Du Qiu didn't know who Dave Weser was before the crossing, he only knew that it was a failure with 2.0, the word-of-mouth market was lost, HP and Compaq and other large manufacturers returned one after another, unwilling to pre-install, word and excel also encountered strong opponents, the market share was only a little more than 10%, at that time Microsoft made enemies on all sides, anxious, all relying on DOS to survive, but when it was launched in 1990, everything changed. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

There is an additional protection mode, which can be compatible with tens of thousands of applications under DOS, and the stability has also improved a lot, so it sold 10 million sets in just two years, and Word and Excel have also risen, taking advantage of the situation to defeat competitors and occupy more than 60% of the office software market, making Microsoft make a lot of money, and the market value has more than tripled in a year.

According to Marin Eller's introduction, the person who created this brilliance is Dave Weiser, who was originally a doctor of physics from Princeton University, and in 1986, a small company opened with several classmates was acquired by Microsoft, so he became an employee of Microsoft, and in 1988, when he cooperated with IBM to develop OS/2, he hid from Bill Gates, and single-handedly developed the protection model in less than two months, helping Microsoft lay the cornerstone of hegemony in one fell swoop, which is legendary.

Dave Weisse is not good-looking, not tall, with a hairstyle somewhat similar to Bill Gates, lying on his stomach with his forehead covered, wearing a striped polo shirt, a typical image of an American elite white man, and not much to say, said hello to Du Qiu and others, took a bottle of beer, sat quietly under the parasol to rest, and listened to Marin Eller's gossip about the inside of the company.

Marin Eller is a very interesting person, like Brad Silverberg, he has a miserable hairline and a bare head, so he wears a beret every day when he goes to work, supposedly to protect himself from the sun, but there is no direct sunlight on his head in the office at all......

When he went out today, he also wore a hat, sat under the parasol and didn't take it off, it didn't seem to be too hot at all, he sat down at the coffee table with a big knife, and asked with great interest: "Hey, Qiu, I heard that you went to listen to Ballmer's speech last week?" is that do-you--real-believe. ”

In order to facilitate communication, Du Qiu and others took an English code name according to their Chinese name after arriving in the United States, such as Chen Dawei called David, Qin Mu called Mose, Du Qiu used a paraphrase, directly called autumn, although a little strange, but it is more pleasant than Lao Mei shouting "qiu" with a big tongue, he nodded and said: "I listened, Mr. Ballmer's speech is very infectious." ”

"You're going to set yourself a challenging deadline and then give it your all to get there, you have to do it!" Marin Eller mimicked Steve Ballmer, the number two man at Microsoft, reciting a speech and teasing with a disdainful face. Every time a project is in trouble and needs to work overtime, Ballmer will run out and say it again, he has been talking about it for more than ten years, and it lasts longer than my old antique Walkman, this guy is a clown who likes to brag with a big voice, he doesn't understand anything, but he thinks he is a big guy!"

Dave Wesse sat across from Marin Eller and said with a faint smile, "Marin, do you know why you can't get up to level 14? ”

Microsoft employees are also divided into levels, level 13 is a project manager, level 14 is a department manager in charge of multiple projects, and level 15 is a company executive at the vice president level, Marin Eller has been on level 13 for a long time, and has always wanted to upgrade but has not been able to do so, because the promotion requires at least two referees, one of which must be a level 15 executive, but none of the executives wants to be his referee......

"Those VPs are all pugs around Bill, and I don't want to take the time to them, especially Steve Ballmer, who yells so aggressively in front of us, but in front of Bill he is a soft-spoken slave, 'Yes, sir, I'll do it', 'Bill, you're so right, I agree more', what a sycophant!"

Wearing a black beret and a light gray T-shirt, Marin Eller looked like a resolute and resolute soldier, but his speech was ridiculous, which made several people around him laugh.

Steve Ballmer is tall, athletic, like a bull, known for his loud voice and good at boosting employee morale, Chen Dawei also went to listen to his speech last week, was very impressed, a little unconvinced, and asked, "Mr. Eller, is Mr. Ballmer really like this?"

"Of course, I'll tell you. Marin Eller pointed at Dave Weser and said, "Dave developed a window with a protected mode and showed it to Bill, and Bill was very happy and decided to bring it to market, and Ballmer asked, "How do we explain this to IBM?" Bill said, "How do I know?" Steve, that's your job. At that time, Ballmer was like a little girl who had been scolded by her mother, and she almost cried because of her grievances, Dave, isn't that like this?"

Marin Eller is very talented at acting, mimicking Bill Gates's tone and Steve Ballmer's expression vividly, Dave Wesse shook his head and smiled, picked up the beer bottle and greeted him, saying, "Oh Marin, you're a funny guy, I heard you're leaving Microsoft? ”

Du Qiu was a little surprised when he heard this, and asked, "Marin, are you leaving Microsoft?"

"My contract only expires in August and I haven't decided yet. Marin-Eller took a sip of her beer, restrained her smile, and said, "I'm going to talk to Bill about it, and if he's willing to give me $1 million in R&D funding to let me choose my own R&D projects, I'll stay." ”

"Bill will give it to you. Dave Weser was adamant: "He can waste millions of dollars on that messy set-top box project, there's no reason not to support you, $1 million is just a small amount." ”

"I'm not sure, Dave, Microsoft has changed, it's not the little company that everyone used to be eating pizza together and working overtime, I used to be able to knock on Bill's office door at any time, but now I need to make an appointment. Marin-Eller was a little sentimental, but quickly perked up and said, "If Bill doesn't give me R&D funding, I'm going to go to Silicon Valley and find an investment, start my own small company, and continue to work on video compression technology, which I think is very useful in the Internet environment." ”

"Speaking of video compression, do you remember Rob Glaser? I saw him yesterday. Dave Wesse tapped his finger on his face a few times while humming two lyrics: "The end of the world is here, but I'm feeling pretty good." ”

Marin Eller was slightly stunned, and then laughed, laughing so much that he almost knocked over the beer bottle, he saw that Du Qiu and others didn't know why, so he explained: "Rob Glaser is a very annoying guy, 2 years ago and I founded a research and development project with similar content at the same time, I want to make a cheap computer host out, using TV as a display device, allowing users to interact with the ......"

I'll go!

Isn't this the Xbox of the future......

"All in all, Rob Glaser tried to forcibly merge my project with his project because he was the VP, but he only took my project name and didn't take a single employee with him, because no one wanted to work for this guy, and it was a big joke, so it didn't take long for him to quit and get out, and while he was gone, we did a very funny animation, changed his face, and put the background on the rock music of the end of the world. After Marin Eller introduced the past, he asked with a smile, "Dave, what is this guy doing now?"

He started his own company a while ago, in Seattle, and the product is a player that plays compressed audio and video, called RealPlayer. Dave Wesse touched the table with his beer bottle and said with a smile, "If you start your own company, you'll be a competitor to him again." ”

"This guy has a good eye, but his ability is not good, I'm not afraid of him. ”

realplayer…… rm…… rmvb……

I didn't expect to come out for leisure on Sunday and hear this kind of gossip information with great investment value......

RealPlayer is the world's first network streaming media player, popular all over the world in the late 90s and early 21st century, almost every computer must install software, in 2016, RealPlayer player has long been in decline, but its legacy of RM and RMVB formats are still popular, by many pirated blockbusters or AV small movies adopted, in the hearts of some fans and fans of the status is no less than AV or MP4.

However, it is true that as Marin Eller said, Rob Glaser, the founder of RealPlayer, is a visionary but incompetent guy, sitting on an extremely advantageous first-mover advantage, but never making the company bigger and stronger, and squandering countless opportunities, the most famous is that in 2000, an employee proposed to him to use RealPlayer's dominant position to develop an MP3 player combined with it, but he refused, and 6 months later, the employee went to Apple and then developed the iPod……

In fact, before the Spring Festival, Du Qiu's business plan was to make an audio player first, then a video player, and then stay up until about 2000 to develop iPod, in layman's terms, is to follow the path that Apple once walked, and the inspiration for the player at that time came from realplayer.

However, during the Spring Festival, after thinking hard for a while in his hometown, he changed his plan and prepared to take the route of Microsoft + Google, so he did not toss the audio compression after the Spring Festival, but first made a browser out, and planned to wait for the browser to mature, and then get the audio and video player out, because content is king in the Internet era, and these two things are very important content carriers.

Now by chance, I directly bumped into the realplayer deity, so it's better to find a chance to visit, if you can invest in shares, that's the best, if not, invest in Marin Eller, and kill this company directly! )