People who don't usually show up once they appear on the stage, they will definitely not show such a presence in vain, and Alice fully proves this. After coming to the headquarters www.biquge.info of Microsoft, she first inspected the entire NT project team and asked Howard, the person in charge, to strictly control the quality and conduct a round of complicated tests on the finished system.

The project cycle, which lasted for about 18 months, was extended by at least one-third after she said so. It seems to be a very impersonal behavior, but after she easily picked out a few loopholes, it immediately became a wise move shouted by the whole project team.

If you want to conquer an ordinary person to serve yourself, you need a high level of personality, and it is really easy to solve the programmers, as long as you show a better technical level. So after the NT project team walked around, accompanied by Gates, Alice came to other R&D teams non-stop and wandered around.

I learned the news today that Alan has been on leave for a long time because of illness, and the departure of one of the heavyweight veterans naturally gives Alice more room to play. The office software team was reprimanded by her for a while, the most direct reason is that the software is too large caused by code redundancy, and the means to deal with it are simple.

"Guys, know where we stand. She said that, even though it was only for an office R&D team, she knew that the words would definitely spread throughout the company.

"The first computer was only built in 1946, and the history of IBM and Intel is more than ten to thirty years, and they are all mainly in the field of hardware, and we Microsoft are the leaders of the entire computer software industry. ”

"So, Pioneers, every one of our products is making history. Just like Watt improved the steam engine and Faraday invented the generator, do you want people a hundred years from now to say that Microsoft will come to the conclusion that their systems are always crashing, their computers are always stuck machines, and their software is so bloated that it's outrageously bloated?"

"The level of programming is closely related to mathematical ability, and finally realizing a certain function with a large number of instructions is not equivalent to doing various problems such as factorization? As long as there is a problem to follow, it is not a problem, no, I will brush off one-third of your original damn stuff in this code, and quickly print it out and study the ideas!"

From arriving at the company in the morning, to finally visiting all the project teams, and finally when the work is almost done, it should be dark. However, the characteristic of IT companies is that the commuting time is very chaotic, and overtime is super normal, so although many people go to dinner, basically no one plans to go home immediately.

"With your bunch of reprimands today, it is estimated that the boys will be enough for three nights all night. ”

In the private conference room, Gates and Alice gathered here, and the sick Alan was not present, but the general leaders of the project team also gathered. There are so many follow-ups to the daytime review, and now is the time.

"They can even stay up all night for a week," said Howard, the head of the NT, "You actually pick out a bunch of loopholes in a few words after doing a good job on weekdays, haha, these are all semi-paranoid boys, can you pour enough coffee to solve the problem?"

"Then inform the logistics to buy more, and add a few more coffee machines. Gates walked back from the window, sat down on the sofa and said, "So guys, the theme of today's meeting, as I said in the email on the way back, is to make a certain degree of change to the company's development policy. Since Paul wasn't there, I'm just going to have a brief discussion tonight, Alice, and you'll talk about it. ”

This situation is actually equivalent to the convening of the board of directors, but after all, it is only 1988, and Gates is not sitting at the table with a lot of shareholders, but is still dominated by company insiders. Himself, Alice, and Paul Allen are three mountains, firmly controlling the core part of Microsoft.

"Actually, that's what the truth is, and that's to recognize the fundamental attributes of Microsoft. The high school girl sat imposingly, her legs loosely parted in her skinny denim, while everyone else spoke to her calmly.

"At present, there are so many computers in the world, and there are only so many operating systems. DOS is completely obsolete, and UNIX's stability and multitasking capabilities dictate that it will be used primarily in the server, database, financial and telecommunications industries, and other software development companies in the future. So when it comes to the most dominant market in the future, it is none other than our Windows and Apple's Macintosh. ”

The topic suddenly extended to this level, and the nerves of everyone present couldn't help but tense. It can be said that the exception is only Alice, whose contribution to Microsoft is only at the level of sending emails, but in this group of employees who work from 9 to 5 every day, they have to face the entire industry day and night.

Jobs was indeed kicked out of Apple two years ago, and now Apple's performance is indeed very sluggish, and they have even begun to sell clothes, shoes, tennis rackets, and caps as side jobs, but the significance of the Macintosh computer itself is still worth the attention of this group of people.

"Steve Jobs was a great genius, and he saw the trend of personal computers in millions of households from the beginning, so when designing computers, he also incorporated his supreme pursuit of experiential design. The sales of Macintosh computers are a direct proof that if it weren't for that guy's perfectionism to the level of obsessive-compulsive disorder, the original performance would have at least doubled several times. ”

Everyone laughed when they said this, they are all people in the circle, not to mention that Gates and Jobs have been in private quite frequently, don't you know the neuroticism of this big guy?

He planned to remove the cartridge slot for the sake of aesthetics, and to keep the fan in the case for quiet, which was a good thing he had done. Even the circuit motherboard, he has completely ignored the problem of heat dissipation, and mandates that all modules are densely arranged on the board like a classroom desk.

So, not to mention Gates and Alice, who here doesn't know why Jobs was kicked out of his company? With his nervousness and temper, the first person to offend is the designer, and it is only a matter of time before everyone in the entire company can't bear him.

"And then guys, that's a direct issue of market positioning. ”

The well-known Apple is brought out to make them compare: "~3.0 and subsequent versions are developed for PCs, while the NT project is for the server field. That is to say, as long as we make these products and maintain a high market share, then it is equivalent to dominating the global software industry!"

"You think, no matter what software is, it has to run on the operating system platform. Now dos...... Well, that's ours, Unix has always focused on niche groups, and Apple, although it is especially for the sake of its users, is the time to languish. If we take advantage of the time to promote Microsoft's platform to the world, won't all software vendors around the world have to develop products for us?"

"And further, what role are we going to play in the world as a whole when that happens? In a world where computers are increasingly influencing productivity?"

A steady stream of new concepts is washing away the views of everyone in the room. Of course, everyone has had the concept of application software for a long time, but when it comes to the level of global software vendors, how can they think so far now? You know, the classic combination of Windows 95 and Internet Explorer bundles only appeared in 1995?

"Microsoft provides the platform and a subset of the software, and then decides that the software vendor will only provide the product to Microsoft based on its market share...... And then a whole industry...... And then there is the impact on the world...... so it is not surprising that in the face of this concept that Alice has proposed so many years in advance, Gates' eyes began to glow, and the people around him immediately fell into the infinite world of brain holes.

Alice laughed silently, waiting for the group of otaku to come back to their senses.

Well, that's too normal, this kind of reflection.

After all, she has really accelerated the release of products a lot, and the entire industry environment is still lagging behind.

Let's see, although the release date hasn't changed much, it's still 1985, but it's about 12 months earlier......

But Bill's self-created 2.0 system is also exactly twelve months ahead of schedule.

Actually, it's really good, Microsoft is Microsoft after all. It was at this time that Word and Excel, the two important members of the Office application, appeared in front of the world for the first time, and the time-honored control panel also appeared on the stage of history, which is indeed a remarkable achievement.

And anyway, after the original history was launched in December 1987, Microsoft also had subsequent versions 2.1 and 2.11, which shows that everyone is really careful. It's only because of Apple's lawsuits, coupled with the lack of software compatibility, that its sales are not ideal, but at least it has paved the way for the debut of 3.0.

Only this time, it's a little more subtle.

Because back in 1.0, Alice got the office and the control panel out.

The restrictions of the times are here, and what kind of flowers can Microsoft's "crystallization of the wisdom of all employees" be translated?

Therefore, the excessively bad sales had to make Gates hurry up and ask Alice to come out again and develop 3.0.

And Alice's efficiency is well known to the world, so the 3.0, which was supposed to be launched in May 1990, was directly advanced to the beginning of 1988.

Then taking advantage of the hot sale, Gates has now started the idea of 3.1 again.

Alice first threw out the things that only existed in 90 years in advance, and now she throws out the concepts that only existed after the great development of Silicon Valley around 94 in advance, and even briefly describes the situation after the Microsoft empire is really formed. With such a shock, I really can't blame everyone for falling into a brain hole.

"Well, so I said," but the guys couldn't be left to make up for it, Alice spoke aloud, recalling their souls: "In order to be able to occupy the market in the most efficient and convenient way, we must ensure customer satisfaction." The program is highly redundant, the operation is too complicated, and even the product with a blue screen at every turn is very annoying. ”