Author: Guigu

Nanyi: "Scarlett."

Scarlett: "Have you read the email?"

Nan Yi: "Well, wait a moment, Rachel will be online soon."

Rachel: "I'm here."

Nanyi: "OK, Rachel, do you think Microsoft's acquisition offer will be approved by the Justice Department?"

There is a man named Edward Roberts, who is now a doctor. In the early years, he founded MITS company to produce programmable calculators. His business was not very good at the beginning and almost went bankrupt. But he launched it in 1974.

The earliest personal computer "Altair 8800" based on Intel microprocessors.

Therefore, he was called the father of PC.

His light shone on a man named Jobs. Jobs followed the footprints of the great master Roberts to create an apple. At the same time, his light shone on two Jewish students, Paul Allen and Bill Gates.

When Gates saw the news about Altair, he immediately laughed to the sky, "Hahaha, my Zhuge Gates's opportunity is here."

Gates knew very well that the emergence of PC was equivalent to opening a new era of computers, so he called Roberts and claimed that he would develop a special language for Altair, that is, Basic. A student had no hair on his mouth, and Roberts naturally

It's just that Gates is DEMO first.

Gates cherished this opportunity very much and pulled Allen to work day and night at the Harvard Arkans Computer Center for eight weeks to write the Basic language for Altair.

After writing, the two went to show Roberts excitedly. When Roberts saw that the two young men were good, they wanted to pull them into MITS. This was considered to have hit Gates and they were both worried, so they were naturally connected.

He agreed, but for insurance, Allen dropped out of school and went to MITS first, while Gates did not take a job and joined as a part-time job.

In the spring of 1975, Allen joined MITS and served as the software manager. After a while, Allen found that Roberts was a little shaky, so he quickly called Gates, who had finished second grade. The two continued to improve Basic while

Registered a company called Microsoft to hold ownership of Basic.

In late July 1975, Gates and Roberts signed an agreement with ten years to allow MITS to use and transfer Basic and source code worldwide, including third parties.

According to the agreement, Gates and the others can make up to $180,000, which is not a lot of money, but it can allow Microsoft to parasitize MITS and catch a ride.

After getting Basic, Roberts launched a huge publicity across the United States. MITS's business is booming. With the popularity of Altair, the Basic language has also been promoted. Microsoft won two major customers, Ge and Nce. Microsoft has gained great fame and has made a comeback.

The son became hard.

Later, there was fluctuation within MITS, and Roberts wanted to sell MITS to Perterc. Perterc insisted on treating Basic as part of the transaction. According to the agreement signed by Roberts and Gates at that time, Roberts had the right to trade Basic, but there was a certain amount of

The controversy.

Controversy means favorable to Gates. Don’t forget what Gates’ father does. The lawyers in the United States are ranked first, not to mention his mother. With the help of Gates’ father, after several lawsuits, Basic

Ownership is still firmly in the hands of Microsoft, and MITS has become the first stepping stone to Microsoft's rise.

Looking back with the eyes of latecomers, the initial microcomputer users were a group of young men. They wore jeans and listened to rock and roll, were dissatisfied with the current situation, and with the belief of returning computers to the people, they planned to change the world.

They rely on clubs and fairs to communicate with each other and purchase products. They reject naked business. They are not as ambitious as Gates, and their eyes are directly focused on wealth. Instead, they are out of some belief and obsessive hobby.

The Home Brew Computer Club, established in 1975, was the most famous link between microcomputer users at that time. It advocated an open system and spread software coding and internal operation to everyone for free. It was this open ideal that led to the early PCs.

Industry, because they were the most important consumers, inventors, innovators and makers in the early days.

It can be said that the earliest software for individuals advocated the idea of ​​free. The software author did not seek profit, but wanted to hear fellow enthusiasts say, "Brother, you are so awesome."

If the PC developed according to this model, it would never have become popular and would only become a small circle of playthings. Fortunately, Gates had a very mature business thinking at that time - to put Basic first through free methods

Promote it out and wait until there are more people using it, then slowly find a way to collect money.

With the Home Brew Computer Club, Basic's reputation became increasingly popular. When it was 1976, Gates felt that the time was ripe, so in January he wrote an open letter to amateurs, published in the Home Brew Club Newsletter and some other

place.

In the letter, he accused the extensive illegal copying of Basic and called the amateurs who did so a thief, he wrote: "The patent fees we receive for selling to amateurs are calculated.

, The time we spend on Altair Basic is only worth $2 per hour, why is this happening?

Most amateurs must understand that many of you use stealing software, and the hardware has to be bought, but the software can be shared. However, who cares whether anyone who has developed the results is paid?

”

This letter has become the banner and declaration of Microsoft's development. After improvement, it has been popularized first and then charged, and has also become the only magic weapon for Microsoft's product promotion.

If Basic is considered an innovation in the PC language, then since Basic, Microsoft has no so-called innovation. MS-DOS was transformed on the basis of Quick and Dirty, and Quick and Dirty was a relatively awesome operating system CP at that time.

/M's old version 8086 was modified and simplified.

MS-DOS was actually when IBM was eager to enter the PC market. For some reason, it did not reach an agreement with CP/M, and instead jointly developed a new operating system with Microsoft. In order to hurry, Microsoft took the above measures.

So, strictly speaking, MS-DOS is the third grandson of CP/M, and has a pure bloodline and is definitely a biological child.

Microsoft was out of control after IBM's big tree on the list, and slowly grew stronger on the blue giant. However, at that time, the person in charge of IBM's PC department was named Esteledge, who was a great man, let Gates go.

He was like a ghost, and he still made Gates unable to move.

Things are very strange. Esteledge took charge of IBM's PC department for less than four years, bringing IBM $4 billion in revenue. It is said to be a great hero, but this great hero quickly stepped aside.

The last person named Roy.

IBM's operation must have nothing to do with Gates' mother, who was misrepresented to be IBM's director in later generations. Gates' mother has never worked at IBM. She is actually an executive of the First Intercontinental Bank, and her father seems to be from the First Intercontinental Bank.

Shareholders, InterContinental Bank seems to have a little bit of IBM's shares, and Gates's mother is actually invincible to IBM.

In June 1985, Microsoft and IBM reached an agreement to jointly develop the OS/2 operating system. According to the agreement, IBM can install it at will on its own computer, with almost no penny, but Microsoft is allowed to charge other computer manufacturers for OS/2 usage fees.

At that time, IBM had an absolute advantage in the PC market and had a very low share of compatible machines. Loy agreed without thinking. By 1989, the compatible machine market had reached 80% of the share, and Microsoft had just a few years on the operating system license fee.

Just revenue of $2 billion.

Later, Microsoft and IBM's cooperation on OS/2 did not continue, and Microsoft began to "develop" Windows. Yes, yes, Windows 95 is the adopted son of OS/2, and Windows 3.0 and the previous version are OS/

2 parents and children.

From Basic to Windows 1.0, Microsoft is taking a parasitic path, standing on the shoulders of giants and climbing up. When Windows 3.0 is released, Microsoft itself is already a giant, but it has not gone to the path of innovation and has not become a

A banner in the PC world, I quietly went to Meizhuang, Xihu, and met with senior Ren Woxing Ren, and devoted myself to practicing the Star-absorbing Technique. When I finished my studies, I changed it to the soft-absorbing Technique based on my own characteristics.

One day, Gates stood at the top of Seattle, using the method of sucking softness, Wordstar, WordPerfect was sucked by him, he left Word, kicked Star, Perfect away, and then sucked Lotus again, looking at

He didn't know how to split this weird name, so he simply gave it a new name "Excel".

Just suck, Microsoft is becoming more and more powerful. One day in 1989, Gates became interested in Caijie's product Quicken Finance Software. He stood on the top of the mountain and started to suck soft-sucking method, repeatedly sucking in Caijie's direction.

After a few times, Quicken just didn't move at all.

Since I can't suck, then forget it. Gates was not discouraged. Microsoft is already strong and might as well write a MS-Money to compete with Quicken, but it's a pity. MS-Money was actually pressed to the ground by Quicken, and it's a little bit

He didn't even have the power to fight back, and he was watching Caijie go public.

Gates looked at it and said no, I have to suck it again.

So, last year, Gates made another effort, obviously failed, otherwise he would not have made an effort this time.

Speaking of the crime of right and wrong, it is not that Microsoft cannot defeat Caijie, but that the Ministry of Justice has held Microsoft down. The reason is very simple, two words, monopoly.

In 1990, the Federal Trade Commission had noticed Microsoft because its bundled sales method was one of the objects of dictatorship of antitrust law. However, as the American legend of the information age, Microsoft has a huge shareholder behind it, so it was naturally opened.

On the one hand, the Justice Department only made a restrictive ruling.

Just now the ruling was made, and on the other hand, Gates wanted to attract money again. The Ministry of Justice felt that this little guy was not sensible at all and wanted to give him a shame. So he just held him down. Now that the limelight has not passed, Gates is still

It is because of the fact that Nan Yi has this question.

Rachel: "It is unlikely that Microsoft has violated the antitrust law. It is because the shareholders' operations are also due to the national information strategy (suppression of Europe) that Microsoft has not received a major fine."

Nan Yi: "Scarlett, is there any possibility of operation?"

Scarlett: "No, it's just a commercial merger, and it doesn't involve national security. No one will agree to shake the spirit of the law."

Nan Yi scoffed at Scarlett's words, and what kind of legal spirit is that this merger is just a little guy's jumping, not involving too high-level interests, no one will throw out a special word "special" that special matters are handled.

Just follow the rules, just do it, if not, it won’t work.

"OK, I suggest buying some Caijie shares in the secondary market. Once news of Microsoft's acquisition failed, I believe Caijie's stock price will rise."

Scarlett said without comment: "Can you double the price?"

Nan Yi heard this and was a little embarrassed. Caijie's market value is only over 100 million US dollars. Among the companies that are owned by Pan American investment, it is just a little guy. From the perspective of market value alone, Rachel has no need to ask Si.

She can make a decision directly with the opinions of Jiali and Nanyi.

But a long time ago, Nan Yi had told Rachel that he would be informed of any matters related to computer-related companies. Scarlett was actually complaining that a small business would not only send an email, but also open a

Such a high-level conference call is a bit of a big deal.

"Double shouldn't be possible, Rachel, secondary market."

Rachel: "OK, I'll be paying attention."

After the conference call, Nan Yi called out TTM and set up a discussion group to talk to Ke Hanlin. Nan Ruoyan talked about South browser.

Whether it is Nantianmen or Nanyi, it does not pay enough attention to South browser, and it only treats it as an auxiliary tool and does not operate it as an independent product. The market share was followed by Netscape before, but it was just luck.

There are only two reliable browsers, and the South browser has better functions than Netscape. Despite this, it is also ranked behind Netscape.

Since I don’t pay attention to it and don’t plan to operate independently, I’d just take advantage of the current market share and Netscape is rich and I will sell it directly to it.

This matter is traded to Nanruo to operate. It doesn’t require any money, but it costs more money. Netscape’s stocks still have a lot of room for growth. Holding stocks will be more cost-effective. It depends on how to talk about the freezing period.
To be continued...