The Goddess Shines on America

Once a person who usually doesn't show up often appears on the stage, he will definitely not show such a sense of existence in vain, and Alice fully proves this. After coming to the Microsoft headquarters, she first inspected an entire nt project team and asked Howard, the person in charge, to strictly control the quality and must carry out a round of complicated tests on the finished system.

The project cycle of about 18 months was extended by at least one third after she said so. The seemingly unreasonable behavior, but after she easily singled out several loopholes, it immediately became a wise move by all project team members.

If you want to conquer an ordinary person to work for yourself, you need a high personality charm, it is really simple to solve the programmers, as long as you show a better technical level. So after the nt project team strolled around, accompanied by Gates, Alice went to other R&D teams non-stop and wandered around.

Today I learned the news that Alan had actually taken leave for a long time because of illness, and the departure of one of the heavyweight veterans naturally gave Alice more room to play. The office software team was reprimanded by her for a long time. The most direct reason was that the software was too large due to code redundancy, and the means to cure dissatisfaction were simple. Alice was just a live demonstration, and the code of a certain function of the software was easily streamlined. By a third.

"Guys, we need to know our status." She said so, although she was only speaking to an office R&D team, she knew that these words would surely be spread throughout the company.

"The first computer was built in 1946. IBM and Intel have a history of more than ten to thirty years, and they are mainly in the hardware field. Microsoft is the leader of the entire computer software industry. what."

"So, everyone, pioneers, each of our products is equivalent to making history. Just like Watt's improved steam engine and Faraday's invention of the generator, do you hope that people in a hundred years from now will give a comment when they evaluate Microsoft Such a conclusion—their systems always like to crash, their computers always love card machines, and their software is really horribly bloated—?"

"The level of programming level is closely related to mathematics ability. The final realization of a certain function with a large number of instructions is not equivalent to solving various problems such as factorization? As long as there is a law to follow, it is not a problem. , This code of mine has wiped out your original bunch of **** things by one-third, and print them out quickly and study your ideas!"

From arriving at the company in the morning to finally going around all the project teams, when it was almost finished, the sky should also be dark. However, the characteristic of it company is that the commuting time is very chaotic, and overtime is super normal. So although many people ran to dinner, basically no one planned to go home immediately.

"With your reprimands today, it is estimated that the boys will be enough for three nights all night."

In the private meeting room, Gates and Alice gathered here. The sick Allen was not there, but the chiefs of the project team also gathered. The daytime review has too many follow-ups that should be carried out, and now is the time.

"They can be all night and a week," said Howard, the head of nt. "You do a good job on weekdays, but you can pick out a bunch of loopholes in a few words. Haha, these are all semi-paranoid boys. Guys, can't you fill up enough coffee to fix the problem?"

"Then tell the logistics department to buy more and equip a few more coffee machines." Gates walked back from the window, sat on the sofa and said: "Then everyone, the topic of today's meeting is just like my email on the way back. It’s about making some changes to the company’s development policy. Because Paul is not present, I’ll just discuss it briefly tonight, Alice, it’s up to you."

This situation is actually tantamount to the convening of the board of directors, but it is still only 1988 after all, and Gates's table is not enough to sit down with the big shareholders, but is still dominated by company insiders. He, Alice and Paul Allen are more like three big mountains, firmly controlling the core part of Microsoft.

"In fact, that's the truth, and that is to recognize the fundamental attributes of Microsoft." The high school girl sat with great imposing momentum, her legs in tight cowboys were also relaxed and separated, while other people talked to her calmly.

"At present, there are so many computers in the world, and there are only a few operating systems. DOS is completely outdated; Unix's stability and multi-tasking capabilities determine that it will be mainly used in the server, database, financial and telecommunications industries in the future. And other software development companies. So when it comes to talking about the future will most occupy the market, nothing more than our windows and Apple's Macintosh."

The topic suddenly stretched to this level, and the nerves of everyone present couldn't help but stretch. It can be said that the exception is only Alice. The daily contribution to Microsoft only stays at the level of sending emails, but this group of employees who work from 9 to 5 every day face the entire industry day and night.

Steve Jobs was indeed kicked out of Apple in the first two years. Now Apple’s performance is really sluggish. It even started selling clothes, shoes, tennis rackets and caps as a sideline business, but the significance of the Macintosh computer itself is still worth it. This group of people pay attention.

"Jobs is an amazing genius. He saw the trend of personal computers spreading to millions of households from the beginning, so when designing computers, he was just right to incorporate his supreme pursuit of experience design. Sales of Macintosh computers It is a direct proof that if the guy's perfectionism hadn't reached the level of obsessive-compulsive disorder, his original performance would at least be doubled."

These words made everyone laugh. They were all members of the circle. Besides, Gates and Jobs had frequent contact with each other in private. Didn't you know the nervousness of this big guy?

He planned to remove the cassette slot for the sake of beauty and keep the fan in the case for quietness. These are all good things he has done. Even for the circuit board, he has completely ignored the issue of heat dissipation. It is mandatory that all modules are densely arranged on the board like a classroom desk. It looks good enough, but it can affect the performance too much and increase the price. do not have?

So, let's not talk about Gates and Alice, who is not clear, why on earth Steve Jobs was kicked out of his company? With his nervousness and a bullish temper, the designer is the first to offend, and it is only a matter of time before everyone in the company can bear it.

"Then guys, the issue of market positioning is directly involved here."

We brought out the familiar Apple to allow them to compare: "windows 1.0~3.0 and subsequent versions are developed for PCs, while the nt project is for the server field. In other words, as long as we put These products are made, and then maintain a high market share, then it is equivalent to dominating the global software industry!"

"You think, no matter what software is, it must be operated on the operating system platform. Now dos... well, that was originally ours. Unix has always focused on niche groups. Although Apple is particularly considerate of users, this But then it is the time of malaise. If we take the advantage of now to promote Microsoft's platform to the world, won't all software vendors all over the world have to develop products for us?"

"Then go a step further, after we have achieved this, what role will we play in the entire world? In this world where computers are increasingly affecting productivity?"

A steady stream of new concepts is scrubbing the views of everyone present. Of course, everyone has already had the concept of application software, but when it comes to the level of global software suppliers, how can it be possible for them to think so far now? You know, didn't the classic combination of windows95 and IE only appear in 1995?

"Microsoft provides the platform and part of the software, and then uses the market share to decide that the software supplier only provides products to Microsoft... and then the entire industry... and then the impact on the world..." So there is no surprise in the face of this being Alice put forward the concept too many years in advance, Gates' eyes began to light up, and the people around him immediately fell into the infinite brain world.

Alice smiled silently, waiting for the group of otakus to come back to their senses.

Well, it's too normal, this kind of reflection.

After all, she has really accelerated the release of products a lot, and the entire industry environment is still relatively lagging.

Take a look, although the release date of win1.0 has not changed much, it is still in 1985, but it is about twelve months ahead...

But the 2.0 system that Bill and the others created is exactly twelve months ahead of schedule. Is there anything wrong with it?

In fact, win2.0 is really good, Microsoft is Microsoft after all. Word and excel, two important members of the office application, appeared in front of the world for the first time at this time. The long-standing control panel also made it onto the stage of history. They are indeed remarkable achievements.

And in any case, after the original history of it was launched in December 1987, Microsoft also has follow-up 2.1 and 2.11 versions, which shows that everyone is really careful. It is only because of Apple's related lawsuits and lack of software compatibility that its sales are very unsatisfactory, but at least it also pave the way for the debut of 3.0.

Only this time, it was a little bit subtle.

Because as early as 1.0, Alice brought out the office and the control panel~www.readwn.com~ The time limit is here, what can Microsoft's "crystallized wisdom of all employees" find out?

Therefore, because of excessively bad sales, Gates had to ask Alice to come out and develop 3.0.

The efficiency of Alice is well known all over the world, so the 3.0, which was supposed to be on the market in May 1990, was directly advanced to the beginning of 1988.

Then taking advantage of the hot sale, Gates now has the 3.1 idea again.

Alice first threw out the things that existed in 90 years in advance, and now threw out the concepts that existed only after the great development of Silicon Valley around 94 years ago, and briefly described the situation after the real formation of the Microsoft empire. With such a shocking look, I really can't blame everyone for being caught in their heads.

"Well, so I said," but I can't let the guys continue to make up for it, Alice said loudly, recalling their soul: "In order to occupy the market most efficiently and conveniently, we must ensure customer satisfaction. Programs. Products that are highly redundant, too complicated to operate, and even blue screen at every turn, are very annoying." (To be continued.)