Rebirth 1999: Opening the Age of Black Technology

Although it has long been expected, the carbon crystal hard disk can definitely be applied on the deeply optimized Windows98 system.

But when this series of tests was actually completed, Microsoft's technical department was extremely shocked.

Microsoft's technical team members are definitely the world's top software engineers.

Windows98 tens of millions of lines of code are knocked out by these technical engineers one by one.

Including the WindowsXP system that is being developed now, it is also the masterpiece of these outstanding engineers.

They absolutely couldn't believe that the pirate manufacturers of Xia Guo could modify the underlying code of the system.

This technique is extremely difficult and time consuming.

It is absolutely impossible that the Xia people who are extremely backward in computer technology can do it.

Microsoft's engineers firmly believe that unless Microsoft actively discloses the underlying code of windows98, no one in the world can do such a thing.

This matter is no trivial matter. If you can deeply modify the underlying code of windows98, it is almost to expose windows98 to others without any precautions. This situation is quite dangerous.

For a system, this is absolutely fatal.

Fortunately, this company called the deep optimization system, just let the system support carbon crystal hard drives.

If this company has more ideas, such as using this technology to penetrate deeply into the system, steal user data, or do more extreme things, it will be a great deal for hundreds of millions of Windows 98 PCs around the world. 's crisis.

This kind of thing is very serious!

The technical department did not dare to hide it, and immediately reported the cause and effect of the incident to the senior management of Microsoft.

Microsoft is now putting most of its energy into the development of the Windows XP system.

It is expected that in next year, Microsoft's latest system, WindowsXP, will be able to meet users.

In fact, most of the underlying code of WindowsXP is the same as that of windows98. XP is the deep optimization and improvement of the 98 system.

If the underlying code of win98 has been leaked, then the Windows XP system that Microsoft has developed with great effort may also have corresponding security problems.

A report on the situation of the extremely optimized system was placed on the desk of Microsoft CEO Ge Chi.

Gates' first reaction was that the underlying code of the Windows 98 system must have been leaked by the relevant technical personnel.

This is no small matter!

Gaichi convened a high-level meeting of the committee members for the first time, and solemnly informed that a company in Xia Guo has the ability to modify the underlying code of windows98.

At the high-level meeting, Gates said: "We recognize that Xia is indeed an emerging market. They have a population of 1.2 billion, and there is definite news that Xia will join the WTO by the end of this year."

"But many of us have gone to Xia Guo for business or travel, and many technical leaders have communicated with their counterparts in Xia Guo. Our Xia Guo head office was also established in 1995, so we The computer level of the country is very well understood.”

"We believe that so far, even Xia Guo's state and computer research labs have no way to obtain the underlying code of our Windows 98 system."

"Most likely, it leaked from within us."

When Gates said this, his expression was already quite serious.

There is no need to find any evidence, Microsoft people are very clear about their own technology, and they are also very clear about the difficulty of the underlying code of the windows98 system.

It is absolutely impossible for any company or individual in the world to get tens of millions of lines of Windows98 system code.

Whether it is Gates or other high-level Microsoft executives, they are very sure that there must be an insider inside the company. This is the behavior of the company insider, which led to the exposure of the underlying code of Microsoft's windows98 system.

This high-level meeting has only two things: The first thing is to conduct a thorough inspection of Microsoft's key departments. The second thing is to let the technical department take measures as soon as possible to weaken the impact of the deep optimization system on the genuine system.

A vigorous plan to find a traitor was launched inside Microsoft.

The effect of this action is obvious.

We didn't find the traitor who was related to the pirated system, but many commercial spies lurking inside Microsoft had already appeared.

These people and Nokia's Symbian system division, Apple and South Korea's Samsung have very close ties.

It even sold a lot of Microsoft's trade secrets.

This result surprised Microsoft's executives.

However, in this storm of incidents, the Chinese engineers at Microsoft were the most victims.

Discrimination against Chinese in the United States is not a matter of one or two days, but began at the end of the 19th century.

Especially after the founding of New China, the Chinese from the mainland became the last-class citizens of the United States, and their status was not only lower than that of whites and blacks in the United States, but also lower than that of Latinos, Southeast Asians, Orientals and South Koreans. The status is only higher than that of the Chinese who passed from the Wanwan area, and they are at the lowest end of the entire discrimination chain.

However, the Chinese in the mainland are talented, smart, and very hardworking, so they are quickly gaining ground in various industries in the United States.

Especially in Silicon Valley in the United States, there are a large number of Chinese engineers.

On the other hand, if there were no Chinese engineers, there would not be the glory of Silicon Valley in the United States.

Similarly, at Microsoft, there are also a large number of Chinese engineers.

However, after this incident, Chinese engineers were ostracized and discriminated against by colleagues, intentionally or unintentionally.

The executives of the technology department directly transferred several Chinese from the core technology department, terminated their participation in the research and development of the Windows XP system, and even reduced their salaries.

Ma Tao, who graduated from Yenching University~www.readwn.com~, went to MIT School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science to study as a graduate and doctoral student at public expense.

This is Ma Tao's fifth year at Microsoft. He has less seniority than many engineers, but because of his strong technical ability and excellent talent, he quickly became the core figure of the technical department and has become a Windows XP developer. The core tasks of the project team.

But today, as soon as Ma Tao walked into the workplace, he was called to the office by the supervisor.

Supervisor Wells said to Ma Tao very apologetically: "Ma, I am very sorry, you have been transferred out of the project team, and now you are responsible for the maintenance and update of the system. In your new job, I hope you can communicate with your colleagues as soon as possible. Familiar with it, get used to it as soon as possible.”

Wells is very euphemistic, but Ma Tao is very clear about the various positions at Microsoft.

After being transferred from his current development position, his salary level must be reduced by at least three levels, which is actually a disguised way of keeping him away from the core department and demoted.

Ma Tao became puzzled and even a little angry, but he didn't dare to speak harshly to his supervisor at all, he could only suppress his inner grief and anger and asked, "Mr. Wells, do I have any mistakes in my work? "