Gu Biao's layout idea is actually very clear.

Since he relied on the brand that Wang An Computer had played down for 14 years, focusing on business office, after he took over, he naturally continued to focus on this field.

It's just that the old generation is limited by computer performance and can only do copywriting, so the people who use Wang An's computer to work are mainly liberal arts majors.

Of course, this is not to say that white-collar workers/engineers in science and engineering don't need to write copy/make reports, just that they need more.

Now that the hardware bottleneck is about to be broken, it seems to be very convenient to accommodate the full office environment of science students and art students into Wang An's system.

And on this issue, the history can be described as strikingly similar.

Because according to the original development trajectory, although Wang An hiccuped, Apple next door is constantly thinking about how to face the competition of MS-DOS. How to take advantage of the computer with a graphical interface to do the office pain points that the DOS system computer is inconvenient to do.

In later generations, Adobe, which was famous for software such as PS, was a completely independent third-party company before 1987, but in the four or five years after 87 years, it was tied to the chariot of strategic cooperation by Apple, and once promised to let the Apple platform dominate for several years, that is, promised not to try to develop the DOS version of PS.

Of course, this commitment was only a few years, and then because Apple's sales were not good, the strategic cooperation contract was terminated before the Windows system appeared. After the Windows era, Photoshop defected to Microsoft for the first time.

Now, when Gu Biao is doing the game, because the alliance between Adobe and Apple is first, Gu Biao has no way to directly poach strongly, or it is not cost-effective, it is better to cultivate another cronie himself.

First, Gu Biao didn't care much about those small historical details, and he didn't know the specific time point of Adobe's cooperation with Apple in his previous life, let alone pay attention to and stop it in advance.

Second, Gu Biao won Wang An's computer, that is, in the last one or two months, before that, Gu Biao didn't have any chips in his hands, even if he rashly ran up and said that he wanted to cooperate with Adobe or buy a part of the other party's equity, as long as the price was not too fat, the other party would not pay attention to him. After all, why do you promise "how much sales will you give after the monopoly is occupied" (if you are too fat, the other party is willing to sell, but it does not match Gu Biao's IQ)

So, that's all it takes. What Gu Biao acquired and supported was Micro-Media, which was several years shorter than Adobe, but could become Adobe's biggest competitor in the future.

Many officials may not be familiar with this company, because at the beginning of the 21st century, this company was acquired by Adobe.

To explain it in layman's terms, that is, in the product line of Adobe in the later generations, PS These retouching software are all born by Adobe. The animation software and playback add-ons of the FSH series are actually further developed after being bought from the Micro-Media department, and there are some AE and other animation post-production special effects, which are basically developed after the latter acquired the prototype.

In a word, Adobe's old business is more focused on retouching, while Micro-Media is more focused on animation production/processing. This can actually be seen from the media tail code in its company name.

Anyway, the founders of these two companies are from the Industrial Light and Magic faction. They are all derived from the special effects retouching needs required by George Lucas when he filmed the "Star Wars" series in 1975.

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With the PS/FSH software required for art and art design, and the CAD required for the design and development of mechanical/architectural science and engineering studies, the shortcomings of the new generation of business/office software are basically made up.

Gu Biao didn't say anything, but asked everyone to start from the user situation, carefully investigate, carefully plan, and demonstrate from the aspect of hardware performance affordability, and explore the rest of the potential selling points that will not lead to high computer configuration requirements.

At the end of the day's meeting, several points of benefit and cost were included in the development plan or outsourcing.

For example, Gu Biao thinks that he can make a logical design/process drawing software, similar to the visio under the Microsoft Office series in the later generations, this thing is useful for depicting the flow chart, the concept design of automatic control closed-loop, and many pretending scenarios (that is, those problems that can be solved by writing an ordinary ppt, after using this, it looks a little more forced, and pretending to have their own solutions is a little more technological)

Visio kind of things,There are no fart requirements for CPU and memory,With the display performance of the new generation of computers planned by Gu Biao,It definitely doesn't increase the cost。 This thing doesn't even need to be developed by the current computer company itself, as long as you talk about the idea, it will be no problem for Wang Lie's newly opened Wang An office software company to do it.

The other is EDA, which is software such as "automatic circuit design", such as Protel.

The significance of this thing to the electronics industry is similar to the significance of AutoCAD to the mechanical and electronic industries.

Even at present, the hardware R&D department of Wang An Computer Company uses PTOTEL when developing the motherboard of its own computer.

Therefore, this thing can also invite the other party to cooperate, or Wang An Computer has developed a substitute with similar algorithms and design ideas, but not a single line of code infringes. At the same time, this alternative is certainly more innovative than the current version, enabling instant visualization of the design process, and convenient keyboard and mouse operation.

The birth time of the Protel software can be said to be almost the same as the PC version of AutoCAD drawing, less than two or three months behind. Historically, both of these software were born in the second half of 1985, and both were first released on Microsoft's MS-DOS first generation.

This is also easy to understand, after all, both are drawing tools, but early protel added some intimate, automatic circuit design routing rules.

(Later, Protel, which has been developed for decades, is definitely very different from AutoCAD, but when it was first born in 1985, it looked similar, and Protel also borrowed CAD design ideas, but added unique optimizations to the electronics industry)

However, just as the CAD on the DOS version can only be drawn with a pure keyboard typing on the command line, this problem cannot be solved on the DOS version of Protel, so designers are always less intuitive and less efficient to work.

And this difference is very obvious, especially for women who are in control of their faces, and once they are noticed, you can solve it to bring an extra huge amount of points.

In the eyes of a female designer, you can directly and vividly use a mouse or a drawing pad or trackball to draw, which is much more comfortable than using a pure keyboard.

Although there are very few female engineers, women gossip a hundred times more than men, and the crooked attribute that can make women hang on their lips is terrifying.

In later generations, many consumer electronics relied on the victory of appearance and intuitive operability, so that women could be free promoters without getting paid, so as to snowball to win the competition.

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"How do we deal with the matter of Protel? Do we borrow the other party's ideas, make major upgrades and optimizations and develop our own research, or invest in the other party's company to seek strategic cooperation?"

Because the problem of protel was just thought of being completed at today's meeting, the countermeasures were inevitably rushed and had to be discussed and finalized on an ad hoc basis. After John Chambers sorted out the basic materials and stated the pros and cons, he finally had to make an independent decision.

"Well, this is the latest frontier in the field of EDA software? I'll take a look......" Gu Biao looked at the analysis file carefully, and suddenly noticed a problem,

"Hey, it turns out that Protel wasn't developed by an American company?It's an Australian company that developed it?Then you don't have to look at it later.,Just give me a good exploration and analysis.,And then let's borrow it ourselves.,Make a guy who blows up each other in all aspects.,Let that guy follow Microsoft to play the spicy chicken version slowly.。 ”

"Uh...... Why is there something wrong with Australia?" John Chambers didn't know much about Gu Biao, and he was a little confused, and he always felt that he was a little too subjective and too casual.

Gu Biao shrugged: "No way, I'm still persona non grata in Buga, Australia and New Zealand, it's impossible for me to go to Australia to negotiate the acquisition in person, even if I don't have to go in person, I always feel uncomfortable with this hidden danger in the intersection of business." Anyway, this kind of small company doesn't have much money, and it doesn't cost much resources to destroy it, I'm happy. ”

John Chambers felt shivering all over his body, just as uncomfortably as he suddenly caught a cold when he was booing.

Alas, I don't know if those who bark indiscriminately after listening to their master's orders will regret that they have offended people by barking blindly. It is estimated that in the future, innovative technology companies in Canada, Australia and other places, as long as they have interests that intersect with Gu Biao, will be dealt with in advance.

"There's nothing wrong with the rest, right? These finalized software, there is a high probability that there is no need to increase the performance of the machine configuration? Then according to this tone, after writing out the beta version, I will run to test it. At the system level, these software should also be optimized for special optimization.

The advantage of our closed system is that we can combine software and hardware optimization, while Microsoft cannot. We need to use this optimization advantage to run out of the hardware performance generation difference of three to four years to be worthy of our choice. ”

Gu Biao finally gave a summary order.

He feels that a performance generation difference of three or four years can be expected. It's like the PS4 game console in 2014, assuming that it was equipped with a personal computer with the same parameters at that time, it cost more than 4,000 pieces. If you take this price, count Moore's Law.

By 2017 or 2018, it will also cost more than 4,000 yuan to equip a computer (not counting the monitor), and then compare the smoothness of the game with the 2014 PS4 game console, then the 2014 PS4 is estimated to be slightly better.

This is the power of integrated software and hardware optimization. If you don't give full play to this generation difference, how can you win?

And the former Wang An, obviously on this issue, is far less than Gu Biao, he only knows that he started as a word processor, and he will always make flowers in the main direction of word processors, which is not enough to keep up with the forefront of the performance generation.

Only Gu Biao can bring about a qualitative change in all this.

After the meeting, Wang An's R&D executives all felt that listening to Mr. Gu's daily ramp would talk about dry goods, which was enough to make people refreshed and full.

The degree of progress is comparable to following Wang An for at least half a year.