Eventually, Jester made his own compromise with Microsoft.

HE AGREED TO A BILLION DOLLARS, PLUS HIS OWNERSHIP OF WINDOWS, IN EXCHANGE FOR A 12 PERCENT STAKE IN MICROSOFT.

In addition, in the past few years, Jester secretly ate four percent of Microsoft's liquid shares.

Now, Jester owns 16 percent of Microsoft. Allen is similar, even compared to Microsoft's largest shareholder, Bill . Gates, it's not too bad.

You know, even the current Bill. GATES'S STAKE IN MICROSOFT IS ONLY IN HIS EARLY TWENTIES, AND WHEN WINDOWS WENT PUBLIC, HIS STAKE DID NOT EVEN REMAIN ABOVE 20 PERCENT. Gates had a period of time, but it was only 19 percent.

According to the time calculation, it can also be estimated that one eight or nine is not far from ten.

Microsoft is a public company, such a large-scale share acquisition naturally needs to be announced, and the buyers are also familiar with it. Plum.

Even because of this time, Microsoft's shares have risen for a few days.

The final increase was as high as 10 percent.

Time passes.

A YEAR PASSED IN A FLASH, AND AS JESTER EXPECTED, WINDOWS WAS A HUGE HIT WHEN IT WAS RELEASED.

MICROSOFT'S STOCK IS ROLLING UPWARD, BEFORE PEOPLE RECALLED THAT JESTER HAD SPENT A HUGE AMOUNT OF MONEY TO BUY A LARGE NUMBER OF MICROSOFT SHARES, AND THEY PRAISED JESTER'S GOOD VISION, BUT IN FACT, FEW PEOPLE KNOW THAT IF JESTER DID NOT CONTROL PART OF THE WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM, MICROSOFT'S BOARD OF DIRECTORS WOULD NEVER HAVE MADE SUCH A LARGE DEAL WITH JESTER WHEN WINDOWS WAS ABOUT TO BE LAUNCHED.

Now that I see Microsoft's stock price, I really want to cry.

And other products that compete with WINDOWS93. For example, Apple's enduring Macintosh computer over the years is like snow meeting sunlight, and it is immediately wiped out.

Jester was even in an interview.

took the initiative to talk about the strategy that Mars Entertainment will adopt on the PC.

ALTHOUGH IT WAS EXPECTED, WHEN JESTER SAID THAT IN THE FUTURE, MARS ENTERTAINMENT'S GAMES WILL NO LONGER SUPPORT PC OPERATING SYSTEMS OTHER THAN WINDOWS, IT WAS ALMOST A DISASTER FOR THE SALES OF APPLE'S MACINTOSH COMPUTERS.

Originally, among Apple's many users, the proportion of gamers is very high, you know. Almost more than 80% of the current American game developers have PC games for their enlightenment games, and their game computers are either Apple 1 or Apple 2.

In fact, at the beginning, Bill. The biggest reason why Gates agreed to Jester's purchase of shares from Microsoft was that he felt that Jester had little control over Microsoft**. So he is safer, and, rather than having the shares in the hands of someone else, it is better to have those shares in the hands of someone he knows. In this way, he can also get better support from the other party.

Actually, Jester is really very supportive of Bill. Gates' various decisions.

In addition to Bill. Gates, Paul. Allan. Coupled with the shares in Jester's hands, it has exceeded 50% of Microsoft's shares, basically. Only if these three people agree, then there is nothing that cannot be mentioned in the pass.

And as long as there is no agreement of the three people, no matter what the proposal is, it is impossible to get a sense of communication within the company.

However, Microsoft is still relatively harmonious internally, because it is still Microsoft's expansion period, and no matter how big the internal contradictions are, they can be temporarily suppressed.

In fact, Jester is reluctant to manage Microsoft in depth The reason is this, he comes from the later generations, he is deeply aware of how fierce Microsoft's internal struggle is in the future, many people say that Sony's infighting and disagreement are world-famous, but in fact, in this aspect, Microsoft is not inferior.

As in history.

Before Bill. The game that Gates entrusted with that could show the world WINDOWS93, Jester still handed it over to John. Carmack's group.

And what Carmack loves most is this kind of challenging task that no one else can do.

After only doing a boring and repetitive job, he lost interest in this kind of work, which is why after the third work of "Thor's Hammer", John. The carmack did not continue to make a system.

Because he feels that his engine development technology has entered a bottleneck period, in this case, if he continues to develop "Thor's Hammer", the engine used is still the same as when he was developing the third game, such a game, for others, maybe it is very exciting, after all, now just the words "Thor's Hammer", it represents the highest-selling series on PC!

However, when he heard Jester say that he wanted to develop the game on a completely new system.

John. Carmack jumped into the new work, and three days later, he came up with a new 3D engine design idea that he was excited about.

And now more than a year later, "Quake 4", a new FPS game developed with Carmack's new engine, has officially appeared at the E3 exhibition in June this year, and as the absolute core of E3 this time.

As for the 'Times' program.

Although there are still many people talking about the 'Times' project, in addition to the video released on E3 at the time, Mars Entertainment has not revealed a single bit of information about this project in the past few years, and even many people think that this project has been canceled.

Unfortunately, there is no information about this project at any of the game shows.

But whenever a reporter asks the insiders of Mars Entertainment whether the 'Era' project is still there, these people will answer in unison that the game is still in development.

But beyond that, they don't reveal anything else.

Although these people know much more about the 'times' than the reporters who ask these questions.

The picture of "Quake 4", under the new WINDOWS93 and Carmack's latest engine processing, can almost be said to have reached the current extreme, and even made many people, seeing the popularity of FPS games, people who decided to develop this type of game are extremely pessimistic and disappointed.

Because they found that it was impossible for them to make a game of the same level as "Quake 4", and even "Quake 3" was impossible. (To be continued......)