The Goddess Shines on America

Action is worse than heartbeat, since Gates has already gone south to the south of the Yangtze River seven times, ah, he went to California to chat with himself, Alice is naturally happy to start her inspection tour in the final stage of her summer vacation immediately. Of course, the first stop is to go north to Beyond the Great Wall, ah, not to fly directly to Seattle and then arrive at Microsoft headquarters by car.

Except for running here and yelling a few times when it was listed, Alice really hasn't been here for a long time. A small satellite city with a population of less than 50,000 is full of green trees, but two world-class companies have settled here. They have come and gone many times, but they have never been to the Nintendo of America branch that is almost opposite. Alice is really an incompetent eight Tens of teens.

After a period of development, the scale of the Microsoft headquarters building has naturally increased, and like most companies, especially companies in the IT industry, no one has the will to build skyscrapers. Three or two buildings with a height of three or four floors are nestled at the foot of the green hill, and they are all in the shape of a four-cornered dart. Even the parking lot is arranged in layers along the hillside. Gates' design ability for his future luxury house is actually at this time. Initially highlighted.

But thinking about his current research on design, it is because he wants to build an excellent house that he is willing to put down programming books and read something else?

Alice laughed silently.

"Gentlemen!" Stepping into the office of the NT project R\u0026D team, which occupies a building exclusively, Gates shouted: "Look who is here?"

What a spacious office, there are more than dozens of employees as far as the eye can see. When they saw the young girl appearing behind the big boss, many people immediately burst into joy.

"Hey look, isn't that Alice?"

"Who is Alice? What Alice? Huh? The one who keeps emailing you, the team leader?"

"Oh boss, why did you drag Alice to us again? Are you checking the results?"

"Alice~ I read the "Los Angeles Daily", you are going to build a skyscraper of 1,700 feet!?"

"Five hundred and twenty-eight meters, but I'm planning to change it to six hundred and thirty-two meters, thank you." Also thank you for the American imperial system, supplemented by the metric system, obviously the British themselves don't use it But they are still playing double standards here, and some are drunk.

The next step is really a time for condolences and inspection work. After all, many things cannot be solved by email alone. Usually, the project team leader and Gates are in charge. At this moment, the entire system is almost half completed. There is no reason for a technical consultant not to appear on the stage.

It is worth mentioning that, unlike Pixar, Google, and even Facebook, Microsoft's office environment is the same as the Win series of products, which is relatively rigid.

Looking at the several hundred square meters of office, although the wallpaper decoration and lighting modeling are excellent, but in terms of the work behavior of the employees, there are only long tables arranged side by side. Especially at this moment, the hardware manufacturers have not produced LCD and LED displays. It is really a feeling of embarrassment to put such a bunch of big guys with pure screens on the table.

"Very good, very good." On a computer specially provided for Alice, a diligent new employee loaded the test version of the NT system for her to experience.

"Every system is working fine, permissions, then account control, and of course storage mode... yes, yes, these are all good."

Then it was a full half hour, Alice checked the completeness of all relevant functions, during which Gates and the task leader supplemented her. In front of a desk and a computer, two men and a woman gather here, and they don't move for a long time in one breath. The other employees see it in their eyes and remember it deeply in their hearts.

"God, it turned out to be Alice Wang." Gary Aucma said excitedly: "I only saw her in the newspapers before, and I heard that she seemed to be involved in a shooting in Los Angeles two days ago." case?"

"It should be said that it was an attempted rape and a shooting." Another colleague, Brown Drummer, said in admiration: "It's amazing, she is just a girl and a programmer, and she can chase after the gunman. The lunatic ran a mile away! I think even if one day she doesn't want to develop in Silicon Valley, she will still have gold medals in the Olympics."

"And have you noticed?" At this time, it is remarkable that one-third of the people are still thinking about work: "She has such a rich life on weekdays, and she can always reply emails to the team leaders with quality and quantity." .God, the problem that has troubled nine of us in seven groups for three days, she actually solved it in one night, including the four, twelve, and eight groups!"

"Why don't people go to work every day, and still rely on technology to buy more than 30% of our shares in Microsoft." The group leader spoke, with a look of envy on his face: "She spends a few hours in the evening sending three or four emails, It’s equivalent to the workload of dozens of people in several of our teams for a few days. If this big cow doesn’t give 30% of the shares, should we wait for her to open a second Microsoft and kill us?”

Thinking about it, the crowd couldn't help shivering. Just a few emails in a few hours is so efficient. If she is really sitting in front of the computer and typing code desperately for eight hours a day, whether she is starting a company by herself or making products for Microsoft, it is estimated that at least hundreds of employees will work hard. Are you going to lose your job?

You know, even when she came to find cooperation with the 1.0 system, many of the current employees have not yet joined Microsoft, but the working hours of a week have been reported by "Time" and other publications. Furthermore, when Alice handed in the finished product of Win3.0 every second half a year ago...

Regardless of when she started her own research and development, the fact that Boss Gates got the results within two weeks after finishing his speech is also in front of everyone.

It is such a super genius who finally came to the NT R\u0026D team to inspect the work. How can this group of elites who graduated from Caltech and MIT calm down? After all, few of them are newborn calves who are not afraid of tigers.

So soon, Alice Wang, the company's second largest shareholder and chief technical advisor, was ready to give a speech after experiencing the beta version.

In the huge office, hundreds of employees with six or seven rows of office seats, and even the same number of members on the second floor, a whole NT project team of 200 people, all squeezed onto the first floor.

"Functionally, you have done a very good job." She said so. The boss always likes to play with connotations in his speech. With so many audiences, there are inevitably people who have to figure out its meaning word by word.

"All the functions I listed in the general outline have been successfully realized after the unremitting efforts of all our staff."

"User account settings, workgroup power supply, rights and permissions, I believe that as IBM continues to work hard to popularize personal computers, the power supplies we have developed for the server field will also be transplanted to ordinary home computers. So, comrades Guys, we really need to be clear about what this version of Windows.NT means to our company."

These are all clichés, and those employees who are good at guessing the will of the leader have noticed it. Although Alice whispered a lot, it was basically an existing concept gradually infiltrated by the entire company during normal work. How can such a talented girl say such nonsense when she makes a speech?

"So, actually we at Microsoft are also facing a challenge."

Sure enough, what the boss said had connotations, and some employees couldn't help but smile smugly. As for Alice, she took over a stack of documents from Gates.

what is that?

Many people couldn't help but probe into it.

"Look," Alice said, letting go of her hand.

With a bang, dozens of pieces of paper were scattered on the ground, and each page was densely filled with things.

Everyone felt that the atmosphere was not good, so they wisely kept their mouths shut.

"The above is the record of complaints from users about our products after the release of the 3.0 system."

She said calmly: "And what you should notice is that there are no complaints about the stability of the system in these records, they are all complaints about the defects of its internal application software. For example, this one." It returned to her hand lightly: "I'm just dissatisfied with Word's intermittent crashes, Bill, which building is the Office team from?"

Gates whispered something to her that wasn't heard by the crowd.

"Then there is a pile of about twice as much. Forgive Bill for not bringing them." Alice continued: "It's a complaint about the 2.0 system. In that pile, half of the thickness is the ease of use of the system itself. and stability complaints."

These words faintly carried the entire company, and the old employees of the NT team present also immediately noticed this smell.

Users of the Windows 1.0 and 3.0 systems written by Alice herself have no complaints about the system, but they complain constantly about the application software carried by other employees. As for the 2.0 system, everyone knows that it is a "wisdom crystallization of all Microsoft employees", and it is also the most sprayed one among the three current products.

Everyone wisely chose to remain silent and listened carefully to what the boss had to say.

"The lessons learned from the past are here. The company's current products have a very big loophole, that is, there are too many loopholes." The conversation changed, and Alice went on to say: "So, I don't want our two hundred NT will have the same problem with products that employees work together on.”

As she spoke, she patted the computer and said, "As early as the beginning of the project, the company positioned it as a long-term project, and a year and a half is nothing. The beta version is right, so let's continue testing, Beta2.0 and 3.0 has also been produced, and the server-oriented platform needs stability most. Next, I will let Howard assign tasks to you. In the next half-year cycle, you will be responsible for reducing those damn redundant codes. !"