After the New Year, the project team led by Zhan Jun started a new round of work, and the annual internal meeting of VisualSystem was held. This year, in addition to discussing the company's annual operations, the most important thing is to discuss a future-oriented development plan - the operating system codenamed "White Tip Dolphin". After several confrontations with IBM last year, the company's business is once again on the right track, in addition to continuing to consolidate the hegemony of the PC operating system, but also to develop towards the PC server operating system. In order to overcome the orders of some special institutions, Yang Xinxin also launched a S.O.O.S project (source code open operating system, signing source code open agreement for special institutions), and the development team was led by Linus from Finland.

Codenamed "White Tip Dolphin", the operating system is a development plan of VisualSystem for the emerging home computer market, in order to adapt to the characteristics of home users, it is ready to put more effort into user-friendly operation, multimedia features, beautiful interface, and game support, to create a more suitable system for the home experience. Of course, for the commercial market, VisualSystem also has a new plan, an operating system codenamed "Badger". In fact, the two operating systems will use the same underlying kernel, but the part of the use of the underlying kernel is different, optimized for different usage habits, which is also the future development direction of VisualSystem in the operating system, through the mature underlying kernel, to build a different sense of use, for different markets.

In mid-March, when Zhang Lexing was still working with Bill, Gary and others on the main functions and system framework of the future operating system, Sid Mayer and Bruce Shelley's masterpiece "Civilization" was launched. Before going public, MicroProse was not optimistic about the game, and was not even willing to spend money to promote Civilization, and the game's market and public popularity relied on the word-of-mouth of Sid Meier's fans and the daily BBS discussions. But gold always shines, and the irresistible fun of Civilization quickly found its place in the gaming crowd. It wasn't long before the gaming press routinely named Mel and Shelley's "Strategy Game of the Year" in many of the most popular computer magazines of the time, both in Europe and in the United States. As the game's reputation grew, so did Civilization's sales, which surprised not only MicroProse's management, but also the creators themselves.

Also in March, the "Age of Exploration 1" completed by Scowell and the sequel "Three Kingdoms 2" based on the experimental work "Three Kingdoms" of Blue Dragon Company were released in Japan at the same time, these two news are nothing to Zhang Lexing, but for a company in Ashikaga City, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, the listing of "Age of Exploration 1" is like a bolt from the blue, triggering a burst of angry scolding and the sound of broken computer screens in the office of this company.

Zhang Lexing originally didn't care about the news of the launch of "Three Kingdoms 2", but after hearing Nangong Yun say that this game was made by the six people who went to Japan for further study, Zhang Lexing couldn't help but want to go to Japan to see the situation of these people. After going to Japan, I was able to take a trip back to Japan to see how it was going. Since the domestic situation stabilized last year, Zhang Lexing has always had the idea of going back, but unfortunately due to various affairs, he has never been able to make the trip. I can only appoint others to go to the country to inspect the operation of Glorious Sun Software, Kingsoft General, Tianzhiyuan and the reconstruction of Le Yiyang and other companies, this year's situation is better, taking advantage of the situation to improve the east wind has just opened a from the VisualSystem company headquarters to Beijing Glorious Sun Software Office Building (Sunny Software and Le Yiyang are working here) * K line, the two sides began to close the contact, and some projects that need to be collaborated have also been carried out. Although Zhang Lexing can also learn about the situation in China in time through the special line, it is better to understand it in person after all, so this time I had the opportunity to go to Japan Zhang Lexing moved to return to China again.

It's a pity that someone always comes out to stir up the situation at critical moments, first there is no news for a long time The anti-monopoly investigation was promoted again, but this time the protagonist was replaced by the Ministry of Justice, and a shackle began to slowly apply to VisualSystem. But that's not all, just three days later, IBM held a grand press conference, at which IBM spokesman Jerry introduced the new operating system development strategy and revealed some information about the new version of the operating system: "...... The development was carried out by a large team of nearly 1,000 people...... The new version of the operating system will be stable and fast...... The new version of the operating system is codenamed 'Warp'......", and finally Jerry also promised that the new version of the operating system will be available before the end of the year, and said that IBM's OS/2 will definitely beat VisualSystem's KylinWindows system, IBM Behemoth once again opened its fangs, and VisualSystem, which was already firmly in the Diaoyutai, is facing huge pressure again.

Of course, these two things were only heard about when Zhang Lexing had already arrived in Japan, when the Ministry of Justice appeared, Yang Xinxin only made a phone call two days to ask Zhang Lexing when he would go back, and as soon as IBM's press conference started, the phone call immediately became twelve times a day.

As soon as he got off the plane, before he had time to take a breath, Zhang Lexing was dragged by the impatient Yang Xinxin to the headquarters of VisualSystem in a car, and an emergency meeting had begun, and the company's senior executives and technical directors were almost here.

As soon as Zhang Lexing entered the venue, he felt a depressing atmosphere, and most of the people's expressions were very solemn, but Jones, a technical director of the operating system development team, was arguing with Ballmer. Seeing Zhang Lexing and Yang Xinxin walking in, the two glared at each other before reluctantly sitting down. Zhang Lexing found an empty seat and sat down, watching the two ignore each other like children, and couldn't help but feel a little funny.

"Jones, Steve, why did you fight so fiercely?"

"Just now Steve actually asked us if we can launch a new operating system at the end of the year, how is this possible, this version of the change is relatively large, according to the plan will not be completed until about June next year, and then hurry up to a month earlier, the end of this year is absolutely impossible." Jones said bitterly.

"Actually, I'm just asking, it's not really trying to disrupt the development plan." Ballmer smiled wryly.

"Okay, I know both of you are well-intentioned, Jones don't think too much, Steve also wants to deal with IBM, they are under a lot of pressure right now." Zhang Lexing tried to persuade the two.

There were steps to go down, and the two people, who had no deep hatred, immediately shook hands and made peace, and the agenda of the meeting quickly shifted to how to deal with the current situation.

On the car back, Zhang Lexing had already discussed a preliminary countermeasure with Yang Xinxin, and now it was just right to take it out and improve it with everyone.

Zhang Lexing began to introduce his plan: "The situation seems dangerous now, but in fact, it is not impossible to really analyze it. Let's talk about the Ministry of Justice first, in fact, as long as we are prepared, this side can be regarded as the best way to deal with it, as long as there is no handle for the Ministry of Justice to grasp, we will definitely be safe and sound.

Now the key is that IBM is not easy to deal with, we can try to start with the media first, they will develop the conference, we can also have a media conference, this is still Steve's responsibility, this is what you are best at. ”

The crowd burst into laughter......

Ballmer also smiled: "OK! I'll spray IBM and can't find the north. ”

"Of course, we have to beat IBM in terms of strength, IBM claims to have set up a development team of nearly 1,000 people, and the investment in development is not small. We can't do it if we want to, because the developers in the company can't match IBM's full commitment, and we can't stop all the other projects. ”

Everyone was a little gloomy when they heard this, and Jones muttered quietly, "Did we just give up ......?"

Zhang Lexing continued: "Of course I won't give up, but the investment in expanding the development force here is too huge, and it is too late in time, but the situation is different in China, where we have two companies that work closely together, and some peripheral cooperation units, and these two companies alone currently have a development team of more than 300 people. According to my idea, all the modules that can be subcontracted out in the new operating system will be transferred to China for development, because a dedicated line to Beijing has been opened, so in the process of development, we can also strengthen communication through this special line and reasonably maintain the progress of both parties, which can make up for our current shortage of manpower to a large extent, and also speed up the development progress of the entire project. ”

Everyone's eyes lit up, as if they saw the dawn of solving the problem, the experience of cooperation has made everyone have a deep understanding of the technical strength of their Chinese counterparts, of course, they will not worry about the inability of the collaborators, but when this important task, as long as they do a good job of coordination and communication, they will definitely be able to greatly advance the launch date of the new version of the operating system, and the relative pressure from IBM will be much less.

Now that the direction of efforts has been determined, it is time for professionals to come forward, and everyone has begun to work hard to improve the plan in terms of technology and marketing, and the haze of the past seems to have been swept away, and smiles have appeared on everyone's faces. After refining the plan, everyone started to get busy.

The first to appear was the development department, which not only got in touch with Beijing through a special line, but also sent a technical team headed by Jones to Beijing in person. Soon after, Glorious Sun Software and Le Yiyang began large-scale personnel recruitment, this time mainly skilled developers, and soon, without affecting the normal work of the two companies, a development team of 400 people was established, the main members are drawn from the two companies, and the vacancies they leave will be temporarily replaced by newly recruited personnel. VisualSystem's development capabilities have been greatly enhanced by the *K private line, which has been busy all day since then.

Ballmer was next on the scene, commenting in the newspapers and magazines: "IBM will never complete the OS/2 system they promised by the end of this year, and if IBM can prove me wrong, I will eat a floppy disk in my stomach." Then he led the marketing department to start the best pre-promotion, competing for the attention of potential users.

A new round of confrontation between VisualSystem and IBM has begun......

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