In Lei Weidong's previous life, in the 21st century, as long as you are not an old antique, as long as you have touched the computer, browsed the Internet, played games, and used office software. Then you've all dealt with a company's products.

Even if you don't like that company, you have to use that company's products. Whether it's pirated or genuine. And that company name is Microsoft. A leading boss in the software industry, a well-deserved software overlord.

Microsoft (McrosofCorporon) (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKEX: 4338), is a multinational computer technology company based in the United States, is the world's PC (PersonlCompuer, personal computer) machine software development, founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975.

The company is headquartered in Redmond, Watston, near Seattle. In 1977, Microsoft moved to Bellevue (Redmond), Seattle, where it developed programming software for the PC. It is mainly engaged in R&D, manufacturing, licensing and providing a wide range of computer software services, and the most famous and best-selling products are the Mcrosofndows operating system and the McrosofOffce series of software. It is the world's largest provider of computer software.

Microsoft ranked 104th in the 2014 Fortune Global 500 list. Its founder, Bill. Gates can be said to be almost self-made, just as Li Ka-shing is the richest man in China. Gates dominated the world's richest man for many years, and in the United States can be a good example of Americans pursuing the American dream.

In the previous life, Lei Weidong was also a user of Microsoft products, from the oldest win95, win98 to the later XP and win, 7win10 It can be said that Lei Weidong has used it, of course, Lei Weidong used pirated version, and he never installed the genuine version once.

Even if you have used it, you have used it on someone else's computer. Although Lei Weidong is greedy for cheapness, but more importantly, the price gap between pirated software and genuine software is too great.

Lei Weidong himself remembers very well that in his previous life, his first computer was equipped in 2002, when an ordinary desktop computer with Celeron processor was only more than 3,000 yuan, and a genuine WIN98 system cost 1,800 yuan, catching up with half the cost of a computer.

It only costs three yuan to buy a pirated system CD, and the situation is similar to that of installing it in the computer, and I don't feel any difference, that is, there are more crashes. This made Lei Weidong, who was still in college at the time and needed to gnaw at his parents, not have to think about how to choose.

Anyway, in Lei Weidong's memory, many classmates at that time or colleagues who worked in the future basically did not use genuine copies, and in the best case, they also used genuine burnt copies.

At that time, not to mention individuals in the mainland, even many large companies with hundreds or even thousands of computers only had one set of genuine software. Install all your computers with a set of genuine software. It can be said that almost everyone uses piracy. This situation seems to have not been resolved when Lei Weidong crossed. It is estimated that it will not be solved in a few decades.

I remember that in my previous life, Lei Weidong's classmates often took Bill. Gates joked, and there were two jokes in particular classics.

The first joke is that if every Chinese user who WINDOWS98 an operating system claims 0.1 yuan from Microsoft every time it crashes, then Bill Gates, the world's richest man, will go bankrupt within a year.

The second joke is that if Bill Gates was born in China, not the United States, even if he could still establish Microsoft and develop the WINDOW system, then he would definitely not be able to become the richest man in the world and could only go bankrupt to ask for food.

No way.

Because of the protection of intellectual property rights, the United States has always been the best place in the world for the incubation of network technology, and only in the United States can these highly creative ideas be transformed into a lot of wealth and honor.

In Europe, it can only be self-entertaining, and it cannot be expanded to the whole world.

In other words, if it is in China, it can only be a thief. The version was rampant, and its influence was not as good as that of Europe, and in the end the company went bankrupt because of serious losses.

Not to mention China in the seventies and eighties, even in the 21st century, it is about the same, because everyone's awareness of intellectual property rights is too poor, it can be said that few software companies in China can make a fortune, and it would be good if they could not starve to death. Because piracy is so rampant, pirated copies can be bought everywhere on the street.

Those software with strong professional knowledge is good, and it is not worth piracy for a small number of people, like those stand-alone games and antivirus software are all over the sky as soon as they come out, and the title of the cottage kingdom is not called in vain.

In any case, one of the purposes for Lei Weidong's visit to the United States was Microsoft.

It's only 1977, Microsoft is just a start-up, and it hasn't gone public to raise funds, so for Lei Weidong this is an opportunity to grow his wealth, and now it should be very simple to get the original shares of Microsoft.

Because although Bill Gates and Paul Allen have started a company now, they are not very profitable, and they also need a lot of money to do personal research and development work. More importantly, Lei Weidong himself is still the majority shareholder of Apple, and in many aspects at present, Microsoft and Apple have a lot of areas that need to cooperate. Lei Weidong's investment in Bill Gates should be very welcome.

In 1975, at the age of 19, Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard University in the United States to sell BASIC with his high alumnus Paul Allen. Peiji means "Beginner's Omnidirectional Symbolic Instruction Code" and is a programming language designed for beginners.

When Gates was a student at Harvard, they wrote the language for MITS' Alr. Later, Gates and Allen moved to Albuquerque and founded Microsoft Corporation in a local hotel room.

Bill Gates and Paul Allen are both Seattle-natives, although the company is in Albuquerque, but Lei Weidong believes that they should be found in Seattle, because it is now 1977, Microsoft should have moved back to Seattle, thinking that they should be at home, if they have not moved back, then Lei Weidong has to transfer to Albuquerque.

To be honest, Lei Weidong doesn't know the specific addresses of the two, and now the company of the two is not famous, Seattle is so big, fortunately, in his previous life, Lei Weidong knew about Bill Gates, the nominal richest man in the world, especially his mother, who made Lei Weidong deeply impressed, because his mother was a director of the banking system and the president of the United Way International (nedy Inernonl).

On October 28, 1955, Bill Gates was born in a family in Seattle, Watsonton, on the west coast of the United States. J. Maxwell. Mwell) was a former governor of the National Bank.

Because of such an identity, when Microsoft was founded, Bill Gates occupied more shares than Paul Allen, Paul Allen's family can only be regarded as the last class, his father is only an assistant administrator of the Watston University Library, in fact, Microsoft's success Paul Allen is indispensable, Bill Gates occupied 60% of Microsoft's shares only because he came up with more startup funds than Paul Allen.

It can be said that if Bill Gates does not have a good family and a good mother, his success will be much more difficult.

Many people only know that Bill Gates came out to start a business without graduating from university, but they don't know that the first software was marketed to IBM through his mother's connections. Because his mother is a shareholder of IBM, it can be said that even if Bill Gates did not founded Microsoft, he could easily become a multimillionaire, or even a billionaire, if he followed the path set by his parents.

Compared with Bill Gates and the richest man Li, Qiao Gangster and Master Ma are truly self-made representatives.