In the field of personal computer hardware, Chen Zhiwen is not too sure about the future of Midea, but with the various terminal retail channels he has prepared and the fact that he can rely on mainland production to reduce costs in the future, there will always be some markets, but they may not be as good as several other products, which can destroy and gain a huge market share.

And even so, it is completely possible to obtain a share in this market through other methods, such as investment, Lenovo, Dell, etc. in later generations still did not appear, although history may have changed in this life, but it will not affect the ability of these founders, they will still succeed sooner or later, they just need to pay attention in advance, wait for the right investment time, on the line. In the next ten years, Chen Zhiwen also has a greater certainty that he can have a stronger influence on retail terminals in Europe and the United States, plus a Best Buy specializing in the retail of electronic products, no matter what brand, from which country, as long as you want to become bigger in the field of electronic consumption, you have to cooperate with him more or less, and some giants who can grow in later generations will have the capital to negotiate when they are young.

Of course, Lenovo's situation is still a bit special, and it may be necessary to intervene at that time, and how to do it will need to wait until the time comes.

And some software, is the main market of Midea Group in the computer field in the future, word and Excel are just the beginning, and the potential of other market segments is also very large, however, this requires a premise, that is, the global operating system, as much as possible to unify it, otherwise, its own various software, you need to match different brands of computers, not to mention the workload, but also easy to give competitors other opportunities.

However, the operating system, the United States can't do it, the main reason, naturally, is that if you want to get a huge benefit from this piece, there must be the first global hegemonic government behind it, even if it is a European company, to create a better quality system, there is no way to popularize, besides, from a technical point of view, the Windows system also needs to rely on Intel, which is also one of the important technology companies in the United States, and outsiders can't operate it.

Since there is no way to operate, it is natural to find a way to get a little economic benefit.

After staying in Los Angeles for a few days and learning more about the achievements of the United States branch in the United States, Chen Zhiwen came to Redmond, Washington, USA, which is also the place where Microsoft was founded and the headquarters of Microsoft in the future.

Washington State, which shares the name with the city of Washington, is located in the northeastern part of the United States, next to Canada, thousands of kilometers away from Washington, the capital of the United States.

The person who came to pick up the airport was the deputy director of Citibank in Washington State, and with Chen Zhiwen's company, it has also cooperated with Citibank on many large-scale investments many times, involving more than a billion US dollars, so it has naturally become a super VIP customer of Citibank.

"Hello Mr. Chen, I'm Millell, the director of Citibank in Washington State." A middle-aged lady of about 50 years old said very politely.

"Hello, Ms. Mirel." Chen Zhiwen also replied politely that in the financial field, there are many female assistants, but few of them are in high positions.

"Mr. Chen, we have prepared the presidential suite of the InterContinental Hotel, you can have a good rest first." Millaire said with a smile.

Chen Zhiwen shook his head and said, "No need, it's only two hours from Los Angeles here, let's go get down to business first, right?" Is it convenient for me to go to Microsoft's headquarters now? ”

"Absolutely, the two founders of Microsoft are very welcoming to you." Millaire said.

"Okay, let's go first." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.

Although, in his capacity, he has a lot of popularity within the American technology industry, especially the history of investing in Apple, which has made him an idol in the investment industry.

But suddenly came to Microsoft, it's still not suitable, fame is famous, but who knows if the person who came is himself? It is also necessary to give Gates and others a buffer time, so it is most convenient to have an intermediary who both parties know and has status to refer.

It's okay to find Jobs, Jobs also knows Bill Gates, but the history of the two is a bit entangled, it's better not to be troublesome, and to find a financial institution, it's much simpler. Microsoft also had a partnership with Citibank in Washington state, so it was natural to entrust Citi.

The car soon came to a small five-story office building, and the building itself did not have any company markings on it, except for a "MICROSOFT" company logo at the entrance.

After everyone got out of the car, Chen Zhiwen saw the world-famous face of the future generations at a glance: Bill Gates, there is another person next to him, relatively thin, it should be Paul Allen, who will be diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma next year, this disease basically does not live long for ordinary people, but because of money, this has been renewing his life with the most expensive treatment, and then has lived until 2018.

"Hello Mr. Chen, it's a pleasure to meet you." After seeing Chen Zhiwen and his entourage get out of the car, Bill Gates immediately stepped forward and said that although he had never met, with Chen Zhiwen's current reputation in the American technology industry, it was not difficult to know what he looked like.

"Hello, Mr. Gates." Chen Zhiwen also smiled and shook hands, Bill Gates, regardless of his status in the field of science and technology, that is, his investment in charity in the future is worthy of respect, although charity in the United States also has the purpose of tax avoidance, and the Gates Foundation also left most of the charitable funds in the United States, but this is too large, even if a small part is given to people in need, the amount of help is very large, and some of them are donated to the mainland.

"Let me introduce, this is my friend Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, and this is the CEO of Microsoft" Bill Gates introduced several heavyweights one after another, and the others are just passers-by.

Chen Zhiwen responded politely, and then, under the leadership of Gates, Chen Zhiwen and his entourage visited Microsoft's headquarters and laboratories, etc., but they were only superficial things, and the core products would not be displayed at will.

Afterwards, several people came to an office, which was supposed to be Gates's, and in the reception area facing the sun, there were several plush sofas.

After sitting down, a secretary brought coffee, and Chen Zhiwen said: "Mr. Gates, I came to Microsoft this time to reach a certain cooperation in some software fields. ”

"Mr. Chen, please speak." Bill Gates suddenly became interested, whether it is the other party's capital or Midea's position in the electronics field, it is much stronger than Microsoft, such a person comes to Microsoft to cooperate, or the boss comes in person, it must be of great significance.

"I know that IBM is currently using the operating system provided by Microsoft, and although we have released our own personal computers, we still are not perfect in terms of operating systems, so we also want to introduce Microsoft's operating system." Chen Zhiwen said.

At the end of last year, Microsoft reached a partnership with IBM to provide IBM with an operating system on personal computers, which can also be said to be the predecessor of Windows.

This cooperation is of great significance in the history of computers, IBM because of excessive attention to hardware, and contracted the operating system software to Microsoft, Microsoft is also through the massive users of this platform, obtained the first pot of gold and a large number of customers, so as to start the iterative upgrade of its own operating system, and finally evolved into the later generation of technology giant Microsoft Corporation.

This is the starting point of Microsoft's rise, therefore, Chen Zhiwen has been waiting for this thing to be completed, before he came over, otherwise, prematurely intervening in Microsoft, in case of their cooperation with IBM is gone, it will completely change history, this is different from the original investment in Apple, Apple's rise, is completely Woz's strong technical ability, Jobs's market acumen, who contributed the capital, are the same.

Moreover, now that Midea has launched its own computer, the cooperation with Microsoft is even more justified.

"That's no problem, we can definitely give Midea a good price, the same as IBM." Bill Gates said with a smile. Although the United States computer is just starting, but the capital behind it is abundant, in the whole United States, it is estimated that there are only a handful, and the United States launched a split design, office software and game software, have been praised by many IT enthusiasts and the media, this potential is great, maybe not as good as IBM, but its own operating system, can have one more market, it must be one more.

"The price can be negotiated, but I think your operating system is not too perfect at the moment, and it would be better if there were some additions." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.

"What's the addition?" Bill Gates asked curiously.

"Your system platform is very good, and the level of fluency is very high, but these are not enough, if you add my company's word, Excel and a few games, it will definitely be more popular." Chen Zhiwen said again.

(End of chapter)