The Goddess Shines on America

As Alice quietly gloats, Gates has had a tough time of late.

For a long time, according to Gates' joke, there are always two mountains on Microsoft's head. These two big mountains have been providing him with full motivation, but at the same time there is also strong pressure.

One is IBM, whose position in the computer industry can be said to be unrivaled. The company was able to develop back then, all thanks to the development of the DOS system for IBM. Although the two have often cooperated over the years, Gates is very clear that this giant has the idea of ​​​​annexing itself every moment.

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

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

First of all, of course, is Apple. Gates is really very emotional about Jobs being kicked out of his company. I heard that just in January of this year, Jobs’ old buddy became interested in computer graphics, and bought the computer department of Lucasfilm from Lucas, who was in the midst of divorce, for a total of 10 million US dollars. I plan to develop new computer technology starting from making animated films, but there are no achievements yet.

As for IBM...

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

At any rate, he has cooperated with IBM for many years. In any case, there is a relationship of competition and cooperation, and he is familiar with the executives. Although companies sometimes resort to disgraceful means when suppressing their competitors, things like hacking into the exchange to modify data while the other party is listed...

Gates believed that they could do it. This was not a technical problem, especially when it was late at night, and the programmers of the exchange were definitely not as good as IBM's elite.

The problem is, this method seems to be too advanced, right?

Gates held a meeting with Allen, Alice and all executives afterwards, and everyone agreed that if IBM hadn't done such a trick, they would never have imagined that they could use this method to suppress competitors!

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

In this way, the majestic blue giant was hit hard. The court complaint jointly submitted by Nasdaq and Microsoft has been accepted. Even though IBM has repeatedly claimed its innocence, the first round of confrontation had to end in a disastrous defeat. After all, the evidence presented by the complainant is all real. Cisco’s product order records, the data packet records of the routers in the exchange, and the data packet records of the IBM computer room routers that were investigated and obtained by the FBI in a timely manner are all indisputable to the company’s top management. fact.

It was through this incident that Gates realized more clearly how powerful Alice is in the entire IT industry.

Cisco is developing with an unstoppable momentum. It is precisely because of this accident with IBM that the little girl has a relationship with the people in the White House. All the government agencies on most of 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 convinced of Microsoft's development momentum, but he also clearly realizes that such a momentum depends to a large extent on the existence of Alice.

One night, unable to sleep, Gates was doing careful calculations on his bedroom desk.

Take a look at the current state of the company.

There is no doubt that the future computer operating system must be a graphical user interface, which is 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 was brought by Alice.

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

When the two companies first established a cooperative team, Microsoft could only provide about 20 people, but IBM threw out 200 people like a market sale!

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 the cooperation due to the recent situation, and Microsoft also used the IPO to make up 200 programmers, Alice also took advantage of this new combat power to speed up the research and development of related topics. It has increased a lot.

Sometimes, Gates couldn't help but think, how many senior programmers graduated from MIT, Caltech, and Stanford can the little girl Alice be worth?

Two hundred is right, what about the limit?

Gates clearly knows 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, the current Microsoft will be wiped out in seconds.

Otherwise, how could Gates and Allen agree to give Alice a full 30% of the shares after listing?

And now she is still the well-deserved boss of Cisco, and the other two partners together only hold 30% of the shares. Sometimes when he woke up in the middle of the night, Gates would be terrified of the power this girl possessed.

So now, in the fall of 1986, when Microsoft was in trouble, Gates' melancholy was not so strong.

The development of Windows 2.0 was the concerted efforts of him and Allen and the old Microsoft employees after completely abandoning Alice. In order to avoid getting involved with the previous work to the greatest extent, Gates even went to Apple for a stroll and plagiarized the Macintosh interface model...

As a result, the ideal is plump and the reality is skinny.

The 2.0 system has been on sale for two months, but after learning about the new system interface, countless users have expressed that they are not convinced by this model that is very similar to the Macintosh computer.

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, but the 2.0 system moves them to the left. This not only brings huge troubles to old users, but it is obviously imitating Apple!

This time it is really shooting myself in the foot. Just look at the recent stock price fluctuations, and even many competitors in the same industry have published articles saying that they are looking forward to Apple’s infringement protest against Microsoft as soon as possible. Gates clearly realized that if he didn't launch the 3.0 system quickly and make some real achievements, the company would inevitably get into bigger trouble.

It is also very easy to say that you want to fight a turnaround. Gates knew that as long as they were willing to use Alice as a killer and let her develop the next 3.0 system and return to the old way of the previous 1.0, then it would definitely not be a problem.

The problem is, in this way, Alice's position in the company will be 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 flourish in the hands of Alice, and the Windows system occupies more than half of the world's operating systems like a god, then of course it will be a happy event.

But the problem is...

He Gates can't pretend...

All the limelight was stolen by Alice...

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

Ah~ It's like inventing a time machine, ah no, according to Alice's words, the law of karma and wishing is magical, so that the future world will still cling to the DOS system as the king...

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

In addition to being depressed, Gates really roared like this in his heart. Still according to Alice's words, his current mood is really as if he has been raped by a dog, or as if he has been raped by a dog, and his whole body is full of negative energy.

In other words, why is Alice defining even the way she complains?

Is Alice everywhere?

With a bang, Gates grabbed the ground with his head, ah no, grabbed the table with his head, knocked his head on the desk and couldn't get up.

Right now, right now, in mid-September, at Gates' home in Seattle.

"Bill?"

Hearing a voice 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, Bill."

Mary stood at the door and said with a little worry: "I know that the company has been in a little trouble recently, but you should pay more attention to your health. Results cannot be achieved in a day or two. You have to combine work and rest."

"Got it, Mom~"

After Mary left the door, Gates looked up.

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

After all, everyone in the company is watching the executives' decisions. If you say that after everyone's new product with a different approach fails to get good results, I still have to leave Alice to develop the third generation, then I don't need Alice to do anything, and my position in the hearts of the employees will naturally plummet.

"Speaking of which, what is this little girl busy with now?"

Picking up the phone, just as he was about to call Alice, Gates suddenly realized that the other party was no longer in the United States.