However, it is a matter of the future to completely let Apple fall, there is no need to rush now, even if it is urgent, it is useless, because of the actual taste, I know every step of Jobs's strategy to save Apple, and I only need to take the lead in the future.

To Jester's surprise, it was Bill. Gates turned out to be a fan of video games, which he really didn't know before.

Although I have heard rumors in this regard, the reason why Microsoft wanted to enter the video game industry in the first place, even at the cost of losing two billion US dollars a year, is not only that the video game market is really worth this kind of payment, but also because Bill. Gates' personal reasons.

You know, Bill. Gates first came into contact with computers when he played games.

"What's your favorite game?" Jester asked with some curiosity, he was curious like Bill. People like Gates would have a soft spot for what game, and Bill. Gates's answer did not disappoint Jester, it was really very unexpected for him.

"Me?"

After hearing Jester's question, Bill. Gates pointed at himself, then smiled, and said, "My personal hobbies are still different from those of the public...... My favorite game companies, Minesweeper and American Cubes, I think these two games are just an explosion of programmers' ingenuity, and it's so incredible. ”

After hearing this, Jester was silent, these two games are indeed like Bill. As Gates said, simplicity and fun are directly related to the most essential fun of games, and he himself admires the people who can develop such games.

Of course, in the world where he came from, not in this world.

"Minesweeper" has been bundled with Microsoft's system software, and you can get a certain commission for every Mars Entertainment sold, which is not high. However, both sides are satisfied, but at the moment American Cubes is in addition to the arcade version, the Dreambox version, and the boy version. There is no PC version.

Although there are many lovers of this game, they have written their own PC version after cracking the kernel of this game. The game can be played on PC, but there is no official version after all.

Bill. When Gates said this, he was obviously interested.

Jester also heard Bill. The meaning of Gates's previous sentence was hidden, and as far as he knew, in the world he knew, Bill . Gates is really interested in using games for promotion, for example, the original "Minesweeper" is a game bound to win3.0, and for example, before the release of win95. Microsoft was boycotted by almost everyone, and even at the Win95 publicity meeting, when the supporters of DOS in the audience chanted DOS in unison while promoting the benefits of Win95 on stage, they relied on Carmack's "Thor's Hammer" to turn the situation around.

Later examples are even clearer, Microsoft itself has joined the army of game development, first the development of PC games, and then in order to promote one of their programs to develop Xbox. Gates may have been interested in games, but he wasn't ready to get into the industry and wanted to work more closely with Jester.

"The PC version of American Cubes?"

Jester said with a smile. And Bill. After Gates heard it, he also nodded slightly, and he didn't directly admit it. But he didn't deny it, but changed the topic, saying: "Win3.0 is about to be launched, this is the first more mature version we jointly developed, although it is still a little inferior to Apple's visual operating system, but we also want to open up the market, so I want to add "American Cubes" as a bundle game. ”

Many people in later generations thought that Microsoft's but, that is, the windowed operating system started from win95, but this is not the case. Before the launch of Win95, Microsoft had been working the visual operating system for nearly a decade. They launched their first visual operating system at the end of the year after the release of Apple's Macintosh, the world's most commercially available visual operating system computer.

This one has no reputation. Even later, not many people have heard of the operating system is named after win, and the name is very simple, and even some like a test codename, called win1.0, unfortunately, this operating system ended in failure.

What really made the win system famous is the win3.2 version,At this time, win has been very mature,And win95,It's just a matter of course after adding the function of audio-visual entertainment,At that time, Bill Gates was in win95Before the official sale,In order to promote the audio-visual entertainment function he advocated for heaven,It is to find Carmack to do publicity。

For "American Cubes", Jester still attaches great importance to it, because he really knows the potential of this game, and it can be said that so far, the value that this game has played is only less than one-tenth of what this game can really play.

Like an arcade machine, a home machine, or now Bill. The PC version of "American Cubes" that Gates is very interested in is not what Jester values, and now the total sales of the Dreambox version of "American Blocks" have exceeded four million copies, which is indeed a very unbelievable achievement, because many extremely well-made games have only sold one or two million copies, and a game that has been on the market for a long time and is not very difficult to make can sell more than four million, and even close to five million copies.

But, for Jester, that's all there is to it.

In his eyes, what he values most is actually the handheld version and in the near future, there will be a mobile version of zài, and it may be a little far away to say that the mobile version is still a little far, but the power of the handheld version, Jester has seen a lot from the Gameboy that has just been released.

Although "American Cubes" is bundled with Gameboy for sale, for players, this is not charged, but with the bundled "American Cubes", this kind of game that is extremely suitable for fragmented time and can be played at any point in time is really suitable for the carrier of the palm machine.

And the terrible sales of seven million Gameboys a month made everyone even more dumbfounded, and even in order to meet the terrible number of orders of Gameboy required by Mars Entertainment, Hon Hai Electronics even pushed off many orders from PC companies such as Comber, you know, in order to get orders from Comber, Guo even did not hesitate to set up a branch directly next to the headquarters of Comber.

In order to allow Comber to be able to produce physical objects as soon as they come up with the design, even the fixed meal of such an important company Guo has pushed off a lot, although there is a reason why Jester is now the second shareholder of Hon Hai, but as a profit-oriented company, in order to regard OEM as his core business, and even do not hesitate to turn off his own good computer brand to Guo Someone, Jester can bring him more profits than Comber.

Jester confronts Bill. Gates didn't think about this problem for a long time, in fact, he didn't think much about it, after all, the copyright of the PC is not what he likes, this is one, and second, although Minesweeper has been successfully developed for many years, when Carmack made this game, he was just a teenager, and now he has entered Mars Entertainment, as the director of 3D engine development, and even the second person in the game "Thor's Hammer", but this game is not very famous.

At the beginning, this game relied on his cooperation with Dell, through the bundle sale of Dell's computer to take, the effect was good, and Dell did have a very high talent in selling computers, of course, his talent for pit venture capital is also very high, although Jester wants to keep Dell's shares, but he feels that Dell himself must be unwilling, he doesn't know what method he is thinking about to pit his own part of the shares, And he doesn't have that much experience to intrigue with Dell.

Therefore, a few months ago, when Dell asked whether he was interested in selling the part of the shares in his hands, he agreed without saying a word, and the sale price was naturally very satisfied, and Dell, which had just been listed, was not short of liquidity, and his information about Dell was very strong, and he bought the part of the stock in his hand at a price much higher than the market price, which was a very good ending in the cooperation between the two.

Actually, I watched it at Jester, and he was talking to Sandy. After Will cooperated with the acquisition of the Business Credit Company, he had lost his stake in the vast majority of other Rising Star businesses, because he knew how strong the future of the Business Credit Company would be.

Now Sandy. Will is planning to reorganize the Commercial Credit Company into the Travelers Group, the most powerful company on Wall Street in the future, and it is about to surface.

Later, after the merger of Travelers Group and Citibank, he relied on his shares in Traveler Group, which is now called Commercial Credit Company, and at least 2% of Citibank's shares, which was enough to become an executive director of Citibank, and even a very important executive director.

That's really the big man in the world. (To be continued) R655