After all, it was the first time that three people had been together. In the morning, I woke up very early and pretended to sleep on purpose. I felt that the two people around me left one after another, and she was the only one left on the big bed. Rachel Weizi fell asleep again.

I was tossed very hard last night.

I don’t know how long it took, but the bright spring sunshine penetrated through the gaps in the curtains and fell on her face.

Open your eyes.

The sleepiness completely disappeared, and some other fatigue was no longer there.

I remembered a certain argument.

Women actually have advantages in this regard.

However, after sitting up, I was a little confused and didn't know what to do.

Looking left and right, I found a beautiful crystal ball on the bedside table. I curiously reached out and looked at it. I didn't know where it was touched. The crystal ball seemed to have lit up. It was the emitting lightning-like colorful light, like countless colorful cracks blooming inside the sphere, which was very beautiful.

So I became interested and studied it for a little while, and soon realized that this was probably an electrostatic trigger. Without a switch, I just needed to touch the surface of the crystal ball, and the radial light inside would light up.

I remember seeing such things when I was a child when I was visiting the Science and Technology Museum, but I forgot the principle.

Very fun stuff.

I temporarily put aside my situation, played with it repeatedly, and made up my mind to go back to Los Angeles to ask about it, and bought one in the apartment.

Just as I was in high spirits, the bedroom door was pushed open.

Rachel Weizi looked up and her right palm happened to be on the crystal ball again.

Didi, Didi, Didi.

The crisp and rapid electronic sound, similar to the common alarm clock ringtone, comes from the wrist of the Wei family maid named Isabel who had just entered the door yesterday.

Rachel Weizi and Isabel looked at each other for a short time, and subconsciously aimed at the other person's wrist. Instinctively realized that he might have made a big embarrassment, but his disobedient right hand took the initiative to confirm it for the master, lifted it up again, and landed again.

Didi, Didi, Didi.

sky……

I really hope I am Alice, who can get into the rabbit hole and never come out again.

Isabel looked at Rachel's quickly blushing face and the other party's panic and put the crystal ball back on the bedside table, covering up the smile that wanted to overflow from the corner of his mouth, and said politely: "Miss Weizi, do you need my help?"

Rachel shook her head quickly, pointed to the crystal ball that returned to the bedside table, and said quietly: "This, I'm so sorry, I thought it was just an ordinary ornament."

"It's okay," said Izabeth, and said again, "Are you going to get up now?"

I really want to stay back on the bed so that I can avoid the embarrassment just now, but I nodded gently on my lips.

I really can't sleep anymore.

Isabel walked to the window, pressed the electric switch to open the curtains, and the bright sunlight immediately filled the bedroom, while saying, "You can wash up first. The bathroom has brand new teeth. I will prepare your clothes for you. In addition, what do you want to eat for breakfast?"

Rachel looked around and looked around.

Last night, I went from downstairs to upstairs, and there was no sign of my own clothes around me. Moreover, a guy seemed to have a tendency to be violent. I vaguely remembered that the Versace women's clothing I just changed yesterday was torn and I definitely couldn't wear it anymore.

After opening the curtains, Isabel saw her thoughts, made a gesture of waiting, walked into the bathroom, and after a moment, he came out and handed it to Rachel.

After a little trouble, I got down from the building and found that it was already past ten o'clock in the morning.

Seattle, which is in the rainy season, has a rare bright sunny day. It is in a temperate oceanic climate area, and the temperature in March is just right.

The villa is very quiet.

I was embarrassed to ask where a guy went, so I had to ask if I didn't really want to see Kate Beckinsale. Last night, she actually...the two of them had a grudge.

Perhaps because she didn't want to embarrass her, Isabel didn't show up again after sending her a new suit. When another maid saw her asking, she personally took her to a living room connected to a terrace facing the lake on the east side of the villa. Kate leaned leisurely on the sofa and flipped through a fashion magazine, occasionally glancing at the floor-to-ceiling glass window.

The waitress placed the breakfast on a round table closer to the floor-to-ceiling window. Rachel greeted Kate, walked over and sat down, and followed each other's eyes and easily saw the two men sitting opposite each other on the terrace.

One of them is naturally Simon Westeros.

Another one, which is identified from the other party's iconic black eyes, Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, Westeros this time in Seattle was to attend the launch of the other party's latest operating system.

It is said to be a very powerful company.

The terrace was large, and two men were sitting next to the guardrail in the distance. Rachel couldn't hear what they were saying, but just looked at it occasionally while eating breakfast. It seemed that Bill Gates was getting more and more excited, and his hair on his forehead floated up because of the obvious angry movement of waving his hands.

Some guy couldn't sit still, and his legs were raised.

Looking at the picture quietly, Rachel felt that it seemed like a self-righteous monkey was lying in front of the lying tiger in front of the lying tiger.

A little ridiculous.

The release of Windows 95 system is more powerful and more friendly to the general public without a professional foundation, which is a watershed for the entire information industry.

However, this is not why Simon attended yesterday's press conference.

Taking advantage of this opportunity to come to Seattle, Simon plans to have a serious talk with his classmates to resolve many differences that have been unknowingly accumulated between Microsoft and several other companies in the Westeros system, especially Igret.

However, the results of this morning's meeting were obviously not very good.

Simon's requirement is that at least the overseas version of Windows 95 must have built-in Igrit's IE browser for this release.

Unlike North America, due to the differences in relevant regulations of various countries, even if Igrit attaches great importance to intellectual property protection and technical patent applications worldwide, it is difficult to guarantee that some technology companies in other countries will not launch other types of browser software without authorization. If the local government turns a blind eye and deliberately condons it, no one can guarantee whether Igrit's absolute monopoly on browser software will be cut off.

The most convenient way to solve this problem is to make Windows built-in IE, which is about to unify the PC market.

The key reason why Microsoft was able to defeat Netscape browser with its technological backward IE browser, which had many problems, was that it was pre-installed monopoly.

Moreover, in the mainstream PC market, Igret can also negotiate with large OEM manufacturers to pre-install, but with the explosion of new technology industries, OEM manufacturers of all sizes around the world will bloom everywhere, and even include an amazingly large and pirated market. These are no longer areas that Igret can easily control and will inevitably be taken advantage of by competitors.

There are also government factors.

Faced with the huge benefits brought by the outbreak of the new technology industry, it is hard to say whether overseas governments will force Igret to authorize browser software for bullshit reasons such as "national security" commonly used by the United States.

In short, as long as the IGRENT version of IE and Microsoft operating system are bound to the fact that it is impossible to even uninstall, many problems will be solved.

Unfortunately, the students from Damen seemed to think that they had taken Egret's seven inches and insisted on asking for a deeper core patent license for browser software as exchange chips. In addition, they also asked Egret to stop the Linux version of the PC operating system that was being secretly developed.

Igret's operating system research and development project has been in a state of private confidentiality, but some things are difficult to hide in this circle.

Simon could not agree to both conditions.

The genius believes that the students from the gate promise that they will not develop their own browser as long as they have patents.

There is also the development of Igret's operating system, which not only involves Simon's layout in the PC era, but also includes the future mobile communication era, which is also impossible to give up.

Faced with the fact that the students from the front door did not enter, Simon certainly did not have countermeasures.

On the contrary, for Microsoft, Simon still has a lot of bargaining chips.

First of all, after various changes over the years, Simon still holds 18.7% of Microsoft's shares. With Paul Allen's continued reduction in holdings, he has now firmly held the position of Microsoft's second largest shareholder. Even if he cannot compete with his classmates who still hold nearly 40% of the shares for control of the company, Simon has also gained considerable voice by relying on his shares.

Microsoft's current board of directors has a total of 11 members, and the Westeros system occupies two of them, which is enough to play a role in some important company resolutions.

Moreover, as a major shareholder, the most important move is undoubtedly to reduce holdings.

Even if Microsoft's share in the operating system market is rising steadily, it cannot withstand the continued dissentment and reduction of Westeros system. If Simon insists on doing this, many other shareholders will put pressure on Damen's classmates to make compromises. Damen's classmates do not have absolute holdings in Microsoft and lack absolute control. It is not impossible to be forced to step down at that time.

Secondly, taking advantage of the absolute advantages of Westeros system in the Internet field, Simon can completely block Microsoft from the Internet industry.

The reason why Microsoft was able to reach a peak of US$600 billion around 2000 was that in addition to the monopoly of PC operating systems, Microsoft's layout in the Internet field was also crucial, especially the monopoly of pre-installed browsers, which once allowed Microsoft to master industry advantages that other peers could not match.

In addition, Microsoft in memory also entered the fields of network access, data centers, portals and other fields during the Internet bubble around 2000, which provided great help for Microsoft to sprint to the market value of US$600 billion.

This time, because of Simon's series of initiative layouts, Cisco, American Online and Igritte have formed a very strong monopoly barrier in the Internet field. However, the large number of core patents in the hands of these three companies are enough to make many competitors who are interested in entering the market and sharing the cake return in a failure.

In the past few years, while Microsoft has focused on developing Windows systems, it has also begun to engage in portals, data centers and other businesses, including the Westeros system that actively provides patent authorization for support.

For example, Microsoft cannot do the email service under the portal website without Igret's authorization.

There is also data center business.

Even though the two sides clearly had competition, Igrit shared some technical achievements with each other and promoted Microsoft's data center services on online platforms such as the Igrit Portal. Although Microsoft paid huge advertising fees in this process, for other important competitors, even if they paid advertising fees, Igrit would not easily advertise for others.

In addition, Microsoft launched a desktop software store with Windows 95, which also infringed on a large number of relevant technical patents of the Igrit Software Store.

Before coming to Seattle this time, Simon had seen the draft documents that Egret planned to file a lawsuit against Microsoft's desktop software mall, but was temporarily suppressed by him.

It can be said that once the seriousness comes, Igret is enough to force Microsoft to completely shut down the service.

When the classmate of Damen directly infringed on the right and imitated Apple Macintosh to launch the Windows operating system. Later, he coaxed and even cheated and cheated to make this system to the present day. Apple has no choice but to use Microsoft, and the lawsuit between the two parties continues to this day.

However, this trick of cheating is ineffective for the Westeros system.

If you infringe on your patent, you will not change it or just drag it all the time. At worst, you will be able to spend a lot of money in the end, just like the Netscape in Simon's memory that was dragged to death. But don't forget that this time, the Internet is the absolute realm of the Westeros system.

Many of Microsoft's network services always require suppliers and consumers.

Just like a software store, no one provides you with software, it depends on how you can play it.

To achieve this goal, a 'choose one' is enough.

It is difficult for anyone to sell software through the Internet to bypass the marketing and payment channels of the Westeros system. What will those software developers choose?

There is also data center business.

If the two sides have a quarrel, in order to avoid being affected, those corporate users will not turn to YWS, IBM, and HP, in short, there is too much room for choice. Without users, Microsoft's business will not continue.

What's more, the US intellectual property protection regulations are not vegetarians.

If the Westeros system completely breaks the ground and forcibly reclaims a series of non-permanent patent authorizations to Microsoft in recent years, Microsoft will really cheat and continue to use it, and the huge fine will be enough for students from all over the country to drink a pot.
To be continued...