Rebirth 79: I opened a bank in the United States

Chapter 270 Microsoft and DRI love and kill each other (plus 4)

During his first few days at Microsoft, Carter felt quite at ease.

Almost all young companies make the current Microsoft full of vitality.In addition, among Microsoft's current employees, Paul needless to say, Kay Nissina has also had an intersection, and Gabe's little guy's brother is also at Microsoft.

Even Ballmer, the vice president in charge of business support, has worrying hair, which adds a touch of maturity to him, but in fact, he is only 24 years old.Even younger than Paul by two years.
Working in such a team, listening to the sound of play outside the overwhelmed office door, Carter felt as if he was much younger.

I always hang out with Goodman, Julian, those old guys, and I usually don't think there is anything unusual.But after entering Microsoft, Carter found that he seemed to be the most mature among all the people.
"Hey?! Is that the f*ck animal that threw the socks in? Newell, is that you?"

"Oh~ you make me so sad, how can I be like this? Frankie must have done it! Look, he has no socks on his feet!"

Newell in the hall laughed and raised his hands, pretending to surrender.Then he pointed to a guy who was sleeping soundly on the only sofa in the company, especially his big feet dangling in the wind
"Okay, okay, tell him when he wakes up, and next time I'll just order his socks!"

Frowning, he twisted up the stinky sock and threw it out the door.Carter has become accustomed to the scene in front of him. The overtime of the programmers, 996, has been there since then!
It's just that these young people are obviously more enthusiastic than the future blessings.After all, he didn't see the item of overtime pay in the personnel expenses.
"Morning! Carter~"

"Morning, Steve!"

Putting down the breakfast he brought from the hotel, Carter smiled and greeted Ballmer who had just entered the office.Then leaning on the seat, slowly unwrapped the breakfast package, took out a newspaper rolled up under his arm, and read it while eating.
"Hey, Carter, do you have a general understanding of Microsoft's situation now?"

Perhaps Carter's life was too leisurely, which aroused Ballmer's jealousy.Before Carter finished finishing the breakfast in front of him, Ballmer's inquiry sounded in his ears.

"Basically, I know the general idea. I don't know the technology, so I can't say anything about the specific situation. But why didn't you tell me before that the relationship between you and DRI is that you provide the language and they operate the operating system?"

Biting the bread in his hand, Carter said vaguely.

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

"It's not, Carter, Steve, good morning!"

Paul, who pushed the door in, looked at the lazy Carter, and couldn't help but tease:
"Hey, you're really on vacation! Dude!"

"If it was 78 years ago, let alone Bill, even I would directly oppose us doing the operating system. Because before that, we had a very good cooperation with Mr. Kiridale. We don't do the operating system, they don't As for language, our basic and their cp/m are the same as the two brothers."

After teasing Carter, Paul explained the reason behind it:
"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 with only hardware came to seek our basic support and wanted to run our software, we would 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 bought an operating system and needed to determine the programming language, they would recommend Microsoft to the customer. At that time, cp/m and our basic language of Microsoft were almost bound together. "

"What then?"

After two days of water skiing and fishing, Carter also had a certain understanding of the computer industry these days.Compared with the mature computer industry in later generations, many things in these days are fragmented.The compatibility between various software is also very poor, not like Windows and macOS in later generations. Of course, programmers may install an extra Unix, but ordinary people have no access to this.

The operating system, language, and even the hardware of this meeting are still in the Warring States period, and they are fighting each other.There has been a tendency for big bosses to unify the world, but there is still a long way to go before the overall pattern is finalized.

At the same time, Microsoft is not as weak as I saw before. Just like Paul once proudly introduced to himself, Microsoft has strong technical strength in terms of computer languages. Basic is just their fist, in addition to this there are many compiled languages ​​such as fortran.

"Later, it started in 79. We found that some cp/m program packages distributed by DRI did not use our language. In particular, they didn't even notify us!"

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

After listening to Paul's indignant narration, Steve said with some puzzlement.

"No, we've been getting along like this for years, you know? We've been getting along very well, and even Bill and I have discussed whether to merge with Mr. Kiridale's DRI. It's already, close enough to just close the door Who would have thought that he would do such a thing?!"

"Okay, Paul, stop talking!"

In the morning chat in the small office, another new member came.It's just that this new member has an ugly face at this time, and is also very tangled
"Hey, Bill, you should have told me this kind of thing back then at Harvard! This is your problem. In a business relationship, this kind of agreement based on morality alone will not work! You can't even say that what DRI is not doing it right, maybe someone provides language support that is more affordable than ours at Microsoft?!"

As Bill's Harvard alumnus, Steve was outspoken about stabbing Bill's wounded little heart.
"I know! I know! This is my problem, then what? Can something be changed? Do I need to apologize to you?"

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

"I know he doesn't mean anything malicious, but now is not the time to discuss this! It's working hours, and the Seattle Computer Company called, saying that there was a problem with softcard's accounts last month, and I hope we can check it together. It’s better to talk about these gossips than think about who will go to Seattle!”

Bill, whose wound was torn, was very emotional.Even though he was angry at this little brother's childish behavior, under Paul's apologetic eyes, Steve restrained his emotions and stopped talking.

Carter also stood up at the right time, changed the subject, and rounded up the scene:
"I'll go. There's still two bites left of the bread. I'll go there when I'm finished. It just so happens that I run a bank, and accounting is my strong point."

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

(End of this chapter)