The Goddess Shines on America

Once a person who doesn't show up often appears on the stage, he will definitely not show his presence in vain. Alice fully proved this point. After coming to the Microsoft headquarters, she first inspected the entire NT project team, and asked the person in charge Howard to strictly control the quality, and must conduct a round of complicated tests on the finished system.

The project cycle, which lasted about 18 months, was extended by at least one-third by her mouth. The seemingly unhuman behavior, but after she easily picked out several loopholes, it immediately became a wise move shouted by the entire project team.

If you want to conquer an ordinary person to serve yourself, you need a high degree of charisma, and it is really easy to get rid of the programmers, as long as you show a better technical level. So after strolling around in the NT project team, accompanied by Gates, Alice went to other R\u0026D teams non-stop and wandered around.

I learned the news today that Allen had been on leave for a long time due to illness, and the departure of one of the heavyweight veterans naturally gave Alice more room to play. The Office software team was reprimanded by her for a long time. The most direct reason is that the software is too large due to code redundancy, and the method of tyranny is also simple. Alice just demonstrated on the spot, and easily simplified the code of a certain function of the software. by a third.

"Guys, you need to know our status." She said this, although it was only to an Office R\u0026D team, but she knew that these words would definitely spread throughout the company.

"The first computer was built in 1946. IBM and Intel have a history of ten to thirty years, and they are still mainly in the field of hardware. Our Microsoft is the leader of the entire computer software industry. ah."

"So, founders, everyone, each of our products is equivalent to creating history. Just like Watt improved the steam engine and Faraday invented the generator, do you want people in a hundred years to evaluate Microsoft? Is it a conclusion that their systems crash, their computers freeze, their software is bloated like hell?"

"The level of programming is closely related to the ability of mathematics. Isn't it equivalent to solving various problems such as factorization to achieve a certain function with a large number of instructions? As long as there is a law to follow, it is not a problem, Nuo , This piece of code of mine wiped out one-third of your original string of damn things, hurry up and print it out and study your ideas!"

From arriving at the company in the morning, to finally visiting all the project teams, and when the work is almost finished, it should be dark. However, the characteristics of IT companies are that commuting hours are very chaotic, and overtime work is super normal, so although many people have gone to dinner, almost no one plans to go home immediately.

"With all the reprimands you have received today, I guess the boys will have enough for three nights."

In the private conference room, Gates and Alice gathered here. The sick Allen was not there, but the general leaders of the project teams also gathered. The day's review has too many follow-ups that should be done, and now is the time.

"It's possible for them to stay up all night for a week," said Howard, the person in charge of NT. "You can pick out a bunch of loopholes in a few words when you do a good job on weekdays. Haha, these are all semi-paranoid lads." Guys, why don't you pour enough coffee to settle the problem?"

"Then tell the logistics to buy more, and add a few more coffee machines." Gates walked back from the window, sat on the sofa and said, "Well, everyone, the theme of today's meeting is just like what I said in the email on the way back. It is to change the company's development policy to a certain extent. Because Paul is not present, I will just discuss it briefly tonight, Alice, let you talk about it."

This situation is actually tantamount to the convening of the board of directors, but it is only 1988 after all, and there are not enough big shareholders sitting at Gates' table, but it is still dominated by company insiders. He himself, Alice, and Paul Allen are more like three mountains, firmly controlling the core part of Microsoft.

"Actually, that's the truth, that is to recognize the fundamental nature of Microsoft." The high school girl sat imposingly, her legs in tight denim were relaxed and separated, while everyone else spoke to her calmly.

"At present, there are only so many computers in the world, and there are only so many operating systems. DOS is completely outdated; Unix's stability and multi-tasking capabilities determine that it will be mainly used in servers, databases, and financial telecommunications industries in the future. and other software development companies. Therefore, in terms of the future market, it is nothing more than our Windows and Apple’s Macintosh.”

The topic suddenly extended to this level, and the nerves of everyone present couldn't help but tense. It can be said that Alice is the only exception, and her contribution to Microsoft is only at the level of sending emails on weekdays, but this group of employees sitting here who work from 9 to 5 every day have to face the entire industry day and night.

Jobs was indeed kicked out of Apple two years ago, and now Apple's performance is indeed very sluggish, and even began to rely on selling clothes, shoes, and tennis racket caps as a sideline business, but the significance of the Macintosh computer itself is still very worthwhile. This group of people pay attention.

"Steve Jobs is a great genius. He saw the trend of personal computers popularizing in millions of households from the very beginning, so when designing computers, he just rightly integrated his supreme pursuit of experience design. Sales of Macintosh computers It's a direct proof that if it wasn't for that guy's perfectionism to the point of obsessive-compulsive disorder, the original performance could at least be doubled."

These words made everyone laugh, they are all people in the circle, not to mention that Gates and Jobs have frequent contacts in private, do you know the neuroticism of this boss?

He planned to remove the cassette slot for the sake of aesthetics, and for the sake of quietness, there is no fan in the case. These are all good things he has done. Even for the circuit board, he doesn’t consider heat dissipation at all, forcing all modules to be densely arranged on the board like classroom desks. It looks good enough, but it can affect performance too much and increase the price. do not have?

So, don't talk about Gates and Alice, who here doesn't know why Jobs was kicked out of his company? With his nervousness and bad temper, the first person to offend is the designer, and it is only a matter of time before everyone in the entire company can't bear him.

"Then everyone, this directly involves the issue of market positioning."

Bringing out the well-known Apple is to make them compare: "Windows 1.0~3.0 and subsequent versions are developed for PCs, while the NT project is for the server field. That is to say, as long as we put If all these products are produced and then maintain a high market share, then it is equivalent to leading the global software industry!"

"Think about it, no matter what kind of software, it must operate on the platform of the operating system. Now DOS... Well, it is ours. Unix has always focused on niche groups. Although Apple is particularly considerate of users, this Now it’s time for depression. If we push Microsoft’s platform to the world now, wouldn’t software vendors all over the world have to develop products for us?”

“And taking that a step further, once we’ve achieved this, what role do we play in the world at large? In a world where computers are increasingly affecting productivity?”

A steady stream of new concepts is washing the views of everyone present. The concept of application software, of course, has been around for a long time, but when it comes to the level of global software suppliers, how can it be possible for them to think so far now? You know, didn't the classic combination of Windows95 and IE browser bundles appear in 1995?

"Microsoft provides the platform and a part of the software, and then based on the market share, it decides that the software supplier will only provide products to Microsoft...then the entire industry...then the impact on the world..." So it is no surprise that facing this Alice proposed the concept too many years in advance, Gates' eyes began to light up, and the crowd around him immediately fell into the world of infinite imagination.

Alice smiled silently, waiting for the group of homeboys to come back to their senses.

Well, it's perfectly normal, this kind of reaction.

After all, she has really accelerated a lot in product release, while the entire industry environment is still lagging behind.

Take a look, although the release date of win1.0 hasn't changed much, it's still 1985, just about twelve months earlier...

But the 2.0 system created by Bill and the others happened to be twelve months ahead of schedule.

In fact, win2.0 is really good, Microsoft is Microsoft after all. Word and Excel, the two important members of Office applications, appeared in front of the world for the first time at this time, and the control panel with a long history also entered the stage of history through this, which is indeed a remarkable achievement.

And anyway, after it was launched in December 1987 in the original history, Microsoft also had follow-up versions 2.1 and 2.11, which shows that everyone is really hardworking. It is only because of Apple's related lawsuits and the lack of software compatibility that its sales are not ideal, but at least it has paved the way for the debut of 3.0.

Only this time, it's a little more subtle.

Because as early as 1.0, Alice got Office and the control panel out.

The time limit is placed here, what can Microsoft's "intelligence crystallization of all employees" turn out?

Therefore, due to the excessively bad sales, Gates had to ask Alice out of the mountain to develop 3.0.

And Alice's efficiency is well known all over the world, so 3.0, which was supposed to be launched in May 1990, was directly brought forward to early 1988.

Then, taking advantage of the hot sale, Gates now has the idea of ​​3.1.

Alice first threw out the things that were only available in the 1990s in advance, and now she threw out the concepts that were only available after the great development of Silicon Valley around 1994, and also briefly described the situation after the real formation of the Microsoft empire. With such a shock, I really can't blame everyone for being confused.

"Well, so," but the guys couldn't be allowed to continue to make up their minds, Alice spoke loudly, calling back their souls: "In order to occupy the market most efficiently and conveniently, we must ensure customer satisfaction. Procedure Products with high redundancy, overly complicated operations, and even blue screens are very annoying."