With the goal in mind, several Microsoft employees immediately began to take action. Bill, who has deep pockets, has chartered the Golden Lion Hotel in Seattle...... In a few rooms, a few backbones were summoned to thoroughly study how to write spreadsheet software on Mac.

Microsoft's program development team is differently structured, with Bill at the top, a few development managers at the bottom, a core number of researchers, and a recent college student programmer at the bottom.

Bill doesn't like to hire skilled workers, because programmers are unruly and inevitably have a bit of friction with each other, while the new college students are very motivated and obedient, so it is very easy to integrate into Microsoft's development structure.

Microsoft also never prioritizes seniority, and whoever has the ability can be in the position, so a guy named Claude was specially promoted at this research meeting.

The closed study lasted three days and three nights, with one goal in mind: to develop the world's fastest spreadsheet!

They analysed the shortcomings of the mutiplan and agreed on the specifications and features of the new form software. For example, adding databases, adding macros, adding statistical graphs, adding "intelligent recalculation" functions, etc., etc., in the final analysis, is to put the cloned version of VS-office on the Mac, copy it.

Bill was surprisingly generous and took all the suggestions of the employees, so much so that the employees cried and shouted that they wanted to replace the "L1C1" notation of mutiplan with the "A1B1" coordinate method.

Claude burst into tears: "Chairman, A1B1 is still easy to use!"

Angry with the public, Bill Gate had to give up his magic pen and agreed to use the coordinate method, and if you want to copy it, you have to copy it thoroughly.

At the end of the meeting, everyone decided on the name of the new software, EXCEL, which means beyond in Chinese, and the goal is vs-office.

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"Is this the Macintosh?" Simone was a little intoxicated, "the screen is a little small, but it looks comfortable." ”

The Macintosh was brought by Bill from Apple, and when it arrived at Microsoft's headquarters in Seattle, it was locked in a large closed research room.

Not only was Simeone curious, but other developers were also interested in it, and they responded to Chairman Bill's call to program this beautiful machine day and night in order to fight a turnaround.

It's just that manpower is sometimes poor, Macintosh's strange architecture is really beyond the imagination of ordinary people, and its main chip 68000 is not the mainstream, even Simeone is confused about it, let alone talk about other programmers.

"Chairman, the boys are complaining that the program of this machine is too difficult to write, and now it is making slow progress and is still in the stage of exploration. Simeone reported to Bill Gate during a meeting.

Before Gates could speak, Ballmer had already spoken: "Simon, time is running out, we have to hurry, there are difficulties to overcome, and we can go public sooner, so we can have more chances......"

Ballmer was about to play when Gates interrupted him and said to Simeone with an unusually pleasant face: "Don't listen to Ball's nonsense, rush forward with a gun without even looking at the other party, this kind of thing, only he can do." Let's take it slowly, and then we'll talk about it when we figure it out. ”

Ballmer and Simeone opened their mouths wide and were surprised by Bill's attitude, which was not his style. In the past, if the progress slowed down a little, Bill would have to yell and curse, how could it be so abnormal this time?

Bill smiled silently, made a profound gesture, and waved the two of them to work.

In fact, Bill has a new idea in his mind, the more he looks at the graphics operating system of the Macintosh, the more he likes it, and he is no longer satisfied with just working for Apple to develop applications.

Bill still has his mind on the PC's operating system plan, dos failed, and he could only be beaten passively for a short time, while Macinrosh's graphical interface system is definitely trendy and a weapon for counterattack. Jobs, who had always been a lone wolf, would certainly not release such a system for PC, and this was the chance.

From the beginning, Bill had his own plan, but it was disgraceful to say it, and his agreement with Jobs was that Microsoft would write apps for Apple, but it would not be ported to PC for three years.

Bill kept procrastinating until the time was up, but when he saw the Macintosh, he was even more ambitious, and thought to himself how good it would be if this could be achieved on a PC.

At the end of 82, the sales volume of PC machines has made rockets, reaching 13,000 units per day, far leaving Apple behind, and the market share has reached more than 80%.

Apple has never been compatible with PCs, so writing a graphical operating system for PC platforms is a tempting deal. Bill is not prepared to develop on the most popular PCs, the most popular godson, because there is no code involved in the underslayer.

He lamented that he envisioned an approach that would add an "interface manager" (or later shell) between the DOS and the application that would be hardware-independent, WYSIWYG and standardize the application and work in a graphical environment.

It's just an imagination, it's really quite difficult to do, one execl will make the whole Microsoft burnt out, and the technical team leader Claude is even more tired of writing code, never having a day off.

"Ballmer, we're going to add people!" Bill said, "and given that the company is growing at a rapid pace, if you want to hire more people, you can do it." ”

Ballmer agreed, and in a week more than 200 people were brought in, and his efficiency was eye-popping.

With the addition of new blood, Microsoft's development progress can be regarded as accelerating. The only thing that upset Bill was that Jobs refused his request that Microsoft want the power to use some elements of the Macintosh interface in its yet-to-mature graphical user interface.

Jobs was not a fool, on the contrary, he was very calculating, and as soon as Bill's ass was raised, he knew that this kid was going to fart or shit, and directly replied: "Want this? unless I'm not at Apple." ”

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There was not much to say between the turns of '82 and '83, except for IBM, which was making a lot of money, and other companies were preparing to develop their own secret weapons.

Only Apple has ambitiously launched a new generation of dream product Lisa computer, known as the first in the industry, it is indeed very bull B, full graphics configuration, what is good, so the expensive can be, expensive and heavy, the unit price is more than 10,000 US dollars.

This thing is a typical glass species, which can only be viewed from a distance and cannot be played with, so it is a big servant.

As for Microsoft, it is still there to compete with Execl, and it is trying very hard to hatch eggs. As for which graphics manager, it is like the moon in the sky, longed for but out of reach.

The graphics operating system is simple, but it requires hardware, and the current maximum configuration of IBM-PC is only 256k memory, and the graphics manager envisioned by Bill is just a middleware, or based on the DOS system, and its memory overhead is far beyond imagination. Moreover, the performance of the 8088 microprocessor is well known, and displaying graphics in conventional ways can feel intolerably slow.

As for Viewsoft, there is nothing new, but the Godson operating system and VS-Office software are on the rise, and it only took three months to pull Walker's VideoForm off the throne and become the number one software seller. The Godson system has a 90% market share on the PC platform, while VS-Office has reached half of the market.

It's just that there were still some manufacturers on the market at that time, with one or two tricks to dominate one side, such as MicroPro's wordstar, people are used to this thing, and they are immune to other word processing software.

1982 passed so plainly, the smoke of gunpowder has been extinguished, a few families are happy and a few are sad, and the losers are licking their own wounds, intending to make a comeback.

It's just that at this wonderful time, what is Cao Changjiu doing?

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After a day of drawing, my eyes were dazzled......