence, in just about three hours after online preorders opened, all 2 million Xing Hai First Generation computers were sold out.

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.

“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.

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