The launch event ended amid two extreme moods.
On one side were the tech-section reporters from every media outlet, each one like a bull in a frenzy. Every one of them wished they could grow eight hands, and they started madly drafting copy while the launch event was still underway. Some even called their bosses before it was over, urging them to hurry up and run the story, all scrambling to be the first to publish Umbrella Corporation's big move.
And among them, CNN was the fastest. They also understood the art of grabbing attention all too well.
Less than half an hour after the launch event began, CNN aired a breaking news bulletin: Umbrella Product Launch: This Is a Massacre.
After that, the word "massacre" immediately became the most frequently quoted term in news related to Umbrella's product launch.
"On February 24, Umbrella Corporation launched a massacre against the global giants of the electronics industry!"
"IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Apple... Umbrella Corporation's butcher knife fell equally on every electronics giant."
"Once, the electronics industry was full of shining stars, but in the future, there will be only one sun here, and that is Umbrella."
"Filled with unbelievable technology, Umbrella Corporation's Blue Queen computer seems to come from the future!"
"Chip fabrication has entered a new era. Experts believe it leads the industry by at least ten years!"
"The storage sector faces a reshuffle. How should the former giants about to be slaughtered respond?"
But compared with the collective climax of the media reporters, none of the attending competitors could smile.
Paul Otellini and Steve Ballmer had each lost a hundred dollars, but the young man named Murphy did not take their bills. Instead, he said with compassion, "You two should keep it. Buy some liquor and get yourselves drunk. Maybe