When Du Qiu was chatting in front of Lin Dawei's car repair shop, Brad Silverberg was standing in front of the window of his suite, frowning and smoking a cigar at the Pearl Holiday Hotel, which was only more than 800 meters away from him. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Silverberg is a tall Caucasian man, his hairline is already miserable, the first half of his head is bare, he looks a little fierce, he is called "Silverberg Nurse" within Microsoft, this nickname is not to say that he is gentle, but that he is as strict and chatty as an evil nurse, because he has the mind of pursuing perfection like a hacker and the cold and strict discipline of a soldier, and every time he tests a product, he can always find countless faults and problems, making his programmers miserable and complaining.

If Microsoft's internal power structure is compared to the rules of Chinese officialdom, Bill Gates is the secretary and mayor, Steve Ballmer is the executive deputy mayor, and Silverberg is the real vice mayor in charge of industry, ranking among dozens of senior vice presidents, if not the first, then at least the top three, because he is in charge of the research and development of Windows 95, which has more than 800 engineers and is the largest research and development team in the history of Microsoft, or the world's software industry.

Although the position is high, but it may not be worry-free, the forest is big, there are all kinds of birds, struggles are everywhere, the development process of windows95 is very unsmooth, because it is backwards compatible, in order to take care of tens of millions of DOS applications, the new system can only use a 16/32-bit mixed kernel, resulting in extreme instability, often crashing, and finally reluctantly solving this problem, and a new problem has appeared - the people in the windows-nt R&D team ran over to pick peaches.

Windows-NT was developed by an independent group led by a technical expert personally dug by Bill Gates, using a pure 32-bit kernel, which is considered to be the perfect next-generation operating system, belonging to Microsoft's high-end products, and Windows95 is considered a transitional commodity, belonging to low-end products, but Windows95 under the leadership of Silverberg, has developed a new user graphical interface, beautiful and practical, greatly reducing the threshold for ordinary users, and I don't know where the graphical interface is still used by Windows-NT。

High-end products use low-level user GUI, low-end products use high-level user GUI, just like Chanel with plastic bags packaging, and stalls with velvet packaging as stupid, windows-nt R&D team strongly requested to transplant the user graphical interface to the past, windows95 R&D team was naturally unwilling, so they quarreled and brought the lawsuit to Bill Gates, after a meeting full of gunpowder, because there was not much time left for sale, Bill Gates finally supported Windows95 and temporarily refrigerated Windows-NT。

Silver is grateful to Bill Gates for this, but less than two months later, the gratitude turned into resentment, because Bill Gates published the memo called "Internet Wave", asking for the integration of MSN and browsers into Windows 95, MSN belongs to the network department, and has little contact with the operating system department, and when they brought the product, they almost didn't Silverberg to death.

These idiots have invented an inexplicable network protocol that is incompatible with the most commonly used TCP/IP protocols on the Internet!

What's even more troublesome is that the MSN R&D team has no idea that Windows 95 uses a new user graphical interface, and the written programs cannot be run on the new system!

The situation of the browser is even worse, because it is not taken seriously, the R&D team with only 6 employees is very squeezed out, has no resources, no bonuses, morale is very low, and the whole first half of the year has not done anything, and it is still engaged in "research" with the garbage that it bought for $2 million in December last year......

Windows95 is scheduled to be released on August 24th, and it will start production in July to make a CD, and it is only more than 50 days before it is put into production.

No matter what industry it is, as long as it is a large company, it can't avoid bureaucracy, the R&D department is going to burn its eyebrows, but the acquisition department is not in a hurry, and still plays the trick of slow cooking according to the previous routine, Silverberg waited and waited, waited for almost a month, didn't wait for anything, just went to inquire, and then almost turned into a Super Saiyan in anger, and the acquisition department was collectively bombarded into slag.

In desperation, he had no choice but to go out in person, grab a few strong men from the acquisition department, stuff them into a private plane, go straight to Silicon Valley, and then go to China accompanied by Zhou Yuan, intending to quickly cut through the mess and solve the browser problem as quickly as possible.

What a bunch of idiots, who buy garbage for $2 million and throw it away, but are reluctant to spend money on good things!

A small company with a valuation of only $20 million can be bought directly, and as long as Windows95 can be listed at the scheduled time, this money will be earned back in a few hours......

Silverberg was slandering the acquisition department, but he heard a knock on the door outside, so he walked over and opened the door, and saw two people standing outside, a man and a woman, the man was Du Jiabin, the general manager of Microsoft's Beijing office, and the young and beautiful woman did not know.

"Brad, this is Mr. Du Qiu's secretary, her name is Jiang Danfeng, you can call her Miss Jiang. ”

"Mr. Silverberg, it's a pleasure to meet you. ”

"Miss Jiang, hello. Come in. ”

Pearl Holiday is the only five-star hotel in Sanjiang Province, the ordinary room conditions are not bad, but the top suite is much worse than the five-star hotel in Beijing or New York, the largest suite is only 40 square meters, the living room is very small, even if only 3 people come in, it seems a little cramped.

"Mr. Silverberg, are you still in the habit of living here?"

"It was nice at night and a little noisy outside during the day. Gao Mingda was very careful, and after learning that the big man from Microsoft was coming to Cloud City, he rearranged the items in the suite according to the living habits of Americans, including a lot of foreign wine, Silver Berg picked up a bottle of whiskey on the cabinet and gestured, "Would you like to drink a little?"

Du Jiabin is a middle-aged man with a fat head and big ears and a slightly chubby body, and he said, "I'll do a little." ”

Jiang Danfeng politely declined, took out an invitation card from his bag, and said, "Mr. Silverberg, I am entrusted by Mr. Du Qiu to invite you and Mr. Du Jiabin to attend his family gathering, and I hope you can come." ”

"Family gathering?" Silverberg said, a little surprised, "but I haven't met Mr. Du yet, and I don't know him or his family." ”

Du Jiabin, who is known for his social skills, has met several times and is familiar with Silverberg, explaining: "Brad, in Chinese culture, it is a high etiquette to invite strangers to family gatherings. ”

"Oh, I see, then I'm very honored. ”

Jiang Danfeng quickly said goodbye after receiving the reply, as soon as she left, Du Jiabin raised his glass and said with a smile: "What a charming girl." ”

Silverberg had something on his mind, and he was not interested in talking about women, and asked, "I heard that Chinese like to talk about business during meals, is that so?"

"Yes. ”

"And what kind of price do you think they're going to offer for the night?"

"$20 million is enough to make 99% of Chinese crazy, but Du Qiu is different, have you read the latest issue of "Wired"? He is a legend, grew up in Japan, different from ordinary people, it is difficult to speculate with common sense. ”

"I'm not interested in Wired. Silverberg was a little worried, saying, "I only have one day, and I have to go back to Seattle the day after tomorrow, but I don't want them to know that I'm short on time because that would put the negotiations on the back foot." ”

"Then you should settle things tonight, the Chinese only reveal their true thoughts during dinner, and at the negotiating table, they will use countless methods to delay and probe and quarrel over a dollar of small things." Du Jiabin took a sip of whiskey, held the wine glass with both hands and said: "The wine table is where the Chinese negotiate, if you are happy, even if it is a million dollars, you can easily give it up." ”

"Really?"

(To be continued.) )