While Du Qiu was chatting at the door of Lin Dawei's car repair shop, in the Pearl Holiday Hotel, which is only more than 800 meters away from him, Brad Silverberg was standing in front of the window of the suite, frowning and smoking a cigar.

Silverberg is a tall white man with a terrible hairline. His first half of his forehead is bare and looks a little fierce. He is called "Silverberg's nanny" within Microsoft. This nickname does not mean that he is gentle, but that he is as harsh and nagging as an evil nanny, because he has the idea of ​​pursuing perfection like a hacker and being as ruthless as a soldier. Every time he tests a product, he can always pick out countless problems and problems, which makes his programmers suffer and complain.

If Microsoft's internal power structure is compared according to the Chinese official rules, Bill Gates is the secretary and mayor, Steve Ballmer is the executive vice mayor, and Silverberg is the real-powered deputy mayor in charge of industry. Even if he is not the first among dozens of senior vice presidents, he is at least the top three, because he is responsible for the research and development of Windos95. Windos95 has more than 800 engineers, and is the largest R&D team in Microsoft, or the world's software industry in history.

Although the position is high and the power is important, it may not be easy to rest. The forest is big, and there are all kinds of birds. The struggle is everywhere. The development process of Windos95 is very difficult because it needs to be backward compatible. In order to take care of tens of millions of Dos applications, the new system can only use a 16/32-bit mixed kernel, which leads to extreme instability and often crashes. After finally solving this problem, new problems arise. People from the Windos-NT R&D team came over to pick peaches.

Windos-nt was developed by an independent group led by a technically stunning expert by Bill Gates. It uses a pure 32-bit kernel and is considered a perfect next-generation operating system. It is a high-end product of Microsoft. Windos95 is considered a transitional product and a low-end product. However, under the leadership of Silverberg, Windos95 has developed a new user graphical interface, which is beautiful and practical, greatly reducing the threshold for ordinary users. It is not known how high the graphical interface that is still in use in Windos-nt.

High-end products use low-level user graphics interfaces, and low-end products use high-level user graphics interfaces, just like Chanel packs it in plastic bags, and street stalls are as stupid as velvet packaging. The Windos-NT R&D team strongly demands that the user graphics interface be transplanted. The Windos95 R&D team is naturally unwilling to do so, and they argued over it and beat the lawsuit to Bill Gates. After a meeting full of powder smell, because there was not much time left for the release, Bill Gates finally supported Windos95 and temporarily refrigerated Windos-NT.

Silverberg was grateful to Bill Gates for this, but after less than two months, gratitude turned into annoyance, because Bill Gates published the memo titled "Internet Wave", asking to integrate msn and browser into Windows 95. msn belongs to the network department and has little contact with the operating system department. When they brought the product over, Silverberg almost got angry to death.

These idiots actually invented a set of inexplicable network protocols, which are incompatible with the most commonly used tcp/ip protocol on the Internet!

What's even more troublesome is that the msn R&D team has no idea that Windos95 uses a brand new user graphical interface, and the written programs cannot run on the new system!

The browser's situation is even worse. Because it is not valued, the R&D team with only 6 employees is very excluded. It has neither resources nor bonuses, and its morale is very low. It has not achieved any results in the first half of the year, and it still uses the garbage I bought for $2 million in December last year to do "research"...

Windos95 is scheduled to be released on August 24, and will start production and make CDs in July. It is only more than 50 days before it starts production. Brad Silverberg is in a hurry to seek medical treatment, so he had to force the msn R&D team to rewrite the program while sending people to acquire Snapdragon, hoping to get the IVE browser.

No matter which industry it is, as long as it is a big company, bureaucracy cannot be avoided. The R&D department is in a hurry, but the acquisition department is not too slow and still plays the trick of slow-cooking according to the previous routine. Silverberg waited for a long time, and waited for almost a month, but before he could find out, he almost turned into a Super Saiyan, killing the acquisition department into a slag.

In desperation, he had to take action himself, arrested a few strong men from the acquisition department, stuffed them into a private plane, headed straight to Silicon Valley, and then went to China accompanied by Zhou Yuan, intending to cut the mess quickly and solve the browser's problems as quickly as possible.

What a group of idiots, they just threw it out for $2 million in buying garbage, but they couldn't bear to spend money on good things!

A small company with a valuation of only US$20 million can be bought directly. As long as Windos95 can be listed at the scheduled time, the amount of money will be earned back in a few hours...

Silverberg was complaining about the acquisition department in his heart, but when he heard a knock on the door outside, he walked over and opened the door and saw two people standing outside, one man and one woman, Du Jiabin, general manager of Microsoft Beijing Office, who didn't know the young and beautiful woman.

"Brad, this is Mr. Du Qiu's secretary. Her name is Jiang Danfeng. You can call her Miss Jiang."

"Mr. Silverberg, I'm glad to see you."

"Hello Miss Jiang. Please come in."

Mingzhu Holiday is the only five-star hotel in Sanjiang Province. The ordinary rooms are in good condition, but the top suite is much worse than the five-star hotel in Beijing or New York. The largest suite is only 40 square meters, and the living room is very small. Even if only 3 people come in, it seems a bit cramped.

"Mr. Silverberg, is it still a habit to live here?"

"It's good at night, and there's a little noise outside during the day." Gao Mingda was very careful. After learning that Microsoft's big shots were coming to Yuncheng, he rearranged the items in the suite according to American living habits, including a lot of foreign wine. Silverberg picked up a bottle of whiskey from the cabinet and signaled: "Drink some?"

Du Jiabin is a fat middle-aged man with big ears and a slightly fat figure. He nodded and said, "I'll do some."

Jiang Danfeng declined politely, took out an invitation from his bag and said, "Mr. Silverberg, I am commissioned by Mr. Du Qiu to invite you and Mr. Du Jiabin to attend his family gathering. I hope you can come."

"Family party?" Silverberg said in surprise, "but I have never met Mr. Du, and I don't know him or his family."

Du Jiabin is known for his good social skills. He met Silverberg several times and was familiar with him. He explained: "Brad, in Chinese culture, it is a very high etiquette to invite strangers to family gatherings."

"Oh, so that's the case, then I'm very honored."

Jiang Danfeng said goodbye quickly after receiving the reply. As soon as she left, Du Jiabin raised his wine glass and teased: "What a charming girl."

Silverberg had something to do and had no interest in talking about women. He asked, "I heard that Chinese people like to talk about business while eating. Is that true?"

"Yes."

"Then what price do you think they will offer at night?"

"20 million US dollars is enough to make 99% of Chinese people crazy, but Du Qiu is different. Have you watched the latest episode of "Wire"? He is a legend. He grew up in Japan and is different from ordinary people. It is difficult to use common sense to speculate."

"I'm not interested in Wired," Silverberg said with some concern. "I only have one day and must go back to Seattle the day after tomorrow, but I don't want them to know that I'm very tight because that will put negotiations in a passive position."

"Then you should have the matter settled tonight. Chinese people will only reveal their true thoughts when they are having a meal. At the negotiating table, they will use countless methods to delay and test, and argue endlessly about small matters of a dollar." Du Jiabin sipped a little whiskey and held the wine glass with both hands and said: "The wine table is the place for Chinese people to negotiate. If you are happy with drinking, even a million dollars can be given up easily."

"Yeah?"

(To be continued.)
Chapter completed!