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Chapter 147 Interview with CCTV

Now that Bill Gates has come forward to condemn the Jiang group, Jiang Feng is wondering if he wants to fight back.

However, Jiang Feng had not thought for long, Meng Tong, the beautiful host of Jiang Feng who hosted "China News" on CCTV, called him, hoping to interview him about this matter.

After thinking about it, Jiang Feng also felt that it was necessary to make some noise in the media to deal with the accusations made by Microsoft and Bill Gates about him and to express his position on this matter.

Jiang Feng was about to go to the capital, and he received another call from Li Yuhan, the general manager of Jiang Group, asking how to deal with this matter. Li Yuhan complained: "It's really unauthorized for Microsoft to do this. Didn't they intend to indulge piracy at the beginning to reduce the difficulty of piracy in exchange for market share? Now do you know it's time to close the network?"

"You can't blame Microsoft for this matter entirely." Jiang Feng said with a smile, "Yes, Microsoft did not deliberately crack down on piracy in the past. This is a fact, but you should know that piracy is illegal. Microsoft only has the right to submit evidence to apply for the court to judge the other party's illegality, and does not have to exercise this right. Therefore, even if someone does not crack down on piracy, you cannot say that they are responsible. This is like having a jar of gold in your house, put it outside and someone takes it away. If you don't sue it, it is a steal. You can choose to go to the court to sue him, or you can not ask about it. This is your freedom, and it does not mean that you must go to the court to accuse him. Rights and obligations are two different things."

"Then what should we do? This matter has a bad impact on our reputation, and many colleagues are waiting to watch the fun." Li Yuhan asked Jiang Feng with trouble.

After thinking about it, Jiang Feng replied: "Well, don't move the company. I'll go to Beijing for an interview and then post it. As the company's response, everything else will be the same."

"Okay, you are better at dealing with these things." Li Yuhan nodded in agreement.

In fact, Li Yuhan also knew that he, the little boss, had the most tricks, and would also find some fallacies to deal with others. He could just go around and make people dizzy. It would be best to let him come forward to deal with these things.

Jiang Feng took a private plane to Beijing and happened to send Rong Qingyao home. However, after arriving at Capital International Airport, Jiang Feng did not send Rong Qingyao back to Rong's home. He sent bodyguards to send Rong Qingyao back, and he himself went straight to CCTV headquarters.

When Jiang Feng arrived at CCTV, Meng Tong was already waiting for him. Next, Meng Tong started working and asked Jiang Feng what he thought about Bill Gates’ recent remarks about Jiang’s group.

"Do you think there must be a lot of opinions." Jiang Feng rubbed his forehead and replied, "I think Microsoft's accusations against Jiang's Group are unreasonable."

"How can I see it?" Meng Tong asked back.

Once he was in the work state, Meng Tong immediately entered the state with all his heart. At this time, his personal relationships and other aspects were temporarily on the side. Even after the interview, everyone could exchange opinions on the modification of the manuscript issue and reach the level of satisfaction of both parties, but at this time he was sharp and would always hit the nail on the head.

"We have always been committed to the promotion of genuine software, such as WPSoffice and various antivirus software. In fact, with the sales platform of Jiangshi Information Technology, at least more than 300 original software authors in China have benefited from it. We have made contributions to promoting the use of genuine software." Jiang Feng said jokingly, "Even Microsoft's Windows series software, we give them the same treatment. At least within our entire Jiangshi Group, the operating systems used are genuine Microsoft products, which is enough to show that our support for genuine software is definitely not empty talk. Therefore, some of the condemnations made by Microsoft against us are very inappropriate."

"So, will your company respond positively to Microsoft's condemnations and may resort to legal means?" Meng Tong asked with great interest.

"Haha, that's not the case." Jiang Feng smiled. "It is probably because Microsoft has encountered too many unpleasant things recently that Mr. Bill Gates was just a moment of depressed and angry words. He is not very familiar with the operations of Jiang Group or Jiang Electronics, so it is possible to be deceived. In fact, my personal relationship with Mr. Gates is also quite good, and in fact, I own 5% of Microsoft's shares and one of the important shareholders of Microsoft, and it is not possible to harm our shareholder interests. Microsoft has not filed a lawsuit against Jiang Group, so we naturally do not need to file a lawsuit against Mr. Gates because of a word. Doing this is meaningless and is a waste of valuable judicial resources."

Meng Tong nodded and wrote down Jiang Feng's words, and then asked: "Although Microsoft's anti-piracy behavior in China in the past few years has fallen into a trough due to the failure of prosecution of Yadu and other companies, recently, Microsoft has set off a round of anti-piracy storm in response to the problems of domestic pirated users, and even used killer moves such as making the pirated system computer blue screen. It is like a storm is about to fill the building. What does Mr. Jiang think about this matter?"

"I have noticed this, but I personally think that this matter may be a bit off." Jiang Feng replied very surely.

Since late October 2004, many computers using pirated Windows systems have crashed and blue screens, prompting that the service life is still 30 days (and the deadline is shortened every day). Anti-virus experts have speculated that this move is not like a virus, but more like a measure by Microsoft to crack down on pirated versions.

It is understood that after conducting on-site investigations on multiple netizens for help, Jishi.com found that these netizens upgraded the system a few days ago because of incomplete operating systems. After the upgrade, the system prompts the computer to restart. Whether it is to choose "restart now" or "restart later", the system will prompt that it needs to be activated. There are three options: online activation, phone activation or future reminder. When choosing a future reminder, a scene before the article will appear: the system can only be used for thirty days and it will decrease every day. It is worth noting that these netizens are pirated Windows XP users. Kingsoft sent this newspaper yesterday also showed that these situations all appear among pirated XP users.

This "death period" prompt obviously scared pirated users, and some users sought help from antivirus manufacturers. Kingsoft Anti-Virus Center analyzed that this is not like a virus outbreak, but more like a measure by Microsoft to crack down on piracy. Rising also said after researching this situation, it may be that Microsoft's patch upgrade caused this situation.

In response to this abnormal situation, the reporter interviewed Microsoft China yesterday afternoon. After some internal verification, relevant Microsoft China departments sent a notice to our newspaper last night, admitting that this move is related to Microsoft's anti-pirated mechanism, but said that this mechanism had existed as early as when Windows XP was released. Ma Tao, a public relations manager at Microsoft China, said that this mechanism had existed in Microsoft's operating system and office software for a long time, and was not a special policy that had been adopted recently.

Microsoft explained that this situation may occur when the user does not properly activate Windows XP, and this mechanism exists when Windows XP is released, not new. It also stated that users should not worry about this situation. This mechanism itself will not cause data loss on the user's PC. As long as the user obtains a legal product ID, it can be reactivated and used normally.

According to Microsoft's announcement, these pirated users who are targeted during patching can continue to use their computers normally as long as they use the genuine operating system instead, otherwise the abnormal situation will not be resolved.

Microsoft's approach caused an uproar among Chinese netizens. At the same time, domestic academic circles also questioned that "black screen" violated the provisions of the Intellectual Property Law and also infringed on personal property rights. Senior leaders of relevant departments publicly stated that companies like Microsoft should cooperate well with China to solve problems arising from technological progress, and should not use such measures that harm the interests of users to protect intellectual property rights. Such a technology monopoly would be counterproductive.

This time, Microsoft realized the complexity and changeability of China's policy environment. This incident showed the subtlety of Microsoft's relationship with the government, and also highlighted its unspeakable hidden anti-pirated version. Jiang Feng knew that after this incident, Microsoft had also carried out similar actions, that was the black screen incident in October 2008.

After the interview was completed, Jiang Feng said that he would go out for dinner with Meng Tong, and Meng Tong agreed. The two spent less time together, so such an opportunity was rare.

However, it is still early to get off work, Meng Tong continues to work, while Jiang Feng is wandering around the CCTV building.

While walking, Jiang Feng arrived at Director Tan's office. Of course, Director Tan is no longer the original Director Tan. She is now the head of CCTV's advertising department, so she has been promoted.

There are also several CCTV leaders who are with Director Tan. Since you meet, you naturally have to talk about it. Soon, everyone talked about the new CCTV building that has started construction.

"Mr. Jiang, last time, you didn't express any opinion on the plan of our new building, but I think you didn't think it was a bit dissatisfied with it. Why is that?" asked a CCTV leader.

Jiang Feng smiled and said, "This is easy to understand. Last time, I was also one of the bidders for CCTV's design plan. If I comment on other people's plans, I would inevitably slander others. As for my disapproval, it is because in my opinion, there is indeed nothing worthy of praise for that plan, and even in my opinion, that plan cannot be reached in the elegant hall." (To be continued. Please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!)
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