A powerful advertising campaign by Microsoft overshadowed Chu Bong-foo's product ads, and the following year, after Microsoft had successfully captured the market with Windows 3.1, Chu retreated into reclusion to concentrate on developing his "genetic" analysis of Chinese characters-rather like Confucius, who, when he was unable to convince rulers of the wisdom of his views, "took to a raft and floated on the sea."
在微軟強勢的廣告行銷下，朱邦復的產品廣告遭到封殺；隔年，微軟以視窗三．一成功攻佔市場後，朱邦復退隱山林，專心研發漢字基因。