Zhou Shuo shook his head and looked at Farrell and said, "Will Microsoft ask Xerox to sell their graphics operating system patent?"

Farrell was stunned when he heard this, and then he carefully looked at Zhou Shuolai. He began to re-evaluate him in his heart. This Chinese could actually know that the patent for the graphics operating system was in the hands of Xerox, which shows that it was not a person who was easy to fool. Although these are all information that can be collected on the surface, in this era, it would be very special for Chinese people who could notice this.

Although Microsoft is the owner of the most powerful operating system software in the future, people often ignore Xerox, who has been hiding behind it.

Xerox ranked 15th in the 2008 high-profit technology company ranking. Although this company established in 1906 is not obvious to the public, it is an amazing century-old store. Xerox's most famous product is its electrostatic copy machine, but it includes personal computers, mouse, windows drop-down menus, desktop fax machines and LANs. These ordinary but extraordinary things are actually its inventions.

The extraordinary thing about this company is that it uses its patents to form an electronics industry alliance. And it hides behind the alliance and shares the nutrition of the entire system. The network equipment giant Cisco's local area network technology comes from it; Compaq's personal computer technology comes from it; IBM cooperates with it in server technology; Microsoft's GUI technology also comes from it...

Of course, such alliances also exist between Application Materials and Intel, between Intel and Dell, and will exist between Qualcomm and Apple in the future, as well as more electronic technology companies. Their technologies overlap each other, authorized to use, and eventually intertwined into a tight network, blocking all threats from outside the network.

Farrell smiled indifferently and said, "If Xerox's GUI patent is for sale, Microsoft will of course be interested."

Zhou Shuo looked at him deeply and retorted: "But Microsoft dare not tell Xerox that I want your patent."

Farrell spread his hands and shook his head and said, "But you are not Xerox either!"

Seeing that the two of them were verbal and the smell of gunpowder became stronger and stronger, James hurried out to smooth things over and said, "Farrell, sit down first, let's say anything slowly."

The restaurant waiter happened to bring a chair for him at this time. Farrell pulled the chair over and sat down. He stretched out a finger and said to Zhou Shuo: "How about ten million US dollars? Can you spend so much money in your life in China?"

Zhou Shuo gently cut off a piece of the top steak, dipped it in the sauce and put it in his mouth. He chewed it carefully for a while, and swallowed it slowly. Just when Farrell was almost impatient, he said, "Is this Microsoft's attitude towards customers?"

"Hi, boy!" Farrell knocked on the table and looked at him arrogantly and said, "Not everyone can do Microsoft's customers. You look down on yourself too much. If you don't want to sell, go back to China as soon as possible."

Zhou Shuo was a little surprised. Does Microsoft care about Netscape's threat? As the head of Microsoft's browser project, Farrell actually had this attitude towards network communication software patents, which is too strange.

He didn't know that his memory was indeed wrong here. Microsoft's main business was always the operating system. For browsers, it was better to have it, and it didn't seem to matter. From the perspective of hindsight, Netscape was also trying to kill himself.

Netscape, which was a successful first-generation browser, quickly became self-inflated. It wanted to develop a network application system that allows users to operate through browsers, which hit Microsoft's pain. Microsoft was worried that Netscape might threaten its operating system and application market, so in 1995, he bought the authorization of the first generation Mosaic from Telescope Entertainment Company and developed IE based on this, and entered the browser market. The two sides started a browser war.

Before Netscape showed its ambitions, Microsoft was contacting Zhou Shuo with the idea of ​​having no dates but having no dates. Network communication software technology is indeed very attractive, but it is not necessary for Microsoft. Specifically for Farrell, if Zhou Shuo is no longer willing to contact Microsoft about patent issues, then the settings of the browser project will no longer be meaningful, and he can naturally return to the operating system project team.

Zhou Shuo shook his head and sighed, "Since that's the case, I have to contact other software companies."

This is by no means a good choice.

Whether it is Netscape browser or instant messaging software ICQ, for Microsoft, it is a stepping stone for it to ascend to the software overlord. When Microsoft took the banner of monopoly, Netscape and ICQ eventually turned into dust in history. In terms of the browser war with Netscape, Microsoft's IE performance is neither outstanding, and its kernel is not open, but it relies on the operating system to tie Netscape to the bottom. Even though Netscape later sued Microsoft for a successful monopoly, Microsoft fined a huge sum of US$750 million, but Netscape, which once had a market value of US$8 billion, had long disappeared.

After this battle, Microsoft's bully's face was undoubtedly revealed. Facing the enemy that threatens him, monopoly is its knife, and patent protection is not the shield of the victim. Looking at Microsoft's way, the style of "I just have unfair competition, monopoly, and infringement, and I will defeat you first if I accept compensation!" is always accompanied by it and its enemies.

In front of such a monster, can Zhou Shuo feel a sense of security even if he owns the patent for instant messaging software?

Of course, Microsoft in 1994 was not as domineering as such. So before Microsoft formed a monopoly fact, Zhou Shuo's best way was to become its ally rather than its enemy.

Farrell shrugged and said innocently: "Then I can only wish you good luck."

After saying that, he turned around and left.

After the meal, after James and the other two were gone, Zhou Shuo sat in the car and yawned.

Pang Zhou set his car on fire and asked, "Master, why don't you take you back to the hotel to have a rest first?"

Zhou Shuo waved his hand, rubbed his eyes and said, "No, let's go to the company first. I'll endure it and have a good night's sleep. This way, the time difference during the day will turn around tomorrow."

"Okay." Pang Zhou skillfully reversed and drove, and integrated into the traffic on the road.

When the car arrived downstairs of the company, Zhou Shuo looked out. He saw that this was a four-story low building, all white. The first floor seemed to be a supermarket, and there was a large parking lot in front of the door. On the roof was a plaque with a huge logo printed on it. It seemed that the company was the owner of the office building.

Zhou Shuo turned his head and was about to ask Yu Qiong to get off the car together, but he saw that she was already lying quietly in the back seat and fell asleep. Pang Zhou also wanted to wake her up, Zhou Shuo shook his head, got off the car lightly, and locked the door.

Zhou Shuo stood by the car, sighed and said, "Yu Qiong is also exhausted, so let her sleep for a while, let's go up."

"Oh, okay." Pang Zhou nodded, then carried his elder brother and led the way in front of Zhou Shuo.

The two went up the second floor and went to a corner. This was a large compartment, with a 200-square-meter area divided into two pieces, one large and one small. On the large one there were seven or eight desks in the office area, and on the small one, they were arranged into a manager's office.

In the office area, two people, Yihuang and Bai, were chatting with nothing. Seeing Pang Zhou coming, the Huang race quickly stood up and said in Chinese with Cantonese flavor: "Boss Pang, you are back. Who is this?"

Pang Zhou pointed at Zhou Shuo and said, "Let me introduce it. This is our investor in the new computer science computer industry in China, Mr. Zhou Shuo. That is my boss and my master. Master, this is my translator Lao Wang, who is a Malay Chinese."

The white man was a handsome guy with brown hair and blue eyes, looking like he was in his twenties. When he saw Pang Zhou coming, he stood up lazily and greeted him listlessly: "Hi, Pang."

The yellow race translated Pang Zhou's words to him, and the handsome white guy just smiled slightly at Zhou Shuo, then went back and continued to do nothing.

Pang Zhou sighed and said to Zhou Shuo: "This man is called Brown. Master, don't be as knowledgeable as him. I'm here to serve as a storefront. You know, in this place in the United States, it's too difficult to do something."

Zhou Shuo looked around at the office and said unconsciously: "Oh, it's okay. How much is the rent for this place?"

When Pang Zhou heard his question, he said excitedly: "The rent here is only 1,500 US dollars a month, which is the cheapest I have found."

Zhou Shuo shook his head, frowned and said, "Get out of here."

Pang Zhou said in amazement: "Refund? But I have already paid the rent and deposit. If I refund it now, I will not be able to get the deposit back..."

Zhou Shuo said firmly: "That's the withdrawal, we can't be the headquarters of the new science department in the United States."

"Then... OK." Pang Zhou agreed unhappily due to his trust in Zhou Shuo.

Zhou Shuo patted his shoulder and said, "It's not that you did not do well, but the situation has changed now. Since Microsoft's cooperation cannot be expected for the time being, we must support ourselves. The office conditions are the face of the company and we will never be careless."

Hearing Zhou Shuo say this, Pang Zhou became happy again. He nodded and said, "Then Master, what are your requirements? I'll do you want to do it now."

Zhou Shuo stretched out three fingers and said, "The house, people, and cars, all three must be done before the COMDEX exhibition. Rent the next floor in the office building in the high-end office area. In the initial recruitment of employees, there must be at least 30 business personnel and five technicians. For official vehicles, three will come first."

When Pang Zhou heard his plan, he was stunned and said, "Master, this costs a lot of money..."
Chapter completed!