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Against this backdrop, Hong Kong Governor Youde actively promoted the economy of Hong Kong to the outside world, and the mainland naturally became the top priority.

In December this year, at the beginning of this month, Hong Kong Governor Youde led a high-level economic and trade delegation from Hong Kong to Yanjing to officiate at the opening ceremony of the Yenching Office of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council and the opening ceremony of the Hong Kong Products Exhibition held in Yanjing.

Originally, according to the itinerary, Hong Kong Governor Youde was scheduled to return to Hong Kong on December 5, but in the early morning of the same day, he died of a heart attack in his sleep at the British Embassy in China at the age of 62, becoming the only Hong Kong Governor to die in office so far - there should be no successor.

When Queen Elizabeth II visited China in October this year, Hong Kong Governor Youde was still busy working in front of the saddle and behind the horse, but only a little more than a month later, he unexpectedly passed away, which became more and more obvious the suddenness of the incident itself.

Sir Chung Yat-kit immediately assumed the post of Governor and officially announced the news through the Hong Kong Government Information Office at 9:25 a.m. on the 5th, and all parties quickly sent messages of condolence.

Ji Pengfei, director of the Hong Kong and Macao Office of the State Council of China, sent a message of condolence: Sir Youde died suddenly in Beijing, and the bad news came, which was shocking. Sir Youde was a brilliant diplomat, and there was a good public and private friendship between us. Over the years, he has made important contributions to the development of friendly and cooperative relations between China and the United Kingdom. We deeply regret his unfortunate passing and ask our representatives to express our deep condolences and condolences to his wife and family.

The Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street, London, stated in a statement: The Prime Minister is deeply saddened to learn of the sudden death of Sir Edward Youde. She considered Sir Edward Youde to be an excellent civil servant who worked tirelessly for the interests of Hong Kong and continued to serve Hong Kong after his death.

Buckingham Palace published a message from Queen Elizabeth II to Sir Chung Yat-kit, Acting Governor of Hong Kong: Prince Philip and himself were deeply saddened to learn of the death of Sir Youde in Beijing. Sir Edward Youde has distinguished himself in Hong Kong and served the motherland with great service. Hong Kong will be important in the coming years, and the loss of good materials is nostalgic.

It is not difficult to see from the reactions of all parties that everyone still agrees with Hong Kong Governor Youde taking charge of Hong Kong in the complicated situation at this stage - after all, the Chinese side does not want to contact a dumbfounder, and the British side does not want the clerk to be a fool.

But this accident disrupted the existing run-in situation between the two sides. The British side, in particular, could not find a suitable successor for a while. You must know that the current governor of Hong Kong is not the kind of soil emperor in the past, it belongs to an errand that is far more laborious than moisturizing, not only less attractive on oil and water, but also has high requirements for ability and quality.

This is also illustrated by the experience of Hong Kong Governor Youde after he officially took over from MacLehose in May 1982, and the future of Hong Kong became the first acute issue, which directly triggered the stock market crash, the bursting of the real estate bubble, the turbulence of the Hong Kong dollar exchange rate, and the accompanying wave of bank failures and the immigration of Hong Kong people. When the dust settles on this issue, he still has to think about how to take advantage of the transition period to add some British imprints to the genes of Hong Kong.

Being able to survive in the position of Governor of Hong Kong until now, Youde's performance was certainly affirmed by the British. Nowadays, it is really not easy to find a China pass that can be compared with it.

The Prime Minister's Office, which is entangled in this, is increasingly annoyed by the infighting of these local buns in the Far Eastern interest groups.

That's right, the rumor that Hong Kong Governor Youde was forced to death by HSBC and Qinhe spread from Xiangjiang to the British Isles. The British media's ability to hype up gossip is world-famous, and it instantly became known to the government and the public.

Many bankers in London mercilessly ridiculed HSBC, "With this popularity, you still want to go back to your homeland and fly on the branches to compete with us as a phoenix?" ”

The last few months before his retirement were directly turned into holidays, and the new HSBC chairman Pu Weishi took office ahead of schedule and began to eliminate the bad influence caused by all kinds of black materials and negative news that were dug up in this round of vicious fighting.

The diligence that shows the image of a victim is not so stressful. Shortly after attending Youde's condolence ceremony, New Bijian took the lead in saying that "if the Hong Kong government finally decides to take back the franchise of Hong Kong Telecom, as long as the compensation is reasonable, Hong Kong Telecom will be willing to accept this arrangement." ”

However, this conciliatory attitude is of little significance in the near future. The corresponding amount of compensation is absolutely indispensable, and the acting Governor Chung Yat-kit cannot make a decision at all. In addition, the Chinese businessmen who were provoked by Shen Bi before were also frightened by this vicious battle formation, and they did not plan to add fuel to the fire for the time being.

Tang Huan and Hong Kong Governor Youde didn't have much personal friendship, and they didn't get any additional benefits from each other. One of the biggest results of the cooperation is that the Governor of Hong Kong, Youde, who attaches great importance to higher education, has helped the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts to get on the right track as quickly as possible. As for the promised Xiangjiang Science and Technology Park, there has been no significant progress.

Of course, this is not entirely to blame for the governor of Hong Kong, Youde. In order to enhance the internal cohesion of the Xiangjiang film industry, the "Xiangjiang Development Outline", which excluded cinemas from cultural and entertainment facilities, was described as a powerful enemy that threatened the future of the Xiangjiang film industry, which naturally provoked some opportunities in the real estate industry to retaliate.

Even if the death of Hong Kong Governor Youde was due to the vicious fight between HSBC and Qinhe, Tang Huan could only say sorry. Judging from the results of HSBC's current status being pushed down from the altar of Xiangjiang, this line of war is very worthwhile, and it needs to be strengthened more and more as it gets closer and closer to his goal.

Reflecting on the lack of leverage from Governor Youde and the fact that some of the next actions may have a subversive sensational effect, Tang Huan decided to take precautions for the future Governor of Hong Kong. Isn't the British Prime Minister's Office still worried about the candidate, then he will invest in that person in advance according to the information of the original time and space, and if the historical trajectory remains the right bet, then it can be regarded as finding a convenient door for himself.

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When the remote control layout in the UK was completed, some of the latest market situation summaries were faxed from the Fangyuan computer headquarters in Mountain View.

All parties fighting in the personal computer market, which is already full of gunpowder, are stimulated by the Christmas sales season. According to the statistics of professional IT media, after entering December, the total expenditure of various manufacturers on advertising reached hundreds of millions of dollars. This shows how crazy the competitive atmosphere is.

After IBM launched the PS/2, a new generation of personal computers with microchannel architecture, its eyes widened, and it waited for the first imitation to emerge so that it could be shown to the monkey.

But IBM-PC compatible machine manufacturers have long learned the lesson of Compaq's lawsuit, the reason why Compaq was able to get out of the whole body, it is because there are loopholes to drill, now this pit is different, it is full of erected nails, jumping down is only a dead end, who dare!

Seeing this scene, the blue giant is not to mention how proud he is - he must first settle down inside, and it is just around the corner.

IBM-PC compatible machine manufacturers, which have always existed as technology followers, cannot come up with copycat solutions similar to PS/2 in a short period of time, so they can only continue to play the old card - cost-effective.

You must know that with the same configuration of personal computers as the evaluation criteria such as CPU speed and memory capacity, the price of IBM-PC compatible machines can be achieved, only one-half to one-third of IBM's genuine machines.

With a flexible operating mechanism, although IBM-PC compatible machines are cheap, manufacturers can achieve small profits but quick turnover; In contrast, IBM, which has a serious bureaucratic habit and has long relied on huge profits from monopoly, has struggled to adapt to such rules of survival.

As the boss of the IBM-PC compatible machine camp, Compaq has done its best to take advantage of this advantage, and its marketing expenses are at the top of the list, which has a sense of fighting against the water, and the results received are also good, and consumers are really beginning to agree with its point of view.

Compaq's argument can be summed up in one sentence: the PS/2 microchannel architecture can indeed provide faster speeds, but it is not meaningful to the user and is not enough to close the price gap.

When more and more people began to be influenced by this value, Tang Huan was a little restless. He slammed the papers on his desk with a thud and frowned.

A mere ps/2 can be described as "fast and useless", and the faster Fangyuan personal computer is not in danger of being famous!

The performance of IBM personal computers cannot be fully exerted, the main reason is that there are advantages and disadvantages of the mechanism - including the software and hardware separation of the foundry cooperation model, and the operating system MS-DOS provided by Microsoft, not to mention the multitasking function, just its own quality, dare not be complimented.

In fact, Microsoft's MS-DOS is not the only operating system on the IBM PC platform. Gary Kildare, the founder of the digital research firm that Gates stole the business, has been trying to regain the operating system market. It launched the Intel8086 version of CP/M, CP/M-86, to compete with IBM's approved Microsoft operating system, MS-DOS.

Although Gary Kildare used MS-DOS to the extent that it is an infringement and a threat of legal action, with the permission of IBM, CP/M-86 landed on the IBM-PC platform, but it is not easy for Big Blue to clean up such a thorn.

The buyout PC-DOS, also known as MS-DOS, is priced at $40; The CP/M-86 sells for up to $240. In contrast to the hatchback, it is obvious how consumers choose.

Later, Gary Kildare added multitasking features to the CP/M-86 in an attempt to convince users that the price of 6 times was definitely worth the price.

IBM didn't want PCs to be too powerful to jeopardize its lucrative mainframe business, so it went a step further and bolstered Microsoft to strengthen MS-DOS's dominance on the IBM-PC platform.

By now, the CP/M-86 has indeed been squeezed out of the air, but IBM has also been self-inflicted by Microsoft, and the operating system has become a bottleneck on its own personal computer platform, unable to distinguish it from those IBM-PC compatible machines that also use this operating system.

When IBM decided to follow the industry trend and jointly develop a new operating system with Microsoft to support multitasking, OS/2, the new software performed somewhat unsatisfactorily.

One of the main reasons why the work is not good is that the engineers on both sides do not get along well. The programmers on Microsoft's side easily have a net worth of tens of millions of dollars by relying on stocks, while IBM programmers with dead salaries take it for granted that Microsoft, which is not very good, cannot become an upstart if it does not hug IBM's thighs.

Under this contradiction, it is quite rare for OS/2 to be completed on schedule, and where can we afford to meet the expectations of perfection. At the end of the day, the operating system was still a shortcoming, and it couldn't fully exploit the performance of IBM PCs.

To put it bluntly, now IBM has been caught by Compaq with "too fast to make sense", which is a typical deserved by planting melons and melons, planting beans and beans.

But Tang Huan hopes that the influence of this value will only be wreaked havoc everywhere in the IBM personal computer camp, and not spread to the outside and implicate his proud work.

Tang Huan directly approved his opinions on the fax, and then transferred it to the marketing department, asking it to counterattack in a targeted manner in product promotion, so as not to let customers be fooled by Compaq. As for IBM's possible benefit from this, it would be a good handout.

What Tang Huan, the big boss, didn't expect was that before getting off work that day, his subordinates responded. It turned out that they had an idea earlier, that is, their own Golden State Warriors star, Michael Jordan, who became the best player in the NBA, and the title of "Flyer" that he got triggered the inspiration.

In Tang Huan, "Who said that fast is meaningless, it is because these fools have no imagination!" Under the sentence, the marketing department continued the idea of "with speed, you can fly" to Fangyuan personal computer.

Tang Huan greatly appreciated this, and the next day he specially called John Chambers and others for a meeting, saying: "We want to highlight the significance of performance in this personal computer standard battle, and then increase the impact of memory cost on the price of the entire personal computer." ”

John Chambers immediately heard the sound of the piano and knew that the boss was driving his competitors to their deaths. You know, now the procurement cost of dynamic random access memory chips has risen! (To be continued.) )