Seeing that Microsoft delayed the release of the patch for this backdoor, and only issued an announcement stating that due to some technical reasons, the development of the backdoor patch encountered problems and difficulties, and was temporarily unable to provide patches to users.
Therefore, Microsoft suggested that all users back up their data effectively, such as buying a large portable hard drive, and copy their important data into the hard drive.
Such an announcement could not extinguish the users' anger. One could imagine how bad Microsoft's situation would be next, but since Microsoft dared to issue such an announcement, it had already made it clear that it would continue to slack off, and no one else could do anything about it.
What's more fatal is that users couldn't even retaliate by switching systems, because they couldn't find a product that could replace Microsoft's. Microsoft never had to worry about its market share of the Windows system declining due to its own mistakes.
However, in China, the situation seemed to be different. In January 2016, the second week after the ransomware began to spread in China, a famous first-tier university in China suddenly broke out an astonishing piece of news: the entire campus network system had completely collapsed.
First, the school's website could not be accessed, and then the system for students to check their grades was also inaccessible.
The most fatal blow was to the school's scientific research achievements. According to news released by some media, all the servers used by the school to store data were infected, and all data was locked by the ransomware.
The ransom demander also proposed an exorbitant ransom of 30 million yuan. Since the bank for remittance directly required a foreign bank, and according to the investigation, the recipient's address was also abroad, it was definitely a foreign hacker who did this.
After all, domestic hackers wouldn't be so bold as to hack a first-tier university. Wouldn't that be courting death?
He who reaches out will be caught.
Because this first-tier university had been undertaking some important national scientific research projects for a long time, the losses were far more serious than imagined. Not only were many projects affected, but it was even rumored that the lunar exploration program was also affected, because this university was responsible for developing a key aerospace component, but now all the research and development data was lost, and everything had to start from scratch.
After this incident, the worry about the Windows system, both from the public and the government, could no longer be suppressed. Major media outlets began to publish articles, proposing that China's network and system security must not be placed on a computer system developed by a foreign enterprise, and that Chinese people must have their own computer systems.
This was exactly the situation that Yang Yuan was most worried about. Once such public opinion formed, what would happen next was self-evident.
Of course, things in this world always develop in the direction one least wants to see. After a week of fermentation, the Information Security Department publicly announced a piece of information.
That is, from now on, all domestic enterprises and institutions are required to stop purchasing and installing computers with the Windows system. Orders that have already been purchased must be returned if possible.
If they cannot be returned, the supplier must be required to uninstall the Windows system, and provide a new usable system and corresponding hardware equipment.
Enterprises and institutions that have already installed the Windows system are required to perform daily data backups and replace the Windows system within three years, switching to domestic and more secure computer systems.
When Yang Yuan saw this notice, he was stunned. This directly meant that all of Fantasy Computer's business lines that operated around the Windows system in China were suspended, not to mention the most fatal part, which was the return of a large number of orders, and finding a completely non-existent new system to replace the Windows system for those existing service targets.
But did such a system exist in China?
A few days later, the entire Fantasy Computer fell into complete chaos.
Let's not even talk about the returned orders, or replacing the Windows system. The most work Fantasy Computer received was to back up data for various units.
Not only did domestic public institutions have such requirements, but more and more enterprise units, both state-owned and private, put forward the same demands.
After all, the events abroad were too terrifying. Large amounts of extremely important company data were locked down and could only be retrieved by paying huge ransoms, which directly led many companies to disconnect all their external network lines.
Of course, such a measure could only be used temporarily, not forever. Company data could not always be disconnected from the outside world, otherwise the company would collapse. Therefore, it was necessary to complete the data backup as soon as possible.
It was easier for professional network companies to complete the backup work themselves. However, the vast majority of traditional enterprises only knew how to type on a computer, and they didn't understand professional data backup work. Many enterprises didn't even know where their large amounts of company data were stored.
However, they knew who sold them these computers, and they also signed long-term maintenance contracts when purchasing computers, stating that the other party would be responsible for the safe use of these computers long-term.
So, naturally, these public institutions and enterprises all found Fantasy Computer first, asking Fantasy Computer to back up their data for them.
Data backup, although it sounds simple, is actually quite simple to do, but the problem is that it takes a lot of time.
After all, most companies have extremely large amounts of data, ranging from hundreds of terabytes, and even with portable solid-state drives, it would take two or three days to transfer, and it would consume a lot of time from technical personnel.
The result was that not only were all of Fantasy Computer's after-sales personnel out working, but even many front-line technicians had to put aside their program development and engage in data backup work for customers.
But soon, the staff of Fantasy Computer found that the personnel problem was not a big problem. The real big problem was the backup data storage equipment.
Since the data needs to be backed up, it naturally needs to be stored in new, independent, and non-networked devices. Moreover, since most of them are enterprise users and the data is extremely large, the data storage equipment needed is naturally more.
Many enterprises are unwilling to pay extra money to purchase these storage devices. Their reasoning is very simple: the computers were sold to them by Fantasy, the Windows system was installed by Fantasy, and Fantasy also signed long-term technical maintenance agreements with them, so Fantasy Computer should be responsible for the cost of data backup.
Fantasy Computer naturally could not agree to such a request. After all, with the collapse of Windows, almost all enterprises in the market had the idea and demand for data backup, and almost all enterprises were frantically purchasing portable storage devices in the market. This directly led to a sharp increase in the price of storage devices, almost doubling from a month ago, and even with the price, there was no market. Enterprises could not afford such costs.
As a result, everyone in Fantasy Computer was eagerly awaiting a new computer system to be released, so that they could collectively replace the computer systems for users. This was much easier, simpler, and cheaper than data backup.
Perhaps God heard the wishes of all the employees of Fantasy Computer. A few days later, a surprising piece of news came: Jiangnan Group suddenly held a press conference and then grandly launched their new system for electronic computers, Lingyun, at the press conference.
Jiangnan Group frankly stated at the press conference that the research and development of the Lingyun system actually began 10 years ago, but due to unimaginable difficulties, there are still some problems until now.
However, with the market and public demand, and after the Windows system had such serious problems, Jiangnan Group felt that they could no longer allow the public to be persecuted by the Windows system, so they worked overtime to improve the Lingyun system and finally launched Lingyun 2016 at the press conference.
The host of this press conference, Zuo Sicheng, stated that Lingyun 2016, like the terminal Lingxiao system, is a quintenary computer system developed based on the quintenary chip.
Its characteristics are stable operation and the ability to perform a large number of multithreaded operations simultaneously. In the demonstration session of the press conference, Zuo Sicheng even made one computer simultaneously render 8 special effect projects, and the speed of both sides had almost no impact, which was indeed very impressive.
However, people were not interested in how technically impressive this system was. They only needed to know that the operating method of this system was similar to that of the Windows system, and that this system could basically do everything that the Windows system could do, and even do it better, which was enough.
However, this system also had a major problem: it did not support traditional CPUs, and could only be used in conjunction with the Tianhe quintenary computer chip developed by Jiangnan Group.
In other words, if computers in China were to be replaced with the Lingyun system in the future, the computer's CPU would have to be replaced first.
As soon as this news came out, Yang Yuan understood that Fantasy's market in China was probably completely finished.