Hollywood Hunter

After all, it was the first experience of three people together. I woke up very early in the morning or deliberately dozed off, feeling the two people around me leaving one after another, leaving her alone on the big bed, Rachel Weisz went to sleep again.

It was so choking last night.

I don't know how much more time passed, the bright sunshine in the spring broke into the bedroom through the gap of the curtain, and it happened to fall on her face.

Open your eyes.

The drowsiness disappeared completely, and some other exhaustion was gone.

Think of a certain argument.

Women have an advantage in this regard.

However, after sitting up, I was a little confused and didn't know what to do.

I looked around and found a beautiful crystal ball on the bedside table. I curiously reached out and took it over and looked at it. I don’t know where I touched it. The crystal ball seemed to light up. It was a kind of flashing colorful light like a sphere. There are countless colorful cracks inside, which is very beautiful.

So I became interested, I did a little research, and quickly realized that this is probably an electrostatic trigger, there is no switch, just touch the surface of the crystal ball, and the radial light inside will light up.

I remember seeing such things when I visited the Science and Technology Museum as a child, but the principle has been forgotten.

Quite fun stuff.

Putting aside my own situation for the time being, I played around repeatedly, and made up my mind. After returning to Los Angeles, I went to the boutique and asked about it. I also bought one in the apartment.

Excited, the bedroom door was pushed open.

Rachel Weisz looked up, and the palm of his right hand happened to cover the crystal ball again.

Didi, didi, didi.

The crisp and rapid electronic sound, similar to a common alarm bell, came from the wrist of the Wei family waitress who had already known Isabel yesterday when he entered the door.

Rachel Weisz and Isabel stared at each other for a short time, then subconsciously aimed at each other's wrist, instinctively aware that he might have a big embarrassment, but the disobedient right hand took the initiative to help the owner to confirm it, raised it again, and fell again .

Didi, didi, didi.

day……

I wish I was Alice, I could get into the rabbit hole and never come out again.

Isabel watched Rachel's rapidly flushing face and the other party's panic putting the crystal ball back on the bedside table, concealing the smile from the corner of her mouth, and politely said: "Miss Vichy, what can I do for you?"

Rachel shook her head quickly, pointed to the crystal ball that returned to the bedside table, and said, "This, I'm so sorry, I thought it was just an ordinary ornament."

"It doesn't matter," Isabel said, and then said, "Are you going to get up now?"

I really wanted to go back to bed again, so I could avoid the embarrassment just now, but there was a slight hum on my mouth.

Can't sleep anymore.

Isabel walked to the window and pressed the electric switch to open the curtains. The bright sunshine immediately filled the bedroom. She said: "You can wash first. Brand new dental appliances are already in the bathroom. I will help you prepare clothes. What to eat?"

Rachel looked around.

Last night it was from downstairs to upstairs. There was no shadow of his own clothes around. Moreover, a certain guy seemed to have a violent tendency. He vaguely remembered that the Versace women's dress that was just changed yesterday was torn, and he must not wear it again.

After opening the curtains, Isabel saw her thoughts, made a gesture of waiting, walked into the bathroom, and a moment later came out with a bathrobe and handed it to Rachel.

After a little toss, came down from upstairs and found that it was already ten o'clock in the morning.

Seattle, which is in the rainy season, has a rare bright sunny day. It is in a temperate maritime climate zone. The temperature in March seems to be just right.

The villa is very quiet.

I'm sorry to inquire about where a certain guy went, so I had to ask that I actually didn't want to see Kate Beckinsale very much. Last night, she turned out to be... the two had become enemies.

Probably not wanting to embarrass her, Isabel did not show up after sending a new set of clothes. Another waitress saw her asking and personally took her to a room on the east side of the villa connected to a terrace facing the lake. In the bedroom, Kate is leaning on the sofa and flipping through a fashion magazine, occasionally looking out of the floor-to-ceiling glass window.

The waitress put the breakfast on a round table closer to the French windows. Rachel and Kate greeted them, walked over to sit down, and followed each other's eyes to easily see the two men sitting opposite each other on the terrace.

One of them is naturally Simon Westeros.

Another one, recognizable from the other's iconic black eyes, is Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft. Westeros' trip to Seattle is to attend the launch of the other's latest operating system.

It is said to be a very powerful company.

The terrace is large, and the two men are sitting beside the guardrail in the distance. Rachel can't hear what they say, but occasionally looks at it while eating breakfast. It seems that Bill Gates is getting more and more excited, with hair on his forehead It's all because of the action of waving his hands obviously angry.

Some guy was sitting still, with his legs cocked.

Watching this scene quietly, Rachel only felt that it was like a self-righteous monkey in a zoo flaring his teeth and claws in front of a lying tiger.

It's kind of ridiculous.

More powerful The release of Windows95 system, which is more friendly to the general public without professional foundation, is a watershed for the entire information industry.

However, this is not the reason Simon attended the press conference yesterday.

Taking advantage of this opportunity to come to Seattle, Simon intends to have a serious talk with Damen students to resolve the many differences that have accumulated unknowingly between Microsoft and several other companies in the Westeros system, especially Igreat.

However, the result of this morning meeting was obviously not good.

Simon's request is that for the release of Windows 95, at least the overseas version must have Igrete's IE browser built-in.

Different from North America, because of the differences in relevant laws and regulations of various countries, even if Eaglet attaches great importance to the protection of intellectual property rights and technology patent applications on a global scale, it is difficult to guarantee that some technology companies in other countries will not launch other types of browser software without authorization. The government turns one eye and closes another to deliberately condone, and no one can guarantee that it will cut off Igreat's absolute monopoly on browser software.

To solve this problem, the most convenient way is to have IE built into Windows, which is about to dominate the PC market.

The key to Microsoft's ability to defeat Netscape with its technologically backward and problematic IE browser was this pre-installed monopoly.

Moreover, in the mainstream PC market, Eaglet can also negotiate with large OEMs for pre-installation, but with the outbreak of the new technology industry, large and small OEMs around the world will bloom everywhere, even including piracy on an alarming scale. The market, these are no longer areas that Yigrete can easily control, and it will inevitably be taken by competitors.

There are also government factors.

In the face of the huge benefits brought about by the explosion of the new technology industry, it is difficult to say whether overseas governments will force Igreat to authorize browser software on grounds similar to the ‘national security’ commonly used in the United States.

All in all, as long as the Igreat version of IE is bound to the fact that even uninstallation is impossible with the Microsoft operating system, many problems will be solved.

It’s a pity that Damen students seem to think that they have seized Yigrete’s seven inches and insisted on asking for a deeper browser software core patent license as an exchange bargaining chip. In addition, they also asked Yigrete to stop secret research and development. The Linux version of the PC operating system.

Eaglet’s operating system research and development projects have been kept in a private state of confidentiality. However, some things are difficult to hide in this circle after all.

Simon could not agree to both conditions.

Guicai believes the nonsense of Damen's classmates who promised not to develop their own browsers as long as the patents.

There is also the R&D of Igreat's operating system, which not only involves Simon's layout in the PC era, but also includes the future mobile communication era, which is equally impossible to give up.

Facing the non-entertainment of Damen students, Simon is certainly not without countermeasures.

On the contrary, for Microsoft, Simon has a lot of chips.

First of all, after various changes over the years, Simon still holds 18.7% of Microsoft's stocks. With Paul Allen's continuous reduction of holdings, he is now firmly established as the second largest shareholder of Microsoft. Even if he can't compete with his classmates who still hold close to 40% of the shares for control of this company, Simon has a considerable right to speak with his shares.

Microsoft’s current board of directors has a total of 11 members, and the Westeros system occupies two of them, enough to play a role in some important company decisions.

Moreover, as a major shareholder, the most important move is undoubtedly to reduce holdings.

Even if Microsoft's market share in the operating system continues to rise, it cannot withstand the continued decline and reduction of the Westeros system. If Simon insists on doing so, many other shareholders will pressure Damen students to make a compromise. After all, Damen students do not have an absolute shareholding in Microsoft and lack absolute control. It is not impossible that they will be forced to step down.

Secondly, using the absolute advantage of the Westeros system in the Internet field, Simon can completely block Microsoft from the Internet industry.

In the past, Microsoft was able to reach the peak of the market value of 600 billion US dollars around 2000. In addition to the monopoly of the PC operating system, Microsoft's layout in the Internet field is also very important, especially the monopoly of pre-installed browsers, which once let Microsoft control Industry advantages unmatched by other peers.

In addition, the memory of Microsoft was also involved in network access, data centers, portals, etc. during the Internet bubble around 2000, all of which contributed a lot to Microsoft's sprint market value of 600 billion US dollars.

This time, because of Simon’s series of pioneering layouts, the three giants of Cisco, AOL and Eaglet have formed very strong monopoly barriers in the Internet field. It is just that the large number of core patents in the hands of these three companies are enough to make many interested parties. The competitor who entered the game to share the cake came down.

In the past few years, while focusing on the development of Windows systems, Microsoft has also begun to get involved in portals, data centers, etc., as in the original time and space. Among them, the Westeros system actively provides patent authorization for support.

For example, the e-mail service under the portal website, without the authorization of Igreat, Microsoft can't do it at all.

There is also the data center business.

Even when the two parties were clearly in competition, Igreat still shared some technological achievements with each other and promoted Microsoft's data center services on Internet platforms such as Igreat Portal. Although Microsoft paid a huge amount of advertising fees in this process, for other important competitors, even if they paid advertising fees, Yigrete would not easily advertise for others.

In addition, the desktop software mall launched by Microsoft along with Windows95 has also infringed a large number of related technology patents of the Yigrete software store.

Before coming to Seattle this time, Simon had seen Eaglet’s plan to file a lawsuit against Microsoft’s desktop software mall, but he had only temporarily suppressed it.

It can be said that once it becomes more real, Eaglet is enough to force Microsoft to completely shut down this service.

At the beginning, Damen students directly infringed and imitated Apple's Macintosh to launch the Windows operating system, and later half-coaxed and even tricked into making this system. Now, Apple has been unable to take Microsoft, and the lawsuits between the two parties continue to this day. .

However, this kind of trickery is not effective for the Westeros system.

If you infringe on the patent, you just don’t change it, you just keep dragging it, and it’s a big deal to accompany a large sum of money in the end, just like the Netscape dragged to death in Simon’s memory, but don’t forget, this time, the Internet is Wester. The absolute field of the Luo system.

Many of Microsoft's network services always require suppliers and consumers.

Just like a software mall, no one will provide you with software, depending on how you still play.

To achieve this goal, a "choice of two" is enough.

It is difficult for anyone who wants to sell software through the Internet to bypass the marketing and payment channels of the Westeros system. Then, how will those software developers choose?

There is also the data center business.

If the two parties are in a stalemate, in order to avoid being caught, even if they do not turn to YWS from Eaglet, and suppliers such as IBM and HP, in short, there are too many choices. Without users, this part of Microsoft's business will not want to continue.

What's more, the US intellectual property protection laws are not vegetarian.

If the Westeros system completely tears its face and forcibly retracts a series of non-permanent patent licenses granted to Microsoft in recent years, Microsoft will really insist on continuing to use it, and the huge fine will be enough for the students to drink a pot.

On the terrace of a lakeside villa on Mercer Island.

Listening to Simon's threatening statement of the interests and disadvantages, the doormate soon could no longer remain calm, almost stood up from his chair, waving his arms and accusing Simon of blackmail.

Different from the gentleness in the media lens, everyone in the circle actually knows that Bill Gates is a very irritable person. In this respect, he is on par with Jobs, especially as Microsoft becomes more and more successful, his temper becomes more and more. Big.

Perceiving the scene of the spitting stars flying out of the mouth when the doormates roared, Simon, who was planning to take a sip of coffee on the table, gave up the idea, frowned, and said to the opposite Gates who looked like a cockfight: "Bill, We are all grown-ups, don't make a big noise like a kid like this, okay?"

Bill Gates poked himself with staring eyes, then pointed at Simon: "Children? Hey, we two, who is the child, you don't know? Westeros, you really think you have fourteen thousand Chitose? You are just a headstrong lunatic, crazy, I tell you, I will never be threatened by you, I can even make Internet Explorer completely inoperable on Windows."

Simon sneered at the corner of his mouth: "Otherwise, you can try it now, I am looking forward to you doing it!"

Doormate's voice became louder again: "Do you think I dare?"

Simon shrugged: "I said, you can do this now. Try it. Maybe you can't wait. Or call back and tell Steve to announce your decision. Let's see if IE is blocked or you first Evicted by the board of directors?"

"I own 37.3% of the shares, and I still have Allen's support."

"Of course, it's a pity that it's not an absolute holding. Moreover, I don't think Paul will support you in doing stupid things. Also, do you think that the capital that depends on IE is only the Westeros system? If you dare to do this, you will become the whole message The public enemy of the industry. By comparison, I banned Microsoft from the Internet industry, and everyone would love to hear about it."

Gatemate stood and stared at Simon for a moment, and said fiercely: "In any case, Windows is pre-installed with IE, don't even think about it, don't think about it in this life."

"I only give you one day to think about it. Before next Monday, you'd better give me a satisfactory answer, Bill, I was looking forward to Microsoft being a part of the Westeros system. Ideas. So, I’m not negotiating with you. This is an ultimatum. If you don’t agree, I’ll have the final say. I will start to reduce Microsoft’s stock. I will release a free Linux desktop operating system in advance. Microsoft is completely blocked from the Internet industry, portals, data centers, network access, etc., you should not do all of them, and live by your operating system. Oh, and office software. At the beginning, you relied on Office to force Apple Those who tolerate your development of the operating system, right? It just so happens that Igreat has quietly developed a network office system for a long time, and we will soon become a competitor in this field. So, or we make a bet , Look at the future development trend of office software, is it to continue to maintain a stand-alone, or to rely more and more on the Internet?"