Giant of the times

Microsoft's IPO was a huge success, with its market value rising from US$12.5 billion to more than US$21 billion, an increase of US$89 billion, which shocked the world!

Wall Street institutions said that Microsoft's stock price is artificially high and will definitely come down in the future.

Sure enough, in the following days, Microsoft's stock price fell below $40, its market value was less than $20 billion, and finally stabilized at around $18 billion.

Even so, it’s still shocking!

These days, the media has been constantly reporting on the news of Microsoft going public.

In addition, many entertainment media also specially reported on Xiao Youran, calling her the smallest bell ringer in the history of Nasdaq.

Countless people can't help but envy her. They envy her for having a father who is the richest man in the world. They call her the richest second generation in the world!

In the bar, someone was watching TV and said: "Mad, I want to be Chronos Li's son. From now on, it won't be commonplace to go to the Nasdaq to ring the bell for listing!!"

"Haha... With your crooked appearance, if you go to be Chronos Li's grandson, he won't even want you!"

"Damn, you look so arrogant that you deserve to be his son??!"

"At least I'm more handsome than you!"

"You're handsome and paralyzed!"

The two got into each other and started fighting in the bar. The other people in the bar were all shocked. While watching the excitement, they said, "Fuck me, the two of them actually started fighting over who would be Chronos Li's son." The hand is here..."

"Yeah, these two are really weird! With their looks, they really don't deserve each other, so there's nothing to argue about! By the way, do you think I'm handsome?" A man who thought he looked pretty good held a cup in his right hand. Red wine, 45 degrees on your back, put on a pose.

"..." Everyone was speechless. They all rushed to pretend to be someone else's son. They were really drunk.

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Microsoft Corporation.

Li Zetian, Bill Gates and other company executives were all in the conference room.

"Microsoft has raised US$2.5 billion by going public. With this huge financial support in the future, it will be able to recruit more talents, acquire some technologies and companies, and increase Microsoft's development speed!" Li Zetian said with a smile, "IBM wants to If we compete with Microsoft on personal computer operating systems, we will definitely lose, and we will only be able to compete with them in the future!!!"

In the previous life, only Sun Microsystems was called by the media and the industry as the company most likely to replace Microsoft. That was because Sun Microsystems invented a super awesome technology - the Java language! Java does not require a hardware-related compiler. Therefore, in the Internet era, Java programs are not restricted by computer platforms and are particularly suitable for programming on the Internet. It provides Sun Microsystems with the possibility to replace Microsoft's dominance in the computer field. . However, Sun Microsystems ultimately failed.

As for IBM, it is even less likely to be Microsoft's opponent!

At this time, Microsoft has grown up!

Li Zetian continued: "However, there are still many areas that need to be improved in the Windows operating system, and Microsoft must not relax. Today I have gathered everyone together to design a new product for Microsoft - PowerPoint. It is a presentation software. Like Word and Excel, it is also a killer office software!”

Li Zetian holds so many shares and does not usually manage the company, but none of the shareholders has any complaints or opinions. It is precisely because his brain and creativity are extremely valuable that all the heavyweight software of Microsoft is designed by him!

Now, when everyone heard that he had designed a very powerful software, they were all excited and looked at him expectantly, waiting for him to introduce what this PPT was.

Li Zetian smiled lightly and was used to facing everyone's gaze.

He said: "With the advent of the graphical computer era, haven't you ever thought that Microsoft can actually do more things? Haven't you ever thought about the huge market for business slides and the emerging graphical computer era? Does it form a perfect union?”

As soon as the words fell, sparks of inspiration suddenly appeared in the minds of everyone present!

Li Zetian looked at them and said with a smile: "Unlike the Microsoft-DOS text format, the Windows 1.0 window operating system allows PowerPoint to have more colorful materials. In addition to text, it can also have pictures, charts, animations, sounds, and even Videos and more.

PowerPoint can be played not only on a projector, but also on a computer.

I firmly believe that PowerPoint can become an important part of people's work and life, playing a decisive role in work reports, corporate publicity, product promotions, wedding celebrations, project bidding, management consulting, education and training and other fields! "

The people present were all smart people. Li Zetian just gave a little reminder and they already realized the value of PPT. They already knew the general design direction of PowerPoint without even having to tell Li Zetian about the specific design.

Everyone couldn't help but applaud!

"When PowerPoint is developed, it will definitely become popular all over the world!"

"Mr. Li, you are really amazing. With PowerPoint, Microsoft's core competitiveness has greatly increased!"

"..."

Li Zetian smiled and continued: "PowerPoint, Word, and Excel are all indispensable office software, so I propose that Microsoft establish a Microsoft Office office software suite for bundled sales, and that PowerPoint, Word, and Excel have names in front of them. Adding Microsoft Office means that these three software are components of Microsoft Office, thereby increasing the popularity of Microsoft Office!"

"agree!!!"

"agree!!!"

"..."

Everyone agreed.

Li Zetian nodded, quite satisfied, and then asked: "Does everyone know about sndmsg?"

Some people nodded, while others looked confused. Li Zetian said: "sndmsg is the world's first email software, namely SendMessage.

In 1971, when the ARPANET funded by the U.S. Department of Defense was in full swing, a very acute problem arose: the scientists participating in the project were doing different work in different places, but they could not share their knowledge well. Research results. Because everyone uses different computers, everyone's work is useless to others. They urgently need a method to transfer data between different computers through the network.

As a result, sendmsg email came into being.

Ray Tomlinson, a Ph.D. from MIT who worked for ARPANET, merged the functions of a software that can be copied between different computer networks with a communication software that is only used for a single machine. This is sndmsg. Tomlinson chose the " @" symbol as the separation between the user name and the address, because this symbol is relatively rare and will not appear in anyone's name, and the pronunciation of this symbol also means "in". ARPANET scientists welcomed this groundbreaking innovation with great enthusiasm. Since then, their genius ideas and research results have been shared with colleagues as quickly as possible.

Today, ARPANET has developed into the largest network in the world, and the reason why it has achieved great success is due to email! "

Bill Gates frowned slightly, and the email seemed to have no business value.

"Chronos, you want Microsoft to develop email?" he asked.

"Yeah." Li Zetian nodded. There was naturally a reason why he suddenly brought up the email...

PS: They say it’s been a long time since it broke out, so I’ll try to update two more chapters tonight~~