However, if you want to say that Claude is a high-quality talent in the end, after calmly deciding to leave, he actually sorted out the work of EXECL at hand, listed some parameters and various annotations in detail, and made a videotape, which was left for future generations as a basis for continued development.

These actions are quite embarrassing to the author, and if you think about it from your perspective, you will definitely sweep away all the results, and if it is not good, you will have to make a 'mess', so that Bill will lose all his money. Think about those emerging companies in China after the reform and opening up, which one has not experienced this kind of thing, and even people and achievements disappear together.

Claude also fantasized that his painstaking efforts could be understood by later generations, and he did it very seriously. After everything was done, Claude immediately packed up his things, walked out of Microsoft's big 'door' without looking back, and vowed never to set foot in Microsoft's big 'door' again.

The 'spring' day in Seattle is still not too warm, and the steep 'spring' wind is quite chilly on his body, Xu Zhixing shrank his head, ready to get on the train and go home, but his heart is infinitely missing a cup of hot coffee.

It's still sunny in California, Xu Zhixing thought to himself, damn Bill fooled the hardware vendors again, but this time it's okay, at least a few pictures have been revealed, and promised to release the beta version in a few months.

After confirming that there would be no more gains from this trip, Xu Zhixing resolutely decided to go back, just a while ago a flight had an accident, which made him palpitate, and this time he had to take the train home.

Closing the portable computer he carried with him, Xu Zhixing stretched his waist, stood up and walked casually, moving his muscles and bones, but saw a young man sitting there, his clothes were torn several big 'holes', as if they had been opened by sharp weapons, and the parts were near his pockets.

This guy is really unlucky, he must have let the pickpocket patronize him while napping, Xu Zhixing looked at this young man with pity.

"Hey, buddy!" Xu Zhixing stepped forward to greet him, "Is there anything you want to help with!"

Claude looked up and saw a stranger beside him.

"Are you talking to me?"

"Could it be that there are other people around here?" Xu Zhixing said with a smile, "You look very bad." ”

Xu Zhixing guessed correctly, Claude hadn't slept for a day when he came to the station, and this time to stay up late was commonplace for him, but the sudden departure from work and idleness made him uncomfortable, and he actually fell asleep on the chair at the station.

When he woke up, something was wrong, not only was his luggage gone, but his pockets were washed, and the fitters were very professional, and they didn't leave him a penny, and even the belt was 'pumped' away.

"That's the kind of gentleman, I look like I've been robbed. Claude was a little embarrassed to say what happened, looked at Xu Zhixing, and muttered quietly, "...... Can you lend me some money......"

Xu Zhixing couldn't help but smile: "You're really unlucky, a new college student." ”

"No, I have a job. Claude's mind gradually cleared up, "You can come with me, I'll go to the city and borrow some money from my friends to pay you back." ”

"Where do you work young people. Anyway, the car hadn't arrived yet, Xu Zhixing was ready to help the young man, and his hand had already begun to take out his wallet.

"I worked for Microsoft, ever. A word burst out of Claude's mouth, "I just quit my job yesterday!" and I'm going to try my luck in Silicon Valley, but unfortunately I don't even have a ticket now." ”

Xu Zhixing was stunned for a moment, his movements couldn't help but slow down, and he cautiously probed everything about this young man, even he didn't know why, maybe it was the sensitivity of his profession.

Claude was not wary, and spoke in a fifteen-ten. Maybe he doesn't need to be wary at all, because he's not a Microsoft guy anymore.

Xu Zhixing couldn't believe his ears, he didn't expect to meet a Microsoft project leader in this place, he was still a free body, what a godsend.

"I don't think you have to go back. Xu Zhixing smiled, "It just so happens that I also go to Silicon Valley, you can go with me." ”

In this way, Claude was abducted into the car by Xu Zhixing, and along the way, Xu Zhixing seemed to inadvertently mention that he was an important member of Viesoft, which caused Claude to be envious.

"Viesoft is a good company, there are a lot of really good products, and the design is just perfect, I can't keep up. Claude said sincerely, out of Microsoft's position, as a technician, he still admires the company's products very much.

Xu Zhixing was overjoyed when he heard this, and slightly 'revealed' the intention of solicitation. Claude wanted to refuse, but after thinking about it, now that he was penniless, he had to find a job in Silicon Valley, so he agreed to Xu Zhixing's request.

In this way, a general became a long-term subordinate in such a dramatic 'sex', and later Claude saved VS the company in danger, which is a later story, and I will show it later.

It is said that Bill's big 'door' didn't have time to pay attention to Claude for the press conference of the window system, and since they all resigned, this department's 'door' has no value to pay attention to, and Bill almost forgot that Claude had resigned.

It wasn't until Bill was sorting through the papers that he found that Claude had left a letter for himself, mentioning that he had left a package containing various development materials.

Bill then appointed a newly promoted college student to take over Claude's work, ready to sort out the results of EXECL, but Claude's office has been cleaned since he left, except for the computer, all the other papers and clutter are gone.

The hapless college student couldn't find the so-called information anyway, so he had to 'grope' the EXECL program by himself, but this thing was not, how could he understand it.

Half a month later, the young supervisor was making very slow progress, and had no choice but to report to Bill that he could not complete the task. Bill was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, looking around for this important videotape, but it was too late, no one knew where it had gone, or which cleaner had taken it home for storage.

The hapless Microsoft lost the lead in spreadsheet software, and EXECL didn't appear until a year later, but the trend has gone and has completely lost its lustre.

Bill was jumping, and Jobs was not having a good time, if not worse. After all, Microsoft now has Bill in absolute leadership, while Apple is a publicly traded company, and the board of directors is holding Jobs in check.

There's no denying that Steve Jobs was a genius leader, but genius and madness are often in the same thought.

Steve Jobs was a 'fine' man, interested in almost everything, pretentious, irritable, and strict with his subordinates, as the popular saying goes, he was a perfectionist who could not tolerate the slightest dissonance.

But he is still young, immature and fragile, very vulnerable, and sometimes so stubborn and unreasonable.

No one will feel comfortable with such a guy who is out of place in the work, Jobs's thirst for power is beyond the reach of others, and all he needs is responsiveness and absolute obedience.

It's just that God can only have one, and President Scully is also not a soft persimmon, he was originally a top student in the Department of Architecture, and later studied art from the Department of Arts, and then married the 'daughter' of the president of Pepsi Cola, 'Lu' (another nepotism), and applied for a business degree, and has been soaring since then.

No one knows what Steve Jobs thought at the time, and he actually asked Scully to be the president of Apple, and this bad taste is still unexplained.

Scully was also inexplicable, he didn't know anything about computer technology. It's just that Jobs said two things to him, and he happily joined - do you want to sell soda for the rest of your life? You don't want to change the world?

Joining AppleScully was indeed ambitious, and he underwent a series of major surgeries on Apple, which of course angered Jobs.

"I trusted you to hire you to preside over Apple. But don't let that make you think that you are an incredibly clever leader, so clever that even Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, should do your bidding. Steve Jobs must have had his trick up his sleeve to create Apple and bring it to the scale it is today. I don't care about anything else, but I must state that you can't 'meddle' in the MAC group I'm responsible for. ”

It turns out that he is still an outsider! Scully's heart is bright, and he endures everything and waits to move.

Success can suppress all discordant sounds, but like a volcano, it only takes a little spark to erupt, and the failure of the Mac in the second quarter of '85 became this spark.

The $17 million deficit appeared for the first time in Apple's history, which was a shame, and in the face of the board's rebuke, Jobs's weakness of his personality was finally *** undoubted, and he blamed all the faults on Scully's mismanagement, just as he attributed the failure of Apple III to Wads.

Jobs accused Sculley of not having a real strategic plan, thus delaying Apple's development and pushing Apple into a more serious predicament.

Scully, of course, could not agree with this statement, blaming Jobs's predicament for Jobs's interference in his business decisions, and pointing out that this is a fact for all to see.

Jobs was 'tempted' to argue, but found that apart from his programmers, few people supported him, and he became a loner.

In March '85, the situation continued to deteriorate, the original expected mac shipments of 20,000 units per week fell sharply to more than 2,000 units, the management blamed each other, several managers became scapegoats and were kicked away, and the design of the Apple II Woz also resigned, and the entire Apple company was shrouded in a 'shadow'.

The outbreak occurred at the end of March, when even the most loyal members of Jobs' Mac team mutinied, and a group of programmers began to flee one by one, fed up with the heavy workload.

"Scully is so incompetent, I've decided to remove him!" Jobs began to contact his colleagues, preparing to use his position as chairman of the board to kill Scully.

It's just that Jobs is usually too dick and has no friends, and when the board of directors opened in April, there were few guys who supported him, the recall plan failed, and the MAC department 'door' was taken over by a Frenchman.

The conflict 'intensified', Jobs almost went crazy, and spent almost the whole summer in a quarrel with Scully, but he didn't know that the industry was about to change.

Seeing that in July of 85, California has entered the rainy season again, as if God also knows that a good show is going to be staged, and it specially gives some atmosphere.

U.S. East Coast, Boca.

It had been raining for a whole day, lightning and thunder, there were no pedestrians on the streets, and cars rushing by splashed mud.

A Rolls-Royce stopped in front of the 'door' of Boca's I/O system, and the driver in a black 'color' dress opened the 'door' of the car in the back seat against the rain, and opened an umbrella to shield the people who got out of the car.

A gentleman got out of the car with a suitcase, cursed the damn weather, and hurried through the big 'door' of the IBM Boka branch.

In the aisle, the gentleman straightened his clothes and walked briskly towards President Lowo's office with a suitcase in hand.

As Intel's ambassador and marketing director, House is very particular about his every move, and he cares a lot about making a good impression on others, such as Lowo, which seems to have a big impact on the success of the business.

"Dear Mr. Lovo, an old friend has come to visit. ”

"House, you're running around in such a heavy rain. Lowo glanced up at the visitor and motioned for him to sit down, "Is there something urgent?" ”

"Very anxious!" House pretended to be mysterious, "I thought of you first, please take a look." ”

House opened the box with the flip of the switch, and held it in front of Lovo with his hand.

"What is this?" asked Lowo, frowning.

Inside the box is a chip fixed in styrofoam, boxy and shining with a mysterious sheen.

"This is Intel's latest high-performance microprocessor 80386, you must be interested in it, it has 32-bit processing bandwidth, strong computing 'performance', more advanced memory management mode, and ......" House excitedly introduced the 'sex' performance of this epoch-making product to Lowvo, and he prepared for this meeting for several days.

But Boca's 'doorman' Lovo didn't seem to react, writing something on his hand and doing his own thing.

House's enthusiasm seemed to have been poured out, and the uncooperative sales pitch was really boring, so he had to stop his tirade.

At this time, Lovo looked up and asked, "So, what is the use of this 386?"

"This is a new product, it can replace the 286 as a CPU, I think your new product can use it, I want to ......"

"It's not that you think, it's that I think. Lowo interrupted House, a little impatiently, and said, "I'm not interested in this 386, but when will your 286 processor have a higher frequency?" ”

House opened his mouth to stammer, let him rehearse many times but did not expect this result, he was a little unprepared for the always eloquent and stammered: "I'm not, I don't understand what you mean." ”