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This advanced computer design includes computer hardware and software technologies that will be world-leading for 21 years after the 50st century.

The systems developed by the Group are based on these design drawings.

Despite the ready-made design drawings, the difficulty of technical research and development is still very great, and the team must proceed step by step, starting from the initial stage.

At present, as long as the backward chip technology described in the drawings is broken through, the Huade Group will be able to produce computers on its own, which will surpass Microsoft's products in both hardware and software.

However, this is an era when computers have just become popular and there are fewer available software, so the group also needs to develop various software simultaneously, which makes the workload larger.

This is also the reason why Ye Chuan registered the Internet company at this point in time and developed it slowly.

Otherwise, after the computer and system are successfully developed, it will be very embarrassing if there is not enough software support.

After more than half a year of research and development, the purely domestic operating system was finally completed.

Ye Chuan couldn't wait to name it the Qiyuan system, and its English name is Frist, which was much simpler than the Windows system on the market at that time.

At that time, Windows needed to be started from the DOS system, which was a bit troublesome for users who had no computer knowledge.

The Frist system can be started directly, has very low hardware requirements, and can run on a 286 configuration.

After a month of testing, the team discovered some common problems, such as blue screens and freezes, but these problems were properly fixed, greatly improving the stability and compatibility of the system and making it well adapted to all existing software.

At the same time, significant progress has been made in chip research and development.

Unlike other countries that develop chips from scratch, Huade Group optimizes based on existing technologies, saving a lot of time and costs.

After the system development was completed, the group developed large-capacity hard drives, the largest of which can reach 500G and have very high stability.

For safety reasons, Ye Chuan instructed the technical staff to back up all technical data of the Huade R&D Center to a self-developed hard drive.

At the same time, Huade Computer Services Co., Ltd. was also established, and on the day of its establishment it announced the sale of 200G mobile hard drives.

This news caused a huge sensation in the high-tech industry.

The most common civilian storage medium at present is still the 3.5-inch floppy disk. This storage method was not gradually eliminated until the beginning of the st century and was replaced by USB flash memory.

Compared with a 200GB mobile hard drive, a 3.5-inch floppy disk is simply garbage. Not only is it easy to damage, but data recovery is extremely difficult.

As soon as the mobile hard drive came out, Huade Computer Services Co., Ltd. became famous internationally with this product.

The company attracted widespread attention when it was first established, and many people knew that Huade Group was the giant behind Tino Cosmetics Company.

Therefore, every move of Huade Group attracts much attention.

However, when they learned that it was a computer service company, many people did not care. The so-called service company usually refers to an enterprise that provides various services for computers, and in foreign countries, it mainly refers to software development companies.

No one could have predicted that the company's first product would be a 200GB mobile storage device.

A service company actually got involved in hardware manufacturing, which caught everyone off guard.

A fully configured computer costs at least RMB 1, while Huade Group prices the mobile hard drive at RMB 3000.

The price is not expensive, after all, it is a 200GB ultra-large capacity storage device.

It was not cheap either. After all, the average monthly income in China at that time was only about 100 yuan, and 3000 yuan was equivalent to two and a half years' salary for an ordinary worker.

Even so, orders continued to pour in.

Microsoft and the government were unable to react in time and could only watch Huade Group make a fortune. Although they intended to suppress it, they could not find a suitable entry point.

Microsoft also has its own technical reserves, but it is not yet mature in the field of large-capacity storage devices, and they are not in a hurry.

The 3.5-inch floppy disk is a standard device in the international market. Since small-capacity storage devices have not yet been widely promoted, the research and development of large-capacity devices is not so urgent.

Unexpectedly, Huade Group broke the convention and directly launched a 200GB storage device without any negotiation.

Microsoft engineers were filled with despair.

The next products they plan to produce are 16GB, 32GB and 64GB storage devices, and devices with more than 64GB are still in the development and testing stage.

The launch of Huade Group's products has made all these technical reserves worthless. With a 200GB ultra-large capacity storage, who would still choose a small capacity of 16GB or 32GB?

Microsoft executives held a meeting overnight, deployed a large number of engineers, and began to develop a large-capacity storage device with a capacity of over 500GB.

When the project started, everyone felt uneasy.

No one knows what the technical reserves of Huade Group are. Since they have already launched a large-capacity product of 200GB, who can guarantee that they don’t have technical reserves of 500GB or even larger capacity?

Despite this concern, Microsoft is determined to invest heavily in research and development.

As the world leader in computing, they would never allow any rival to have any chance of surpassing them.

However, during the development process, all the engineers almost lost all their hair.

The development of large-scale storage devices is not difficult, the main problem is to ensure their stability. The most difficult challenge is compatibility.

The existing system is simply unable to drive large-capacity storage devices. How did Huade Group make its 200G mobile hard disk? Who knows?

In order to find out the secret, they disassembled many mobile hard drives, but failed to find any tricks.

When the mobile hard disk is connected to a computer, its reading and writing speeds are almost as fast as a 3.5-inch floppy disk, and the difference is almost negligible.

However, the 100G mobile hard drive they developed themselves would almost always cause the system to freeze once it was plugged in. Even if it didn't freeze, the running speed was very slow, making it almost impossible to perform other operations.

After a discussion at a senior management meeting, it was determined that the problem was due to compatibility, so it was decided to upgrade the Windows system. A new project team was established and began research and development work on the system upgrade.

The launch of Huade Group's 200G mobile hard drive had a huge impact on Microsoft, and the originally orderly workflow was completely disrupted.

Many ongoing projects were interrupted and engineers were temporarily transferred.

Although there were many people planted by Ye Chuan inside Microsoft, they were all ordinary employees. Ye Chuan did not try to steal Microsoft's secrets, but just wanted to understand their work progress. After learning about the mess at Microsoft, he almost laughed out loud.

It's like the arms race of the 1960s and 1970s, when Japan won the race and Japan was dragged down by it.

Although Ye Chuan does not expect to bring down Microsoft, it is still possible to create some chaos and anxiety.

In this arms race of mobile storage devices, Huade Group has temporarily won.

Three months after Huade Group released its 200G mobile hard drive, Microsoft also launched its own 200G mobile storage device, priced at only 2200 Chinese yuan.

In response, Ye Chuan smiled faintly and was not at all panicked.

He first lowered the price of his own 200G mobile hard drive to 1888 yuan, and then launched a 500G mobile hard drive, priced at 2688 yuan.

Although the storage capacity has tripled, the price is only less than 500 yuan higher than Microsoft's. This caused a headache for Microsoft's top management.

They tested the new product of Huade Group and found that its compatibility and stability were very good. In desperation, Microsoft had to lower the price of its own product to the same level as Huade.

They thought they could make a fortune, but ended up selling at a loss. Just when they were relieved, Huade Group announced a disruptive new product!

The competition between Huade Group and Microsoft is extremely fierce.

But in China, this did not seem to attract much attention. At that time, most families did not have televisions, let alone computers. Many people did not know what a computer was.

Computers really entered the lives of ordinary people after 1995.

Except for a few large companies that used it for work, the first group to come into contact with computers was students. Since 1996, some small Internet cafes have begun to appear in some large cities.

Although it is called an Internet cafe, it actually has no network connection. It is more appropriate to describe it as an "electronic game room". Students use their pocket money to play games here. Huade Group chose to launch new products at this moment, aiming at the vast Chinese market in a few years. Since computers entered ordinary households, it took only a few years to achieve popularization. The market potential is self-evident. This is the charm of the Chinese market. It has prompted Microsoft to rise rapidly in just a few years and become a giant that cannot be ignored. At the same time, many Chinese and foreign computer-related companies also emerged.

In order to cope with the opportunities in the domestic computer market, Ye Chuan decided to adjust the company's strategy and launch new products two years ahead of schedule. At a time when the mobile hard disk market was highly competitive, Huade Group officially launched its own system - but not under the name of Huade Group, but a brand new company - Feifan Group.

Ye Chuan named the hardware products produced by the company as Feifan. Huade Group is responsible for production and sales, while Feifan Group focuses on Internet and computer-related businesses. The launch of the Qiyuan operating system caused a huge sensation in the computer industry and made Microsoft deeply uneasy. Without its own system, Feifan Group might be controlled by Microsoft, but when the competition is unfavorable, Microsoft can interfere through various means, such as incompatibility or frequent crashes. But now that Feifan Group has its own operating system, these tricks have become delusions. Microsoft executives were surprised to find that the Qiyuan system was not a product that was hastily launched, but a mature work that had undergone long-term testing.