The phone rang in the middle of the night. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Fortunately, it was only a special line in Alice's bedroom, and as soon as the bell rang, she opened her eyes, and with a gesture of her hand, the microphone came to her ears.

"Is there something wrong? Bill? ”

Hanging up the phone at night so late is naturally a very important content, only to hear Bill Gates say with a serious expression: "After the meeting, I thought about it again and again, and I always felt uneasy. Alice, didn't you see that when the IBM delegation left the company, their head of delegation, Benjamin, had a very strange expression. ”

Alice blinked: "What's the big deal about weirdness, as long as the cooperation goes on normally, won't it be?" ”

"The question is...... Alice, when I was tidying up the scene after the meeting, Lubao told me about the phone you used to talk...... Didn't plug in the phone line. ”

At this moment, the two people on both ends of the phone fell silent.

The corners of Alice's eyebrows twitched, and she resisted the urge to go beyond the space and directly punch Gates with a panda eye: "I said bastard, you ...... How did you make such a low-level mistake? ”

"Let's get back to the apology, Alice, do you think Benjamin will find out? If I see a phone that is not connected to a phone line, I can still talk......"

"What can you do?"

Alice pouted disdainfully, "Contact the Templar to send a priest to exorcise demons?" Summoning ancient heroes as a template for heroic spirits to slay the demon king? Or call the police station and ask them to come to the Microsoft headquarters that has been turned into a haunted house to send them to death, and by the way, put on a wonderful "Ghost Call"? ”

Gates couldn't help but sigh, after all, it's a little girl, obviously less than 20 years old, why can't she understand so many words?

“…… So, Bill, if you call in the middle of the night to talk about such useless, beware I'll call you again in the middle of the night and you'll have a heart attack a week later! ”

Indeed, even if Benjamin finds out, no one will believe his words, and if it really makes a big fuss, he will only be admitted to a mental hospital. Gates thought about it, and it seemed that he was really overthinking, but who told him to know the truth about this?

"Okay, but since we've already hung up the phone for you, let's talk about this cooperation."

Gates organized the language: "Alice, you didn't show up in person at the time, we can all understand. After all, your age is here, if you really attend the meeting as the so-called second shareholder, it is estimated that IBM can only treat you as a joke. But now that the contract has been signed, what exactly do you plan to do? Moving to Seattle? ”

Yes, since Microsoft is going to jointly develop a new system with IBM, Alice, who is absolutely technically competent and developed the first generation of Windows on her own, should take on the title of project leader and so on.

Alice lowered her eyes slightly: "Bill, in fact, this matter is simple and simple, and it is troublesome to say." ”

In the bed, she changed herself into a better posture and said: "To put it simply, as long as I do it myself, at most three months, I can hand over the finished products that can be used to you, and I don't need to go to Seattle or anything like that in person, it is enough for me to work behind closed doors." ”

A penny coin shuttled back and forth between her fingers, and Alice played with it as she said, "But if you want to say complicated things, it is natural that Microsoft quickly expands its recruitment, and then slowly does it with its own research and development capabilities." Actually, I'm quite inclined to this approach, after all, at the end of the day, I can't let the company's technical team become my logistics nanny, right? ”

Gates kept smiling wryly on the phone, and it is conceivable that he is still shaking his head: "That's really not good, if you do all the important work, the company team has to have problems...... So Alice, you're not going to come to Seattle? ”

"Please, I still have to go to school, I don't know how long it will take for this project to come down, I don't care about so many good friends at school? You guys just get busy slowly, if there are any technical problems, just call the Union? You don't say that you have a swarm of problems for me to solve every day, right? ”

Alice really plans to put down her hand a little, the current Microsoft has not yet gone public, and there are still some days before the big development in the later stage, if everything is done by herself, and the programmers are not given enough room for development, then will they have to do everything by themselves in the future?

In this way, the phone call hung up late at night was over immediately, but there were still many things to talk about, and when the microphone was buttoned up, the hour hand had already gone more than half a circle.

"Seeing your smile on your face, she agreed?"

As soon as Gates got off the phone, Paul Allen happened to push the door in: "Your boxed lunch." ”

It was early in the morning, and most of the employees went home to rest, but the two bigwigs of the company had to lead by example to stay in the company because there was still too much work to be done.

"Japanese sushi, hehe, it seems that the next-door neighbor is becoming more and more influential."

Gates took the box lunch, lamented the development of Nintendo's American branch, and said with a smile: "Alice agreed, but now our burden is much heavier." ”

Alan smiled softly and sat down across from Gates, holding a piece of sushi in his hand: "I will inform the personnel to recruit again, and I want to develop the 2.0 system, and I want to cooperate with IBM on this project, and the current employees are simply too busy." Bill, how many more people do you think would be better? ”

Gates ate a tamagoyaki and said, "I've been thinking about this for a long time. At that time, when we developed the 1.0 system, we were a team of 55 people, and we developed 2.0 on the basis of the 1.0 system, which was enough. ”

Alan nodded: "Indeed, after all, they are all people who have been busy with this project for a long time, and the process of renovating the old version will be very fast." Instead, it's a collaboration with IBM, an Internet operating system...... It's okay to use new people, just poach people directly from relevant companies in the industry, but what about the number of people? ”

It's a troublesome question, but both Gates and Allen know exactly what the deal means.

Alice is the founder of Cisco Systems, a one-year-old company that has expanded so quickly that it has already taken up a large part of California, even reaching out to New York and Pennsylvania on the East Coast.

What Microsoft's top management can foresee is not only the development of Cisco, but also the realization of Alice and IBM that the prototype of the great development of the network in the United States and even the world has appeared.

As several major telecom operators invest in network infrastructure without money, both Cisco and Microsoft will reap unparalleled benefits as the entire industry blossoms. In this era that is still in its infancy, since Alice has taken the lead in the Internet hardware business, Microsoft's free ride is even more essential.

After a period of contact, Gates has certainly exchanged knowledge in the field of programming with Alice many times, so he has a deep understanding of how professional girls are. There is no doubt that Cisco will continue to grow greatly, and almost no product in its industry can taste the quality of Alice. Therefore, as long as she is there, there is no need to doubt the outcome of Microsoft's new cooperation, so as long as there are no major surprises, the final result can be directly predicted.

It is also foreseeable that when Microsoft and IBM do develop this kind of computer network operating system, it will inevitably form a close connection with Cisco's products - if Cisco's vigorous development continues to gain momentum. In other words, in the entire Internet architecture, Cisco's products form the basic skeleton, and Microsoft's operating system attached to IBM computers is the soul and brain!

"It's a little exciting to think about."

In the office late at night, the two old founders of Microsoft were eating sushi face to face, and Gates leaned forward and wiggled: "Paul, you have also seen the programming code of the router, what do you think Alice, how can she make up such incisive code?" ”

Alan smiled wryly and ate the salmon: "Who said it wasn't." Although the language used is familiar to us, her logical order is so unexpected that the average person can achieve a function of at least seven sentences, and she can often achieve it in only three or four sentences. ”

"yes, and it's hard for others to learn it. When we see it, we will suddenly realize that this logic can still be made up like that, but we really want to follow her logic and then make up a new program...... Paul, how many times have you tried? ”

"Me? Oh my...... Bill, how many more times have you tried? ”

"Paul, I'm asking you now."

"But I'm asking you now, too."

The two looked at each other's faces face to face, both staring into their own eyes. A moment later, without knowing who started first, they laughed in unison.

Meanwhile, in Culver City, Los Angeles, on the southern west coast of the United States, Alice is lying in bed with half-squinted eyes.

The pitch-black eye seems to be a black hole, capable of absorbing everything. At the same time, in an area that is not visible to the human eye, that is, on the telephone line of the bedside table, the electricity is constantly shuttling.

"Cut, this pair of friends, eating sushi in the middle of the night, do you want to rely on a bad stomach to defecate? Tsk~" (To be continued.) )