Tang Huan stretched out his hand and grabbed Gates, "Bill, why are you so flustered?" ”

"There's no panic, that's how I've always walked." Gates chuckled dryly, tried to break away, and continued to slip away.

But how could Tang Huan, a person with such a bad taste, let Gates get his wish like this, not to mention that he still has kung fu in his hands.

Simeone then slapped his horse and kicked Gates viciously, "You thief." ”

"Charles, you misunderstood me." Gates shrugged his shoulders very calmly,

"Don't quibble, the bugs in Multiplan are all exactly the same." Simeone looked disdainful, "Your programmers are so lazy that they won't even check it, so they just copy it as it is." ”

"That's just a coincidence, and your conclusions are arbitrary." After Blushing and defending, Gates looked at Tang Huan holding his hand and said, "Don, I'm still waiting for me at the Microsoft booth, let's sit down and talk again when we have time." ”

From just these words, Tang Huan could guess that Gates, who was the best at stealing teachers, had done something that made Simeone furious.

Looking at the scene in front of him where Gates retreated and Simeone was like a rainbow, he almost burst out laughing.

You know, in the original time and space, Gates and Simone were monarchs and ministers, and Gates was a well-known tyrant in Microsoft, because in the entire 1980s, except for DOS, there was no software that was not cut down by opponents, including Ballmer and Simone, and many veterans, so it was common to be trained as grandsons.

Unexpectedly, now it's reversed, look at Gates's compromise, swallowing his anger. It's so joyful.

"Good. Then it won't delay you. Tang Huan patted Gates on the shoulder.

Gates was granted amnesty. Hurry up and go straight to Microsoft's booth.

When he arrived at his own turf, Gates immediately became dazed, and after operating on the computer for a while, he picked up the public phone behind the booth and roared into the microphone.

……

The current Microsoft, even if it hugs the lap of the blue giant, but IBM-PC is still far from dominating the rivers and lakes. In addition, the market position of the main product BASIC is not as good as before, so Gates still has to work hard to manage it. In front of Estlic, he honestly played the role of the younger brother.

Watching other companies make a lot of money in the field of office software, Gates, who has always believed that BASIC is the lifeblood of personal computers, is impossible not to be annoyed by his stubbornness and sluggishness, and the spreadsheet software Multiplan developed by Microsoft is a breakthrough to deal with this passive situation.

But IBM doesn't like Gates's ambitions, and your MS-DOS still has so many problems that need to be solved urgently, how can you be distracted from other products.

Let alone. Tang Dynasty? Estlic has already laid out spreadsheet software, word processing software, and databases, and Microsoft has come up with a Multiplan. If you say it's good, it's a competition for favor, and if it's bad, it's a blushing eye and making trouble.

What makes Big Blue even more intolerable is that Microsoft developed Multiplan, and the first platform it supported turned out to be CP/M, not its own MS-DOS.

This is too ironic, it is clear that the whole world is yelling, there is no confidence in its own operating system, and IBM-PC cannot enjoy the benefits exclusively.

As a result, Microsoft not only failed to get nanny-like support from the blue giant, as DOS did, but also suffered from the suppression of the other side, lest Multiplan affect VisiCalc, one of the troikas that had already been selected.

Although he understands the twists and turns, Gates has no choice, who let Microsoft hug IBM's thighs, the blue giant for the children he thinks are disobedient, he naturally teaches how he wants.

This is the law that the strong in the shopping mall are respected, putting oppression on the bright side, and the beautiful name is Yangmou, and the weak can only obediently bow their heads if they want to survive.

But Gates's education since childhood was competition, and so was his family atmosphere, and the more IBM suppressed, the more his fighting spirit rebounded.

Unlike the young Jobs, who put most of his emotions on the surface, Gates has always been well versed in forbearance.

While he promised IBM that he would put Multiplan on hold for the time being and devote more resources to the MS-DOS project team, he continued to work on Multiplan in secret.

However, for the current spreadsheet software market, with CGrid in front of it, VisiCalc, SuperCalc and other followers in the back, the distribution pattern of high, medium and low grades has basically taken shape, and Multiplan wants to be among them, so the starting point of the product must be higher.

Gates and Tang Huan belong to the last friends, he witnessed each other surpass himself and Jobs, and it is best to trample all his personal computer peers under his feet.

At the beginning, the arrogant Gates was naturally not convinced, in terms of intelligence alone, no one is worse than another, it is nothing more than your luck is bursting, you can not only catch up with the opportunity, but also meet the noble.

But since being trained by IBM in software engineering, Gates, who has been tortured to lose a layer of skin, obviously feels that Microsoft has been reborn, and then suddenly realized how big the gap between Microsoft and Zheru is, and the chaotic Apple company has not collapsed, but has also been listed, which is called a burst of good luck.

After understanding this, Gates's attention to Zheru became more and more comprehensive and in-depth, in other words, in addition to stealing skills, but also stealing management.

Although Gates did not sort out Tang Huan's theory of the "entrance" of personal computers, he dared to be sure that Zheru developed software for IBM-PC just to compete for users, and this income on the IBM-PC platform could not be seen in Zheru's eyes, and Zheru could not sincerely develop the most powerful software for IBM-PC, after all, Fangyuan Computer and Apple Computer were people's children.

Similar to the IBM-PC platform, Zheru also has a reserved strategy on the CP/M platform.

It was with this inference that Gates was confident in launching Multiplan. The only real competitors he has to face are ordinary goods such as VisiCalc and SuperCalc.

But a high heart does not mean that the ability is great. Especially now the situation of the PC industry as a whole. It can only be described as time is money, fast hands and slow hands, project progress is the key, and VisiCalc and SuperCalc have been in the market for more than a year, and if they want to ride on their necks with a blockbuster, Microsoft only relies on its own alone, and some of them are not enough.

So Gates naturally stepped up his efforts to steal teachers from Zheru, and even asked Tang Huan tentatively. Can you go to Microsoft for a technical exchange, everyone still misses your demeanor.

How could Tang Huan have that time to accompany him, but he wanted Microsoft to disrupt Tang? Estlic created the IBM-PC troika, so he asked Simeone to take time to go to Microsoft to be a technology idol, and specifically told the other party that he might as well be generous, anyway, the technology on the IBM-PC platform is not the core secret of Zheru.

Simeone, who understood that Tang Huan's drunken intention was not to drink, added a layer of caution and brought a non-mature version to Microsoft to teach him the development experience of spreadsheet software. Almost all questions are answered.

Therefore, Microsoft's hospitality specifications and hospitality to Simeone can be imagined. As a result, Simone was a little drunk, and even his briefcase accidentally fell to the ground, and when he cleaned up the scattered things, he found that a floppy disk was missing.

Gates patted his chest and said, "Charles, you go to rest first, and I'll help you find it." ”

After Simeone sobered up, Gates found the floppy disk and delivered it himself. But I couldn't read it in the computer's disk drive -- it was obviously broken.

Simeone didn't think much of it, and when he came back and noted it in the memo, he put the matter behind him.

Plus after many days, he was almost unable to remember.

But just now, when he was walking around the COMDEX exhibition hall, Simeone found that Microsoft's Multiplan had been officially unveiled, and he was quite happy, and now the IBM-PC troika was about to mess up.

Simeone deliberately stopped to observe, and even stepped forward to operate it himself and experience it.

But the more he looked at it, the more he felt that something was wrong, some of the features of the Multiplan were so familiar that they were simply copied from CGridFORIBM-PC.

When Simeone used a few typical bugs in his memory to test them on Multiplan, he immediately made him angry.

With this IQ, I can't even learn from it, and I moved the defects as they were.

And it's these mentally retarded guys who have done tricks on that floppy disk and designed themselves with intrigues.

Simeone, who was angry, blocked Gates and questioned him sternly.

Of course, Gates didn't know anything, and shook his head again and again and pretended to be confused.

Simeone sneered and told those bugs to prove that Gates continued to refuse to admit it, and found an excuse to slip away.

The reason why people like Simeone, who immigrated to the United States from Hungary, have been able to get to where they are today is because of the persistence in their personalities that cannot be ignored, as does Intel President Grove.

Seeing that Gates left without giving a clear explanation, Simeone naturally lost his temper and chased after him.

Hearing what was going on before and after, Tang Huan couldn't help but smile, and patted Simone on the shoulder again, "Those who become big things are not informal, Microsoft is in a hurry, after all, time waits for no one." ”

Speaking of this, Tang Huan made a look, "Isn't this anxious spoiler exactly what we want." ”

"But they're not borrowing, they're just plagiarizing, and they're copying mistakes." Simone's face was bitter and hateful, "But I was fooled by these idiots and made them do something with that floppy disk." ”

"You don't have to care too much, you can only say that they are too insidious, you are too simple." Tang Huan said that he finally let the depressed Simone temporarily put aside the entanglement in front of him and continue to work.

……

"Elder Wang, I'm sorry to keep you waiting, I encountered a little situation just now." Tang Huan walked back and said apologetically.

"It's okay." Wang An smiled and nodded.

Tang Huan was still as humble and polite as he was when he was not developed the year before, so that Wang Anxin's mustard basically disappeared.

His word processor was chased and blocked by Fangyuan Computer in the Asian market, and the situation is becoming increasingly difficult.

However, what he saw and heard in person at COMDEX this time made Wang An suddenly discover that the development of personal computers is like a spring breeze overnight, thousands of trees and pear blossoms, and even the old rival IBM put down his body and went into battle shirtless, perhaps he rejected Tang Huan at the beginning. Really missed an opportunity.

Tang Huan followed Wang An to the back of Wang An's computer company's booth, and the guests and hosts sat down and chatted.

"The word processor has a single function, and it is true that there is a growing gap between the rapidly developing personal computer. Therefore, everyone eats with their real skills, and the dragon and tiger in the market are nothing. Wang An waved his hand open-mindedly, which can be regarded as defining the relationship between the two companies, "Perhaps, as you said at the beginning, the era of personal computers has come." ”

"So, Wang An Computer Company is interested in the field of personal computers?" Tang Huan's spirits were lifted, Wang An's computer company's current assets and scale are very considerable, and most importantly, this company has been fighting with IBM and other large companies to survive so far, and its struggle experience is really too valuable.

Wang An nodded, "This general trend is already very obvious, and Wang An Computer Company can only choose to move with the current." ”

"Then we have a basis for cooperation." Tang Huan looked at Wang An sincerely, "The second-generation Fangyuan Computer is preparing to license the compatible machine, and if Wang An Computer Company is interested, it can cooperate in depth." ”

Wang An smiled noncommittally, "Wang An Computer Company has been operating since the 1950s, and the most successful products are the calculator in the 1960s and the word processor in the 1970s. ”

"The historical heritage of Wang An Computer Company is really admirable." Tang Huan admired with envy.

"After so many years of ups and downs in the business world, I firmly believe in one truth." Wang An's eyes looked into the distance, as if he was recalling something, and then slowly continued: "That is, the technology of the product must be in your own hands. ”

Hearing Wang An say it so categorically, Tang Huan couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded, what the other party meant was that even if he entered the personal computer market, he would rely on his own strength to go it alone, and he was not interested in cooperation. (To be continued......)