Rebirth of the Tech Madman

Steve Ballmer bit the bullet and replied: Actually, there are still many browsers on the market. For example, Booklink developed by David Wetherell is not as good as Polestar and Net The netscape_navigator of the scene is enough to deal with general application scenarios.

The design of booklink is unreasonable, which will affect the next upward upgrade and fail to meet the requirements of the overall architecture of Microsoft products. Gates snorted disdainfully, And David Wetherell is so self-righteous and has a big appetite. Not even $2 million is enough—who does he think he is!

Gates Ning Ning's posture made Steve Ballmer helplessly spread his hands.

It wasn't until Gates flew into a rage that Jim Alchian fully woke up: it turned out that the boss had made two-handed preparations-while letting himself organize manpower to develop browsers, he also tried to acquire Netscape. And looking at this meaning, it is more inclined to use the latter as a solution to the shortcomings of Microsoft browsers.

Up to now, Jim Alchian has to admit that in the face of the urgency shown by Gates, even if he works overtime, he cannot produce products on schedule. This is a characteristic of software engineering. The crowd tactics will only become more and more chaotic in the end.

After exchanging glances with Steve Ballmer, Jim Alchian took up the topic: Acquiring an off-the-shelf browser product is indeed a faster way to get closer to the goal. As far as I know, Netscape So in a short period of time, netscape_navigator was able to be developed because they had the basis of the mosaic browser previously laid at the National Supercomputer Application Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.”

Currently, the company under the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has obtained the source code of the mosaic browser and is responsible for the development of the commercial version.

We might as well ask the company to see if we can cooperate.

Gates nodded and told Steve Ballmer, Contact the company right away—I have a feeling there's something Microsoft wants.

It seems that I have to go to Illinois again——Steve Ballmer groaned secretly while drinking water to moisten his throat.

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Not to mention, such a contact immediately gave Gates a satisfactory result.

The company's situation is that after obtaining the technology and trademark authorized by the mosaic browser, it did not use any source code of the mosaic browser, and developed a brand new browser, which was still named mosaic.

In terms of price, the company has no appetite that exceeds Gates' psychological bottom line-Microsoft uses 2 million US dollars to obtain the source code of the browser, plus a quarterly licensing fee and a commission on browser sales.

Gates agreed to the agreement cleanly-according to his explanation to Steve Ballmer, fart sales commissions and free browsers must be the general trend, let the company wait.

The source code of the browser was in the hands of Microsoft. Gates personally asked Jim Alchian to deploy 6 capable programmers including Thomas Reardon, and modified it into Microsoft's browser based on it. , and added to the windows_95 value-added program package launched in the middle of the year.

Jim Alchian asked: Then what is this browser called? microsoft_mosaic?

Of course not! Gates shook his head resolutely, Since Zheru's name is zerone_polestar, and Netscape's name is netscape_navigator, if it's not Polaris, it's the navigator, then we are called microsoft_interne_explorer, the explorer of the Internet.

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Find out the limits of the Mexican peso crisis in the United States, promote The Road to the Future, and the regular activities of the Committee of 100 in the Chinese New Year... One after another is constantly busy,

It directly brought Tang Huan into the first month of the lunar calendar, which was February in 1995.

Tang Huan took a short breath, and by the way, personally met with a group of people from Xiangjiang entertainment circle who were waiting to give him New Year's greetings.

For example, relying on kung fu, Cheng Long and Li Lianjie already have a place in Hollywood. Their new works are Red Fan District and Once Upon a Time in the West: Lion of the West. With their respective distinctive styles, both have won good box office revenue.

But that's all, the decline of Hong Kong films has inevitably started to appear since last year. Its production volume has declined significantly, and its top position at the local box office has also been given up. Many people with a keen sense of smell have already noticed bad signs.

Tang Huan sighed and said to everyone: In the final analysis, Xiangjiang's movies are just like the stock market, and they cannot escape the fate of ups and downs. Fortunately, everyone can persist until now, and their careers no longer need to be tightly tied to Xiangjiang.

Thanks to Tang Sheng's support and care. Cheng Long complimented him sincerely.

Persistence is the most important thing. After all, the entire Chinese-speaking market is huge. One side is not bright and the other is bright. The prospect of the mainland film market is worth looking forward to. Tang Huan waved his hand, Everyone is a leader in the Xiangjiang film industry, and Chinese-language films are the best. A rare talent. If you encounter any difficulties during this low period, just come to me—we will tide over the difficulties together.”

Hearing the consolation from the richest man, everyone's hearts finally settled down. After all, just a little leak from the other party's hand seam is enough to moisten one's life for a long time.

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In Tang Huan's view, if the perspective is elevated to the height of the entire Chinese-language film, it is quite normal for Hong Kong films, which have experienced a golden period for more than ten years, to start to decline.

Since the decline of Hong Kong films is difficult to change, Tang Huan is not entangled. Anyway, the most important resource - talent, has been drawn almost.

In fact, Tang Huan really didn't have time to ask more questions. The affairs of the United States alone had completely tied him up.

After entertaining wave after wave of New Year's callers, Tang Huan immediately held an internal meeting of the Tang family to arrange the next work based on the global situation.

Zhuang Menghua first said: The Great Hanshin Earthquake that occurred on the 17th of last month caused the Nikkei Average Index to plummet by 1025 points, which did not have a real impact on our investment activities.

Well done. Tang Huan nodded with satisfaction, Then continue to pay attention to the appreciation trend of the yen.

However, the British may really be in for a tragedy. Zhuang Menghua smiled in accordance with Tang Huan's usual joking tone.

Then wait and watch the show. Tang Huan laughed nonchalantly, then turned serious, and muttered: The politicians in Baodao are busy with the redistribution of power, and they are tossing a lot. Therefore, it has deteriorated rapidly this year, and you must make targeted arrangements.

We haven't noticed any changes in this area. Zhuang Menghua said doubtfully.

You can't observe those troubles. Tang Huan put down his teacup and said leisurely: Mr. Li from Baodao seeks to visit the United States through political lobbying channels, so as to improve his personal reputation and win re-election; and the U.S. Congress It didn't stop there; that, combined with what I knew about Bill Clinton, basically turned into a fuse.

Zhuang Menghua, who had no such experience, couldn't help asking curiously on behalf of everyone, Brother, what kind of specific performance do you think it will be?

Tang Huan picked up the ruler, turned around and drew on the map behind him, and said lightly: It's very simple, military exercises, plus missiles flying over the sky, how will the stock market of Baodao react?

I understand. Zhuang Menghua suddenly said, Then I want to remind Miss Jun that you should not arrange any activities this year, and just stay here in the United States and rest.

You don't need to worry about this, I have arrangements for everyone. Tang Huan waved his hand, Jin Chang and Jin Ge are going to go to college this year, so that's enough for Li Jun to worry about.

Zhuang Menghua, who knew it well, couldn't help feeling a little emotional, Before I knew it, the two little ones had grown up enough to become alumni with me.

Tang Huan clicked on the map with a ruler a few times, and ordered: I will start my trip to Asia immediately, starting from a book and ending in China. Please make a summary of the projects that require my intervention as soon as possible.

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Tang Huan deliberately brought Zhang Chaoyang, who was about to return to China to start a business, and headed to Asia together.

After graduating from the Physics Department of Tsinghua University in 1986, Zhang Chaoyang received the Datang Scholarship in the same year and went to the United States to study; in 1993, he received a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and continued his postdoctoral research there while serving the Tang IT Kingdom.

It can be said that Zhang Chaoyang is a typical example of Tang Huan's talent layout.

Not long after Silicon Valley One took off, Tang Huan specially called Zhang Chaoyang to him and gave him some pointers.

Zhang Chaoyang, who had left a deep impression on Mr. Richest Man many years ago during the speech interaction session, was considered to be familiar with Tang Huan.

Therefore, Tang Huan said directly: I'd rather be a chicken head than a phoenix tail—compared to the mature environment in the United States, it is easier for you to show off your strengths and stand out in China.

Zhang Chaoyang, who had already considered the pros and cons clearly, expressed his eagerness to try, and said with a smile: I will definitely live up to Master Tang's expectations and build a China Online.

Tang Huan waved his hands, and patiently adjusted and said: Including the telecommunications industry, the situation in China has its own characteristics. Therefore, the ISP model of leasing communication lines may not be perfect. I hope that you can focus on the content. Operator.

Zhang Chaoyang nodded repeatedly and listened carefully.

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The Great Hanshin Earthquake that occurred in the Kansai area on January 17 reached a magnitude of 7.3 on the Richter scale. It is the largest direct urban earthquake since the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923.

Since this area is the leading large city in rb, with a dense population of about 1.05 million, the earthquake occurred in the early morning, causing serious casualties - the official statistics are: 6434 people died, 43792 people were injured, and the houses were damaged and they had to live in a combination The number of people in the house reached 320,000.

This book has a deep understanding of earthquake disasters, and the degree of perfection in various aspects of the response measures is world-leading. However, the Great Hanshin Earthquake still caused such a large loss. Earthquakes have a lot to do with it.

This understanding led to the lack of adequate precautionary measures and disaster relief systems in the area, especially since quite a few major traffic arteries around Kobe pass through tunnels or viaducts. As a result, during the earthquake, the tunnels were severely damaged, which affected the speed of search and rescue.

The city of Kobe, where wooden houses are densely packed, was caught off guard by a series of fires caused by a gas leak.

Looking at it, the Murayama~Tomiichi cabinet, who was slow to respond, blamed the poor disaster relief.

However, for a rich book, this hurdle can't be too difficult for it. It just happens that it can't be broken and it can't be built. With its strength, it only takes two years for the economy of the region to return to the pre-earthquake level.

Masako Wada, who has just returned to work, has made a lot of contributions in distributing food, drinking water, and medicine to the victims on behalf of the richest man.

When Tang Huan came to this book this time, he naturally wanted to express his sincere greetings. He even adopted two orphans with Masako Wada, which really showed his goodwill.

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After finishing what he should do, Silicon Valley No. 1 went south and came to Baodao.

This time Tang Huan was extra distracted—risks also come with opportunities, and if it works well, it can be picked up again without making a fuss.

It is inevitable to welcome and send off.

Among them, Song Chuyu, who was elected the so-called governor of Baodao with a high number of votes last December, was very proud of his spring breeze, and his words revealed a meaning-after his term of office expired, he also wanted to join the ranks of the next throne.

That's what you should do. Tang Huan said with a smile: However, Lao Song, I still want to remind you - when the time comes, you will most likely not be ranked, and you will have a future by working alone.

Song Chuyu smiled wryly, It's not that easy to establish yourself as a sect.

Alright. Tang Huan nodded slightly, Remember what I said first, and turn your head to savor it when the time comes.

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Silicon Valley One took off again, took a circle over the Xiangjiang River, and after taking the best of both worlds, it went straight to mainland China.

The little cousin Meng Jing said disappointedly: Brother, why don't you stay in Xiangjiang for two days so that I can have fun.

Tang Huan said lightly: If you want to go to bars and sing karaoke, Yanjing's conditions are also good.

Meng Jing rolled her eyes, I thought you were worried about being robbed.

Tang Huan laughed dumbfounded, Who dares?

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After Silicon Valley One landed in Yanjing, Tang Huan greeted warmly with a group of people who came to greet them, and finally bowed and confessed: Everyone, let's talk tomorrow. I'm going home in a hurry to eat the Jiefeng noodles made by my grandma.

Then when the time comes, we must invite us to send off the dumplings. Everyone laughed and waved Tang Huan to the car.

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Because Meng Jing twittered and called home after getting off the plane, as soon as Tang Huan entered, he saw grandpa and grandma sitting at the table with steaming longevity noodles.

Han Zhiliang, who is 86 years old and increasingly aging, waved his hands and said with a smile: Before you know it, you are already in your 40s, and opportunities for everyone to reunite are getting rarer and rarer. Your grandma and I will go down in person. Chef, I made it for you, eat it while it's hot.