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   Chapter 71 Flames

   Sitting next to Song Yang, Wesley, who was in charge of the Hotmail mailbox project, said to Song Yang, "Now I have a Hotmail email address, the functions have not been fully developed, but the most basic email functions have been completed!"

  The software development engineer of Wang An's company has joined, and Wang An himself is the earliest player in the e-mail industry, and the technical reserve is quite rich, which makes the development progress of Hotmail e-mail very fast.

   Song Yang looked at the homepage of the Hotmail mailbox in front of him. He only needed a web address, and through the browser, he could directly enter the Hotmail mailbox's webpage.

   In terms of functions, the interface of Hotmail mailbox is quite simple, continuing the style of double-clicking the company's official website. Compared with other peers, the web design of Hotmail mailbox is definitely one level higher.

The most obvious position on the homepage is the registration, login and other buttons, which makes it clear at a glance that Wesley did not engage in those fancy things, as much as possible. Users who have been in contact with computers can get started with a few readings!

Song Yang registered an account, and then entered the Hotmail email backend. Similarly, the most conspicuous location in the backend only had two functions: sending emails and receiving emails. In later generations, major websites and APPs, etc., the functions became more and more complicated because of demand. more and more.

   And now in the Internet industry, most of them are novices who have just or even never contacted the Internet industry. The simpler the operation, the more novices, and the easier it is to win the hearts of users!

  Now the Hotmail mailbox is still registered internally. Only Wesley and other developers have registered accounts for functional testing. There are only a few dozen accounts. Song Yang can send emails, which are these accounts.

   After editing an email, Song Yang sent it to Wesley's account. A few seconds later, a water drop sounded on Wesley's computer. This was the incoming notification sound set by Hotmail.

  Wesley opened the email sent by Song Yang, there was only one sentence on it, "The email is from Hotmail!"

   At this time, the entire Hotmail development department clearly felt a long sigh of relief. They had been busy for so long, and finally made no mistakes.

  The entire Hotmail mailbox has other functions, but it is basically a shelf product now, and they are still under development, including mailbox virus scanning, calendar service, scheduled sending, mail search and other functions.

   But the completion of the most basic sending and receiving emails means that the launch of Hotmail has entered the countdown. As for the problem of unstable functions, isn't this the normal state of the Internet industry...

While using and upgrading, the whole people find bugs, Netscape, Yahoo, etc. also come here, Hotmail e-mail can not let users lose this happiness, the key is to launch first, it means to seize the market first, the rest, all It can be improved gradually, Hotmail mailbox is different from the double-click company, it needs users and traffic, otherwise no big dog is willing to take over!

   "When will the development be completed?" Song Yang asked Wesley. He was quite satisfied with Wesley's performance. Sure enough, he came out of Rice University, a top university in America, with a few brushes.

   "If all goes well, it is expected that before the end of the month, the internal test can be conducted, the external test can be conducted next month, and the registration will be opened..."

   Song Yang listened to Wesley's words and thought for a while. If registration can be released in the middle of next month and promotion can be carried out, then Song Yang can start promoting Hotmail before going to San Jose University.

"but…"

  Song Yang looked at Wesley and frowned, "But what?"

   "But the virus scanning function of Hotmail may be difficult to complete. We asked McAfee for the price. Not only McAfee, but Symantec's price is too high!"

  The current leader of the global antivirus software is undoubtedly McAfee, which was listed as early as three years ago, and Symantec is the current owner of Norton Antivirus. Both are giants in the global antivirus software industry.

   These are listed companies. Although Wesley did not indicate his identity when he asked the price, even if he did, it was estimated that it would not be much cheaper.

Song Yang rubbed his brows. To launch a free e-mail box, it must have the support of anti-virus software, otherwise no one would dare to use it. In fact, only God knows how effective this thing is, but it's like fighting with a wooden stick. Like wolves, at least they can feel safe in their hearts. In fact, wolves never act alone...

   Not only Hotmail e-mail, ICQ will be launched in the future, and other products, whether it is hardware or software, are inseparable from the support of antivirus software companies.

It's fine if it's only once, but if he has to be controlled by others in the future, and it is also related to many core data, Song Yang is really a little worried. He puts the knife in the hands of others, especially in America, where anything can happen. !

   After thinking for a while, Song Yang said to Wesley, "Let's find a new antivirus software company!"

   "Don't cooperate with McAfee and Symantec?!" Wesley said in surprise, and now all the famous companies in America are sending money to these two companies.

  Song Yang shook his head with a smile on his face, "Will the company that provides antivirus software for Double Click Company, Hotmail, and ICQ be unknown?"

  Wesley was stunned for a moment. He already understood what Song Yang was doing. He wanted to support his own antivirus software company.

But after thinking about it, Wesley couldn't help but get a little excited. If you can really use the double-click company, Hotmail mailbox, and instant messaging ICQ to support an antivirus software giant, or even go public, it does not mean that double-click, Hotmail mailbox, etc. Has it become a real giant? If it comes true, it will be a legend in Silicon Valley in the future.

"You have to work hard here and complete the development of the Hotmail e-mail as soon as possible, and I will solve the anti-virus software," standing up, Song Yang said to the staff of the Hotmail E-mail Development Department, "When the project is completed, it will be in the RICK club. Throw a party for everyone, and all the prizes will be given out!”

As soon as these words came out, the entire development department was suddenly screaming, and even Wesley groaned. He had already heard the name of the RICK club, not to mention Gallo's big mouth. .

  After leaving the Hotmail mailbox development department, Song Yang and Wesley came to ICQ's development department.

   It’s just that ICQ is a bit slow compared to Hotmail, which is progressing rapidly. Developing a software that has never been done before is destined to take a lot of time, not to mention the lack of manpower.

   Now that ICQ is not even a semi-finished product, it is still under construction, and Wesley also has some headaches. "Song, your requirements for ICQ are too high. Many functions are developed with the current technology, which takes too much time!"

   If you just build a simple chat tool and use two computers to exchange text through one software, it will be much simpler.

   But Song Yang's request to Wesley was a relatively mature instant messaging system, so it was not simple.

Song Yang didn't mean to blame Wesley, but just checked the development progress of ICQ, and then said to Wesley, "When the development of the Hotmail mailbox is completed, you and the ICQ project will go to San Jose with me, and there will be a meeting. Find enough people for you, ICQ must pass the internal test before the end of the year!"

   "The man who is about to change Silicon Valley, the Internet in America, will have your name on it too!"

   Before leaving, Song Yang patted Wesley on the shoulder and poured a large bowl of poisonous chicken soup. Bill Gates, Mark Anderson and other tech figures on the cover of Time magazine deeply stimulated Wesley.

   After leaving the Hotmail mailbox and ICQ development department, Song Yang thought for a while and made a phone call.

  If you want to find a powerful antivirus software company in Silicon Valley, you have to find an old man for directions. Song Yang can't think of a more suitable candidate than the little old man Tristan.

When    received a call from Song Yang, Tristan was obviously surprised to hear that Song Yang wanted to invest in a small emerging antivirus software company.

"It takes time, I need to ask some old guys, I'll call you tomorrow!" Tristan said after thinking about it, he has a wide network in Silicon Valley and the Internet industry, mainly because many people in the Internet industry have been called by him. Touted, naturally willing to help...

After    dealt with the matter here, Song Yang explained to Irene, who was willing to be a bull and was working **** the Double-click company, and drove towards the car repair stall in Gallo.

Like other cities in America, as the fourth-ranked city in America, like New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, Hugh Village is also divided into many different communities, but basically there are also rich areas, civilian areas and slums, of course not. It will be so direct and explicit, but everyone knows it well.

   Gallo's car repair shop of their racing company is close to a slum community in Houston, and it is obviously different from other areas in Houston.

The streets are obviously mixed. People from old ink, African American, Eastern Europe, South America and other places are all mixed here. It is even more uncommon for people with all kinds of tattoos to be carved on their shirtless bodies. You can see groups of three or five gathering together, staring at the street all the time, obviously doing underground transactions.

  Song Yang drove directly to this street. Thinking of what he saw just now, Song Yang couldn't help but wonder if he had to find a bodyguard by his side.

   (end of this chapter)