Chapter 277: Rapid Development (Part II)

In the suburbs of Gu City, inside a unit apartment in a residential complex, office worker Liu Zixu sat down in front of his computer with a bowl of freshly cooked instant noodles, and was taken aback when a window suddenly popped up in the bottom right corner of his screen.

"A Notice to Users!"

Liu Zixu placed his instant noodles next to the keyboard and looked at the pop-up window that had appeared inexplicably in the bottom right corner with some surprise.

As a professional in Computer Science, he naturally understood computers much better than the average person, and he dealt with operating systems quite often in his daily life.

However, although Microsoft had already released the latest Win10 operating system, because Win10 had more useless features, for many users, there was actually no absolute necessity to upgrade.

After all, the improvements of Win10 compared to 7/8 were far from as great as advertised, and its hardware requirements were not as low as Microsoft claimed.

Because of this, for a long time in the past, apart from using Win7 at the company, Liu Zixu's old laptop at home was still using the outdated XP system.

As for the operating system, it was only a week ago that he had downloaded this brand-new, optimized XP system from XP Home upon the recommendation of a friend.

After briefly getting the hang of it for half a day, Liu Zixu completely fell in love with this XP system, which was said to have been optimized by a domestic studio.

This Pure Version XP System could simply be called "Super XP".

An outdated system from over a decade ago could actually be optimized to have an experience no less than Win10.

A large number of useless plug-ins and software had been deleted, and the system had been streamlined to the point where even a twenty-year-old Pentium 4 could handle it with ease.

At the same time, it humanely replaced the terrible built-in media player, input method, and browser from Microsoft's original XP operating system with several replacement software options that were highly acclaimed in the market.

What was most unexpected was that the optimization team had even optimized the operating interface; they had actually managed to put a Win10 look on XP, can you believe it?

All these things made Liu Zixu fall in love with it the moment he started using it; he became one of its die-hard fans and dedicated himself to constantly sharing this "Super XP" system with his friends.

It was also because of this that, out of curiosity, he had often inquired about information regarding the optimization team, and thus he knew what this term meant.

"The optimization team for the Pure Version XP System? Let me click and take a look..."

Discovering that it was a prompt box issued by the optimization team he was using, Liu Zixu was somewhat surprised, and he quickly decided to click and take a look.

And so, he controlled his mouse to click on that message; the next moment, the system's built-in browser immediately popped up a webpage, and an article that was not very long appeared on it.

"Dear users, hello!"

"Thank you for your support of our studio's first work, and for taking time out of your busy schedules to pay attention to us."

"We are a newly established team. Although our founder is a student currently in school, driven by a common dream, we created this studio and hope to bring users new products with better experiences. For this dream, more and more members have joined us. Now, many members of the studio are technical experts with many years of industry work experience."

"Pure Version XP System is a non-profit sharing work that we attempted to optimize and launch based on Microsoft's XP operating system! We were very pleasantly surprised to find that this practice project received strong promotion from the platform and gained excellent word-of-mouth and feedback nationwide."

"Benefiting from the success of Pure Version XP System, our studio gained industry attention and received a generous investment, successfully establishing our own company---Cybertron. All members of Cybertron would like to express our sincere gratitude to all the users who have supported us all along!"

"In the days to come, we will continue the subsequent optimization of Pure Version XP System and will continue to share it for free on the Internet for all users who like it to use."

"Of course, the success of a practice project will not make us stop moving forward; the journey of Cybertron has only just taken its first step."

"We are honored to recommend to you the first new work launched to the whole society--Cybertron Cloud Drive."

"It adopts a brand-new, innovative model, has designed a brand-new architecture, and has prepared plenty of surprises for our dear users. Without a doubt, Cybertron Cloud Drive is a product full of sincerity and is bound to attract the attention of the industry."

"All of Cybertron looks forward to your continued support!"

Below, a link also appeared.

After Liu Zixu finished reading the announcement, he clicked the link without any hesitation.

In the era of the Internet, one out of every five Internet users uses a cloud drive; in the country, this figure might be even higher, with one cloud drive user for every three or four people.

Liu Zixu was naturally no exception, and Pure Version XP System had indeed brought him too many surprises, which made him interested in Cybertron Cloud Drive, the first commercial product of the new company said to have been founded by the system's optimization team.

Immediately, after entering the official download link for Cybertron Cloud Drive, he only took a brief look at the introduction before choosing to download this software recommended by Cybertron first, preparing to give it a try.

What Liu Zixu did not know was that at the same time he was busy choosing to download it, many users across the country, just like him, were making the same choice.

With the curiosity of these system users, the download volume of this software was also rising rapidly. In the short half-hour after Sun Cheng's "Notice to Users" was issued, ninety thousand people visited the official website of Cybertron Cloud Drive, and more than one-third of the visitors chose to download it.

In the following day, with the system's random pop-ups through the background every few hours, the download volume of Cybertron Cloud Drive also began to rise rapidly.

Two days later, the number of registered users that could be monitored in the background of Cybertron Cloud Drive had already exceeded 310,000, and the number of active users who had uploaded content and used it for more than three hours had already broken through 130,000.

It was obvious that at least 130,000 users, under the advertising effect of the system, had not uninstalled this software after using it.

In the winter of the cloud drive market, a new player had actually broken in, and this enterprise named Cybertron seemed to have previously optimized a product with explosive word-of-mouth based on the Microsoft XP system. This discovery soon attracted the attention of some professional media, and Cybertron Cloud Drive also began to officially step into the public eye.