Chapter 174: Goodbye to Sandy Weir

Now Jester is also in a dilemma for the computer brand he talked about before.

He is familiar with the future development of the personal computer industry, Microsoft will dominate the world with their operating system, but this is ten years later, the hegemony of this decade is actually Microsoft, but they rely on IBM's unparalleled influence in the computer field in this era, although Apple has launched the Macintosh, the first commercial graphics operating system PC that ushered in a new era of personal computers, at the beginning of last year.

In Jester's eyes, although it will not be too easy to make a graphics operating system by himself now, it will not be too difficult, it is nothing more than throwing money at it, but what is the system that is made, he has no bottom, he knows that after Apple's Macintosh computer is on sale, Microsoft has also keenly discovered why this computer that is useless in terms of configuration can sell so hot, it is because of the extraordinary significance of the graphics operating system on this computer.

At the request of IBM, Microsoft also hurried to start the research and development of their graphics operating system, in Jester's memory, he remembers that it was in November of this year, Microsoft launched its first visual graphics operating system, they used the same way as Apple, just a graphics program running on DOS, and the user experience is not as good as Apple's doing, this system named WIN1.0 has not set off much storm in the industry.

But like Bill. Naturally, a person with such a business vision as Gates is also the same as Jobs, a creative thief, and also sees the development path of the future PC, and the advantages of the visual operating system will inevitably become greater and greater, because only the simpler the operating system, the more users can be brought, so although Microsoft has experienced the painful failure of WIN1.0, the research on the visual operating system has not ended.

Because that's the way forward.

After experiencing WIN2.0 dormancy, it finally ushered in the success of WIN3.0, and Jester plagiarized before, the game "Minesweeper" that has been launched, is a small game carried by Microsoft when it launched the WIN3.2 system.

However, until WIN95 interview, whether it is WIN3.X or Apple's operating system, it is not the overlord of the PC system at that time, the overlord of the PC system at that time is still the classic DOS system, which is also Microsoft's masterpiece, even before 95 years, when Microsoft promoted WIN95, it was also strongly resisted by many PC users, once in a promotional event, Bill Gates was blowing the stage WIN95 superiority, and the following users were shouting DOS in unison, DOS…… PERHAPS THIS SEEMS EXTREMELY INCREDIBLE TO PEOPLE IN THE FUTURE, AND IT IS CLEAR THAT WIN95'S OPERABILITY AND CONVENIENCE ARE COMPLETELY SUPERIOR TO DOC, SO WHY WOULD ANYONE OPPOSE IT?

But that's the real history.

He Guoyuan told him before that he was clear about the drawbacks, but Jester also knows how important a closed environment that can be perfectly consistent with himself will be useful in the future, and the reason why Apple can achieve such brilliant success after resurrection in later generations is not only because of Jobs's vision and means, but also because of their insistence on their own system.

It is this closed insistence that has allowed them to cultivate a large number of die-hard users.

Sitting in his seat, Jester thought for a long time, but still couldn't make his own decision, he knew that if he was willing to work with Microsoft to develop a visual operating system now, or take a step back, and cooperate with Microsoft on a visual operating system for personal computers, it would not be too much of a problem, after all, whether it is for Microsoft or them now, the foundation in this aspect is zero.

And in Jester's impression, this year should be the year of Microsoft's financing, and at the beginning of next year, Microsoft will be officially listed, with a market value of nearly $500 million after listing. Gates will become the youngest billionaire in the United States, so any good news now for him to be able to raise his own financing limit, Bill Brown. Gates is impossible to give up.

Cooperating with its own Mars Entertainment is not a good news for Microsoft.

But Jester is still hesitating, although he knows that if he waits for Microsoft to go public, he will never have such a good opportunity to form an alliance with Microsoft, but if he really cooperates with Microsoft, then his dream of a closed ecological environment can only be abandoned, because in this regard, Bill. Gates, and his Microsoft, are impossible to compromise.

What should be the trade-offs and choices?

Jester hesitated, he looked at the time, and saw that it was almost noon, and he was about to follow Sandy, who had come to the West Coast for a walk. Will had lunch together, he had planned to go to New York a month ago to discuss something with the future Wall Street tycoon who had just been fired, but after he called, Sandy. Will said that he was going to go to the West Coast immediately, so it would not be too late to meet again when he got to the West Coast.

This meeting was a long time book, and Sandy. Will was still his elder, and Jester didn't want to be late and rude.

However, when Jester arrived at the restaurant he had booked, he found that in the box, Sandy. Will was already there, and there was a large stack of newspapers in front of him, all of which were mainstream media, such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and so on, and when he saw Jester come in, he just smiled, waved his hand and motioned for Jester to sit down, and then continued to look at the article he was browsing.

Jester didn't have the slightest dissatisfaction, he sat down respectfully, and only then did he have time to take a serious look at his elder.

To be honest, compared to when I met each other at his grandfather's place a year ago, Sandy. Will Xian is much older, at that time his hair did not see much gray hair, now he can see a lot of silver threads, and the folds between his eyebrows are much more than when they met before, not to mention the lonely look in his eyes that cannot be concealed no matter what.

I waited three minutes, Sandy. Will finished reading the article he was reading, he put down the newspaper in his hand, then looked up at Jester, looked at Jester carefully for two seconds, and then sighed a little self-deprecatingly.

"I'm old, I'm old, I looked away before, and I said that I would let you go to Wall Street with me, saying that video games have no prospects, but I didn't expect that I would be swept out of the house first, but you will redo this industry that is almost dead, it's not easy." Talking and talking, Sandy. Will's tone was also admired, Jester's achievements in this short period of one year are indeed worthy of anyone's admiration.

"It's just luck." Jester naturally needs to be humble in front of his elders, and he also knows how powerful this person in front of him is, although he is now swept away by Wall Street, but it is just a dragon lurking in the abyss, waiting for the other party, it is just an opportunity, and he also knows that this opportunity is not far away.

So, Jester put his posture very low, he said: "Grandpa Sandy, you don't need to be so pessimistic, I read Fortune magazine before, there is an article about you, and the article said that you are a rare manager, affirming your contribution to the Amex Group, and I think they are right, you are indeed a talented manager." ”

Apparently, this article in Fortune magazine Sandy. Will knew, though he knew that it was a friend of his who wanted to help him out of his current unemployed situation, but Sandy. Will still thinks that the article they published is all about the matter, and he himself thinks that he is an extremely good manager, to be precise, if he wants to find a job in a normal company, according to his resume, it will definitely be no problem.

However, as a person who is only one step away from being able to step on the throne of the head of Amex, the arrogance in his heart simply does not allow him to work in a company that he would not have paid attention to before, not to mention that the scale of these companies is not as good as the company he founded before joining Amex. Will the genius who came out of the slums of Brooklyn only manage such a small company?

He Sandy. Will shouldn't be like that, he's someone who wants to run a business like the Big Four.

But it's a pity, the idea is very beautiful, the reality is very skinny, although he wrote a letter to a former assistant before, wanting him to start a new business with him, and his assistant did not hesitate to agree to him, but the feeling of starting over again, for him who had almost had the opportunity to become the predator at the top of Wall Street, this sense of loss is still obvious.

Therefore, he just sighed, and the lonely look in his eyes became a little heavier.

Jester inadvertently glanced at Sandy. The newspaper Will was reading was the New York Times, and on the page he had spread out on the table was an article about Japan's foreign trade surplus and the U.S. trade deficit. Will found out.

And Sandy. Will also smiled disappreciatively, and he asked casually with some curiosity.

"Jace, you're interested in this story as well?" R1152