After Wang An taught his son a lesson, he took the time to tell Gu Biao about his plan the next day.

When he first heard Wang An's arrangement, Gu Biao was still slightly stunned for a while:

"Do you plan to let the family forces completely withdraw from the current company and set up their own doors to concentrate on wPs software?"

Gu Biao couldn't help but be surprised, after all, in his opinion, Wang An would not leave the business of the company he founded himself, nor would he let his son leave completely.

Although the Wang family still holds a part of the company's shares, they can choose to divide the money regardless of everything.

"I figured it out. Wang An sighed earnestly, "My rise, the reason why I was able to overpower iBm back then, is not because my computer is better than iBmiBm is the overlord of the computer industry, from giant computers to small computers, servers, they have been dominating for decades, and no one has ever surpassed them."

I, just in the field of personal computers, have been ahead of iBm, and have maintained this lead for more than ten years.

However, to be a human being, you must be self-aware and see clearly. Leading in the field of personal computers, this is just the result, it is an external performance, not the cause. The reason behind this is that I am good at making computers with business office functions, and I am good at meeting the needs of high-end business elites.

It's just that since 1974, in the past 12 years, the performance bottleneck of the personal computer has been limited, and the most suitable scenario for it is the business office, so I happened to be a godsend and temporarily sat on the first throne in the industry.

However, the performance of cPu, memory, and hard drives is advancing rapidly every year, and personal computers are about to enter the era of multimedia explosion, and in the future, business office is only a small part of the functions of personal computers. My ability range and age are destined to be impossible for our Wang family to open up again, and it is your responsibility to open up.

The whole machine is no longer suitable for our direction of struggle. It is the best choice for us to do a good job of business office software in several lifetimes and become an organic part of a certain aspect of the function of the multimedia machine in the future. Although I don't speculate in stocks, I think Warren Buffett has a good saying: don't do things that are beyond your ability. ”

When Gu Biao heard this, he couldn't help but be in awe.

Wang An's self-aware vision is really very good.

Of course, Wang An was able to see this, and he also had to thank Gu Biao for driving their family down from the position of the largest shareholder, giving him the opportunity to jump out of this mountain and look at the peak of the mountain side of the mountain to clear up.

If Gu Biao hadn't driven him out of that position, Wang An would have wanted the authorities to be fascinated and fascinated until death.

"It's great that you're willing to think so, and I'm sure Ling Lang will be able to achieve something new. I also save snacks, I don't have to worry too much about the new generation of products in the future, and there is no supporting office software. Gu Biao said open-mindedly, but he didn't forget to add a beating,

"However, please forgive Uncle Wang, since you are going to set up your own door in terms of software, it is impossible for me to completely entrust my hopes in one basket. First of all, after purchasing your software in the future, we will do more Chinese language by ourselves, and in the future, we will not be limited to the European and American markets, but also adapt to more language office environments.

Secondly, we will also introduce a certain amount of internal competition, there may be two teams, each designed independently, and finally evaluated and optimized, and the small range is put into the market to test and feedback the results. But don't worry, I'm definitely merit-based and don't look at who the software comes from. "The special forces of the city

Internal competition in the R&D process is absolutely rare in 87 years, because the software industry has not yet formed a monopoly supergiant, and the competition of other external companies alone is enough to spur software developers to keep moving forward.

In later generations, the internal competition was fierce, mainly because companies like Tengyun had formed a monopoly, so they did their own business.

Or Huawei's kind of need for a spare tire plan because of supply chain security issues, so two sets and one set are kept.

But Gu Biao is very discerning, and he knows that the first and even the second generation of computers after he takes over will still need this process.

Because once faced with Microsoft's open operating system competition, if the ecosystem of the closed operating system brand has not yet risen, there may not be enough external subcontractors to support the market. In this way, it is impossible to count on natural competition, and without introducing internal competition between the left and right, it is possible to put relatively inferior products on the market.

Of course, Gu Biao will not blindly continue to compete, which will not only waste resources excessively, but also lead to difficult and concise consumer choices.

Just imagine, if a group of consumers, in the official software sales channel, see an oFFice and wPs at the same time, and then each make a different purchase, but in the future will face different optimization directions, different user habits, in case you don't want to change it later, but also pay the cost of re-learning, it will definitely lose people's hearts.

Office things, concise and unified is the most important, this is a tool, not a game, the tool wants monopoly and standardization, not bells and whistles playability.

Therefore, this kind of internal competition should only last until the end of the pilot launch in a small area and the winners and losers will be separated, and then it will be stopped immediately.

Then all-in supports the product that won the closed beta test in a small area.

This kind of thinking is a bit like the A/B testing and "fast launch, rapid iteration" R&D idea in the Internet era.

A/B testing is not an Internet industry insider, maybe you don't know much about it, a little bit.

This thing is mainly famous for FaceBook's small usage. Before the beginning of the 21st century, the software industry was more rational design, and after the early research and development was completed, the follow-up testing was also very rigorous.

However, as Internet products are more biased towards entertainment consumption and social networking, and biased towards "experience", in fact, it is not a good thing that the initial design is too strict. Because 100% of the project manager's pre-argument model is only suitable for those problems that are right and wrong.

But there's no right or wrong way to experience this thing. It's like the testing department of many companies, when you look at the test-case, you can say that a feature is wrong, but you can't tell whether a feature is beautiful or uncomfortable.

This thing is too subjective and opinionated, and you can't expect the project manager to stand with the mainstream aesthetic every time, so even if you want your people to be like Tengyun's engineers, "deliberately stand in the position of Xiaobai and empathize every time", it may not work.

It's not a matter of empathy, it's that the elite can't rely on obscenity to find out how Xiaobai thinks.

Later, around 06 years ago, the A/B version of the FaceBook genre began to spread out, and it was a better tool at this time. It doesn't require the project manager to put himself in the shoes of a novice, but directly puts several different appearances, UI updates, and a small range of users to use. Sorcer

For example, one in 1,000 FaceBook users at the time would receive a random upgrade reminder to upgrade the FaceBook client on their computer (and later aPP on their phone), when in fact, different of them got different beta update files.

Finally, statistics for a week or two, to see which version of big data performs well, it will be uniformly determined to upgrade to this version, this trick is about 09 years ago, it will gradually expand to all Internet giants, everyone no longer bothered to figure out "what is the real white", since then they have begun to borrow the A/B version of the test this research and development method.

Let big data tell you what is really white.

As for the aforementioned trick of "launching first, testing market feedback, and then iterating quickly", it is just the premise of A/B version testing, which was used in Tengyun at the end of the 90s, and it was used to speed up the debugging and response cycle, so that you can put it on the market first if the test is not sufficient. Let the market feedback what you can't do, and then quickly upgrade, it will save a lot of test engineers the workload. On this basis, if the content of an upgrade is not the same, and there are several control groups, it is the "A/B version test".

For the upcoming year of 1988, the current Microsoft engineers are still very upright, and they absolutely do not understand such a development method.

Moreover, with the slow diffusion of trade secrets, as long as Gu Biao does a good job of confidentiality and does not explain the benefits of this method internally, it is estimated that these advanced R&D management ideas can be kept secret until the birth of the Internet.

[Historically, it took two or three years for FaceBook's R&D management ideas to spread to all industry giants, and at that time, the information was many times better than it is now.] 〕

It's just that because there is no convenient software upgrade channel like online download, Gu Biao can't use the guinea pig on a large scale through the remote operation mode.

But this is only a matter of technical means. Gu Biao can be slightly modified, so that he can only find the most iron-clad channel dealers and the most brain-dead hardcore users to be the guinea pig of A/B testing only in the territory of the company's core forces.

Of course, in order to run this system for a long time and stably, it is definitely not possible to consume fan passion, and it is necessary to give feedback on the benefits. For example, those users who take the initiative to use the beta version and report BuG and feedback will be able to get the official version for free in the future without having to buy it.

It is equivalent to the right to use the software in exchange for test labor.

These are all afterwords, and they haven't been implemented yet.

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In the transformation negotiation with Wang An, there is still one last detail to be solved, that is, Gu Biao has acquired most of the shares of Wang An Computer, and the brand equity of Wang An's company is undoubtedly the most important value of this company.

Gu Biao spent $1.2 billion before and after, and most of the money was for this brand, as well as the market recognition and consumer inertia behind the brand.

Now Wang An wants to split a pure software company controlled by his own family, so he is faced with the brand rights of the software series that still needs to use Wang An's name and wPs.