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Bill Xinte happily stepped into the company's door.

He had enough reason to feel happy. Because his founding operation software has achieved unprecedented success!

When I looked back and thought about the difficult process of launching the 3.0 version system, Bill couldn't help feeling sad.

At that time, Microsoft was relying on the random sale of Blue Giant that it grew up with a purchased ms-dos. Since then, Bill has been ambitious to design a window software independent of the Dos operating system.

For this 3.0 version of the window system, he hired a total of 26 software engineers. When he was at the most stressful time, he even took part in the battle himself. During the three-year development process, there were three more design supervisors and four product managers. He was dismissed from his position because of his poor leadership and slow progress. The hardships in this design and the more pressure he underwent in his heart can be imagined.

Even though he tried all the tricks and kept promising to the public that version 3.0 would be released soon. But he repeatedly broke his promises and finally got rid of his promises. Because of his repeated retelling, Microsoft's Windows operating system was ridiculed by the news media as "Bill's soap bubbles"!

They also used vaponwane (bubble pieces) to describe window viewing software in newspapers, so as to separate them from the hardware and software!

During those days, Bill really lived like a year and couldn't sleep well at night.

However, the hard work finally paid off. The third version of the window software was finally completed!

With the huge advertising costs, the "windot.piaotian.computen" launched on May 22nd. The software was highly praised and wrote: "When we were going to write the annual report for 1990, May 22 is undoubtedly a particularly memorable day. On this day, Microsoft launched www.piaotian.comdows3.0 and it was widely circulated.

Faced with the praise from all walks of life, Bill was a little drunk.

Like fermented wine, it’s slightly intoxicating!

Once it was released, it represented the arrival of the day when Microsoft overwhelmed all operating systems and dominated the country!

Bill's feet were a little floating, so when he walked into the company, he would be filled with spring breeze.

He said hello to the company's employees. He was still immersed in this sweet feeling until he entered his office for half an hour.

Ding ding , the phone on the table rang , awakening Bill from his beautiful dream .

He smiled self-deprecatingly. How short the time for happiness is, before he could recall it longer, he had to go to work again.

He reached out and picked up the phone: "I'm Bill."

No one spoke on the other end of the phone. Bill fed him a little strangely, and a man's low voice came from there: "Bill. Have you ever heard of a New York Internet Service Company?"

"No! What's wrong? They forcibly promote online services to you? Do I want me to help you find the police and drive them away?" Bill said jokingly when he heard that he was a familiar editor of "pccomputen".

The editor snorted and said, "Bill. I'm glad to hear that you can still talk to me in such a pleasant tone. However, I think your good mood will soon be lost. I advise you to inquire about this company! They have launched a software that is very, very popular!"

After saying that, he hung up the phone.

Bill was stunned for a moment when he heard the busy voice coming from the phone, and suddenly a strong sense of fear surged in his heart.

The other party is the editor of a professional computer magazine, so naturally he will not be aimless.

He said it was a software, and then he called himself in a special way to tell himself that the software was obviously a system operation software!

Those competitors are unwilling to fail! They must have seen the huge profits of this market. They are afraid of being exclusive to us, so they hurriedly launched such a software.

However, judging from their lack of publicity and such silent marketing actions, they have no confidence in this software.

If so, we will definitely defeat them!

Bill had no time to think about anything, so he immediately called the marketing department. The phone rang for a long time and no one answered it.

What are these guys doing?

Are they all overwhelmed by victory? Damn, we are improving and our opponents are not sleeping!

Bill was furious and strode out of the office and went straight to the marketing department.

Outside the door, he heard a fierce debate coming from inside. The people from the marketing department seemed to be having this fierce quarrel. Between the words, he vaguely heard the words of view or something.

Bill pushed open the marketing department, and all the business personnel inside turned their heads. The voice stopped abruptly.

The atmosphere in the office was obviously not right. Everyone's face was extremely gloomy, as if they could twist water out of their faces! When they saw that the boss was coming, everyone's eyes flashed, and they wanted to speak but stopped, and turned their heads aside.

Too unreasonable!

When our competitors are striving to catch up, we are not united within us. How can we deal with our opponents' pressing in this way?

Bill looked over the staff's face with a tense face. After thinking about it, he still didn't ask them directly. He eased Bai Ji's inner tension and asked, "I heard that there is a New York Internet Service Company? Who knows this company?"

Everyone looked down at the ground and looked outside the window, and focused their attention on Bill.

Bill's panic in his heart became stronger and stronger. But he was very calm and calm for a long time. There was no strangeness on his face: "So, have you all heard of this company? Why didn't you tell me? They launched a software and a window operating system?"

His eyes were staring at the marketing manager.

The marketing manager also looked back at him. A hint of panic was hidden in his eyes. He walked out and handed a beautifully packaged piece to Bill.

Bill opened the carton, which contained a mule floppy disk and a CD.

On the CD envelope, there is a sign of the earth printed on it, and there is a colorful printed English word view, which looks very elegant and generous in the blue waves.

Bill looked at the earth sign and felt that he had seen it somewhere.

He thought about it hard and remembered it. He once asked someone to import a new LCD projector from Japan. The logo on it is this graphic!

So, is the other party a projector company?

"It is best to use an optical disc to install it. If it really doesn't exist, you can also use a floppy drive to install it, but the time will be much slower!" The marketing manager explained when he saw him staring at the cardboard box in a daze.

Bill put the carton aside. The mood caused by the sudden bad news at the beginning has calmed down. He said calmly: "Tell me what kind of network service company's situation is."

The marketing manager sorted out his clues and said, "This New York network service company has only been heard in our ears in one or two days. Just the day before yesterday, our marketing service department started receiving calls from users. They asked us. There was an operating system called view. Is it a Microsoft. When we heard our answer no. They all complained that our window system is not as useful as view. After getting this news, everyone in our marketing department dispersed yesterday and looked up this operating system called View. "

Speaking of this, he stopped.

Bill leaned his hips against the edge of the desk, and his hands were crossed. He nodded and signaled him to continue.

The marketing manager gritted the bullet and said, "As soon as we went out, we found that many places were talking about this view software. They gave this software quite high praise. But the most clearly understood it. It was Santos. Why not let him explain it in detail to you." He pushed a tall and thin young man in front of Bill and hid in the corner in frustration.

Bill looked at him disappointedly. No matter how good this software is, it is impossible to have no flaws at all! As a marketing manager, he has been completely motivated to eliminate all his fighting spirit. How can he lead the department to carry out his work and occupy the market?

He looked at Santos in front of him. This was a staff member recruited in response to the hot sale of Windows 3.0.

"Your name is Santos? Tell me what you know, try to be more detailed." He said gently to the somewhat cramped young man in front of him, but the tone in his mouth was undeniable.

"Yes, boss." Santos swallowed and said slowly, "I was ordered to go out to investigate the situation of his opponent yesterday..."

Bill interrupted him: "I can't say whether it's an opponent yet! I don't believe that the operating system they urgently built will take three years to better than us. The carefully designed window software is even better!"

Santos looked at him strangely, with a smile of pity in his eyes, which made Bill angry and worried.

"Boss. Can I continue to say it?" Santos asked politely as if he had calmed down.

Bill felt uneasy and even stronger, and he reluctantly said, "You keep going."

Santos nodded and said, "I thought about it, since my opponent was hiding from the sale of software, the biggest possibility was to be at the door of those computer sellers. As a result, I ran to the largest computer sales store in New York and found that a booth was set up in a corner of the store, and a person was there to demonstrate to customers a software I had never seen before. There were so many people around him."

Santos said slowly while recalling his experience yesterday.

The computer sales store he went to was the largest in New York. The store has an area of ​​more than 1,000 square meters and displays products from various computer brands in the area.

At the entrance, there were a display stand with at least twenty or thirty people around the booth, listening to the commentator in the middle to give detailed demonstrations of the software.

Santos accidentally heard someone in the inner circle saying words such as windows, view, etc., and his heart moved. He struggled to squeeze out the crowd and came to the innermost part of the booth.

Inside, there is a computer monitor. A fifteen-inch screen is displayed on the screen after the operating system is turned on.

He only took a look and was stunned!

He is already very familiar with his company's software. On the gray background, there is a box named "Program Management". In the box, three program boxes are squeezed in different sizes, corresponding to the management program, application and mini-game. Generally speaking, this display mode is relatively rigid. However, for the command line input under dos in the past, it was a great breakthrough.

But in this operating system with a small earth logo in the corner, 3.0 is like a toy in a child, and it is usually too crude!

On this operating system, there is a horizontal bar at the bottom and a button with the word "Start". Next to the start button, there are several small icons. I heard from the commentator. This is a shortcut icon, and you can start the execution by clicking.

On the horizontal bar, each executing program has a narrowed window identifier, which facilitates users to switch between different programs.

This horizontal bar is called the "task bar" by the commentator!

Most of the screen are softly light blue bottom tones, and on the left side, there are small icons. With such a layout, the vision looks very simple and comfortable. Compared with www.piaotian.comdowww.piaotian.comdows3.0 to a bungalow, the operating system is an amazing high-rise building!

System tools, accessories, auxiliary tools, communication tools, entertainment tools, games. There are twenty or thirty programs in total. And, there are some common tools that are not included in these program groups.

What are the words board programs, special word processing programs, communication sheets, etc., and the functions are extremely comprehensive!

Regarding the questions asked by some technicians who are familiar with the onlookers, the commentator also adjusted a hidden management item, which included hundreds of specific management and adjustment procedures, making Santos feel like he fell into an ice cave!

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"Wait a minute!" The more Bill listened, the more he became, the more wrong it was. Santos was not explaining. He was clearly singing praises to his opponents in the company!

His chest was slumped, and Santos said, he didn't dare to believe it all. But the opponent's operating system and the comprehensive integration of the program should be undoubtedly. In this way, a performance issue is involved!

He asked quickly: "The other party gave a live demonstration of the operating system. How fast is it? Can the performance keep up with us?"

In his opinion, no matter how many programs are integrated, there must be enough hardware to support them.

The mainstream computers are now 386 and 486, but they have not occupied the market in full. Moreover, since the operating system relies on Dos, memory management cannot break through the constraints of the 640k basic memory limited by Dos, which seriously affects the development of the software.

Perhaps, their operating procedures are perfect, but our windowing software is short and concise!

Bill's heartbeats very fast.

"Their programs run very smoothly!" Santos's words broke his only remaining confidence, making Bill feel like he was thundering!

"What did you say? This is impossible! How did they break through dos, limits on basic memory management?" Bill's voice was trembling.
To be continued...