Replay 07: Opening the Temple of Learning

Chapter 345 Cutting
Once Microsoft's top management approved the resolution, things started to go much faster.

After careful consideration, this matter has to be done openly or secretly.

They have to advertise openly that they are giving away genuine copies, and that as long as they upgrade, the pirated copies will become genuine ones in seconds.

Isn’t it great? Yes! But that’s not enough, you will also get a one-year license for genuine office software.

Existing users can get another year of usage, with the main purpose of treating everyone equally, new and old users.

Microsoft has invested a lot of effort and money in the promotion. It has basically booked all the online platforms and you can see it on any website.

They will even proactively contact those pirated users who are connected to the Internet, reminding them to update the software and obtain genuine products as soon as possible.

When it is pushed, it is just a patch. As long as the user does not refuse, it will be automatically updated and installed in the background. If asked, there may be twists and turns.

This move was quite rogue, but also very common. At that time, many software were downloaded and installed in this way.

Many users subconsciously update when they see that the update is available, and they even realize the importance of obtaining a genuine Windows system only afterward.

These users suddenly found that their own Windows systems had many more functions, and the related software had many more permissions opened, which was very convenient.

This is the case for ordinary users. Many times they really don’t know what is happening on the network.

No matter how big the situation is, they have to manage their own lives well.

Other users are more clear about what happened. Based on the principle that it is a bastard not to take advantage of a bargain, they just give it a try. At worst, they can just not pay and use pirated versions in the future.

So what is the secret operation? Of course it is kept secret.

No one has told you that the Coco Assistant cannot be used on the upgraded Windows system, so users have to discover it slowly by themselves.

Under Microsoft's strong push, many people clicked on the update and upgrade regardless of whether they wanted to or not, and then became genuine users, and experienced the feeling of being a genuine user.

This feeling is like looking at something high up in the sky, but never expecting that one day you would actually be able to use it.

But things soon took a turn for the worse, and Coco Assistant was no longer usable!

They are all working slaves and office students who cannot live without computers for a day. When they turn on their computers to use Coco Assistant as usual, they suddenly find that Coco Assistant does not work no matter how they call on it.

The download and installation are normal, but it just won't work.

Therefore, users naturally attributed the reason to the coco assistant itself.

I have to say that Microsoft's move is really unfair. It prohibits others from using it but still allows installation. The purpose is to divert conflicts.

As the matter escalated, many platforms responded.

Public opinion is like a gust of wind. It will flow to whichever side the wind is stronger.

Because Microsoft prepared for the rainy day and made preparations in advance, many platforms and public opinions were directed in a direction that was unfavorable to Coco Assistant. Coupled with the brand prestige that the Win system has established over the years, basically everyone believed that there was a problem with Coco Assistant and never thought that there was any problem with the Win system.

To put it more bluntly, even if everyone knows that it is really the Win system that is behind this and forces everyone to choose between the two, most people will still choose the Win system.

Are you kidding? Without the Windows system, everything is empty. No matter how perfect the Coco Assistant is, it has to be parasitic on the Windows system, right?

If we think about things a little further, if the Win system goes a step further and mobilizes its cooperative application developers to require the applications they design to be compatible with the Coco Assistant, then ordinary users will still have to succumb.

No matter how you imagine it, Coco Assistant will never have the advantage in public opinion. Unless Coco Assistant completely solves all problems, users will follow Coco Assistant and help whoever wins.

"My coco assistant doesn't work anymore, I don't know what to do!"

"Coco Assistant needs to find a way to upgrade quickly. It can't keep up with the pace of Windows! How can this be possible!"

"Wow, I have to submit a proposal today! When I woke up, the sky fell and I couldn't open anything! The things I made with the help of Coco Assistant are not recognized by the upgraded Windows system!"

"It seems that the intelligence level of Coco Assistant is still too low. It can't keep up. Tsk tsk, I have long said that companies without deep technical backgrounds are full of hidden dangers."

The voices on the Internet are mixed with a variety of emotions. Some people are pretending to be stupid, some are really stupid, and some have only a superficial understanding.

Lianxiang suddenly saw this good show and focused on the development of this storm. Yang Qing has already started to figure out how to make the most profit from this storm.

It was impossible to let Lianxiang watch from the shore. Adding fuel to the fire and taking the opportunity to fight was the proper operation. Who let Coco's assistant trip him up? No matter where the wind came from, adding more wind would definitely be right.

Lianxiang Company is not the only one that has this idea. Coco Assistant and Shenchuan have offended many people. Seeing that the momentum is not favorable for Coco Assistant, they are overjoyed and are secretly fanning the flames to bring Coco Assistant down.

Just like that, the negative public opinion doubled in an instant and became turbulent.

The top executives of Microsoft were somewhat proud. It seemed that they had made sufficient preparations in advance. With just one move, public opinion was on their side.

"Xia people are like this, they can't stand seeing others do well. Coco is too eye-catching and will attract jealousy."

"Hahahaha, I just like to see the Xia people fighting among themselves. There's not even a multinational company in the entire industry, yet they're still fighting so hard. I really don't know what they're trying to achieve."

"Just being a bully in your own home."

The matter was soon known to Zemeng Company. Since so many users went to the official website and left messages about it, it naturally attracted attention.

However, the whole incident came suddenly and was tricky, and the young Zemeng employees were caught off guard. The crisis they faced was a nationwide crisis.

Such a big crisis has to be faced and resolved by dozens of young people, and one can imagine the pressure they are under.

They had been working on program compilation and conversion, that is, through the Endless Compiler, allowing highly used applications on the market to be used on the Zemeng system. Once this was done, Zemeng could be launched, and naturally there would be no such dilemma.

But this work is very complicated and the progress is slow, which gave Microsoft a time lag. If it had been a month or two slower, maybe it would have been fine. Now it seems that we can only fight against time and get through it.

There is no way to speed up the progress. There are so many applications, belonging to so many development companies, and everyone’s coding logic is different, and their characteristics are also different.

Ze Meng needs to disassemble and analyze each application one by one, and then compile and convert them, which sounds troublesome.

Lu Shan was also following up on the compilation and conversion work. He personally took charge of the very important underlying analysis work, otherwise the progress of others would not be so fast!

In the entire company, he and Luo Xuan are the only ones with the best analysis speed and efficiency. If anyone else were to do it, there would be too many mistakes, which would delay progress.

Therefore, Lu Shan was well aware of the difficulty of doing so. The solution he thought of was to develop a universal program compilation and conversion method, so that the underlying code of applications on the market could be automatically identified and automatically converted into Zemeng system logic.

Lu Shan was working on the current work while thinking about how to implement it, so the progress was not very fast. It would be great if someone could take charge of his current work.

He thought that all the applications on the market are based on the Windows system, which means they are adapted to the underlying code logic of the Windows system. It seems that as long as you understand the underlying code of the Windows system, you can reverse-engineer the underlying code of the application.

The problem is that the underlying code of the win system is very complex and - stupid. If you really want to do this, you have to lower your intelligence to crack it.

If one really lowers one's intelligence and cracks the underlying code of the win system, there won't be enough intelligence to compile it into Zemeng's advanced code.

In other words, it has to be a low IQ when recognizing, and a high IQ when compiling. Just thinking about it makes me feel schizophrenic, a human can't do it, let alone a program.

"The commonality of Windows system applications lies in the unified user interface, which conforms to the CUA standard proposed by IBM. They all have similar appearances and operations. In addition, the rich device-independent graphics operations ensure the stability of image output, and the same effect can be achieved on dot-matrix printers or high-resolution displays..."

Lu Shan tapped the table lightly, waiting for the employees to come in. A meeting would be held today to decide the next work direction, and he wanted to take advantage of this time to think about the problem.

"Coco Assistant doesn't work on Windows. Can you tell me how to fix it?" Lu Shan got straight to the point, as he always did. In fact, the technicians had already given Lu Shan the solution, but Lu Shan still wanted to hear what everyone had to say.

After a discussion, Lu Shan found that everyone had spontaneously formed different opinions. Seeing that the time was right, Lu Shan proposed the plan.

According to the analysis of Zemeng technicians, the patch for the Windows system upgrade is quite stupid, and Coco Assistant can break the restrictions brought by this upgrade with just an upgrade.

Everyone knows this, it’s just a matter of whether or not to do it.

"I support this method. At present, our compilation and transcoding progress is not fast enough, and it will take a long time to process. So we should upgrade the coco assistant first and get through this difficult time. When the Zemeng system is launched, these problems will not be a problem anymore."

"I object! The time required for the compilation and transcoding work is unknown. We have upgraded the Coco Assistant to overcome this difficulty. What should we do next time this problem occurs? Should we continue to do this? If a tug-of-war with Microsoft is formed, it will have a very negative impact."

"How bad is it? What's wrong with countering a move?"

"It's a problem of market image. Every time Microsoft upgrades and bans Coco Assistant, we upgrade to counter it, which makes people feel that Coco Assistant is deeply bound to the Windows system and cannot be separated from the Windows system! It's like sticky candy stuck to the sole of the shoe, which can't be shaken off. This image is really not good. It will even affect the Zemeng system that is about to be launched. Everyone will definitely think that the Zemeng system is just a derivative of the Windows system."

"That makes sense. We might as well take this opportunity to separate Coco Assistant from the Windows system so that people won't talk about them together."

"But we don't have the manpower and energy to solve this crisis. We can't just let the market wait."

"Then we have to speed up and find an effective way."

Having said that, I can't say any more. Regardless of which point of view, everyone has the same understanding, that is, the compilation and transcoding work is indeed not fast enough. But this is already the fastest speed. Lu Shan and Luo Xuan are personally responsible for the underlying analysis. It would be useless if anyone else took over.

Seeing that the meeting had come to this point, Lu Shan decided that it was time for him to express his opinion: "We do have the ability to upgrade Coco Assistant, but we really can't do it this time.

If we upgrade and Microsoft also upgrades, it will become a tug-of-war. It would be better to just say goodbye and cut off contact.

I know everyone's concerns. It's not your fault that the compilation and transcoding work is not going smoothly. It's because the work content is too difficult. Let's put aside the things at hand for now and adjust the way we work! "

Everyone's ears perked up.

Lu Shan’s point of view is very simple. Don’t compile and transcode applications one by one. The most important thing is to find common points and develop new recognition and translation programs.

If a workman wants to be good, he must first sharpen his weapon.

Previously, I had to do the work of finding common ground on my own, but now we all have to throw ourselves into it and go all in.

"Everyone, the common analysis of the underlying code determines how long it will take for the Zemeng system to be on the market. Everyone must be alert and work hard for a while. Once the Zemeng system is on the market, everyone will take a vacation, okay?"

"it is good!"

The company immediately started to divide into several small groups, led by technical backbones, to analyze different application groups, identify common features, and then summarize the results for Lu Shan.

Based on these commonalities, Lu Shan thought about the underlying logic of the newly developed recognition and translation program.

There is strength in numbers, and many common features were discovered, some of which even Lu Shan had not noticed.

After get off work that day, Lu Shan entered the Singularity Studio and brought the progress in the real world to Turing and Poincare, asking them to build the recognition program together. There was no need to worry about compiling the program, as there was an endless compiler and compilation was no problem.

The key is how to cleverly explain it to the endless compiler after identification so that the endless compiler can make corresponding encoding.

There is an idea. We can establish a program similar to an amplifier to split the information bit by bit, and then increase it bit by bit. This will solve the problem of reducing intelligence and increasing intelligence.

It is like imparting knowledge, college students teach high school students, high school students teach junior high school students in their own way, and junior high school students teach elementary school students. When transmitting demand, the operation is reversed, so that it can be understood as much as possible.

Just as Lu Shan was leading everyone to actively solve the problem, the world outside was not peaceful.

Since Zemeng did not respond and did not provide any specific upgrades, many people had to give up on Coco Assistant and return to the era without Coco Assistant. It was very uncomfortable to continue working in an inefficient way.

Major computer brands are competing with all their might for the new user group, as everyone wants to fill the market gap created by the absence of Coco Assistant.

(End of this chapter)