The Goddess Shines on America

Just as Alice felt gloating silently, Gates' recent days have not been easy.

All along, according to Gates' joke, there are always two big mountains on Microsoft's head. These two mountains have always provided him with a lot of motivation, but at the same time there are also strong pressures.

One is IBM, whose position in the computer industry is unmatched. The company was able to develop back then because of the development of the DOS system for IBM. Although the two have often cooperated for many years, Gates is very clear that this giant has the idea of ​​annexing himself at all times.

The other is Apple. Although this mountain is much smaller than IBM, the pressure on Gates is far greater than the former. Apple’s founding date is one year later than Microsoft’s, but it went public six years earlier, and the scale just after the listing is far surpassing the current Microsoft just after the listing. It can be said that under the premise that the age of the two founders is only eight months apart, Gates has always been under great pressure.

But the amazing thing is that in the two years since Alice joined the company strongly, the two mountains that have been straddling Microsoft's head suddenly slammed and fell one by one!

First of all, of course, it is Apple. Gates is really very emotional about Jobs being kicked out of his company. I heard that in January of this year, the old Steve Jobs became interested in computer graphics. He spent a full 10 million US dollars to buy Lucasfilm's director from Lucas, who was in the midst of divorce. Feng ↗ Wen ↗ Studies, ww※w.cf＠wx.n￡et computer department, intends to start with the development of new computer technology from the shooting of animated films, but there is not much success yet.

As for IBM...

In fact, until now, Gates has been puzzled by this matter.

He has been cooperating with IBM for many years. In other words, he has a competitive and cooperative relationship, and he is familiar with the executives. Although companies sometimes resort to shameless measures when suppressing competitors, it's like hacking into exchanges to modify data while the other party is listed...

Gates believed that they could do it. This was not a technical problem, especially it was late at night, and the programmers of the exchange were definitely not better than the elites of IBM.

The question is, this approach seems too advanced, right?

Gates had a meeting with Ellen, Alice and all the executives afterwards, and everyone agreed that if IBM had not done such a hand, they would have never imagined that they would be able to suppress their competitors through this method!

Not to mention how surprised and fortunate Alan was, even Alice, the founder of Cisco, was shocked home at the time.

In this way, the dignified blue giant was hit hard. The court complaint filed jointly by Nasdaq and Microsoft has been accepted. Even if IBM repeatedly claimed that it was innocent, the first round of confrontation had to end in a disastrous defeat. After all, the evidence presented by the complainant is tangible. Cisco’s product order records, data packet records of routers in the exchange, and IBM computer room router data packet records that were promptly investigated and collected by the FBI are all undefeated by the company’s top management. fact.

It is through this incident that Gates is more aware of how huge Alice’s energy is in the entire IT industry.

Cisco is developing with an unstoppable momentum. It is precisely because of this IBM accident that the little girl and the people in the White House have gotten into a relationship. For most of all the government agencies on the East Coast, if ordinary marketing managers are asked to interview one by one, how long will it take for this business to come down?

From a macro perspective, Gates is very convinced of Microsoft's development momentum, but he also clearly realizes that such a momentum is largely dependent on the existence of Alice.

One night, Gates couldn't sleep, and carefully calculated the accounts on the desk in the bedroom.

Take a look at the current situation of the company.

There is no doubt that the future computer operating system must be a graphical user interface, which is in the form of Apple's Macintosh and Microsoft's Windows. As for the company's early DOS system, anyone who compares the present with the past will make an unquestionable choice. In other words, this early Microsoft product will obviously lose its vitality quickly.

And the good start of Windows is from Alice Ribbon.

Then, when IBM came to ask for cooperation, anyone with a discerning eye could see what role Alice had played in the current Windows.NT project.

When the two companies first set up a cooperative team, the only one available for Microsoft was about twenty people, while IBM threw out two hundred people like a vegetable market!

However, the task progress is consistent, and there is only one reason for Microsoft to keep up, and that is the existence of Alice, the consultant of their technical team.

And now, when IBM had to make fun of cooperation due to the recent situation, and Microsoft also made up two hundred programmers through the listing, Alice was also surprised to use this new force to speed up the research and development of related topics. It has increased a lot.

Sometimes, Gates can't help thinking, how many senior programmers graduated from MIT, Caltech, and Stanford can Alice, a little girl?

Two hundred is correct, what about the limit?

Gates knows clearly that Alice alone is equal to the productivity of the entire Microsoft, and at least a 500-person Microsoft. It is no exaggeration to say that if she chooses to set up a company of the same type, she will be able to get the current Microsoft down every minute.

Otherwise, how could Gates and Allen agree to give Alice a full 30% of the post-listing share?

Then she is now the well-deserved boss of Cisco, and the other two partners together have only 30% of the shares. Sometimes when he wakes up in the middle of the night, Gates will be afraid of the power the girl has mastered.

So now, in the autumn of '86, when Microsoft is in trouble, Gates' depression is not so strong.

The development of Windows 2.0 was due to the concerted efforts of him and Allen, after completely abandoning Alice, and the old Microsoft employees. In order to avoid being involved with the previous work to the greatest extent, Gates even took a walk to Apple in person and plagiarized the interface mode of Macintosh...

As a result, ideals are plump and reality is skinny.

The 2.0 system has been on sale for two months, but countless users have said after learning about the interface of the new system that they don’t buy it, which is very similar to the Macintosh computer model.

Take, for example, the interface after the file explorer is opened. The 1.0 system clearly sets the close, maximize, and minimize buttons on the right side, but the 2.0 system moves them to the left. This not only caused great trouble to the old users, but also obviously imitating Apple!

I really shot myself in the foot by just taking a look at the recent stock price fluctuations. There are even many peer competitors who have published articles saying that they look forward to Apple's early infringement protest against Microsoft. Gates clearly realizes that if the 3.0 system is not released soon and some achievements are really made, the company will inevitably fall into greater trouble.

It is easy to say that you want to fight a turnaround. Gates knew that as long as they were willing to sacrifice Alice as a big killer and let her be responsible for the development of the next 3.0 system and return to the old path of the previous 1.0, it would definitely not be a problem.

The problem is that in this way, Alice's position in the company is even more unshakable.

Gates is not a person with such a strong desire for power. He knows that he is not so much a business owner, but a simple technician. If Microsoft can really carry forward in the hands of Alice, and the Windows system will occupy more than half of the global operating system like a godsend, it will of course be a happy event.

But the problem is...

He Gates can't pretend to be forced...

All the limelight was robbed by Alice...

Obviously, the DOS that I invented is also very good. Why does the future world have to be the world of graphical user interfaces...

Ah~It seems to have invented a time machine, ah no, according to Alice’s words, the law of cause and effect is a magical ritual, so that the future world will still keep the DOS system as king...

No, social progress is still necessary, that is, make a wish not to let Alice appear, let me Bill Gates invent Windows...

Apart from depression, Gates really snarled like this in his heart. In the same way, according to Alice's words, his current mood really seemed to be called a dog, or he was called by a dog, and his whole body was full of negative energy.

In other words, why even the way of complaining is defined by Alice?

Is Alice everywhere?

With a bang, Gates grabbed the ground with his head, ah no, grabbed the table with his head, and knocked his head on the desk.

At this moment, the time is mid-September, and the location is Gates's home in Seattle.

"Bill?"

Hearing a sound in her son's bedroom, Mary Gates knocked on the door: "Are you okay?"

"It's okay, Mom, I'm fine..."

When he said this, Gates' head was still lying on the table.

"Don't work too late~www.readwn.com~Bill."

Mary stood at the door and said with a little worry: "I know the company has been a little troublesome lately, but you should also pay more attention to your health. You can't get results in a day or two. You have to combine work and rest."

"I know, mom~"

After Mary left the door, Gates looked up.

After thinking about it, it seems that it is inevitable to let Alice be responsible for the development of the third generation of Windows.

After all, everyone in the company has been watching executives' decisions. If you say that you still have to leave Alice to develop the third generation after you have not achieved good results in a new product that has taken a different path, then you don't need Alice to do anything, and your status in the hearts of employees will naturally plummet.

"Speaking of which, what is this little girl up to now?"

Picking up the phone, just when he was about to call Alice, Gates suddenly realized that the other party was no longer in the United States. (To be continued.)