A few days ago, after the release of Hongmeng HarmonyOS, a future-oriented system, voices directed at Hongmeng came and went. Everyone was basically optimistic about Hongmeng, and Hongmeng’s performance could not exceed most people’s expectations. Everyone can’t wait to experience this system as soon as possible, or hope that it will be popularized as soon as possible, so that domestic mobile phone manufacturers can quickly follow up and support the Hongmeng system. However, as a domestic mobile phone manufacturer, Xiaomi said that there is no plan to replace Android with Hongmeng in the short term, and it immediately provokes a group of people to immediately say that Xiaomi does not support domestic production. The topic of Lei Jun’s optimization of the MUI system made the headlines even more recently.
But at this moment, don’t forget Lei Jun, the founder of Xiaomi and also the chairman of Jinshan. Jinshan’s WPS is the first batch of software adapted to Hongmeng. What’s so great! What’s the use of showing such a sincerity without software!” A voice like this came out again.······
WPS is not ordinary software, it is the first Chinese office software. WPS is also the only office software on the market that can break the wrist with office. For ordinary people, wps can be said to be free, it does not cost to buy, and the basic functions are enough. At the same time there are Linux and Mac versions, and the scope of application is very wide!
It essentially has the same innovative spirit as the Hongmeng system, the spirit of external resistance and anti-monopoly. He is a domestic software with completely independent intellectual property rights. It is independent in the true sense and is also one of the pride of domestic software. Jin Yong’s novels swept the country in the 1980s. At that time, programmers all harbored a kind of chivalrous spirit in martial arts novels, a person, a sword, and a little prosperous. They also believe that a single person and a computer can raise the banner of domestic software development and work tirelessly for it. Qiu Bojun, the founder of Wps, is such a person.
WPS for DOS
From May 1988 to September 1989, for more than a year, Qiu Bojun locked himself in the room and typed codes every day, during which he was hospitalized three times due to hepatitis. It took hundreds of thousands of lines of code to create the first word processing system WPS 1.0. From that day on, he looked forward to WPS becoming the mainstream word processing software in the Chinese market. At that time, there was very little network communication between China and the outside world, and there was no access to the Internet. Therefore, as soon as WPS came out, it quickly swept the domestic market at that time. In the late 1980s before computers became popular, WPS sold more than 30,000 sets at a price of 2,200 yuan. At the same time, it has become the most well-known software in the country.
Qiu Bojun later went to Zhuhai and founded Zhuhai Jinshan Computer Company, which was also the predecessor of Jinshan Software. After several years of hard work, Wps has a huge market share. Many software parks that came here have joined Jinshan, saying that Jinshan was the Whampoa Military Academy of China’s software industry at that time. It is not too much to say that at that time Lei Jun joined Jinshan.
From left to right: Qiu Bojun, Lei Jun, Yang Yuanqing, Liu Chuanzhi, Shen Jiazheng
In a blink of an eye, it came to 1993, and Microsoft, looking for overseas markets, couldn’t wait to come to China to share a piece of cake. Microsoft’s astuteness is that it binds word5.0 to the Windows operating system, and word5.0 is automatically pre-installed when Windows is installed. In order to correspond to this set of Microsoft’s combination punches, Qiu Bojun and Lei Jun are based on the Windows operating system The forecast of the system developed Pangu components similar to today’s office. Pangu components can be said to have exhausted all the financial and material resources of Jinshan Company, and it took three years for Pangu components to finally go on the market.
But only more than 2,000 sets of Kingsoft were sold. Even more frightening is that the original WPS market has shrunk sharply under the attack of piracy. In the case of piracy and Microsoft, WPS once left only 4 programmers, and even Lei Jun wanted to leave. At this time, the old rival Microsoft Office suddenly came to seek cooperation. I want to communicate the agreement between office and WPS. Simply put, users of two people can open the documents of each other’s products at any time. Is it a gift in the snow or a weasel to a rooster?
All wrong, Microsoft has come to a trick to boil the frog in warm water. Since the two software can communicate with each other, there is no bottleneck. Office has expanded rapidly with the popularity of Windows97, slowly eroding the remaining market share of wps. In China at that time, piracy was rampant, there were more and more pirated systems, and more and more offices. Finally, office occupied more and more Chinese market. It almost monopolizes the domestic office software market.
Watching WPS decline step by step. Microsoft made several requests for the acquisition of Kingsoft and even fired Qiu Bojun an annual salary of 750,000 yuan, but Qiu Bojun refused. In the end, Qiu Bojun sold his villa in Zhuhai for 2 million and continued the development of WPS. It was this feeling that drove Qiu Bojun to lead the development team to work 12 hours a day for 365 days and finally developed WPS97. Although the development was successful, the WPS at this time was still somewhat inadequate compared to the word at the time, and even the WPS developers did not have much confidence.
WPS 97 packaging
But what they didn’t expect was that only two months after the launch of WPS97, 10,000 sets were sold under a large number of government school purchases. (The earliest text editing software I learned in elementary school was WPS97) This brought WPS back to the competition platform with Microsoft. In order to compete, Kingsoft and Microsoft started a price war. In 1999, the “Red Genuine Storm” led by Lei Jun set WPS2000 at 28 yuan, which at that time was equivalent to the price of cabbage for genuine software.
It can be said that the piracy problem that even Microsoft didn’t solve was solved by Lei Jun. However, what Kingsoft never expected was that Microsoft actually allowed the rampant piracy. In 2002, it unilaterally tore up the agreement and subtracted the WPS compatible conversion mode, leaving users to choose one of the two. This brought Kingsoft again. Heavy blow.
Red genuine storm
But who is Lei Jun? Lei Jun was stunned to overthrow the WPS with certain sales volume and redo it. Under the pressure of office, Lei Jun decided to rewrite the wps according to the office’s usage habits, which also made WPS lose the reputation of plagiarism. After obtaining the consent of the founder Qiu Bojun, Lei Jun immediately began to implement this plan after spending a lot of manpower and material resources.
As the leading domestic technology and technology company, Lei Jun has a wide range of knowledge. Recently, it has been reported that Lei Jun wants to enter a new field and wants to acquire Anmaotong APP, which has a lot of friends, from thousands of dollars of sports shoes such as Adinike to major fashion brands. , And then to the famous watches such as LV Rolex, which cost tens of thousands of yuan, it is actually less than 100 yuan on the Anmaotong APP.
On the market, AJ, which was fired at tens of thousands of yuan, and coconut 350, which was sold at thousands of yuan, were sold out 10 blocks by AnyTrade. In just half a year, the Anmaotong APP created a storm in the trend circle of first- and second-tier cities, and young people born in the 90s and 80s are planting grass. Is Xiaomi going to start a new round of e-commerce competition?
In 2005, the new version of wps was launched, and it quickly caught up with office by the wind of the Internet, and even caught up with and surpassed the mobile Internet. Microsoft’s triumphant Hutong project before was used by Lei Jun into a useful weapon against Microsoft. Data interoperability meant that users would have no worries about the future, and the stone that Microsoft lifted eventually smashed itself in the foot.
Later, wps developed Linux and mac versions one after another. The scope of application is wider. Now that the counter-offensive horn is sounded, how to regain lost ground and grab back the lost share? free! The personal version of wps is free to use for life. Enterprise version, professional version charge a certain fee. In this battle, WPS, like Hongmeng, is betting on the future.
In 2005, piracy was still rampant, and free wps was no longer the sweet potato on piracy. In the future, piracy will definitely become less and less, laws and regulations will become more and more complete, and there will be less and less room for pirated software. I don’t need money for the original version, but I’ll give you a try and update. Come on, try everyone! The war between genuine and pirated editions won a protracted battle.
For WPS, now I am full of confidence in its quality. Just like today’s Hongmeng strode forward with confidence. China is now at the forefront of the world in terms of technology and software. It is definitely not because of good luck or technical support from developed countries. It is because a group of Chinese people with knight spirits silently contribute to the country and the people.
To this day, the United States has never stopped its technological blockade, as it was 20 years ago and after 20 years. From software to hardware to system. From Huawei, ZTE, to Jinshan Douyin. Only when the Chinese have mastered the real technology will we have the right to speak. Technology without borders is just a beautiful lie. All technology will become a weapon for hegemonism to maintain its status. And as the light of the nation, a high-tech enterprise can fill the gap with tenacity like countless revolutionary martyrs, fill the gap with blood, conquer highlands from the territory dominated by hegemony, and build the Great Wall free from the intrusion of foreign powers.
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