Previously, employees of Starry Internet and Starry Information Port had to register dozens of emails in one go. Although it was a very pleasant surprise to exceed hundreds of users so quickly, Jiang Yuerong would rather see the real number of users than count the emails registered by internal employees. However, Yi Ruoshui clearly told Jiang Yuerong: "What I am talking about is the real number of users. The emails registered by our internal employees do not count!"

This is a bit too exaggerated. Jiang Yuerong thinks this is a process of slowly accumulating. With the current situation of the Internet in China, the total number of Internet users is only 200,000 to 300,000. It is great to have 100 registered on the first day!

But now it is officially opened for less than an hour, and hundreds of people have registered for 188 emails?

You should know that the number of Internet users in Xingzhou City has just exceeded 300. The Starry Sky Data Branch has invested millions in advance and dozens of employees are busy, just serving these more than 300 customers, but now more than 100 users have arrived in just one hour.

But there were continuous surprises. Jiang Yuerong received good news during lunch. There were more than 300 registered users on 188 Email, and the speed of adding new registered users is getting faster and faster. Xie Yuhong from Starry Internet alone has attracted nearly 100 users to register 188 Email.

Although the data of these 300 email users are a bit distorted, including those registered emails by internal employees, this number still made Jiang Yuerong suddenly feel unusually surprised. If this continues, 188 email can easily surpass the total Internet users in Jiangdong Province. She even found that the news of 188 free email activation has been on the headlines of ChinaByte.

ChinaByte is now the number one commercial website in China. Internet users in China will be very serious about ChinaByte's news reports. Since even ChinaByte has reported the news of the 188 email opening, this shows that the direction of Xingzhou Information Port operation is not wrong. Xingzhou, an ordinary city, will definitely become the focus of national attention. Many leaders will come down to inspect Xingzhou Information Port in the future.

Before this, Jiang Yuerong had fallen into deep self-doubt. The data branch invested tens of employees with millions of investments, but the number of people served was only 300, and the monthly fees charged were not even enough for the operation and maintenance costs.

Although everyone knows that the Internet is tomorrow's information expressway, and the future of the Data Branch will definitely be bright, Jiang Yuerong still feels that this road is too far away. I don't know if it will take five or ten years to see the dawn, so Jiang Yuerong is wondering if his choice is wrong.

But now 188 email made Jiang Yuerong find that the dawn was right in front of him, and the good news was one after another!

Four hundred users, five hundred users, and six hundred users, soon approached one thousand users.

Not only the increase in user numbers, Jiang Yuerong also received many calls, including provincial and municipal leaders and colleagues from all over the country. A leader of the provincial telecommunications department first criticized Jiang Yuerong on the phone, and then asked a question: "I have a cousin who just registered your 188 email address. He wanted to ask how to upgrade to 4M capacity? He searched for it for a while but couldn't find how to upgrade."

If the phone calls from the leader are mainly caring and caring, the relationship between colleagues from all over the country is much more complicated. Their first reaction is to suspect that Jiang Yuerong falsely reported the data: "Your email users have exceeded 700? How is this possible? We have developed for half a year, which is only 400 users!"

But in addition to doubting, they want to know everything about 188 Email: "The mailbox system is provided by Starry Internet? They are also responsible for the hardware? They are customized email servers for Wangshan Computer? How is it running? Jiang Bureau, it is convenient to disclose the quotation that Starry Internet gives you."

In addition to this, there were some angry phone calls: "What is your Xingzhou Telecom? Your free email is faster than our paid function. How do you ask us to charge?"

Jiang Yuerong immediately laughed: "Manager Zhao, you can consider purchasing the super mailbox system we jointly launched with Starry Internet. Now, order the super mailbox system we launched with Starry Internet to enjoy a 50% discount, and you can even host the server on our side!"

The opponent was so angry that he wanted to smash his phone, but he maintained his last sanity: "Why should I purchase your super mailbox system? Our mailbox is running very well. Okay, okay, send a fax, I'll think about it carefully."

A layman watches the excitement, while an expert sees the tricks.

188 Email was launched on July 13, and three days later, a real big shot finally noticed this. A group of executives and business managers from Microsoft China looked at the information on the screen with a grim expression. Someone had already asked loudly: "Why did you realize now that you must be held accountable for this matter!"

What they care about is not the influence and number of users that 188 Email may bring. These are very far away for Microsoft China. Although Microsoft China has its own mailbox server product line, Microsoft China's mailbox server products are only used within the company and will not launch free mailboxes to the public within a year or two. Moreover, Microsoft China does not know that 188 Email uses the open source freebsd system. Theoretically, there is no business conflict between the two parties.

What this group of executives and business managers care about is a fatal problem. As the first free email address in China to be open to the public, 188 Email has been touted as "China's hotmail" by many industry peers. According to the information inquired from the Jiangdong Provincial Post and Telecommunications Bureau, 188 Email has now thousands of users, and hundreds of new users are registered every day.

But the most fatal problem is that the most conspicuous position on the homepage of 188 states that "Please use Netscape to browse this site for better results", and even provides a Chinese version of Netscape browser download connection. This may be an unintentional mistake, which is simply unbearable for Microsoft China executives.

Although the Chinese Internet world is still wild, the browser world war between Microsoft and Netscape has reached a point of dizziness and darkness. Bill Gates personally organized a comprehensive counterattack against Netscape. He used all legal and illegal means to kill them. He even bundled the IE browser into the winodws system and sold them together. As long as he could win this browser war, Microsoft would do anything.

Last year, Microsoft China even delayed the simplified Chinese version of win97 by half a year in order to launch the Chinese version of IE3.0 as soon as possible. In the past six months, ie browser has been expanding its territory in the Chinese market and is about to kill all Netscape browsers without official Chinese versions. Seeing that everything goes well, now this 188 email suddenly jumped out to recommend Netscape browsers.
Chapter completed!