Chapter 43 Agree on a trip to Microsoft
Alice had been estimating the time, and she knew she was about to get a call from Albuquerque. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoSo, even though it's Wednesday, she's staying in her bedroom at home instead of going to school.
Recalling the memories of her past life, Alice has already discovered a turning point in history, that is, Microsoft did not move to Craymond, Washington, in 1978, but has stayed in New Mexico until now.
Of course, it doesn't matter in the matter itself, what does it have to do with itself where it is at this moment? But now that a small inflection point has occurred, will history change dramatically?
Alice can't deny that this won't happen, so since she finally wants to be active now, and Microsoft has been promoting their operating system for two months, it makes sense to develop Windows 1.0 instead of Gates.
One very simple thing.
Learn to code, learn the basics of computers, and then write code.
Since there is no comparator of the same level, it is not clear to Alice whether other people can do what she can if their brains are also developed to a 20% level. Anyway, Alice herself thinks that it is too simple for her to develop Windows 1.0 alone.
"Alice, Alice!"
Just as Alice was in a daze in the bedroom, Sophie's voice came from downstairs: "Take the call, there is a gentleman surnamed Gates looking for you!"
"It's coming!"
Hearing the phone call finally, Alice rushed down the stairs quickly, Sophie was standing at the top of the stairs holding the phone, looking at her with bright eyes: "Alice, my baby, what earth-shattering thing have you done again, why did you recruit Microsoft's Bill Gates?"
Sophie, of course, knew who Bill Gates was, after all, the dozen or so copies of Popular Electronics that Alice had accumulated in her bedroom were not ornaments, they were almost a must-read for the whole family. So, when she received a call to learn that Gates, a self-proclaimed Microsoft CEO, wanted to contact her daughter, Sophie was both surprised and somewhat understandable.
Yes, understandable, after all, her daughter's name is Alice, who has brought her countless surprises since she was a child.
"Oh, I'll explain this to you later, Mom, give me the phone first!"
Alice quickly answered the phone, but just as she was about to speak excitedly, her face changed suddenly, her face was serious, and she coughed deliberately.
So, under Sophie's gaze, after completely hiding her excitement, Alice said to the phone seriously: "Hello, I'm Alice-Wang. ”
On the other side of the phone, Gates' hanging heart finally fell, but it suddenly hung high.
"Bill?"
In the Microsoft corporate building, in the CEO's office, Paul Allen was standing next to Gates and saw that his face was wrong: "Got in touch?"
Gates jerked a shush gesture.
"Hello, woman...... I'm the CEO of Microsoft, Bill Gates. This morning, our company received a very magical package, did you send it?"
The hanging heart fell because when Gates heard the person who answered the phone claiming to be himself, he was finally able to confirm that there was a real person. Suddenly hanging high again, because he realized at the same time that the "lady" who was calling did not seem to be very old.
"Ah~ Hello, Mr. Capsule, how about using my self-invented windows?
When the words fell, Gates rubbed his temples vigorously, and rationally chose not to question the other party's age first: "Then Miss Wang, you completed this operating system, right?
Long before the phone was hung up, Gates had basically confirmed the other party's purpose. After all, this is the period of great development of the computer industry, and many companies and individuals are delving into computer technology, but not everyone has the ability to use technology in practice, and cooperation is a matter of course.
Not to mention this year, in the total nine years since Microsoft was founded, Gates has already recruited many talents by various means, and most of them have entered the company with ready-made technology. With the exception of Ballmer, who was only a sales manager, the rest of them were brilliant engineers and held technical executive positions.
Therefore, Alice's actions themselves were not unexpected, but her "vote" was too amazing.
And she finally explained that she wants to work with Microsoft under the name of "Cisco Systems", not to prove her technology with this product and join the company.
"That's right, I did it, and I'll talk about the cooperation later, and I'll collect the user experience data first. Yo, Mr. Cap, how are you using my system? How many stars do you want to rate?"
Gates rubbed his temples again, he already understood that the person answering the phone must have been just a little girl.
Beside him, Alan was frowning and looking at his good buddy, after all, Gates looked very bad now, he looked like a typical headache, chest tightness, shortness of breath, and he was about to choke at any time, which was too worrying.
"It's really remarkable, it's a very advanced graphical user interface, and it's even more rigorous than Apple's current one. Miss Wang, the stakes are very high, I want to confirm again, is this system really developed by you? Did you develop it alone?"
On the other side of the phone, Sophie and almost understood what was going on, silently grimaced at Alice, and quietly left the hallway.
"It's me, it's me, it's me, and it's a person. ”
Alice leaned her back against the wall and hung up comfortably. Of course, she understands why Gates asks this question twice in a row, and although her cup is a little ahead of her time, it is certainly impossible for her voice to jump into menopause.
"I know you're all scared, so I'll be in a few days...... There's a long break, and next Saturday, I'll go to Albuquerque in person next Saturday, and then we'll meet and talk, how about that?"
Gates looked at the calendar, and it will take a full ten days from today to next Saturday, which is directly equivalent to July. Now the whole company, who is not distracted by this sudden operating system, wait another ten days, God knows how much work will be delayed!
"Miss Wang, are you sure it's next Saturday? Can you change it to now? Or can you leave your address this Saturday? If it's not convenient for you to come to Albuquerque right away, I can go to Los Angeles. ”
"Oh, that's not going to work, I'm not available until Friday, and then I won't be busy with anything this Saturday, so we'll wait until next Saturday." Mr. Gates, you don't have to be in such a hurry, I haven't mailed this tape to a second computer company, and if you want to develop it yourself, you may not be able to produce results at the end of the year, right?
With Alice's words, Gates also calmed down a little. Indeed, he was too anxious, after all, as early as the end of last year, when it was advertised, Microsoft did not have any operating system products at all, although it was said that it would launch products this spring, but they knew in their hearts that they might not be able to complete it by the end of the year. Although it is now June, he has already foreseen the New Year of the skippage.
If this Miss Wang really plans to cooperate with Microsoft with her products, waiting for a week is really nothing.
But Gates still refused to give up, after all, he wanted to meet this magical Alice so much: "Isn't it okay this weekend? Miss Wang, this is a statutory holiday, can't you spare an hour?"
Gates knew that he had made a big taboo, and this anxious state of mind was very bad for business negotiations, but he really couldn't help it!
"Uh......"
Alice stood against the corner of the corridor and touched her nose: "But I made an appointment to go to New York with my good sisters this weekend, and the most taboo thing about being a man is to break his word, Mr. Gates, right?"
Gates was dumbfounded.
And good sisters travel to go??
I called the door to ask for cooperation, and the other party actually came up with this reason to say that there was no time??
"But, but Miss Wang ......"
"Oh, don't worry!"
On the other side of the phone, Alice waved her hand with an impatient expression on her face, but if anyone looked closely, they would see that her blue eyes were full of mischievous mood.
"I've said it all, I've only given you this tape for Microsoft, and without my help, you may not be able to work out something at the end of the year, so what's the point of waiting a week or two? Man, be patient with women, Mr. Gates. ”
With that, Alice hung up the phone on her own.
Gates listened to the sudden beep in his ears, and he couldn't recover for a long time.
He was completely choked.
has seen wayward, and he is even more of a willful person, but today, this seemingly very young girl really opened his eyes.
However, Gates also had to admit that what the other party said was very reasonable, according to Microsoft's current progress, the probability of programming Windows 1.0 by the end of the year is not even 40%. Waiting an extra two weeks is really nothing from the perspective of business development.
But he's really in a hurry!
"Paul, we still have a week. Although the other party said that this was only a trial version, I quickly asked the technical team to hurry up and study it. I'm going to meet with each other in Los Angeles next Saturday, and the higher the level of mastery of the product, the better it will be for me, fast!"
After speaking, before Alan could take three steps, he rushed out of the office first.