Just as Alice silently gloated, Gates hasn't had a good time lately. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

All along, according to Gates's joke, there are always two mountains on Microsoft's head. These two mountains have been providing him with full motivation, but at the same time there is a lot of pressure.

One is IBM, whose position in the computer industry is unrivaled, and the company was able to develop back then, all of which were borrowed from the development of the DOS system for IBM. Although the two have often worked together over the years, Gates is well aware that the giant has always wanted to swallow itself.

The other is Apple, which is much smaller than IBM, but puts far more pressure on Gates than the former. Apple was founded a year later than Microsoft, but it went public six years earlier, and the scale of the IPO is far larger than that of the current IPO Microsoft. It can be said that under the premise that the age difference between the two founders is eight months, Gates has always been under pressure.

But the amazing thing is that in the two years that Alice has joined the company, these two mountains that have been straddling Microsoft's head suddenly clanged and all fell one by one!

First of all, of course, Apple, Gates is really very emotional about Jobs being kicked out of his company. I heard that in January of this year, Jobs's old buddy became interested in computer graphics, and spent a full 10 million dollars to buy the computer department of Lucasfilm from Lucas, who was in the midst of a divorce, and planned to develop new computer technology from making animated films, but there is no success so far.

As for IBM......

In fact, until now, Gates has wondered about this matter.

He has been working with IBM for many years, and he has a competitive and cooperative relationship, and he is familiar with the executives in it. Although companies sometimes resort to dishonorable measures when suppressing competitors, such as taking advantage of the other party's listing, they can hack into the exchange to modify the data......

Gates was confident that they could do it, and it wasn't technically a problem, especially since it was late at night, and the exchange's programmers were certainly no match for IBM's elite.

The question is, this seems to be too advanced, right?

Gates had a meeting with Allen, Alice and all the executives afterwards, and everyone unanimously said that if IBM hadn't done such a thing, they really couldn't have imagined that they could suppress competitors through this means!

Not to mention how Alan was surprised and rejoiced, even Alice, as the founder of Cisco, looked shocked at home at that time.

In this way, the dignified blue giant was hit hard. The court complaint filed by Nasdaq and Microsoft has been accepted, and even though IBM has repeatedly claimed its innocence, the first round of confrontation had to end in a fiasco. After all, the evidence presented by the complainant was all real, and Cisco's product order records, the packet records of the routers in the exchange, and the data packet records of the IBM computer room routers that were investigated and forensic by the FBI in a timely manner were all facts that made the company's senior management speechless.

It was through this incident that Gates became more aware of how huge Alice's energy is in the entire IT world.

Cisco is developing with an unstoppable momentum, and it is precisely because of this IBM accident that the little girl has a relationship with the people in the White House. With all the government agencies on most of the East Coast, how long does it take for ordinary marketing managers to go to interview them one by one?

At a macro level, Gates is convinced of Microsoft's momentum, but he is also well aware that such momentum is largely dependent on Alice's presence.

One night, Gates couldn't sleep and carefully counted the accounts on his bedroom desk.

Let's take a look at the company's current situation.

There is no doubt that the computer operating system of the future will inevitably be in the form of graphical user interfaces, that is, Apple's Macintosh and Microsoft's Windows. As for the company's early DOS system, anyone who compares the present with the past will make an unquestionable choice. In other words, Microsoft's early product is clearly going to lose its vitality quickly.

And the good start of Windows was brought by Alice.

Then, when IBM came to the door to ask for cooperation, anyone with a discerning eye could see what role Alice had played in the project today.

When the two companies first established a cooperative team, Microsoft could only come up with about 20 people, while IBM threw out 200 people like a vegetable market sale!

However, the progress of the task is consistent, and there is only one reason for Microsoft to keep up, and that is the existence of Alice, the consultant of their technical team.

And now, when IBM has to make fun of the cooperation due to the recent situation, and Microsoft has also made up 200 programmers by going public, Alice is also stunned to use this new combat power to increase the speed of research and development of related topics a lot.

Sometimes, Gates can't help but think, how many senior programmers graduated from MIT, Caltech, and Stanford can this little girl Alice with?

Two hundred is right, but what about the limit?

Gates clearly knows that Alice alone is equal to the productivity of the entire Microsoft, and at least 500 Microsoft employees. It is no exaggeration to say that if she chooses to set up a company of the same type, she can take down the current Microsoft in every second.

Otherwise, how could Gates and Allen agree to give Alice a full 30% share of the post-IPO shares?

And now she is the well-deserved boss of Cisco, and the other two partners together only have a 30% stake. Sometimes when he wakes up in the middle of the night, Gates is terrified of the power this girl has.

So now, in the fall of '86, when Microsoft is in trouble, Gates' depression is really not ordinarily intense.

It was he and Allen who worked together with the old Microsoft employees after completely leaving Alice behind. In order to avoid being involved with the previous game to the greatest extent, Gates even went to Apple and plagiarized the interface mode of Macintosh a little......

As a result, the ideal is plump and the reality is skinny.

It's been two months since the 2.0 system went on sale, but countless users have said that they don't buy this model, which is very similar to the Macintosh computer, after learning about the new system interface.

For example, when File Explorer is opened, the 1.0 system has the Close, Maximize, and Minimize buttons on the right, but in the 2.0 system, they have been moved to the left. This not only brings huge trouble to old users, but also obviously imitates Apple!

Just looking at the recent stock price fluctuations, it is clear at a glance, and even many competitors in the same industry have published articles saying that they are looking forward to Apple's infringement protest against Microsoft as soon as possible. Gates is well aware that if he doesn't roll out 3.0 sooner and really achieve something, the company will inevitably get into even more trouble.

It's easy to say that you want to make a comeback. Gates knew that as long as they were willing to sacrifice Alice as a big killer, and then let her be responsible for developing the next 3.0 system, and return to the old path of 1.0, it would definitely not be a problem.

The problem is that in this way, Alice's position in the company is even more unshakable.

Gates is not a power-hungry man, he knows that he is more of a simple technician than a business owner. If Microsoft can really carry forward in Alice's hands, and the Windows system also occupies most of the world's operating systems like a divine help, it will certainly be a happy event.

But here's the problem......

He Gates can't pretend to be forced......

All the limelight was stolen by Alice......

Obviously, the DOS I invented is also very good, why does the future world have to be the world of graphical user interfaces......

Ah~ It's like inventing a time machine, ah no, according to Alice's words, the law of cause and effect is a wishing instrument, so that the future world will still stick to the DOS system as the king......

No, the progress of society is still needed, that is, to make a wish not to let Alice appear, let me Bill Gates invent Windows......

In addition to being depressed, Gates really roared like this in his heart. Also according to Alice's words, his current mood is really like being called a dog, or being called by a dog, and his whole body is full of negative energy.

In other words, why is even the way she complains defined by Alice?

Is Alice everywhere?

With a bang, Gates grabbed the ground with his head, ah no, he grabbed the table with his head, and his head hit the desk and couldn't get up.

At this moment, at this moment, the time is mid-September, and the location is Gates' home in Seattle.

"Bill?"

Hearing a voice in her son's bedroom, Mary Gates knocked on the door: "Are you alright?"

"It's okay, Mom, I'm fine......"

Gates was still lying on his head on the table when he said this.

"Don't work too late, Bill. ”

Mary stood at the door and said with a little worry: "I know that the company has been in a little trouble recently, but you also have to pay more attention to your body, the results are not something that can be done in a day or two, you have to combine work and rest." ”

"Got it, Mom~"

After Mary left the door, Gates looked up.

After thinking about it, it seems that it is inevitable to let Alice be in charge of the development of the third generation of Windows.

After all, everyone in the company is staring at the executives' decisions. If you still have to get rid of Alice to develop the third generation after everyone's new products don't get good results, then you don't need Alice to do anything, and your status in the hearts of employees will naturally plummet.

"Speaking of which, what is this little girl busy with now?"

Picking up the phone, just as he was about to make a call to Alice, Gates suddenly realized that the other party was no longer in the United States. (To be continued.) )