All Microsoft executives watched the AmigaOS press conference with tears and smiles on their faces almost all the time.

The date for the launch of AmigaOS, mainly Tommy Hawk's WinStar, comes just a week before Microsoft's scheduled Windows 3.0 launch on May 22.

And Tommy Hawke, the bastard, used an off-the-board trick to get a lot of small developers from Stanford University to report to the Federal Trade Commission, claiming that Microsoft is trying to lure competitors to develop software for other operating systems with profits, so as to ensure that it does not fall into anti-competitive investigations, antitrust investigations, and thus dominate the application software market share.

To put it simply, Microsoft uses funds to support several small companies that compete with itself to develop application software for other operating systems through the EFF, an industry alliance organization, to ensure that they do not starve to death, but cannot grow, and their existence is just enough for Microsoft to cope with the investigation of the Federal Trade Commission, to show the federal government that it does not monopolize the market, nor does it encourage monopolies, but uses money to support healthy competition in the industry.

However, one of the things that made Microsoft very uncomfortable in the report was that the other party said that after Windows 3.0 was launched, it would have built-in text table processing software such as Word for Windows, and would not give users the opportunity to choose other software, which was a very serious malicious competition for other word table processing software development companies.

Therefore, the Federal Trade Investigation Commission is waiting to see Microsoft's press conference at the moment, and if there is really built-in Word and Excel software, the other party will be able to intervene in the investigation logically.

This is a very uncomfortable choice,If in order to avoid the investigation of the new built-in Word and other software,It will inevitably greatly affect the sales of Windows3.0,Because this upgrade can be said to be for enterprise users to work more conveniently and efficiently,After changing the new system,Whether it is to buy a new text table processing software,Or install the old software,It's not convenient enough,The most convenient is directly built-in。

But if it is retained, it is equivalent to giving the industry the opportunity to unite and beat itself, and the malicious competition is confirmed, and the developers of those word processing software and form processing software will definitely rush to the front and chase behind the Federal Trade Investigation Commission to find their own trouble, even if the final investigation of the commission can be settled with banknotes, what about the big and small companies that are chasing their own bites, will they be willing to let go if there is no oil and water?

The worst point is that Microsoft can't even use the same reason to find trouble with AmigaOS, although AmigaOS has built-in OSS office software, but the built-in home version was announced as early as many years ago that it will be forever free, and the more professional enterprise version still needs to be purchased separately, the problem of OSS was solved by Tommy long before AmigaOS was born, strictly speaking, OSS Home Edition and Enterprise Edition, although there is almost no difference in layout operation, but it is already two software, There is simply no way for Microsoft to bite OSS from a judicial point of view.

The Unix version developed by Microsoft, the MAC version of Word and other software, but it has always been paid commercial software, and now it is built into its own Windows system for free, is it not maliciously destroying the development of the industry?

But if Microsoft follows Tommy's example now, it will be too late, or too early, because Microsoft's public relations lobbying ability is not strong enough, at least it is not able to cover the sky in the computer industry, and Tommy's AmigaOS is backed by Stanford University, the owner of Silicon Valley, and the two sides license a large number of computer-related patents to each other, and there is no need to completely break up.

Therefore, in the face of the overwhelming news, Microsoft almost gritted its teeth and announced with a bitter smile that the news spread before was untrue, and Microsoft would not use the bundled sales of free built-in software to undermine the healthy development of the industry, and welcomed the Federal Trade Commission to investigate this.

I thought that Tommy made an off-board move, and AmigaOS must have something special, but after watching the press conference, all the faces of these people at Microsoft had expressions of crying and laughing?

Before the press conference, he took the initiative to attack Microsoft, and as a result, he came up with this thing?

Even if Tommy doesn't get people to report it, Microsoft isn't going to look at AmigaOS in the first place, because no enterprise user would equip their company with this kind of junk operating system.

Bill Gates gently pushed his fingers on the frame of his glasses on the bridge of his nose and looked at Steve Ballmer, the Harvard Fox brothers and current vice president of Microsoft, who was sitting in the third seat to his right: "What do you and your department think about this operating system?" ”

"To be honest, Tommy Hawk couldn't do this operating system developed by a couple of game otaku that made me want to harden a little bit as a sign of respect." With a disdainful smile on his face, Steve Ballmer said in the affirmative tone of Bill Gates.

It's not that he's arrogant, and if he's really a fool, he won't be able to gain Bill's trust, let alone stand out in Harvard's kind of university where the intrigues are more brutal than the White House, and join the Fox Club in his freshman year, which only admits six undergraduate members a year.

In fact, he had already experienced the old and new versions of AmigaOS many times before the press conference, and even the elites of the Windows development and sales department in charge of him had already studied AmigaOS clearly.

"For the first time, everyone, including our salespeople, their answers were so consistent, giving me a reason to buy this game system with two garbage games built-in? Is that a computer operating system? If you can accept that the interface of an operating system after opening does not have an interface manager, there is no program control panel, and it is just a few clicks on the screen, and they feel that they have learned the computer, then it can indeed be regarded as a home game console, and it can't be real. Steve Ballmer says what he has collected about AmigaOS:

"I think the British Arthur, the XTS-400, the West German Communix, the French SlitazGun and even the Japanese TRON, these operating systems are what we are more worried about, these European or Asian bastards who bought the Unix source code from AT&T and are now trying to make the rules with what they bought."

The few words that came out of his mouth are the code names of the operating systems developed by those countries themselves, and they are trying to rely on the economic subsidies of those countries to promote them in their own computer markets, increasing the difficulty of Windows invasion, if those operating systems are allowed to continue to be popular, it is likely that the final result is that there are a bunch of strange operating systems in the world, and then everyone sits together to formulate some kind of interoperable industry standards, and can no longer form a monopoly or unity of a single operating system. That's an unacceptable situation for Microsoft and Bill Gates right now.

Bill Gates looked at Steve Ballmer fixedly, his eyes behind the lenses were completely devoid of mood swings, as if he was unresponsive, completely unaware that the other party had finished speaking.

Steve Ballmer was surprised by Bill Gates' reaction, paused for a moment and continued:

"AmigaOS,This thing is a product of half a game console program and a MINIX variant pieced together,If you think you haven't heard of MINIX,Don't be surprised,It's a small Unix-like operating system,You can say it's a product of copying Unix,But because that thing has only been used for computer teaching before,So it didn't appear on the market at all,WinStar doesn't have its own imagination, AmigaOS is also not helpful for the development of computer application software, people just think that the picture depicted by the woman at the press conference is very tempting, in the Internet era, open the computer, open the website to browse the news, communicate with others, replace the traditional mailbox with e-mail, and deliver messages more quickly, if a fool believes the woman's nonsense, after buying the AmigaOS with the computer home, he will know how much it will cost him to connect to the Internet. Or how many public websites on this planet can be browsed by anyone without permission and account password verification? Twenty, thirty? Soon they found out that they had been deceived, and that the Internet age would definitely come, but not now, Tommy Hawk tried to get the public to skip those transition periods that he felt were unnecessary, and directly delivered the finished product to them, which is not realistic, unless there is an epoch-making miracle, scientific development is rational, there are no unrealistic miracles, which is why I am sure that AmigaOS will fail. ”

Bill Gates finally reacted this time, he took off his glasses and blinked, and then said: "Tommy Hawke has painted a very moving future for everyone, and that is also the future I see, and the future of computers should be like that, open our operating software, sit in front of the computer, and look down on the whole world." ”

After his eyes felt much more comfortable, he slowly put his glasses back on: "It's a pity, Tommy's idea is a bit ahead of his time, he hopes that the customer group who pays the bill for him can't afford the expensive peripheral expenses for the time being, and the enterprise users who can afford to pay will not be interested in AmigaOS, such as me, even if I put aside my position and choose purely from the perspective of a company leader, I can put an AmigaOS computer at home, but I will never let the company computer choose AmigaOS in the office, It's not that I'm partial to Windows, but what AmigaOS shows so far, it's not helpful for big commercial companies to generate profits, and it's not competitive with us in terms of professionalism. ”

"That's what I'm talking about, unless there is an epoch-making miracle, such as getting these telecom service providers in the United States to collectively lower the price of cabbage." Steve Ballmer said from the side.

Bill Gates slowly stood up and ended this internal mini-meeting: "So, going forward, our focus is still on the UK and Japan, to make sure that after our Windows 3.0 is launched, we will continue to expand our market share in these two countries, regardless of marketing costs, and don't give them the opportunity to use the messy operating systems in their own countries." ”

(End of chapter)