In his first few days at Microsoft, Carter felt quite comfortable.

The company is almost filled with young people, which makes the current Microsoft full of vitality. In addition, among the current employees of Microsoft, not to mention Paul, Kai Nesina has also had interactions with him, and the little guy's brother Gabe is also there. Microsoft.

Even Ballmer, the vice president in charge of business support, has a worrying head of hair that gives him an air of maturity, but in fact, he is only 24 years old. Even two years younger than Paul. .

Working in such a team, listening to the frolicking coming from outside the overwhelmed office door, Carter felt as if he was much younger.

He always hangs out with old guys like Goodman and Julian, and usually doesn't feel anything strange. But when he entered Microsoft, Carter discovered that he seemed to be the most mature one among everyone...

"Hey?! Is it that animal that threw the socks in? Newell, is it you?"

"Oh~ you made me so sad. How could I be like this? It must have been Frankie! Look, there are no socks on his feet!"

Newell in the hall laughed and raised his hands, pretending to surrender. Then he pointed at a guy who was sleeping soundly on the only sofa in the company, especially his big feet dangling in the wind. ...

"Okay, okay, let's talk to him when he wakes up, and next time I'll give him socks directly!"

Frowning, he twisted up the smelly sock and threw it out the door. Carter had become somewhat accustomed to the scene in front of him. Programmers had been working overtime, 996, since then!

It's just that these young people are obviously more enthusiastic than the future blessings. After all, he didn't see overtime pay in the personnel expenses...

"Morning! Carter~"

"Morning, Steve!"

Putting down the breakfast he brought from the hotel, Carter smiled and said hello to Ballmer who had just entered the office. Then he leaned on his seat, slowly opened the breakfast package, and then took out a newspaper rolled up under his arm. I watched it while eating...

"Hey, Carter, do you have a general understanding of the current situation at Microsoft?"

Perhaps Carter's life was too leisurely, which aroused Ballmer's jealousy. Before Carter could finish the breakfast in front of him, Ballmer's questioning voice rang in his ears.

"I basically know the general situation. I don't know the technology, so I can't say anything about it. But why didn't you tell me before that the relationship between you and dri is that you provide the language and they build the operating system?"

Biting the bread in his hand, Carter said vaguely.

"I don't know, maybe Bill is thinking about this, but I think it should be more than that..."

"Indeed, Carter, Steve, morning!"

Paul pushed the door open and looked at the lazy Carter, and couldn't help but joke:

"Hey, you're really on vacation! Man!"

"If it had been before 1978, let alone Bill, even I would have directly opposed us making an operating system. Because before that, our cooperation with Mr. Kilidel had been very pleasant. If we didn't make an operating system, they wouldn't When it comes to languages, our basic and their cp/m are just like the two brothers."

After teasing Carter, Paul told the reason:

"Whenever a new machine comes out, we divide the labor and cooperate. We are responsible for language compilation, and they are responsible for operating system development. At that time, if a customer who only has hardware comes to seek our basic support and wants to run our software, we will tell

He asked them to buy a cp/m system first. As long as their machines can run cp/m, any of our software can be used directly without modification."

"DRI was like this at the time. If they met a customer who wanted to buy an operating system and needed to determine the programming language, they would also recommend Microsoft to the customer. At that time, cp/m and our Microsoft basic language were almost tied together.

"

"What happened next?"

After two days of water skiing and fishing, Carter also gained a certain understanding of the computer industry today. Compared with the mature computer industry in later generations, many things these days are fragmented. The compatibility between various software is also

It's a bit worse, unlike later generations of Windows and Divided World. Of course, programmers may install an extra Unix, but most people don't have access to this at all.

The current operating systems, languages, and even hardware are all still in the Warring States Period, and they are fighting each other. There is a trend of the elders unifying the world, but there is still a long way to go before the finalized pattern is established.

At the same time, Microsoft is not as weak as he had seen before. Just as Paul once proudly introduced it to himself, Microsoft has strong technical strength in computer languages. Basic is only their fist. In addition to this, there are other

Various compiled languages ​​including fortran.

"Later, starting in 1979, we discovered that some cp/m packages distributed by dri did not use our language. In particular, they did not even notify us!"

"No, didn't you sign any cooperation agreement? If there was, you could sue them for breach of contract!"

After listening to Paul's indignant story, Steve said with some confusion.

"No, we... we have been getting along for many years, you know? We have been getting along very happily. Bill and I even discussed whether to merge with Mr. Kilidel's dri. We were already so close that we were just

He was so close to merging into one company, who would have thought that he would actually do such a thing?!"

"Okay, Paul, stop talking!"

During the morning chat in the small office, a new member came. But this new member looked ugly and confused at this time...

"Hey, Bill, you should have told me this kind of thing at Harvard! This is your problem. In business interactions, this kind of moral agreement will not work! You can't even say that.

DRI is not doing it right, maybe someone provides language support that is more affordable than Microsoft's?!"

As Bill's Harvard alumnus, Steve bluntly stabbed Bill's injured little heart...

"I know! I know! This is my problem, and then what? Can anything be changed? Do you need me to apologize to you?"

"Bill, don't get excited! Steve doesn't mean any harm."

"I know he doesn't mean any harm, but now is not the time to discuss this! It's working time now, and a call came from Seattle Computer Company, saying that there was something wrong with Softcard's account last month, and he hopes we can go and check it out together. I'll call you when you're free.

While we are talking about these gossips, it would be better to think about who should go to Seattle!"

Bill, who had been torn open, was very emotional. Even though he was angry at this little brother's childish behavior, Steve still controlled his emotions under Paul's apologetic eyes.

Carter also stood up at the right time, changed the subject, and smoothed things over:

"I'll go. I still have two bites of bread left. I'll go over after I finish it. Just in time, I'm a banker, and settling accounts is my forte."

"Wait, let me go with you! I'm afraid you don't know who to look for..."

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