The summer vacation continued. In just a few days, because of Caesar's arrival, the originally spacious house suddenly seemed countless times bustling. At least every morning, watching Caesar's meals became a regular show at home. Even in order to see it drinking milk, eating biscuits, and playing with everyone, grandparents were no longer nostalgic for their homes in the central region. They lived in Culver for a long time before going back.

On the first day of August, the sun rose and the moment it was after Alice had just finished her morning jog and returned home, following her tired Oscar.

"Yo, Caesar, is it now?"

At the dining table, Caesar was gnawing on the cookies with satisfaction, while James covered his head behind the newspaper, but couldn't see it.

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Seeing Alice enter the house, Caesar waved happily at her.

James put down the newspaper after hearing the sound: "Vivi, when you went out just now, Mr. Gates hung up the phone at home, his tone was a little anxious. I told him that you were back soon. How about it? Call back quickly?"

Alice hadn't had breakfast yet, she frowned and said, "Dad, are you sure he was here at this time?"

James shrugged: "Of course, and I was really anxious when I heard his tone. You can call back quickly, otherwise, look!"

The phone rings in the corridor. For many years, the phone at home has been ringing in the morning. This has almost never happened. Alice drank a full bowl of milk in one gulp and walked towards the corridor with a puzzled look on her face.

"Hey, Bill?"

There was indeed Gates' voice across the phone: "Alice, big business, we encountered a big business!"

Alice raised her eyebrows, and her mood that she had not cared about was immediately taken back. The big business that could surprise Gates, especially during this period, would definitely be an important event that could affect Microsoft's development.

"Does anyone want to cooperate with us in the big business?"

I heard Gates say, "That's right! Uh Alice, I think you should know that we have close business dealings with Microsoft, right?"

Alice nodded clearly: "Yes, the system was developed for them at the beginning, and then Microsoft happened to take this ride. Before I came, your annual marketing volume of 100 million was just relying on it."

"You know very clearly. But now, new business is coming, and I want our computers to load the NSS system!"

Gates spoke in a very excited tone, but Alice rolled her eyes silently.

I thought it was a big deal.

She leaned against the wall casually: "Sell it to them, one hundred dollars accumulating plate, see how many pieces they want."

Gates paused for a moment, and when it sounded again, the originally high-pitched voice calmed a lot: "Oh sorry, I didn't say the whole thing. That's right, Alice, you should know, the main business area is commercial main computers. So they want us to develop an operating system specifically for workstations, network servers and main computers!"

This time, Alice grew her mouth silently.

She immediately understood what was going on.

This time it was indeed not a trivial matter.

"Is the network operating system? No problem, what did the other party say specifically?"

After suppressing other ideas, Alice asked: "Is it our side development or cooperation? What about the task cycle? Of course, there is also what I value the most, how about the reward?"

"I hope to jointly develop with us, so the task cycle naturally depends on cooperation. Of course, the remuneration is not a problem. For a whole commercial computer system, you can imagine how many copies we can sell!"

The next one was a brief business meeting, but this was breakfast time after all, so Gates didn't say much to Alice. After arguing that he would meet in Seattle in a few days, he hung up the phone early.

At this time, people had already gathered on the dining table, and Sophie smiled and said, "Is there a business again?"

Alice took a deep breath and sat at the dining table. When she picked up the knife and fork, her face was full of smiles: "What did you think of when you asked to jointly develop an Internet operating system with Microsoft?"

Almost without hesitation, Oscar shouted, "Cisco!"

Alice lit her head hard, Sophie and James both showed joy, while Caesar was just eating her own biscuits, but Hannah said inexplicably: "Don't Cisco already have one? Isn't that just fighting for business with us?"

As soon as these words came out, even Oscar laughed, let alone the others on the dining table. Realizing that he had said the wrong thing, Hannah frowned in entanglement and asked what was wrong.

"The idiot Hannah is for Internet hardware products, and the one she wants is a computer operating system."

Alice laughed and waved her fingers: "Do you understand? It is specially used to set the parameters of routers and theirs. It is a simple program for computers. The one I want is specifically used to operate large commercial computers, workstations and servers, and a whole computer operating system, understand?"

Hannah frowned hard: "Maybe I probably understand almost. Well, I'm going to make money again anyway?"

“Yes, it’s going to make money again”

Alice summed up the whole thing in one sentence. She knew that she was busy again this summer vacation.

There is no need to doubt that the so-called operating system that I want to develop with Microsoft is ns.

In a short period of time, Alice was unable to analyze why this cooperation was advanced. Logically speaking, this operating system should be developed in a few years, but since she built Cisco in advance

"Maybe that's why?"

After breakfast, she came to the bedroom, but not to go back to bed, and flipping through the many complicated documents in the books, Alice quickly figured out a little.

In fact, the whole situation will be backwards for several months.

In general, after Cisco expanded some time ago, it had more than 40 employees and millions of working capital. With this human resources, cash resources, and a router that designed it with its fully mature and highly efficient router, the company's market size is growing bigger and bigger. Isn't it that Lucent Technology's small plot appeared not long ago?

As the well-deserved boss of the industry, Blue Giant will realize the potential of this field, and it is reasonable to intervene. After all, in general, the industry is just those things, nothing more than hardware, software, mainframes, personal computers, communications, infrastructure, and other fields.

In this area of ​​Silicon Valley, everyone has always had both competition and cooperation, and has blossomed in one or more fields. Just imagine how many industry leaders wanted to get involved in the field of unmanned vehicles later, although they each had their own main business.

"And, if it's really ns, it's definitely a key to Microsoft's takeoff."

Looking through the information in his hand and recalling the information from his previous life, Alice immediately came to such a conclusion.

In fact, according to normal history, this cooperation ended up in an unhappy manner.

When it was initially jointly developed, the system was called 2, which was divided into Microsoft's rs2 and 2. After the agreement failed, it continued to provide the previous 2 version to the market. Microsoft changed its 2 name to ns, that is, the first generation of NS31.

After they studied separately, Microsoft's specific approach at that time was to recruit a group of personnel from a company called digital equipment to set up a department to develop it.

And it's really been a long time of development.

Alice remembers clearly the information. This project started around 1987, but it was already 1993 when it was launched.

In addition, there is a person who has to be mentioned in this development activity, and that person plays a crucial role.

It was a guy named David Cutler, an absolute old guy. He graduated in 1965 and worked in DuPont, and then worked in the business of the company. He formed a brand new computer series called rs. Unfortunately, the project was finally cancelled by the company, so Cutler left. This system was the prototype of the later system.

Cutler came to Microsoft through a friend's introduction, and even Gates was in awe of this old senior. He was harsh, cold, lazy, confused, and had no competitiveness as his enemy. He was not only a legendary programmer, but also a great project manager.

Because the development of NS has been a long time, cost a lot of people, and has an unprecedented interpretation of software engineering.

Five years of hard development, costing US$1.5 billion, and having more than 200 members, this cost is not in vain.

You should know that looking at the various terminals and even any type of network equipment in the later information age, the software part is nothing more than two aspects. One is the Internet hardware operating system, which sets router and switch parameters, and the other is the operating system used for the server computer itself, Microsoft's NS series.

Not only is it the king of personal computer operating systems, but also the king of network computer operating systems. Microsoft's wide layout of N.S. naturally brings well-deserved power. Thinking about the tenth person on the list of Forbes' power rankings in later generations, the presidents, presidents, chief Federal Reserve officials, etc., isn't that guy Bill Gates?

So, after learning that Microsoft was going to develop this system, if it weren't for the timely control, Alice would have been unable to help but dance yangko on the spot.

After all, she is still developing Cisco, isn't she? To be continued.
Chapter completed!