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It is precisely because of his concentration on the software business that Gates can best appreciate the strength of Zheru in this field.

Its first commercial software, the spreadsheet program CGRID, was not only the first of its kind, but also created a precedent in the industry, and became one of the most profitable application software. More than 95% of Fangyuan computers have its figure.

Competition in the spreadsheet software space is fierce, and in just a few years since CGRID opened the door, more than a dozen similar products have entered the market.

CGRID first drove the monthly sales of Appleii to quickly exceed 10,000 units, which helped Apple's IPO to be a great success, and then concentrated on assisting Fangyuan Computer to conquer the city, and repelled all peers who coveted this platform, and the huge copy demand brought about by the exclusive Fangyuan computer standard gradually becoming the mainstream.

This achievement is not due to the special relationship between Zheru and Fangyuan, but because CGRID has indeed been ahead of the industry - the optimization of execution efficiency, the enrichment of mathematical functions, the improvement of collusion relationships, and the mining of deep data...... In terms of so on, peers only have the share of stealing.

After CGRID, Zheru successively launched the word processing software WordEasy, the database management system eBase, the slideshow software Powerpresenter, etc., and developed a complete set of Zheru office software family, and once again achieved the industry-leading high integration that a suite should have, such as the consistency of the user interface of each software, the mutual reference of data, etc.

Microsoft's Excel and Word are still busy making themselves more powerful, and they don't care about integrating them from the perspective of the entire office software suite. Lotus did just that, but at the cost of spending too much time and resources, and thus losing a part of the market. Otherwise, Microsoft wouldn't have gotten a respite.

In addition to the field of word processing software, WordEasy coexists with WordEase and Wordporfect, which are known for supporting many hardware platforms, spreadsheets, databases, slides and other fields are almost exclusive.

This kind of strength is even subtly influencing today's office automation - whether you want to accept it or not, you can't resist it.

Just like when Microsoft held its own meetings, it was already inseparable from the Zheru slide system, from software PowerPresenter to hardware projectors.

As for the Zheru database management system ebase, it is even more amazing, not only participated in the standardization of the database query language - SQL industry standard, but also came up with a shining enterprise management software company - Renke.

However, these brilliant achievements in the field of office software are only a part of the Zheru software kingdom, which also has an industry status that cannot be ignored in graphics, audio, video, network, operating system, chip, industrial control, telecommunications, etc.

More precisely, Zheru is no longer limited to the concept of a simple software company. The Zheru R&D center always has an endless stream of technological achievements emerging, which makes Zheru's tentacles continue to extend to various fields.

In the face of such a powerful philosopher, no matter how aggressive Gates is in his bones, the idea of competing with him can only be buried deep in his heart. Even when Zheru Office finally decided that the macro language would use a specific version of Pascal, and Microsoft Basic was excluded, he did not dare to show his dissatisfaction.

Gates is more willing to look for successful experiences that he can learn from Zheru, for example, after the integration of Zheru's office software, competitors like wordsstar and wordporfect have less and less advantage; The macro language of the Zheru office suite excludes Microsoft's basic, although Gates has a sour heart, but he has to admit that the other party played beautifully - as soon as the secret agreement between himself and Tang Huan expired, the benefits promised to Microsoft Basic were taken back, which was too clean and neat.

Studios 1988, the second major version of Studios, has just been officially released, bringing a better experience to the graphical user interface of the Fangyuan computer platform. Zheru has been working diligently to coach third-party software developers to make a smooth transition to this new environment.

Such an opportunity to change the manufacturing rules and reshuffle the pattern, for Zheru, who is already in the software industry, the meaning and role of the leap may not be obvious, but it is different for Microsoft.

Gates immediately thought that if Windows could succeed MS-DOS, then the current application software supremacy of Lotus in the MS-DOS environment would no longer exist. Everyone is on the same starting line in the Windows environment, and even Microsoft, which developed Windows, has an innate technical advantage. Excel, which is biased towards Apple's Mac platform, can make a magnificent return to the IBM-PC platform and regain the spreadsheet market that was lost due to the previous loss of Mulitiplan to Lotus 1-2-3.

From this promotion, Microsoft can follow the example of Zheru and unify the IBM-PC platform office software market - although IBM-PC lost to Fangyuan personal computer in the personal computer standard war, but with the number of users stuck through the application over the years, there is still room for survival, plus the office software market share on Apple's MAC platform, it is enough for Microsoft to eat a mouthful.

The more I pondered it, the more excited Gates became, looking at the exquisite interface of Studios1988 on the prototype, and couldn't help but be annoyed by the Windows developed under the pressure of IBM, and the performance was really uncompromising.

Released in the second half of 1985, the main goal was to regain the momentum of the graphical user interface operating system pioneered by Visicorp on the IBM-PC platform through Vision, and although it was widely regarded as an inferior product, it still took back the market initiative.

Technically, it is not a standalone operating system, and the underlying functions rely heavily on MS-DOS.

The bigger trouble lies in a patent dispute between two companies, Microsoft and Apple, which even restricts multiple windows of Windows from overlapping each other and can only be tiled on the screen.

Gates certainly wouldn't be so honest, and he let the 1987 release borrow more from Apple's Mac interface, including window overlapping - Studios also supports window overlapping, and there is a book that has taken it down beforehand.

In fact, these things that Apple and Microsoft are arguing about are just scratching the surface, how can the technical background required by the operating system be so superficial? In the end, the product competition will return to how to provide an excellent mechanism for managing important resources such as processors, memory, and disks.

Taking the Intel X86 series microprocessors supported by MS-DOS and Windows as an example, Intel80286 has designed a new memory_management_unit - memory management unit (MMU), which provides a new memory management mode - protection mode to achieve multi-task support; Intel80386 has undergone a major upgrade, from a 16-bit architecture to a 32-bit architecture, and has added a virtual mode, and also uses external cache to solve the memory speed bottleneck problem; Intel80486 improves the external cache to a built-in cache, and integrates it into the floatingpointunit, which is a floating point arithmetic unit, or FPU.

It is not difficult to see that Intel has been sparing no effort to develop products and add various new features after placing its fate entirely on the microprocessor business.

However, Microsoft's Windows has not been able to make in-depth use of it, and this year's version has not been released with much repercussions, divided into two branches - Windows/286 and Windows/386. The former mainly solves the problem of how to access the high_memory_area - the high-end memory area is HMA, which is 64KB of memory between 1024KB and 1088KB, and more expanded_memory - extended memory; The latter mainly solves the problem of making full use of the three memory modes of the Intel80386.

The reason why Windows R&D is still at such a "superficial" level is not only because of the inherent shortcomings of IBM-PC in architecture design, which has led to various limitations, but also because of Microsoft's own lack of technical strength.

If you look at the combination of the four generations of Fangyuan personal computers - MMX and Studios1988, you can play VCD smoothly and play 2D video games, and you can know the gap between the two systems.

Gates was comparing Studios 1988 and planning his own Windows in his heart, when he heard Rod Kenyon whisper over him: "It seems that Fangyuan Computer Company is making very fast progress in developing the new Intel80486 model. ”

"And that's not all." Gates replied with a sigh of relief, "The prototype equipped with the MC68040 is not yet stable. ”

Rod Kenyon nodded, "While we are catching up with Fangyuan Computer Company in hardware research and development, Microsoft's Windows will also strive to improve." Otherwise, the combination of IBM-PC compatible machine and Windows will be far inferior to the combination of Fangyuan PC and Studios. ”

"Don't you have a NextStep option for Next?" Until now, Gates is still angry about the IBM-PC compatible machine camp led by Compaq and Steve Jobs - IBM doesn't know which tendon is pumping, and hit me with this trick, what are you doing with it?

Rod Kenyon was a bit of a man of words, but he was also a straight talker. He was not embarrassed to say in business: "NextStep is indeed better than Windows, and if Jobs can make it support Intel80486 earlier than Windows, I believe that Compaq is not the only company that will be embraced by Nextstep." ”

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It is precisely because of his concentration on the software business that Gates can best appreciate the strength of Zheru in this field.

Its first commercial software, the spreadsheet program CGRID, was not only the first of its kind, but also created a precedent in the industry, and became one of the most profitable application software. More than 95% of Fangyuan computers have its figure.

Competition in the spreadsheet software space is fierce, and in just a few years since CGRID opened the door, more than a dozen similar products have entered the market.

CGRID first drove the monthly sales of Appleii to quickly exceed 10,000 units, which helped Apple's IPO to be a great success, and then concentrated on assisting Fangyuan Computer to conquer the city, and repelled all peers who coveted this platform, and the huge copy demand brought about by the exclusive Fangyuan computer standard gradually becoming the mainstream.

This achievement is not due to the special relationship between Zheru and Fangyuan, but because CGRID has indeed been ahead of the industry - the optimization of execution efficiency, the enrichment of mathematical functions, the improvement of collusion relationships, and the mining of deep data...... In terms of so on, peers only have the share of stealing.

After CGRID, Zheru successively launched the word processing software WordEasy, the database management system eBase, the slideshow software Powerpresenter, etc., and developed a complete set of Zheru office software family, and once again achieved the industry-leading high integration that a suite should have, such as the consistency of the user interface of each software, the mutual reference of data, etc.

Microsoft's Excel and Word are still busy making themselves more powerful, and they don't care about integrating them from the perspective of the entire office software suite. Lotus did just that, but at the cost of spending too much time and resources, and thus losing a part of the market. Otherwise, Microsoft wouldn't have gotten a respite. (To be continued.) )