Just as Alice silently gloats, Gates has not had a good life recently.

13 All along, according to Gates' joke, there are always two mountains above Microsoft. These two mountains have always provided him with full motivation, but at the same time they also have strong pressure.

One is ibm, whose status in the computer world is unrivaled. When the company was able to develop, it borrowed the light of developing the Dos system for ibm. Although the two have been working together for many years, Gates is very clear that this giant has the idea of ​​taking over himself every moment.

The other is Apple. Although this mountain is much smaller than ibm, it puts pressure on Gates far more than the former. Apple's establishment date is one year later than Microsoft, but it was launched six years earlier, and its scale just now exceeded that of Microsoft after it was launched. It can be said that Gates has always been under great pressure under the premise that the two founders are only eight months apart.

But what's amazing is that in the past two years when Alice joined the company strongly, these two mountains that had been spanning the top of Microsoft suddenly fell down one by one!

First of all, of course it is Apple. Gates is really very moved by the fact that Jobs was kicked out of his company. I heard that in January this year, the old guy named Jobs became interested in computer graphics and spent a full ten million US dollars to buy Lucasfilm's computer department from Lucas, who was in a divorce storm. He planned to start with animated movies and develop new computer technology, but there are no results yet.

As for ibm...

In fact, until now, Gates is puzzled by this.

He has been working with ibm for many years, and he has a competitive and cooperative relationship, and is familiar with the executives therein. Although companies sometimes take disgraceful measures when suppressing their competitors, they are like invading the exchange to modify data while the other party is listed...

Gates believed they could do it, and this was not a technical problem, especially late at night, and the exchange programmers were definitely not as good as the ibm elite.

The problem is, this method seems to be too advanced, right?

Gates had a meeting with Allen, Alice and all executives afterwards. Everyone unanimously stated that if ibm had not done such a move, they would have never thought that they could have suppressed their competitors through this method!

Not to mention how surprised and grateful Alan was, even Alice, the founder of Cisco, looked shocked at the time.

In this way, the grand blue giant was hit hard. The court complaint jointly filed by Nasdaq and Microsoft has been accepted. Even though ibm repeatedly claimed that he was innocent, the first round of confrontation had to end in a crushing defeat. After all, the evidence presented by the complainant was real. Cisco's product order records, the data packet records of routers in the exchange, and the data packet records of the ibm computer room routers that were forced to investigate and collect evidence in a timely manner are all facts that the company's senior management cannot defend.

It was through this incident that Gates realized more clearly how huge Alice’s energy in the entire IT world is.

Cisco is developing with an unstoppable momentum. It is precisely because of this accident at ibm that the little girl has been linked to the White House. For most of the government agencies on the East Coast, if ordinary marketing managers are asked to go through one by one, how long will it take for this business to come down?

From a macro perspective, Gates is very sure of Microsoft's development momentum, but he also clearly realizes that such momentum is largely dependent on Alice's existence and its journey.

One night, Gates couldn't sleep and carefully calculated the accounts on the bedroom desk.

Let’s take a look at the current situation of the company.

There is no doubt that the future computer operating system will inevitably be a graphical user interface, namely Apple's Macintosh and Microsoft's Windows. As for the company's early Dos system, anyone who compares the present and the past will make an unquestionable choice. In other words, this early Microsoft product obviously will quickly lose its vitality.

And the good start of Windows was brought by Alice.

Then, when ibm came to seek cooperation, anyone with a discerning eye could see what role Alice played in the current WindowsNT project.

When the two companies first built a cooperative team, Microsoft could only produce about twenty people, while ibm threw out two hundred people like a sale in the vegetable market!

However, the task progress is consistent, and there is only one reason why Microsoft can keep up, which is the existence of Alice, the consultant of their technical team.

Then now, when ibm had to make fun of cooperation due to recent situations and Microsoft also used its listing to collect 200 programmers, Alice also used this new combat power to increase the research and development speed of related projects.

Sometimes, Gates can't help but wonder how many senior programmers can Alice graduate from MIT, California, and Stanford graduates?

Two hundred are correct, what about the limit?

Gates knew clearly that Alice alone was equivalent to the productivity of Microsoft, and it was at least 500 people. It is no exaggeration to say that if she chose to set up a company of the same type, she would be able to slap the current Microsoft every minute.

Otherwise, how could Gates and Allen agree to give Alice a full 30% share of its post-listing shares?

Then she is still the well-deserved boss of Cisco, and the other two partners add up to only 30% of the shares. Sometimes when she wakes up in the middle of the night, Gates will be afraid of the power that the girl has.

So now, just in the autumn of 1986, when Microsoft was in trouble, Gates's depression was really intense.

The development of Windows 20 was precisely because he and Allen completely abandoned Alice and worked with the old Microsoft employees. In order to avoid being involved in the previous work to the greatest extent, Gates even went to Apple to personally stroll around and plagiarized the interface mode of Macintosh a little...

As a result, ideals are full and reality is skinny.

The 20 system has been on sale for two months, but countless users have said after learning about the new system interface that they are not willing to buy this model that is extremely similar to Macintosh computers.

For example, the interface after the file explorer is opened, the 10 system will be turned off, and the maximum and minimize buttons are set on the right side, but the 20 system will be moved to the left side. This not only brings huge troubles to old users, but it is also obviously imitating Apple!

This time, I really shot myself in the foot. Just looking at the recent fluctuations in stock prices, it is obvious. Many competitors even published articles saying that they were looking forward to Apple's infringement protest against Microsoft as soon as possible. Gates clearly realized that if they did not launch the 30 system soon and truly achieved some achievements, the company would inevitably be in greater trouble.

It is easy to say that they want to make a comeback. Gates knew that as long as they were willing to use Alice's big killer weapon, and then let her be responsible for developing the next 30 systems and return to the old path of the previous 10, it would definitely not be a problem.

The problem is that in this way, Alice's position in the company will be even more unshakable.

Gates is not a person with great power. He knows that he is not just a business owner, but a simple technician. If Microsoft can really carry forward the world in Alice's hands, and the Windows system will occupy most of the global operating system like a god's help, it will of course be a happy event.

But the problem is...

He Gates can't show off...

Alice snatched away all the limelight...

Obviously, the dos I invented is also very good, why does the world in the future have to be the world of graphical user interfaces...

Ah~ It seems like inventing a time machine, ah no, according to Alice's words, the law of cause and effect is the magical horse, so that the future world will still stick to the dos system as king...

No, social progress is still necessary, that is, make a wish not to let Alice appear, let me Bill Gates invent Windows...

In addition to being depressed, Gates really roared like this in his heart. According to Alice's words, his current mood is really like a dog, or a dog, and his whole body is full of negative energy.

By the way, why is even the way you complain is defined by Alice?

Is Alice everywhere?

With a bang, Gates grabbed the ground with his head. Oh no, he grabbed the table with his head, and he couldn't get up with his head on the desk.

At this moment, it is mid-September, and the location is Gates' home in Seattle.

"Bill?"

Hearing a sound in his son's bedroom, Mary Gates knocked on the door: "Are you okay?"

"It's okay, mom, I'm fine..."

When he said this, Gates' head was still lying on the table.

"Don't work too late, Bill."

Mary stood at the door and said with a little concern: "I know the company has some troubles recently, but you should also pay more attention to your health. The results cannot be achieved in just one or two days. You have to combine work and rest."

"I know, mom~"

After Mary left the door, Gates raised his head.

After thinking about it, it seems that it is inevitable to let Alice be responsible for the development of the third generation of windows.

After all, everyone in the company has been watching the executives' decisions. If you still have to leave Alice behind after you find a new product that doesn't get good results, you still have to leave Alice behind to develop the third generation, and Alice doesn't have to do anything, and your position in the hearts of employees will naturally plummet.

"Speaking of this little girl, what are you busy with now?"

When he picked up the phone and was about to dial Alice, Gates suddenly realized that the other party was no longer in the United States.
Chapter completed!