Farewell to Wei Ting, Mark. Ford declined Principal Lin's retention, quickly returned to the hotel, and then began to make long-distance calls...... Waiting is the most anxious when the general manager of the Asia Pacific region, Yunge. When Marston's voice came out of the microphone, he was as happy as a rain in a drought: "Mr. Marston, something big has happened......

Mark. Ford gave a detailed account of the bugs that Wei Ting had found.

"Are you sure?" Yun Ge. Marston's tone was very solemn.

"Confirmed, but that patch hasn't been tested yet, but I wonder how the source code of our company's program has never been made public, how did she know?" Mark. Ford said.

"It's not important now, I'll talk about it later. You fax that patch back to the head office immediately, and I'm going to report it to the head office now. ”

Yun Ge. Marston's look on the other end of the phone was not at all relaxed, and as the head of Microsoft's Asia-Pacific region, he looked at the problem from a different level. Bugs are normal, but patches are usually released when they become available, which helps to have a positive image of the company. But if someone pours it out, that's another matter. Especially at present, the company is negotiating cooperation with the government on related projects, and if the security of the operating system is questioned, then the cooperation will fail, and the company will lose a lot.

In the nineties, fax machines and photocopiers have appeared, at least there is no shortage of them in large hotels. Mark. Ford hurriedly sent the fax, and when the fax machine sounded, the piece of paper that Wei Ting had handed him slowly slid in.

However, at this time at the headquarters of Microsoft in the United States, it can be said that it is a mess. There is a bug in the MS-DOS operating system, and if it is exposed at this critical moment, it will almost be a disaster. When the manager of the technical department took the faxed program code, he already knew that this program was completely correct, which showed that the other party had already understood the program of the MS-DOS operating system, even better than all the programmers in the entire Microsoft company. Bugs in programs are sometimes like a layer of window paper. No one knows what's going on until it's pierced, but once it's pierced, everyone will find that it's actually very simple. The bug pointed out by Wei Ting is nothing more than an overflow error when a subroutine executes a certain instruction, but if someone hadn't pointed it out, no one would have found this bug so deeply hidden.

Under normal circumstances, sometimes it is better to find a system vulnerability than to redesign a set of programs, and every time Microsoft releases a new version, it is not only because of a new application, but also because of the reason for filling in the gaps.

After getting the patch given by Wei Ting, the company's technical department immediately conducted an emergency test, and the test results showed that the patch sent back from China was very successful and perfectly solved the defects of the operating system. However, Mark. Another sentence sent back by Ford made them tremble, that is, D0S5.0 is not the only flaw, and the other party asked Microsoft to propose a cooperation plan within 48 hours, otherwise, they would have to go to the magazine to find a bug patch. At that time, not only will their market share be suppressed by their competitors, but worst of all, their cooperation with government departments will also be stranded, and their losses will be unbearable.

"No, we have to get all the bug patches in the hands of this Chinese student, and then take the initiative to publish the patches to nip the scandal in the cradle." The chairman of the company, Pierre. Gates ordered.

Sales Manager Paul. "Mr. Gates, according to Marston, the Chinese student is very business-minded, and she asked our company to pay for her program," Swell said. ”

"Give him money!"

Pierre. Gates said, "How much does she want?" We don't hesitate to give even $1,000. ”

"$1,000 ......"

Paul. Swell said with a bitter face, "I'm afraid $1,000 won't meet her requirements." ”

"Won't it?"

Pierre. Gates had a surprised look on his face: "I've heard that China's current per capita income level, 1,000 US dollars can be exchanged for nearly 10,000 yuan, which is a huge amount of money even for adults." ”

Paul. Swell shook his head: "This student is not an ordinary student. With China's current learning resources, she was able to analyze the vulnerabilities of the operating system without source code, and she was also able to write impeccable patches, which she probably would not accept at a price of $1,000. ”

"We can ask Ford to talk to her more, and we can relax our bottom line, let's say $2,000 or $3,000. Let Ford tell her that this is the highest price we are willing to pay, and I don't think she will pass up the opportunity to get such a large sum of money. ”

"Okay, I'll get in touch with Marston right away." Paul. Swell gave in, he didn't deal much with the Chinese, and I don't know if Mr. Chairman's judgment was correct.

At this moment, in the small city on the other side of the ocean, Wei Ting was packing her schoolbag...... Today is the last day of school revision for junior high school students, and both teachers and students have a strange emotion in their hearts.

The sun was slowly setting in the western sky, and the warm afterglow poured into education through the window lattice, dyeing the floor and desk a goose yellow hue.

"Wei Ting, which exam room are you in?" Jiang Li, who was at the same table, asked.

"No. 3 Middle School, just like you." Wei Ting replied in confidence.

"How do you know?" Jiang Li's eyes widened in surprise, she remembered that Wei Ting clearly didn't look at her admission ticket.

Wei Ting smiled, of course she knew. During the high school entrance examination, the candidates in the city were all taken in different examination rooms in a disordered order, Wei Ting remembered that Jiang Li, like her, was in the third middle school, but the examination room was different.

"Wei Ting, hurry up." Gan Tian shouted at the door.

"You go first, I still have some things." Wei Ting waved her hand and let her go first.

"Okay, goodbye!" Gan Tian also waved his hand and was about to leave.

At this moment, a tall figure appeared next to Wei Ting's table: "Wei Ting, are you going to go now?" ”

Yue Chenguang.

He still remembered that Wei Ting wanted to borrow his review paper for copying, so he came over after packing his school bag...... As soon as the words came out, there was silence all around, and the atmosphere was a little weird, until the two of them left the classroom one after the other, and the classmates in the classroom chattered and discussed, they were all curious about when Yue Chenguang and Wei Ting got so close?