In 2014, Microsoft suddenly made 1983 open source, which attracted the attention of many programmers, and there was an evaluation that was widely recognized: Microsoft's engineering management and code quality control level more than 30 years ago can still beat the vast majority of Internet companies now!

There are only hundreds of thousands of lines of code, while windows95 has 15 million lines of code, such a huge amount of code, years of research and development, not a big bull can't control it at all, so Du Qiu said to invite Brad Silverberg to come over for dinner and want to pay tribute to him, half of this is indeed sincere, and the other half is polite. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The participants include Chen Zhiyang and Xue Liping, Chen Tong and Chen Dayou sisters and brothers, Du Chunhua and Du Qiu "sisters and brothers", as well as a few ignorant children.

Microsoft is a large company with a complete system and its own set of office processes, even if a powerful person like Silverberg is unlikely to decide on an acquisition casually, so after Du Qiu reported his plan, he didn't say anything more, returned to the house to find Chen Dayou, talked to him, and then stayed in the kitchen, ready to cook two side dishes himself.

Big Peach Tree Village is a tourist hotspot in Yuncheng City, there are several farmhouse restaurants nearby, Xue Liping, Du Chunhua and Du Qiu are all cooking masters who love cooking, purchased some local specialties, and then made some specialty dishes by themselves, the dinner is dazzling, full of color, flavor and flavor, not only Silverberg opened his eyes and feasted on his mouth, but even Du Jiabin, a Taiwanese who lives in the mainland, also praised again and again, and felt that the trip was worthwhile.

Chen Zhiyang and his wife like Qiqi very much, and take turns to serve her to eat, even if there are small things such as breaking the spoon and soiling the clothes, they are happy to help clean it up, Du Qiu gossiped when he saw this, and asked in a low voice: "Brother Chen, Uncle Chen knows about you and Sister Zhiqin?"

Chen Dayou looked indifferent and said, "Qinzi and I won't get married, why tell them?" Qinzi is going to have dinner with Qin Mu and them at night, and I don't have time to bring Qiqi, so I brought it over." ”

As soon as his words fell, Xue Liping said: "Dayou, you will be 30 years old after the New Year, hurry up and find a suitable girl to marry, and give me and your father a lovely grandchild like Jinyan and Qiqi." ”

"Mom, I'm just starting out in my career, and I'm so busy, how can I have the time to fall in love. ”

"Then don't talk about it, I'll introduce a few of my favorites to you, just choose one!" Xue Liping was very anxious, and complained: "I used to say that I should concentrate on studying and not fall in love, but now I say that I should be busy at the beginning of my career, and I will definitely be busier when my career develops in the future, you are busy coming and going, do you have to be busy until you are forty or fifty years old to get married?"

"Dayou, your mother is right, the boss is not small, don't always be out of tune, if you meet the right one, quickly determine it, whether it is a Chinese or a foreigner, as long as you like it, your mother and I have no objection." ”

Chen Tong also joined in the fun and said: "Dayou, you will definitely go to the United States often in the future, it is better to find a foreign girl and give birth to a mixed-race child like Qiqi, beautiful and smart." ”

"Eldest sister, don't follow the foolishness, Mr. Silverberg and Mr. Du are here, what's not good to talk about, you have to urge me to fall in love." ”

Silverberg originally wanted to follow Du Jiabin's suggestion and talk about the cooperation plan at the dinner table, but after listening to the topic content of Du Jiabin's translation, he felt that Du Qiu was right, Chinese do not discuss official affairs at family gatherings, only discuss feelings, and do not mention more.

Du Qiu and Chen Dayou have reached a tacit understanding in the company's affairs, one is responsible for formulating strategies, one is responsible for formulating strategies, one is outside, and the other is responsible for implementing tactics, Du Qiu has shown his hole cards before the dinner, so after the dinner, he is responsible for sending the Chen couple home, and Chen Dayou drove a Mercedes-Benz borrowed by Gao Mingda to send Silver Berg and Du Jiabin back to the hotel, and added some details of the cooperation plan on the way.

"Mr. Silverberg, we'll have a talk tomorrow at 9 o'clock in the hotel's conference center, okay?"

"Yes. ”

After Silverberg returned to the hotel, he thought that the space in the suite was too small, so he called several employees who were temporarily brought to China to the café on the first floor, introduced Du Qiu's plan, and asked, "Do you think there is a problem with this plan?"

"According to the first plan, we plan to spend $5 million on a closed-source license for the iView browser, which is now a year late, and the price can be reduced even more. ”

"Is the functionality and performance of this new browser the same as iView, or is it weaker than iView?"

"Who is responsible for any bugs or new features that need to be added to the browser during the year?"

While several employees were discussing and researching, Silverberg asked Du Jiabin, who had been watching coldly, "What do you think?"

"I am a manager in charge of product marketing and business promotion in China, and I don't know much about technology research and development and commercial mergers and acquisitions. Du Jiabin first used humility to clear his responsibilities, and then said: "Du Qiu is a more fanatical patriot, and for patriots, honor is more important than interests, so he may have come up with such a complicated plan to pursue honor." ”

"Patriots?"

"Yes, his ID on the Internet is UN2758, which is the document number of the resolution document in 1971 when the People's Republic of China replaced the Republic of China and joined the United Nations and became a permanent member. Du Jiabin's expression was a little unnatural, he took a sip of coffee, and continued: "Recently, there was a very controversial news that he secretly assassinated Taiwan's most famous singer in order to warn the president of the Republic of China not to visit the United States. ”

"What?assassination?!"

"Oh my God, we're making a deal with a murderer?"

"No, no, no, this news is almost certainly a fabricated rumor, Du Qiu didn't kill anyone, he just happened to meet the singer who was sick......" Du Jiabin briefly introduced Teresa Teng's death, and then said: "After Du Qiu clarified the facts, he made some fierce patriotic remarks on the Internet in the name of un2758, advocating attacks and sanctions against Taiwan." ”

"He's a radical militant?" said Silverberg, somewhat incredulous, "I think he's mild." ”

Du Qiu took great pains to entertain guests in the ancient house in the evening, and the hospitality was very thoughtful, and he also cooked and cooked in person, which was a very high courtesy, Du Jiabin was very affectionate, and he didn't feel like a militant, so he said: "Maybe it's because there is no speech control on the Internet, so he shows an extreme side and vents what he can't usually say." ”

This explanation is very much in line with the Western perception of China, and Silverberg agreed, asking: "Mr. Du said that many people in China are hostile to Microsoft and think that we are aggressors, is that true?"

This Du Jiabin has a deep understanding, nodded again and again and said: "Yes, we have robbed a lot of vested interests from the cake, many of which belong to state-owned enterprises controlled by the government, so they often create public opinion in the media to attack Microsoft." ”

"If we follow this plan and build the browser made by Mr. Du into windows95, will it reduce hostility?"

"No, for those state-owned enterprises, for the Chinese government, it will. Du Jiabin pursed his lips, suppressed the excitement in his heart, and said: "Mr. Gates has always wanted to establish a wholly-owned subsidiary of Microsoft in China, but according to the relevant laws, a wholly foreign-owned company can only operate export-oriented business, and Microsoft in China takes the local market as its sales target, which does not meet the legal requirements. ”

After he finished speaking, he felt that he was too vague, so he emphasized in an accentuated tone: "Brad, in China, the approval of the big man is more effective than the law. ”

Chinese population, rapid economic development, the potential market is very large, Microsoft attaches great importance to it, in 1992 set up an office in the capital, in 1994 after the dissolution of the Paris Coordinating Committee, there is no political constraints, Bill Gates immediately came to personally inspect, ready to establish a Microsoft (China) subsidiary, Silver Berg is very clear about the significance of this matter, in his heart to raise the importance of this cooperation program, again asked the employees: "Do you think this program will damage the interests of Microsoft?" If so, how much damage?"

"If the code, the copyright, and the brand were fine, we would only have to pay $5 million and have almost nothing to lose. ”

"If the quality of the browser is similar to iView, I think it will hurt Netscape. ”

"That's right! Netscape will be killed......"

After Netscape launched the scape-navigator browser in December last year, it was like a prairie fire, highly praised, and many technology media in the United States are advocating Netscape, believing that it leads the future and will replace Microsoft and become the hegemon of the new era.

Announcing "The Internet Wave" at Bill Gates Before the memo, windows95 is a complete stand-alone operating system, only a few sporadic functions related to the Internet, so Silverberg is not familiar with the Internet, nor is he clear about the importance of the browser, he feels that this is just an ordinary application, so in the next day's negotiations, he focused on legal issues related to copyright, and Chen Dayou adhered to the strategy formulated by Du Qiu, focusing on various additional functions of the browser, the two sides have different concerns, and the results are naturally different。

When the dust settled and the final plan was released, Du Qiu almost looked up to the sky and laughed.

Microsoft slashed its $5 million acquisition to $4 million, but for the next year, if the browser needed to add new features, it had to pay an additional upgrade fee, and in return, bugs were maintained by Snapdragon for free.

Money is a trivial matter, the key is that Snapdragon has received technical support from Microsoft and has obtained the relevant information of the windows95 API in advance, which will allow Qin Mu's office software to prepare two months earlier than its competitors.

What's more, the development speed of the Internet is extremely fast, 1 year is equivalent to 7 years in other industries, Microsoft has been dragged for a year, there will be a fault line in talent and technology, and by the time next year, the iView browser has already become the industry standard, and IE can only follow behind and catch up, and there is no chance to stir up the wind and rain...... (To be continued.) )