Game Development Giant

Now Jester is also in a dilemma regarding the computer brand he mentioned before.

He is familiar with the development of the personal computer industry in the future. Microsoft will dominate the world relying on their operating system, but this will happen ten years later. The overlord in these ten years is actually Microsoft, but they rely on It is IBM's unparalleled influence in the computer field in this era. Although Apple had launched the Macintosh, the first commercial graphics operating system PC, at the beginning of last year, which ushered in a new era of personal computers.

In Jester's eyes, although it is not too easy to make a graphical operating system by yourself now, it is not too difficult either. It is nothing more than throwing money at it, but he has no idea what the system will be like. , he knew that after Apple's Macintosh computer became a hit, Microsoft also keenly discovered why this computer, which was useless in terms of configuration, was able to sell so well. It was because of the extraordinary graphical operating system on this computer.

At the request of IBM, Microsoft also quickly started the development of their graphics operating system. In Jester's memory, he remembered that it was in November this year that Microsoft launched its first The visual graphics operating system uses the same processing method as Apple. It is just a graphics program running on DOS, and the user experience is not as good as Apple's. This system is named win1.0 It didn't cause much turmoil in the industry.

However, people with business vision like Bill Gates, like Steve Jobs, a creative thief, also see the future development path of PCs. The advantages of visual operating systems will inevitably become greater and greater, because only simpler operating systems are available. , the more users it can bring, so although Microsoft has experienced the tragic failure of win1.0, its research on visual operating systems has not ended.

Because this is the way of the future.

After experiencing the hibernation of win2.0, we finally ushered in the success of win3.0. The game "Minesweeper" that Jester copied before was launched by Microsoft when it launched the win3.2 system. A small game.

However, until the win95 interview, neither win3. When Microsoft mainly promoted Win95, it was strongly resisted by many PC users. During a promotion event, Bill Gates vigorously boasted the superiority of Win95 on the stage, but the users below were shouting "dos" at the same time. , dos... Maybe this will seem incredible to people in the future. It is obvious that the operability and usability of win95 completely surpass that of doc. Why would anyone object?

But this is real history.

He is fully aware of the disadvantages that He Guoyuan told him before, but Jester also knows how important a closed environment that he can be perfectly self-consistent will be in the future. The reason why Apple has been able to achieve such brilliant success after coming back to life in later generations. Success is not only due to Jobs' vision and methods, but more importantly, their persistence in their own system.

It is this kind of closed persistence that allows them to cultivate a large number of die-hard users.

Sitting in his seat, Jester thought for a long time, but still couldn't make his own decision. He knew that if he was willing to develop a visual operating system with Microsoft now, or to take a step back, to develop a visual operating system for personal computers with Microsoft. If the operating systems cooperate to a certain extent, it will not be a big problem. After all, both Microsoft and them have zero foundation in this aspect.

And in Jester's impression, this year should be the year for Microsoft to raise funds. Microsoft will be officially listed at the beginning of next year. After the listing, the market value will be close to 500 million US dollars. After that, Bill Gates will become the youngest billionaire in the United States. Rich man, therefore, Bill Gates is unlikely to give up on any good news that can increase his financing limit.

...Cooperating with its own Mars Entertainment is not an optional piece of good news for Microsoft.

But Jester is still hesitating. Although he knows that if he waits for Microsoft to go public, he will never have such a good opportunity to form an alliance with Microsoft. But if he really cooperates with Microsoft, then his closed ecological environment will The dream can only be given up, because it is impossible for Bill Gates and his Microsoft to compromise on this aspect.

How to choose and choose?

Jester hesitated. He looked at the time and found that it was almost noon. At noon today, he was going to have lunch with Sandy Weir who came to the West Coast to relax. He originally planned to go there a month ago. New York, to discuss some matters with the future Wall Street tycoon who had just been fired, but after he called, Sandy Weir said that he was going to the West Coast to relax, so after he arrived on the West Coast, It's not too late to meet again.

This meeting had been scheduled long ago, and Sandy Weir was still his elder. Jester didn't want to be rude by being late.

However, when Jester arrived at the restaurant he had reserved, he found that Sandy Weir was already there in the private room. There was also a stack of newspapers in front of him, all of which were mainstream media. The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers. When he saw Jester coming in, he just smiled, waved his hand for Jester to sit down, and then continued seriously. looking at an article he was browsing.

Jester didn't feel dissatisfied at all. He took his seat respectfully. Only then did he have time to seriously look at his elder.

To be honest, compared with when I met him at his grandfather's place a year ago, Sandy Will looked much older. At that time, there were not many gray hairs on his hair, but now you can see a lot of them. His hair was silvery, and there were many more wrinkles between his eyebrows than when they met before, not to mention the lonely look in his eyes that could not be concealed no matter what.

After waiting for three minutes, Sandy Weir finished reading the article he was reading. He put down the newspaper in his hand, then looked up at Jester, and looked at Jester carefully for two seconds. Then he sighed somewhat self-deprecatingly.

"I'm old, I'm old. I was wrong before. I asked you to go to Wall Street with me, saying that video games had no future. I didn't expect that I would be kicked out first, but you would revive this almost dead industry. It's not easy to do it." As he spoke, Sandy Weir's tone also started to praise. Jester's achievements in this short period of one year are indeed worthy of anyone's admiration.

"It's just good luck." Jester naturally needs to be humble in front of his elders, and he also knows how powerful the person in front of him is. Although he has been kicked out by Wall Street, he is just a dragon lurking in the abyss. What was waiting for the other party was just an opportunity, and he also knew that this opportunity was not far away.

Therefore, Jester kept his posture very low and said: "Grandpa Sandy, you don't need to be so pessimistic. I was reading Fortune magazine before, and there was an article about you. The article said You are a rare manager, which affirms your contribution to American Express Group, and I think they are right, you are indeed a talented manager."

Obviously, Sandy Weill knew about this article in Fortune magazine. Although he knew that it was a help from one of his friends in it who wanted to help him solve his current unemployment dilemma, Sandy Weir. Will still thinks that what they published in this article is true. He himself also thinks that he is an extremely good manager. To be precise, if he wants to find a job in an ordinary company, according to his There is definitely no problem with his resume.

...However, as a person who is only one step away from stepping onto the throne of the head of American Express, the pride in his heart simply does not allow him to work in a company that he has never paid attention to before, let alone The scale of these companies is not as large as the one he started before joining American Express. If he went there, it wouldn't mean that he would go back as he lived, and he, Sandy Weir, came out of the slums of Brooklyn. Can a genius only manage such a small company?

He, Sandy Weir, shouldn't be like this. He is someone who wants to manage a company like the four major banks.

But it's a pity that the idea is beautiful, but the reality is very ugly. Although he wrote a letter to one of his former assistants before, asking him to start a new business with him, and his assistant did not hesitate. He agreed, but the feeling of starting over again, for him who once almost had the opportunity to become the top predator on Wall Street, this sense of loss is still very obvious.

Therefore, he just sighed, and the lonely look in his eyes became more intense.

Jester accidentally glanced at the newspaper that Sandy Weir was reading just now. It was the New York Times. The header on the page he spread out on the table was an article about Japan's foreign trade. Jester only glanced at the article about the surplus and the U.S. trade deficit before Sandy Weir discovered it.

Sandy Weir also smiled indifferently, and he asked casually out of curiosity.

"Jace, are you also interested in this report?" r1152