Microsoft is a multinational company with a market value of more than US$50 billion, with tens of thousands of employees and hundreds of projects. Bill Gates is very busy and has no time to continue discussing cooperation after lunch. When he learned that Du Qiu would stay in Seattle for three days, he immediately asked his secretary to send him a high-level visit card so that he could visit freely at Microsoft headquarters.

"Auto, Microsoft always welcomes you."

"Thanks."

For the Time Travel Party, there are actually no secrets for Microsoft's strictly confidential business. Technically confidential things can't be stolen for a while, so Du Qiu did not run around, but only went to Butler Lampson's laboratory, talked to him for a while, and then returned to the place where the C# design ideas were discussed in the morning, chatting with a few great people and exchanging programming techniques and experiences.

"We have to name this new language, or develop code names, such as the Barbarossa Project, the Manhattan Project, and so on."

"I heard that Java's R&D code is Oak, so how about we call the Axe Project?"

"The axe cuts trees without chainsaws, it should be called the chainsaw plan."

“The logger is faster than a chainsaw…”

As the few people talked, they fell off the track. Before they could even tell the horoscope, they started to compete for the name. Du Qiu found it interesting. After listening for a while, he said: "Coffee and tea are the two most popular drinks in the world. Java is related to coffee. It is better to choose a name related to tea and compete with Java for who will be the most popular programming language in the future."

"I like this idea, how about iced tea?"

"Richard, can iced tea be considered tea? Java is an island full of coffee, so we should find a place full of tea. How about Darjeeling?"

"I prefer Uwa. The name Uwa is good and easy to remember."

Du Qiu heard them discussing and talking about the tea production areas in India and Sri Lanka, and there was no Chinese. He was a little surprised and was about to ask a question, when the cell phone in his backpack bag rang. When he saw that it was Chen Dayou who called, he took the phone and walked out the door to answer.

"Du Qiu, let me tell you good news. Bill Gates' invitation code has been activated!"

Bill Gates may not take the imail seriously yesterday, but after meeting Butler Lampson at noon, it is impossible for him to not pay attention to it. Du Qiu was mentally prepared and said calmly: "I know."

"How do you know..." Chen Dayou seemed to have been pinched by someone's neck, his voice instantly became low, and he asked like a thief: "Are you next to him now?"

"No, I guess."

"Why don't you be a fortune teller?" Chen Dayou's voice became high again and said with a smile: "I gave Mark Anderson an invitation code last night. He ran to my office early this morning to find out how the imail page was refreshed partially. You didn't see his expression, just like the end of the world, and he was panicked and afraid."

Can you not be afraid...

If Netscape's navigator browser cannot support the local refresh technology displayed by imail as soon as possible, the market share will drop faster...

imail is Du Qiu's killer weapon for financing and listing. It has been secretly announced and has no open source, so it took several months to successfully develop it. In order to achieve the best results, he also went through a lot of effort to add a new nuclear bomb-level technology to iview 2.0, which can refresh some web content without reloading the entire web page.

This technology was originally called "asynchronous javascript and xml" in space-time, and is a Javax for short. In which xml is a language that stores and transmits data. It will not appear until 1996. It is relatively complex and bloated and not very useful in Internet data transmission. Therefore, Du Qiu, with a mindset of not doing it, created the lightweight data exchange language json, which was born in 2001 in advance.

Simply put, json is the object and array in javascript. Because the name of javascript has been changed to iscript in this time and space, json has become an ION. Therefore, the abbreviation of this technology has changed from catchy ajax to an extremely weird "aiai".

If you use an analogy, before the birth of Aiai technology, the content on the web page was like woodblock printing. Even if only one punctuation mark was changed, the entire page must be refreshed. After it was born, the content on the web page was like movable type printing. Refresh wherever it needs to be changed, which can save a lot of traffic, which not only greatly improves the user experience of the client, but also reduces the transmission pressure on the server side.

In 1995, it was still in the era of dial-up Internet access, and the Internet speed was very slow. Any technology that could improve the response speed of web pages would bring great competitive advantages. Among the two basic technologies used by Aiai, iscript has been open source, but Ion has not been made public yet, and Netscape cannot figure out how to achieve it. It is no surprise that Mark Anderson's panic is not surprising.

"In less than two days, more than 8,000 users of the imail have registered. Do you dare to despise me after seeing that girl Jennifer..."

"The database seems to be quite stable at the moment, nothing goes wrong..."

Du Qiu held his cell phone and listened to Chen Dayou's happy report on the imail situation for a while, then raised his hand and looked at the electronic watch. He found that it was already past 4 pm, so he said, "Since Bill Gates has registered for imail, my mission at Microsoft has been completed. Let's see your performance next."

"I do my best."

Chen Dayou asked Jennifer to invite Bill Gates to register for imail for marketing. Du Qiu cursed to sell imail to Bill Gates, not for marketing, but for him to personally feel the technical strength of iView, deepen his impression, and increase his bargaining chips for future negotiations during cooperation.

"Du Qiu, don't hang up the phone first. You are going to return to China on the 5th, right?"

"Um."

"Can I postpone it for one day? I will go to New York with Draper on the 4th and discuss listing with Wall Street investment banks. You are in charge of the company and help me watch it for two days."

"I have something else to do. I will not go back to Silicon Valley on the 5th, and then take the plane back to China on the same day." Du Qiu refused and said: "There are Wei Zhiqin and Xiao Wu in the operation and maintenance, and Jennifer and we in the marketing. Whether you and I are in the company or not has no impact on the imail."

"What are you going to do?"

"I have spare money in my hand and want to invest in a few small companies I found online and order a private jet."

Chen Dayou knew that in addition to Snapdragon's shares, Du Qiu also made a lot of money in the financial market. When he heard that he was going to buy a private plane, he was very curious and asked, "How much spare money do you have?"

"About 40 million."

"Dollar?"

"certainly."

"Damn! You actually made so much money?"

When he first came to the United States in March, Du Qiudong got 70,000 US dollars and used it to long the yen. In April, when the yen exchange rate reached its historical peak, he closed its position and made about 1.6 million US dollars with principal and interest. Then he shorted it with 100 times leverage. As of November 1, the yen had depreciated by about 25%, and the 1.6 million US dollars became 40 million US dollars.

After hanging up the phone, Du Qiu returned to the conference room and found that the guys had changed the topic and no longer argued about what names to choose, but rather debated which programming language design is the most elegant. Once this topic started, it would not be possible to achieve results without the destruction of the world. So he decisively gave up and left Microsoft headquarters.

That night, Du Qiu received an email from Bill Gates using imail, and said three things in the email: First, admitting that imail is better than Microsoft's own exchange; Second, hoping that the IE browser can be upgraded as soon as possible; Third, he will log out of imail soon, and hope that Du Qiu will send the email to his Microsoft corporate email address when he replys.

"What a sensitive and interesting guy."
Chapter completed!