Back To 1995: Chapter 458 steal home
Chapter 458 Stealing Home
Terry Myerson, who is just 32 years old this year, is now the director of Microsoft's mobile device department. In Microsoft's behemoth, at this age, he can become the director of a large department, except in the early years. It's getting harder and harder to join the "old people" at Microsoft.
In the eyes of the outside world, Microsoft is still a high-tech company, and it has always been a high-level role in the impression. Whether you hate Microsoft or not, you cannot deny this.
Being able to stand out from the crowd of competitors, Terry Myerson's ability is naturally no problem, but under the behemoth of Microsoft, after all, some departments are important departments, and some are not so popular...
The mobile device department is undoubtedly one of them. If compared with the game console department that will appear in a few years, then this department is estimated to be raised by the stepmother. The console department can burn billions of dollars a year. Microsoft's mobile device division was beaten.
This time I finally found an opportunity, Terry Myerson wants to change the situation within Microsoft in the mobile device department!
When he entered the office, Terry Myerson saw that Bill Gates looked a little unsightly. Most of the people in the office did not know Melson, but Brad Smith, Melson had met, He knew that Bill Gates must be having a headache with the Netscape lawsuit, and now Microsoft is starting to feel a little uneasy about this matter.
"Still that sentence, I can go to the Capitol Hill hearing, but this lawsuit, Microsoft must win, no matter what method it uses!"
Knowing that this trip to Capitol Hill may be unavoidable, Bill Gates pinched his nose to admit it, but also issued a death order to Brad and the entire team of lawyers, Microsoft must not lose this time.
Hearing that Bill Gates was going to be questioned on Capitol Hill, Terry Myerson was shocked. He didn’t expect the matter to be so serious, but those who were asked to attend the hearing on Capitol Hill rarely had a good end.
After letting Brad Smith and the group of lawyers leave, Bill Gates took a deep breath and said to Terry Myerson, "Okay, sir, can you tell me now, what happened?"
"We may lose the mobile operating system market. In the mobile device operating system industry, Microsoft may have to face a new opponent, not the PalmOS system, nor the Linux system, etc. It may be Saipan!"
Terry Myerson said earnestly to Bill Gates, to be able to climb to the current position, Terry Myerson's technology, ability, vision, etc., are all top-notch in the industry.
Bill Gates rubbed his brows, "Bruno Song's Symbian mobile phone system?"
Since the beginning of this year, Bill Gates has focused on the lawsuit with Netscape. Especially recently, the situation has become more and more severe. Microsoft, which is busy dealing with the lawsuit, has obviously fallen off a cliff in its control over the technology industry. , and gave other tech companies some breathing room.
Regarding the acquisition of Song Yang and the reorganized Alcatel mobile phone, Bill Gates naturally knows that even some of the people he knows use P1 mobile phones, but for Alcatel P1 mobile phones and Saipan system, Bill Gates has not yet It's too late to pay attention. After all, mobile phones are not the industry that Microsoft mainly focuses on.
"The mainstream of mobile devices in the future will probably not be PDA handhelds, but mobile phones!"
Terry Myerson proposed a bold idea, and when he said this, he was also a little uneasy, which was equivalent to overturning everything that Microsoft had done in the field of mobile devices in the past few years, that is to say, Bill M. Bill Gates, Ballmer, and other big figures in Microsoft are dazzled by this matter, and it is a mistake to bet on the handheld operating system!
"continue!"
Contrary to Myerson's expectations, Bill Gates was unusually calm when he heard this, and he didn't see any signs of annoyance at all.
Terry Myerson took out a compiled data and put it in front of Bill Gates, "I have to say, Bruno Song is indeed a genius, he combined the mobile phone with the operating system, I think, he Possibly created a whole new product!"
"The Saipan system is the key to the P1 mobile phone. The mobile phone is a market with an annual shipment of more than 200 million units. Saipan may now occupy this market. In the future, Saipan may become the Microsoft of the mobile operating system. !"
Hearing Meerson's words, Bill Gates looked at the sales of P1 mobile phones in the data, as well as the announcement of Nokia, Motorola and other brands joining the Saipan camp, what Palm handhelds, what Jeff Hawking Sis and the like were all left behind by him.
Before, Bill Gates was just obsessed with Netscape and didn't pay attention. Now that he saw these things that Terry Myerson brought, how could he not react!
"Saipan also launched a Firefox mobile browser?!"
After Bill Gates saw the Firefox browser, his voice couldn't help but improve a bit. Microsoft and Netscape, because of the browser market, have all the dogs' brains out, Song Yang's side is better, and they play quietly. It has developed a mobile browser, and it is also predicted that the global installed base of Firefox this year may exceed 20 million!
The P1 mobile phones sold this year are all equipped with Firefox browser. As long as other mobile phone brands are equipped with Saipan system, they are required to carry mobile version ICQ, Firefox browser, Hotmail mailbox and other products. After all, Saipan gives them free of charge The mobile phone brand is used by the user, and by the way, a family bucket package is presented, is it not too much? !
This year, the global shipments of mobile phones equipped with the Saipan system, Alcatel mobile phones sold by themselves, plus other brands, conservative estimates, will sell 20 million mobile phones, or even more, which naturally means that , The users of the mobile version of ICQ and Firefox have also skyrocketed to this scale, which is much faster than the growth rate of computer PC users!
At this time, Meerson added another fire, "It is reported that Saipan is in contact with Sun, and wants to get a Java license. In the future, the software of the Saipan platform will be developed using Java technology. ."
Bill Gates finally couldn't help it at this time. Microsoft is now secretly developing C language technology and preparing to replace Java. It just doesn't want to be controlled by Sun. The result is good. In the PC industry, Microsoft has not had time. Competing with Sun, the mobile software development market has been completely lost.
"Microsoft can't lose the mobile device operating system, and Symbian can't choose Java!"
"By choosing Java, Saipan is declaring war with Microsoft. We will use the most extreme means to destroy them, Bruno Song..."
Bill Gates, who was originally angry, suddenly stopped when he mentioned Song Yang.
What is Microsoft afraid of Saipan and Song Yang? For Bill Gates, hearing such remarks is probably a joke. Microsoft has had many opponents, such as Oracle, Sun, IBM, and more recently. Netscape, these adversaries are a threat to Microsoft.
But Bill Gates is indeed interested in Song Yang, but he does not regard it as an opponent, because there is not much competition in the business of the two sides, and Microsoft does not feel threatened, so what about opponents?
But now, in the mobile operating system, Bill Gates felt threatened. Song Yang did not provoke Microsoft in the PC operating system, but his ambitions in the mobile operating system were clear.
Unless Bill Gates gives up the mobile phone operating system, the two sides will inevitably have to break their wrists, but at this time, Bill Gates is a little unsure.
For Song Yang and the Saipan system, Bill Gates will naturally not be afraid, but at this time, Bill Gates feels like Song Yang deliberately picked the timing, Microsoft is fighting an anti-monopoly lawsuit, if After another wave of mobile phone operating systems, Bill Gates feels that Microsoft is about to be bombed...
This kind of power has nowhere to use, and he wants to give his opponent a heavy punch, but he is afraid that he will end up hitting the opponent himself, which makes Bill Gates feel aggrieved.
"The mobile phone system, Microsoft can't give up, but now, when it's not against Saipan, when Microsoft enters the mobile phone operating system industry, it can't be publicized..."
After a while, Bill Gates, still with a bit of helplessness, said to Terry Myerson that Microsoft couldn't give up on the mobile phone system, but now it can't kill each other with great fanfare like in the browser industry, Microsoft can't afford to take more risks.
"You go to Alcatel Mobile Company, if the other party is willing to sell Saipan..."
Speaking of this, Bill Gates himself is a little unconvinced, "Or, accepting Microsoft's investment, Microsoft can cooperate with Saipan, if it can't get a controlling stake, then Microsoft will launch its own mobile phone operating system, even a mobile phone, Microsoft's board of directors will provide you and the mobile device department with enough money!"
Terry Myerson was refreshed, "I'm going to overthrow Microsoft's CE handheld operating system, which is out of date, and build a brand-new Microsoft WP mobile phone system that surpasses Saipan from scratch, so that more mobile phone manufacturers can support WP. system!
In the future, I hope that the WP system can become a cross-platform operating system that can support the operation of handhelds, mobile phones, computers and other mobile devices. "
Terry Myerson talked to Bill Gates about his plans for the new system. Myerson hopes to make the WP system the most important platform in addition to the Microsoft PC system.
After Terry Myerson left, Bill Gates glanced at his figure. He gave Myerson enough authority and sufficient funds to report directly to him in the future.
When the development of the WP system is completed, Terry Myerson will be the general manager of the WP system department. As long as WP can make achievements in the future, Terry Myerson will also be the president of the mobile operating system department, on an equal footing with the PC operating system. But which step can be achieved depends on Melson's own ability. Bill Gates hopes to see the day when Melson becomes the president...
(end of this chapter)