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After all, it's the first experience of three people together. She wakes up very early in the morning or falls asleep intentionally, feeling that the two people around her leave one after another, leaving her alone in the big bed. Rachel Vichy goes to sleep again.
Last night, I was really upset.
I don't know how long after that, the bright sunshine in spring broke into the bedroom through the cracks of the curtains and just fell on her face.
Open your eyes.
The drowsiness disappeared completely, and some of the other tiredness disappeared.
I think of a certain argument.
Women have an advantage in this respect.
However, after sitting up, he was confused and didn't know what to do.
Looking around, I found a beautiful crystal ball on the bedside table. Curiously, I reached for it and looked at it. I didn't know where I touched it. The crystal ball seemed to light up. It was the kind of distributed lightning like multicolored light, like countless color cracks inside the ball. It was very beautiful.
So I became interested. After a little research, I soon realized that this is probably an electrostatic trigger. There is no switch. Just touch the surface of the crystal ball, and the radial light inside will light up.
I remember seeing such things when I was a child visiting the science and Technology Museum, but I forgot the principle.
It's fun.
For the time being, I put aside my situation, played with it repeatedly, and made up my mind to go to the boutique to inquire after returning to Los Angeles, and also bought one to put in the apartment.
In high spirits, the bedroom door was pushed open.
Rachel Vichy looked up, and the palm of her right hand was right over the crystal ball again.
Drop, drop, drop.
The crisp and rapid electronic sound, similar to the common alarm bell, comes from the wrist of the Wai's maid who had known Isabel yesterday.
Rachel Vichy and Isabel look at each other's wrists for a short time, and instinctively realize that they may be in a big embarrassment. However, their disobedient right hand takes the initiative to help the host to confirm, lift up again and fall down again.
Drop, drop, drop.
God
I wish I was Alice. I could get into the rabbit hole and never come out again.
Isabel looked at Rachel's quick red face and the other party's act of putting the crystal ball back on the bedside table, covered up the smile she wanted to overflow, and politely said, "Miss Vicky, what can I do for you?"
Rachel shook her head, pointed to the crystal ball that was coming back to the bedside table, and said, "well, I'm sorry. I thought it was just an ordinary ornament."
"Never mind," said Isabel, adding, "are you going to get up now?"
I really want to go back to bed again, so that I can avoid the embarrassment just now, but I just let out a slight hum.
I can't sleep.
Isabel went to the window, pressed the electric switch to open the curtain, the bright sun immediately filled the bedroom, and said: "you can wash first, the bathroom has a brand-new toothbrush, I will help you prepare your clothes, in addition, what would you like for breakfast?"
Rachel, look around.
Last night, from downstairs to upstairs, there was no shadow of his own clothes around. Moreover, some guy seemed to have a violent tendency. He vaguely remembered that the Versace dress that he had just changed yesterday had been torn, so he couldn't wear it again.
Isabel, who opened the curtain, saw her mind, made a wait sign, went into the bathroom, and a moment later came out with a bathrobe to Rachel.
After a little toss, I came down from upstairs and found that it was more than ten o'clock in the morning.
It's a rainy season in Seattle. It's a rare sunny day. It's in the temperate marine climate region. The temperature in March is just right.
It's quiet in the villa.
I'm sorry to ask about someone who went there. I have to ask. I don't really want to see Kate Beckinsale. Last night, she They've got a grudge.
Maybe she didn't want to embarrass her. Isabel didn't show up again after she sent her a new suit. Another waitress asked her and took her to a living room on the east side of the villa, which is connected with a terrace facing the lake. Kate was leaning on the sofa to read a fashion magazine, and occasionally glanced out of the window.
The waitress put breakfast on the round table closer to the French window. Rachel and Kate said hello and went to sit down. It was easy to see the two men sitting opposite each other on the terrace.
One of them, of course, is Simon westero.
On the other hand, from the other party's iconic black eyes, Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, westero's trip to Seattle is to attend the launch of the other party's latest operating system.
It's said to be a very powerful company.
The terrace is very large. Two men are sitting by the guardrail in the distance. Rachel can't hear them. She just looks at them occasionally while eating breakfast. It seems that Bill Gates is getting more and more excited, and her hair floats up because of the obvious angry waving of her hands.Some guy is sitting still and his legs are up.
Watching this picture quietly, Rachel only felt that it was like a self righteous monkey in the zoo, pawing in front of the tiger.
It's kind of funny.
The release of Windows 95 system, which is more powerful and more friendly for the general public without professional foundation, is a watershed for the whole information industry.
However, this is not the reason why Simon attended yesterday's press conference.
Taking this opportunity to come to Seattle, Simon plans to have a serious talk with Damen to solve the many differences between Microsoft and several other companies of westero system, especially igritte.
However, the result of this morning's meeting was obviously not very good.
Simon's request is that the release of Windows 95, at least the overseas version must be built-in igritte's IE browser.
Different from North America, because of the differences in relevant laws and regulations, even though igrit attaches great importance to global intellectual property protection and technology patent application, 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 connives, no one can guarantee that igrit will not be cut off The absolute monopoly of browser software.
If you want to solve this problem, the most convenient way is to let windows which is about to unify the PC market have IE built in.
The reason why Microsoft was able to defeat Netscape browser with its backward technology and problematic IE browser is that the key lies in this pre installed monopoly.
Moreover, in the mainstream PC market, igritte can negotiate with large-scale OEM manufacturers for pre installation. However, with the outbreak of new technology industry, OEM manufacturers of all sizes around the world will blossom everywhere, even including the amazing scale of piracy market. These are no longer areas that igritte can easily control, and will inevitably be taken by competitors.
There is also the government factor.
In the face of the huge benefits brought by the outbreak of new technology industry, it is hard to say whether overseas governments will force igrit to license browser software for such bullshit reasons as "national security" commonly used in the United States.
In a word, as long as the IE version of igritte is combined with the fact that it is impossible to uninstall Microsoft operating system, many problems will be solved.
It's a pity that Damen seems to think that he has grasped igritte's seven inches and insisted on asking for more in-depth core patent authorization of browser software as a bargaining chip. In addition, he also asked igritte to stop the Linux version of PC operating system that is being secretly developed.
Igritte's operating system research and development project has been in a state of non-public confidentiality, however, some things are difficult to hide in this circle after all.
Simon can't agree to either.
Guicai believes Damen's promise not to develop his own browser as long as he has a patent.
There is also the research and development of igritte's operating system, which not only involves Simon's layout of the PC era, but also includes the future mobile communication era. It is also impossible to give up.
In the face of the students' lack of oil and salt, Simon is not without countermeasures.
On the contrary, Simon has a lot of chips for Microsoft.
First of all, through various changes over the years, Simon still holds 18.7% of the shares of Microsoft. With Paul Allen's continuous reduction, he has now become the second largest shareholder of Microsoft. Even if he can't compete for the control of the company with his classmates who still hold nearly 40% of the shares, Simon also has a considerable say.
Microsoft's current board of directors has a total of 11 members, two of which are occupied by westrow system, which is enough to play a role in some important corporate decisions.
Moreover, as a major shareholder, the most important move is undoubtedly to reduce its holdings.
Even if Microsoft's share in the operating system market keeps rising, it can't bear the continuous decline and reduction of vistro system. If Simon insists on doing so, many other shareholders will put pressure on Damen to make a compromise. After all, Damen students do not have absolute shareholding in Microsoft, lack of absolute control, and it is not impossible to be forced to step down at that time.
Secondly, with the absolute advantage of westero system in the Internet field, Simon can completely shut Microsoft out of the Internet industry.
In addition to the monopoly of PC operating system, Microsoft's layout in the field of Internet is also very important, especially the monopoly of pre installed browser, which once enabled Microsoft to grasp the incomparable industry advantages of other peers.
in addition, Microsoft in memory has also been involved in network access, data center, portals and other fields during the Internet bubble in the 2000, which has contributed greatly to Microsoft's 600 billion dollar market capitalization.
This time, because of Simon's series of pioneering layout, Cisco, AOL and igritte have formed a very strong monopoly barrier in the Internet field, but the large number of core patents held by these three companies are enough to defeat many competitors who intend to enter the market.In the past few years, while focusing on the development of windows system, Microsoft has also started to set foot in the portal website, data center and other businesses, as in the original time and space. Among them, vestro system has taken the initiative to provide patent authorization to support.
For example, the e-mail service of the portal website, without the authorization of igritte, Microsoft could not do it at all.
And data center business.
In the case of competition between the two sides, igritte shared some technical achievements with the other side, and promoted Microsoft's data center services on igritte portal and other network platforms. Although Microsoft paid a huge amount of advertising expenses in this process, for other important competitors, even if they paid the advertising expenses, igrit would not easily advertise for others.
In addition, Microsoft launched the desktop software mall with Windows 95, which also infringed a large number of related technology patents of igrit software store.
Before he came to Seattle this time, Simon had seen the draft document that igritte planned to sue Microsoft's desktop software store, but he was just temporarily suppressed.
It can be said that once the competition is real, igrit is enough to force Microsoft to shut down the service completely.
At the beginning, students of Damen directly infringed and imitated Apple's Macintosh to launch the windows operating system. Later, they half coaxed, half cheated and even fooled this system. Now, Apple has no way to take Microsoft, and the lawsuit between the two sides is still going on.
However, this kind of deception has no effect on the westero system.
If you infringe a patent, you just don't change it or drag it all the time. In the end, you'll get a lot of money, just like Netscape in Simon's memory. However, don't forget that this time, the Internet is the absolute domain of the westero system.
Many of Microsoft's network services always need suppliers and consumers.
Just like the software mall, no one provides you with software to see how you still play.
If you want to achieve this goal, one of two is enough.
Anyone who wants to sell software through the Internet can hardly bypass the marketing and payment channels of the Westeros system. How will those software developers choose?
And data center business.
If there is a stalemate between the two sides, those enterprise users, in order to avoid being affected, even if they don't turn to ygrit's YWS, IBM, HP and other suppliers, in short, there are too many choices. Without users, Microsoft can't do this part of its business.
What's more, the intellectual property protection laws and regulations of the United States are not vegetarian.
If the vistro system completely breaks its face and forcibly withdraws a series of non permanent patents granted to Microsoft in recent years, Microsoft will really play tricks and insist on continuing to use it, and the huge fine will be enough for the students to drink a pot.
On the terrace of the lakeside villa on Mercer Island.
Listening to the threatening statements in Mongolian, Damen could not keep calm any longer. He almost stood up from his chair and waved his arms to accuse Simon of blackmail.
Unlike the gentleness in the media lens, everyone in the circle actually knows that Bill Gates is a very irascible person, which is on a par with jobs. Especially as Microsoft becomes more and more successful, his temper is getting bigger and bigger.
Simon, who was going to take a sip of coffee on the table, gave up the idea, frowned and said to gates, who looked like a cockfight: "bill, we are all adults. Don't make such a big noise like a child, OK?"
Bill Gates glared, poked himself, and then pointed to Simon: "little boy? Hey, you don't know which one of us is a kid? Do you really think you're 14000 years old, westero? You are just a self willed lunatic, psycho, I tell you, I will never be threatened by you, I can even make IE browser completely unable to run on windows. "
Simon sneered: "otherwise, you'll try it now. I'm looking forward to it!"
Damen's voice was a little louder: "do you think I dare not?"
Simon shrugged: "I said, you can do it now. Try it. Maybe you can't wait to call Steve to announce your decision. Let's see if ie is banned or if you are ousted by the board of directors first?"
"I own 37.3% and I have Allen's support."
"Of course, it's a pity that it's not an absolute holding. Besides, I don't think Paul will support you to do stupid things. Besides, do you think that the only capital dependent on IE is the Westeros system? If you dare to do so, you will become the public enemy of the whole information industry. In contrast, I shut Microsoft out of the Internet industry, and everyone will love it. "
Damen half stood and glared at Simon for a moment, and said: "in any case, don't even think about it in your life."
"I only give you one day to think about it. Before next Monday, you'd better give me a satisfactory answer. Bill, I was expecting Microsoft to become a part of the westero system, but now I'll give it up completely. So, I'm not negotiating with you. It's an ultimatum. If you don't agree, I'll keep my word. I'll start to reduce Microsoft's shares. I'll release a free Linux desktop operating system in advance. I'll completely block Microsoft out of the Internet industry. Don't do portal sites, data centers, and network access. Live by your operating system Let's go. Oh, and office software. At the beginning, you forced apple to tolerate your development of operating system by relying on office, right? As it happens, igritte has quietly developed the network office system for a long time, and we will soon become a competitor in this field. So, why don't we make a bet and see the future development trend of office software. Do we continue to maintain stand-alone or rely more and more on the Internet? "
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After all, it's the first experience of three people together. She wakes up very early in the morning or falls asleep intentionally, feeling that the two people around her leave one after another, leaving her alone in the big bed. Rachel Vichy goes to sleep again.
Last night, I was really upset.
I don't know how long after that, the bright sunshine in spring broke into the bedroom through the cracks of the curtains and just fell on her face.
Open your eyes.
The drowsiness disappeared completely, and some of the other tiredness disappeared.
I think of a certain argument.
Women have an advantage in this respect.
However, after sitting up, he was confused and didn't know what to do.
Looking around, I found a beautiful crystal ball on the bedside table. Curiously, I reached for it and looked at it. I didn't know where I touched it. The crystal ball seemed to light up. It was the kind of distributed lightning like multicolored light, like countless color cracks inside the ball. It was very beautiful.
So I became interested. After a little research, I soon realized that this is probably an electrostatic trigger. There is no switch. Just touch the surface of the crystal ball, and the radial light inside will light up.
I remember seeing such things when I was a child visiting the science and Technology Museum, but I forgot the principle.
It's fun.
For the time being, I put aside my situation, played with it repeatedly, and made up my mind to go to the boutique to inquire after returning to Los Angeles, and also bought one to put in the apartment.
In high spirits, the bedroom door was pushed open.
Rachel Vichy looked up, and the palm of her right hand was right over the crystal ball again.
Drop, drop, drop.
The crisp and rapid electronic sound, similar to the common alarm bell, comes from the wrist of the Wai's maid who had known Isabel yesterday.
Rachel Vichy and Isabel look at each other's wrists for a short time, and instinctively realize that they may be in a big embarrassment. However, their disobedient right hand takes the initiative to help the host to confirm, lift up again and fall down again.
Drop, drop, drop.
God
I wish I was Alice. I could get into the rabbit hole and never come out again.
Isabel looked at Rachel's quick red face and the other party's act of putting the crystal ball back on the bedside table, covered up the smile she wanted to overflow, and politely said, "Miss Vicky, what can I do for you?"
Rachel shook her head, pointed to the crystal ball that was coming back to the bedside table, and said, "well, I'm sorry. I thought it was just an ordinary ornament."
"Never mind," said Isabel, adding, "are you going to get up now?"
I really want to go back to bed again, so that I can avoid the embarrassment just now, but I just let out a slight hum.
I can't sleep.
Isabel went to the window, pressed the electric switch to open the curtain, the bright sun immediately filled the bedroom, and said: "you can wash first, the bathroom has a brand-new toothbrush, I will help you prepare your clothes, in addition, what would you like for breakfast?"
Rachel, look around.
Last night, from downstairs to upstairs, there was no shadow of his own clothes around. Moreover, some guy seemed to have a violent tendency. He vaguely remembered that the Versace dress that he had just changed yesterday had been torn, so he couldn't wear it again.
Isabel, who opened the curtain, saw her mind, made a wait sign, went into the bathroom, and a moment later came out with a bathrobe to Rachel.
After a little toss, I came down from upstairs and found that it was more than ten o'clock in the morning.
It's a rainy season in Seattle. It's a rare sunny day. It's in the temperate marine climate region. The temperature in March is just right.
It's quiet in the villa.
I'm sorry to ask about someone who went there. I have to ask. I don't really want to see Kate Beckinsale. Last night, she They've got a grudge.
Maybe she didn't want to embarrass her. Isabel didn't show up again after she sent her a new suit. Another waitress asked her and took her to a living room on the east side of the villa, which is connected with a terrace facing the lake. Kate was leaning on the sofa to read a fashion magazine, and occasionally glanced out of the window.
The waitress put breakfast on the round table closer to the French window. Rachel and Kate said hello and went to sit down. It was easy to see the two men sitting opposite each other on the terrace.
One of them, of course, is Simon westero.
On the other hand, from the other party's iconic black eyes, Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, westero's trip to Seattle is to attend the launch of the other party's latest operating system.
It's said to be a very powerful company.
The terrace is very large. Two men are sitting by the guardrail in the distance. Rachel can't hear them. She just looks at them occasionally while eating breakfast. It seems that Bill Gates is getting more and more excited, and her hair floats up because of the obvious angry waving of her hands.Some guy is sitting still and his legs are up.
Watching this picture quietly, Rachel only felt that it was like a self righteous monkey in the zoo, pawing in front of the tiger.
It's kind of funny.
The release of Windows 95 system, which is more powerful and more friendly for the general public without professional foundation, is a watershed for the whole information industry.
However, this is not the reason why Simon attended yesterday's press conference.
Taking this opportunity to come to Seattle, Simon plans to have a serious talk with Damen to solve the many differences between Microsoft and several other companies of westero system, especially igritte.
However, the result of this morning's meeting was obviously not very good.
Simon's request is that the release of Windows 95, at least the overseas version must be built-in igritte's IE browser.
Different from North America, because of the differences in relevant laws and regulations, even though igrit attaches great importance to global intellectual property protection and technology patent application, 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 connives, no one can guarantee that igrit will not be cut off The absolute monopoly of browser software.
If you want to solve this problem, the most convenient way is to let windows which is about to unify the PC market have IE built in.
The reason why Microsoft was able to defeat Netscape browser with its backward technology and problematic IE browser is that the key lies in this pre installed monopoly.
Moreover, in the mainstream PC market, igritte can negotiate with large-scale OEM manufacturers for pre installation. However, with the outbreak of new technology industry, OEM manufacturers of all sizes around the world will blossom everywhere, even including the amazing scale of piracy market. These are no longer areas that igritte can easily control, and will inevitably be taken by competitors.
There is also the government factor.
In the face of the huge benefits brought by the outbreak of new technology industry, it is hard to say whether overseas governments will force igrit to license browser software for such bullshit reasons as "national security" commonly used in the United States.
In a word, as long as the IE version of igritte is combined with the fact that it is impossible to uninstall Microsoft operating system, many problems will be solved.
It's a pity that Damen seems to think that he has grasped igritte's seven inches and insisted on asking for more in-depth core patent authorization of browser software as a bargaining chip. In addition, he also asked igritte to stop the Linux version of PC operating system that is being secretly developed.
Igritte's operating system research and development project has been in a state of non-public confidentiality, however, some things are difficult to hide in this circle after all.
Simon can't agree to either.
Guicai believes Damen's promise not to develop his own browser as long as he has a patent.
There is also the research and development of igritte's operating system, which not only involves Simon's layout of the PC era, but also includes the future mobile communication era. It is also impossible to give up.
In the face of the students' lack of oil and salt, Simon is not without countermeasures.
On the contrary, Simon has a lot of chips for Microsoft.
First of all, through various changes over the years, Simon still holds 18.7% of the shares of Microsoft. With Paul Allen's continuous reduction, he has now become the second largest shareholder of Microsoft. Even if he can't compete for the control of the company with his classmates who still hold nearly 40% of the shares, Simon also has a considerable say.
Microsoft's current board of directors has a total of 11 members, two of which are occupied by westrow system, which is enough to play a role in some important corporate decisions.
Moreover, as a major shareholder, the most important move is undoubtedly to reduce its holdings.
Even if Microsoft's share in the operating system market keeps rising, it can't bear the continuous decline and reduction of vistro system. If Simon insists on doing so, many other shareholders will put pressure on Damen to make a compromise. After all, Damen students do not have absolute shareholding in Microsoft, lack of absolute control, and it is not impossible to be forced to step down at that time.
Secondly, with the absolute advantage of westero system in the Internet field, Simon can completely shut Microsoft out of the Internet industry.
In addition to the monopoly of PC operating system, Microsoft's layout in the field of Internet is also very important, especially the monopoly of pre installed browser, which once enabled Microsoft to grasp the incomparable industry advantages of other peers.
in addition, Microsoft in memory has also been involved in network access, data center, portals and other fields during the Internet bubble in the 2000, which has contributed greatly to Microsoft's 600 billion dollar market capitalization.
This time, because of Simon's series of pioneering layout, Cisco, AOL and igritte have formed a very strong monopoly barrier in the Internet field, but the large number of core patents held by these three companies are enough to defeat many competitors who intend to enter the market.In the past few years, while focusing on the development of windows system, Microsoft has also started to set foot in the portal website, data center and other businesses, as in the original time and space. Among them, vestro system has taken the initiative to provide patent authorization to support.
For example, the e-mail service of the portal website, without the authorization of igritte, Microsoft could not do it at all.
And data center business.
In the case of competition between the two sides, igritte shared some technical achievements with the other side, and promoted Microsoft's data center services on igritte portal and other network platforms. Although Microsoft paid a huge amount of advertising expenses in this process, for other important competitors, even if they paid the advertising expenses, igrit would not easily advertise for others.
In addition, Microsoft launched the desktop software mall with Windows 95, which also infringed a large number of related technology patents of igrit software store.
Before he came to Seattle this time, Simon had seen the draft document that igritte planned to sue Microsoft's desktop software store, but he was just temporarily suppressed.
It can be said that once the competition is real, igrit is enough to force Microsoft to shut down the service completely.
At the beginning, students of Damen directly infringed and imitated Apple's Macintosh to launch the windows operating system. Later, they half coaxed, half cheated and even fooled this system. Now, Apple has no way to take Microsoft, and the lawsuit between the two sides is still going on.
However, this kind of deception has no effect on the westero system.
If you infringe a patent, you just don't change it or drag it all the time. In the end, you'll get a lot of money, just like Netscape in Simon's memory. However, don't forget that this time, the Internet is the absolute domain of the westero system.
Many of Microsoft's network services always need suppliers and consumers.
Just like the software mall, no one provides you with software to see how you still play.
If you want to achieve this goal, one of two is enough.
Anyone who wants to sell software through the Internet can hardly bypass the marketing and payment channels of the Westeros system. How will those software developers choose?
And data center business.
If there is a stalemate between the two sides, those enterprise users, in order to avoid being affected, even if they don't turn to ygrit's YWS, IBM, HP and other suppliers, in short, there are too many choices. Without users, Microsoft can't do this part of its business.
What's more, the intellectual property protection laws and regulations of the United States are not vegetarian.
If the vistro system completely breaks its face and forcibly withdraws a series of non permanent patents granted to Microsoft in recent years, Microsoft will really play tricks and insist on continuing to use it, and the huge fine will be enough for the students to drink a pot.
On the terrace of the lakeside villa on Mercer Island.
Listening to the threatening statements in Mongolian, Damen could not keep calm any longer. He almost stood up from his chair and waved his arms to accuse Simon of blackmail.
Unlike the gentleness in the media lens, everyone in the circle actually knows that Bill Gates is a very irascible person, which is on a par with jobs. Especially as Microsoft becomes more and more successful, his temper is getting bigger and bigger.
Simon, who was going to take a sip of coffee on the table, gave up the idea, frowned and said to gates, who looked like a cockfight: "bill, we are all adults. Don't make such a big noise like a child, OK?"
Bill Gates glared, poked himself, and then pointed to Simon: "little boy? Hey, you don't know which one of us is a kid? Do you really think you're 14000 years old, westero? You are just a self willed lunatic, psycho, I tell you, I will never be threatened by you, I can even make IE browser completely unable to run on windows. "
Simon sneered: "otherwise, you'll try it now. I'm looking forward to it!"
Damen's voice was a little louder: "do you think I dare not?"
Simon shrugged: "I said, you can do it now. Try it. Maybe you can't wait to call Steve to announce your decision. Let's see if ie is banned or if you are ousted by the board of directors first?"
"I own 37.3% and I have Allen's support."
"Of course, it's a pity that it's not an absolute holding. Besides, I don't think Paul will support you to do stupid things. Besides, do you think that the only capital dependent on IE is the Westeros system? If you dare to do so, you will become the public enemy of the whole information industry. In contrast, I shut Microsoft out of the Internet industry, and everyone will love it. "
Damen half stood and glared at Simon for a moment, and said: "in any case, don't even think about it in your life."
"I only give you one day to think about it. Before next Monday, you'd better give me a satisfactory answer. Bill, I was expecting Microsoft to become a part of the westero system, but now I'll give it up completely. So, I'm not negotiating with you. It's an ultimatum. If you don't agree, I'll keep my word. I'll start to reduce Microsoft's shares. I'll release a free Linux desktop operating system in advance. I'll completely block Microsoft out of the Internet industry. Don't do portal sites, data centers, and network access. Live by your operating system Let's go. Oh, and office software. At the beginning, you forced apple to tolerate your development of operating system by relying on office, right? As it happens, igritte has quietly developed the network office system for a long time, and we will soon become a competitor in this field. So, why don't we make a bet and see the future development trend of office software. Do we continue to maintain stand-alone or rely more and more on the Internet? "
After all, it's the first experience of three people together. She wakes up very early in the morning or falls asleep intentionally, feeling that the two people around her leave one after another, leaving her alone in the big bed. Rachel Vichy goes to sleep again. Last night, I was really upset. I don't know how long after that, the bright sunshine in spring broke into the bedroom through the cracks of the curtains and just fell on her face. Open your eyes. The drowsiness disappeared completely, and some of the other tiredness disappeared. I think of a certain argument. Women have an advantage in this respect. However, after sitting up, he was confused and didn't know what to do. Looking around, I found a beautiful crystal ball on the bedside table. Curiously, I reached for it and looked at it. I didn't know where I touched it. The crystal ball seemed to light up. It was the kind of distributed lightning like multicolored light, like countless color cracks inside the ball. It was very beautiful. So I became interested. After a little research, I soon realized that this is probably an electrostatic trigger. There is no switch. Just touch the surface of the crystal ball, and the radial light inside will light up. I remember seeing such things when I was a child visiting the science and Technology Museum, but I forgot the principle. It's fun. For the time being, I put aside my situation, played with it repeatedly, and made up my mind to go to the boutique to inquire after returning to Los Angeles, and also bought one to put in the apartment. In high spirits, the bedroom door was pushed open. Rachel Vichy looked up, and the palm of her right hand was right over the crystal ball again. Drop, drop, drop. The crisp and rapid electronic sound, similar to the common alarm bell, comes from the wrist of the Wai's maid who had known Isabel yesterday. Rachel Vichy and Isabel look at each other's wrists for a short time, and instinctively realize that they may be in a big embarrassment. However, their disobedient right hand takes the initiative to help the host to confirm, lift up again and fall down again. Drop, drop, drop. God I wish I was Alice. I could get into the rabbit hole and never come out again. Isabel looked at Rachel's quick red face and the other party's act of putting the crystal ball back on the bedside table, covered up the smile she wanted to overflow, and politely said, "Miss Vicky, what can I do for you?" Rachel shook her head, pointed to the crystal ball that was coming back to the bedside table, and said, "well, I'm sorry. I thought it was just an ordinary ornament." "Never mind," said Isabel, adding, "are you going to get up now?" I really want to go back to bed again, so that I can avoid the embarrassment just now, but I just let out a slight hum. I can't sleep. Isabel went to the window, pressed the electric switch to open the curtain, the bright sun immediately filled the bedroom, and said: "you can wash first, the bathroom has a brand-new toothbrush, I will help you prepare your clothes, in addition, what would you like for breakfast?" Rachel, look around. Last night, from downstairs to upstairs, there was no shadow of his own clothes around. Moreover, some guy seemed to have a violent tendency. He vaguely remembered that the Versace dress that he had just changed yesterday had been torn, so he couldn't wear it again. Isabel, who opened the curtain, saw her mind, made a wait sign, went into the bathroom, and a moment later came out with a bathrobe to Rachel. After a little toss, I came down from upstairs and found that it was more than ten o'clock in the morning. It's a rainy season in Seattle. It's a rare sunny day. It's in the temperate marine climate region. The temperature in March is just right. It's quiet in the villa. I'm sorry to ask about someone who went there. I have to ask. I don't really want to see Kate Beckinsale. Last night, she They've got a grudge. Maybe she didn't want to embarrass her. Isabel didn't show up again after she sent her a new suit. Another waitress asked her and took her to a living room on the east side of the villa, which is connected with a terrace facing the lake. Kate was leaning on the sofa to read a fashion magazine, and occasionally glanced out of the window. The waitress put breakfast on the round table closer to the French window. Rachel and Kate said hello and went to sit down. It was easy to see the two men sitting opposite each other on the terrace. One of them, of course, is Simon westero. On the other hand, from the other party's iconic black eyes, Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, westero's trip to Seattle is to attend the launch of the other party's latest operating system. It's said to be a very powerful company. The terrace is very large. Two men are sitting by the guardrail in the distance. Rachel can't hear them. She just looks at them occasionally while eating breakfast. It seems that Bill Gates is getting more and more excited, and her hair floats up because of the obvious angry waving of her hands.Some guy is sitting still and his legs are up. Watching this picture quietly, Rachel only felt that it was like a self righteous monkey in the zoo, pawing in front of the tiger. It's kind of funny. The release of Windows 95 system, which is more powerful and more friendly for the general public without professional foundation, is a watershed for the whole information industry. However, this is not the reason why Simon attended yesterday's press conference. Taking this opportunity to come to Seattle, Simon plans to have a serious talk with Damen to solve the many differences between Microsoft and several other companies of westero system, especially igritte. However, the result of this morning's meeting was obviously not very good. Simon's request is that the release of Windows 95, at least the overseas version must be built-in igritte's IE browser. Different from North America, because of the differences in relevant laws and regulations, even though igrit attaches great importance to global intellectual property protection and technology patent application, 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 connives, no one can guarantee that igrit will not be cut off The absolute monopoly of browser software. If you want to solve this problem, the most convenient way is to let windows which is about to unify the PC market have IE built in. The reason why Microsoft was able to defeat Netscape browser with its backward technology and problematic IE browser is that the key lies in this pre installed monopoly. Moreover, in the mainstream PC market, igritte can negotiate with large-scale OEM manufacturers for pre installation. However, with the outbreak of new technology industry, OEM manufacturers of all sizes around the world will blossom everywhere, even including the amazing scale of piracy market. These are no longer areas that igritte can easily control, and will inevitably be taken by competitors. There is also the government factor. In the face of the huge benefits brought by the outbreak of new technology industry, it is hard to say whether overseas governments will force igrit to license browser software for such bullshit reasons as "national security" commonly used in the United States. In a word, as long as the IE version of igritte is combined with the fact that it is impossible to uninstall Microsoft operating system, many problems will be solved. It's a pity that Damen seems to think that he has grasped igritte's seven inches and insisted on asking for more in-depth core patent authorization of browser software as a bargaining chip. In addition, he also asked igritte to stop the Linux version of PC operating system that is being secretly developed. Igritte's operating system research and development project has been in a state of non-public confidentiality, however, some things are difficult to hide in this circle after all. Simon can't agree to either. Guicai believes Damen's promise not to develop his own browser as long as he has a patent. There is also the research and development of igritte's operating system, which not only involves Simon's layout of the PC era, but also includes the future mobile communication era. It is also impossible to give up. In the face of the students' lack of oil and salt, Simon is not without countermeasures. On the contrary, Simon has a lot of chips for Microsoft. First of all, through various changes over the years, Simon still holds 18.7% of the shares of Microsoft. With Paul Allen's continuous reduction, he has now become the second largest shareholder of Microsoft. Even if he can't compete for the control of the company with his classmates who still hold nearly 40% of the shares, Simon also has a considerable say. Microsoft's current board of directors has a total of 11 members, two of which are occupied by westrow system, which is enough to play a role in some important corporate decisions. Moreover, as a major shareholder, the most important move is undoubtedly to reduce its holdings. Even if Microsoft's share in the operating system market keeps rising, it can't bear the continuous decline and reduction of vistro system. If Simon insists on doing so, many other shareholders will put pressure on Damen to make a compromise. After all, Damen students do not have absolute shareholding in Microsoft, lack of absolute control, and it is not impossible to be forced to step down at that time. Secondly, with the absolute advantage of westero system in the Internet field, Simon can completely shut Microsoft out of the Internet industry. In addition to the monopoly of PC operating system, Microsoft's layout in the field of Internet is also very important, especially the monopoly of pre installed browser, which once enabled Microsoft to grasp the incomparable industry advantages of other peers. in addition, Microsoft in memory has also been involved in network access, data center, portals and other fields during the Internet bubble in the 2000, which has contributed greatly to Microsoft's 600 billion dollar market capitalization. This time, because of Simon's series of pioneering layout, Cisco, AOL and igritte have formed a very strong monopoly barrier in the Internet field, but the large number of core patents held by these three companies are enough to defeat many competitors who intend to enter the market.In the past few years, while focusing on the development of windows system, Microsoft has also started to set foot in the portal website, data center and other businesses, as in the original time and space. Among them, vestro system has taken the initiative to provide patent authorization to support. For example, the e-mail service of the portal website, without the authorization of igritte, Microsoft could not do it at all. And data center business. In the case of competition between the two sides, igritte shared some technical achievements with the other side, and promoted Microsoft's data center services on igritte portal and other network platforms. Although Microsoft paid a huge amount of advertising expenses in this process, for other important competitors, even if they paid the advertising expenses, igrit would not easily advertise for others. In addition, Microsoft launched the desktop software mall with Windows 95, which also infringed a large number of related technology patents of igrit software store. Before he came to Seattle this time, Simon had seen the draft document that igritte planned to sue Microsoft's desktop software store, but he was just temporarily suppressed. It can be said that once the competition is real, igrit is enough to force Microsoft to shut down the service completely. At the beginning, students of Damen directly infringed and imitated Apple's Macintosh to launch the windows operating system. Later, they half coaxed, half cheated and even fooled this system. Now, Apple has no way to take Microsoft, and the lawsuit between the two sides is still going on. However, this kind of deception has no effect on the westero system. If you infringe a patent, you just don't change it or drag it all the time. In the end, you'll get a lot of money, just like Netscape in Simon's memory. However, don't forget that this time, the Internet is the absolute domain of the westero system. Many of Microsoft's network services always need suppliers and consumers. Just like the software mall, no one provides you with software to see how you still play. If you want to achieve this goal, one of two is enough. Anyone who wants to sell software through the Internet can hardly bypass the marketing and payment channels of the Westeros system. How will those software developers choose? And data center business. If there is a stalemate between the two sides, those enterprise users, in order to avoid being affected, even if they don't turn to ygrit's YWS, IBM, HP and other suppliers, in short, there are too many choices. Without users, Microsoft can't do this part of its business. What's more, the intellectual property protection laws and regulations of the United States are not vegetarian. If the vistro system completely breaks its face and forcibly withdraws a series of non permanent patents granted to Microsoft in recent years, Microsoft will really play tricks and insist on continuing to use it, and the huge fine will be enough for the students to drink a pot. On the terrace of the lakeside villa on Mercer Island. Listening to the threatening statements in Mongolian, Damen could not keep calm any longer. He almost stood up from his chair and waved his arms to accuse Simon of blackmail. Unlike the gentleness in the media lens, everyone in the circle actually knows that Bill Gates is a very irascible person, which is on a par with jobs. Especially as Microsoft becomes more and more successful, his temper is getting bigger and bigger. Simon, who was going to take a sip of coffee on the table, gave up the idea, frowned and said to gates, who looked like a cockfight: "bill, we are all adults. Don't make such a big noise like a child, OK?" Bill Gates glared, poked himself, and then pointed to Simon: "little boy? Hey, you don't know which one of us is a kid? Do you really think you're 14000 years old, westero? You are just a self willed lunatic, psycho, I tell you, I will never be threatened by you, I can even make IE browser completely unable to run on windows. " Simon sneered: "otherwise, you'll try it now. I'm looking forward to it!" Damen's voice was a little louder: "do you think I dare not?" Simon shrugged: "I said, you can do it now. Try it. Maybe you can't wait to call Steve to announce your decision. Let's see if ie is banned or if you are ousted by the board of directors first?" "I own 37.3% and I have Allen's support." "Of course, it's a pity that it's not an absolute holding. Besides, I don't think Paul will support you to do stupid things. Besides, do you think that the only capital dependent on IE is the Westeros system? If you dare to do so, you will become the public enemy of the whole information industry. In contrast, I shut Microsoft out of the Internet industry, and everyone will love it. " Damen half stood and glared at Simon for a moment, and said: "in any case, don't even think about it in your life." "I only give you one day to think about it. Before next Monday, you'd better give me a satisfactory answer. Bill, I was expecting Microsoft to become a part of the westero system, but now I'll give it up completely. So, I'm not negotiating with you. It's an ultimatum. If you don't agree, I'll keep my word. I'll start to reduce Microsoft's shares. I'll release a free Linux desktop operating system in advance. I'll completely block Microsoft out of the Internet industry. Don't do portal sites, data centers, and network access. Live by your operating system Let's go. Oh, and office software. At the beginning, you forced apple to tolerate your development of operating system by relying on office, right? As it happens, igritte has quietly developed the network office system for a long time, and we will soon become a competitor in this field. So, why don't we make a bet and see the future development trend of office software. Do we continue to maintain stand-alone or rely more and more on the Internet? "
