With a "snap", a document was thrown onto the coffee table in front of the sofa. Yang Xinxin took a sip of coffee, and then said: "Microsoft has done it, this is the agreement signed with them, you should be able to tell me why you want to buy such a company that is about to go out of business." ”

Zhang Lexing still admires Microsoft, although some of Microsoft's methods are despicable, but from a small company that started with the BASIC language to a hundreds of billions of dollars empire, Gates himself was the richest man in the world for a period of time, these are obviously not just luck. Gates, Ballmer and others are not fools who hit the big luck, and they can do it to such a point, and their own abilities should not be underestimated. Although they are not in a good situation now, maybe they can find a new way out after the company goes bankrupt, and it is better to make them our partners than to have multiple competitors in the future, and it is always better to have more friends than many enemies. Of course, these words must not be said directly to Yang Xinxin, otherwise Zhang Lexing may turn into a god stick in her eyes.

After thinking about it carefully for a while, Zhang Lexing made up a few credible reasons: "Well, Microsoft's current situation is not good, but this does not mean that their technical strength is not good, after the acquisition, we can use Microsoft to enhance our own strength." Also, after all, we have only been in the United States for a few years, and our personal connections are still relatively shallow, but Microsoft's Gates, Ballmer, Xue Li and others are all considered local snakes, and their interpersonal relationships are much stronger than ours, which is also a great help to us. After the acquisition of Microsoft, we can basically dominate the PC platform in the operating system market, and the only remaining competitor is IBM, which will be more threatening. ”

After listening to Zhang Lexing's so-called reason, Yang Xinxin nodded and said: "What you said seems to be very reasonable, I hope your vision this time is the same as before." ”

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After the completion of Microsoft's acquisition and restructuring, Zhang Lexing set up a team of IPO consultants to push the new Microsoft into the IPO process. In March of '86, Microsoft was successfully listed on the NASDAQ market, and on the first day of trading, the stock price soared from $21 to $33, and finally closed at $30. Gates made it to the rich list with a 15 percent stake, and VisualSystem got hundreds of millions of dollars in money in exchange for it.

After Microsoft's successful IPO, Zhang Lexing sent his fund manager to contact Sandy Weir, who is currently at a low point in his career, and invited him to invest in a commercial credit company based in Baltimore. At first, Sandy was reluctant, thinking that the same person who founded Hilson, served as president of American Express, and fought for the Bank of America could go to such a bad and unknown company. Later, Sandy agreed, because he was unwilling to accept his failure at Amex, and he was very eager to find a company to manage and revive his career. Later, the two companies invested $4 million each to take over the troubled business credit company, with Sandy as the company's CEO, and a business myth was slowly born.

But at this time, Zhang Lexing found that he didn't have much money, and he had invested in a lot of projects over the years, although the results were good, but they had not yet entered the harvest period, and Zhang Lexing was not willing to do his best to fish. Coupled with VisualSystem's dividends over the years, after deducting his own consumption, Zhang Lexing still has $30 million left in his Red River Fund account. This money is not small, but if it is put into the stock market crash next year, it will be a drop in the bucket, but fortunately, the World Cup is here again.

The 1986 World Cup can be said to have gone through a lot of hardships, originally hosted by Colombia, but had to be abandoned due to financial problems, but fortunately, Mexico took over in time. Unexpectedly, a year ago, there was another major earthquake in Mexico, which claimed more than 20,000 lives, but fortunately, the Mexican government and people were very strong, and the World Cup was finally held as scheduled.

Zhang Lexing is also relatively clear in this World Cup, although he does not remember the scores of every game, but Denmark's miraculous three consecutive group wins, Argentina's 2-1 defeat of England in the quarterfinals caused by the hand of God of the old horse, and Argentina's final defeat of West Germany to win the championship are still very clear.

Taking advantage of the fact that the game had not yet started, Zhang Lexing found someone to open more than ten accounts, and then started his betting journey for this World Cup through a regular bookmaker. The final result of the game was the same as Zhang Lexing's memory, even the old horse galloped more than 50 meters in the hinterland of England, and even scored a wonderful goal of six people, and Zhang Lexing was lucky to earn a prize of 400 million US dollars.

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Zhang Lexing's life here is getting better and better, but on the other side, IBM seems to be doing things badly, and gradually loses the country that relies on IBM-PC/XT and IBM-PC/AT.

Estlic's time was a time when there were some unpleasantness with many vendors, but the idea of an open system was maintained. But since Estlic left IBM and returned to heaven, the PC branch has gradually become more conservative. First of all, he started from the source, first acquired 20% of Intel's shares, began to dictate Intel's daily management, and then used his influence in Intel to open a large order to acquire all 286 processors of Intel. In the opinion of Ek, the new president of IBM's PC branch, this is a brilliant idea to crack down on compatible machine manufacturers, and with a light hand, it not only keeps IBM's supply stable, but also makes those damn compatible device manufacturers lose their processor sources and become passive water and no roots. Eke was very proud, and gently shook the feather fan in his hand, which was said to be from China, and felt a little like the tree was in ashes.

Grove now feels a headache, although after IBM acquired 20% of Intel's shares, Intel seems to have a lot of money, but Grove understands that IBM's move actually made Intel lose more freedom. Intel began to be squeezed by Japanese manufacturers a few years ago, and the memory business deteriorated, and even in the United States began to be a little out of rank. During this period of transformation, Intel had to endure years of losses, and at this time, the newly developed 386 processor suddenly became a lifesaver for Intel to find profit growth points.

But I didn't expect that after the 386 processor was sampled in mid-85, whether it was Grove sending someone to the PC branch to communicate, or personally going to the IBM headquarters for public relations, IBM seemed to be blind to Intel's new product 386 processor. Through Grove's own personal connections, he finally figured out what IBM was thinking. It turned out that the previous 286 processor had many errors, which is one of the reasons why Grove resolutely switched to the 386 processor, and this point in IBM's view is a manifestation of Intel's weak design ability. Since you don't even have a good design for the 286 processor, how can you make a 386 processor that is more complex and has better performance than the 286, and Eke even suspects that Intel's purpose in selling the immature 386 processor is to make IBM the guinea pig. Eck believes that instead of using those immature 386 processors, Intel should sell more 286 processors, so that his bottom salary plan can be realized as soon as possible. Of course, IBM's resistance to the 386 processor also includes their mainframe division, because the 386 is a 32-bit processor, and IBM is worried about encroaching on the mainframe market.

After figuring out how many tricks IBM has to offer, Grove was furious, "Do you really think that IBM can't play without you?" Enraged, Grove remembered the V.I.C. alliance in '84, and it was time to have another party with his allies. After almost a year, the three allies of the V.I.C. alliance met again, but the meeting place changed from Houston to Silicon Valley near Santa Clara.

Among the three companies, VisualSystem has the best life, with the Kylin system dominating the operating system market share, although IBM claims to develop its own new operating system, but the final product is a nondescript operating system plug-in, which must be on the Kylin system to run. Compaq has been suppressed many times since it became a thorn in IBM's side, and now IBM has also offered a loss to acquire all 286 processors, and it looks like the scenery is about to disappear. And Intel is even more pitiful, after being acquired part of the shares, it will almost become a puppet of IBM.

The two bitter companies hit it off, and VisualSystem certainly didn't let go of such good things, and the V.I.C. alliance finally began to become a true alliance. In order to attract more people to fight against IBM, Compaq also came forward to contact other compatibility manufacturers, but unfortunately due to IBM's obscenity, only Dell in Texas and Acer from Taiwan joined in.

In May 1986, VisualSystem received Compaq's engineering prototype and began to test the operating system, and in July 1985, it received engineering prototypes from Dell and Acer. In September 1986, Compaq was the first to launch the 386 computer, followed by Dell and Acer, respectively. At the end of September 1986, a new version of the Kylin operating system, which could give full play to the strength of the 386 chip, was officially launched, and it was announced that it would be pre-installed on the new 386 computers launched by Compaq, Dell and Acer.

At this time, IBM was guarding his large number of 286 chips and could not react, because IBM did not even have a single 386 chip. It wasn't until six months later that IBM's 386-processor-based IBMPersonalSystem/2 (PS/2) arrived belatedly pre-installed with IBM's highly-anticipated OS/2 system. However, IBM made a foolish move again, and actually used its own patented microchannel technology, and this time if you want to maintain compatibility, you must pay patent fees to IBM, so that many compatible machine manufacturers who are still in a wait-and-see attitude are pushed to the opposite side by IBM itself, and IBM has become a lonely one, and gradually marginalized from the original leading manufacturer.

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