Rebirth 79: I opened a bank in the United States

Chapter 623 GUI products, crashing Apple

"Your question really makes me doubt your professionalism, no, it should be said that it is attitude! Carter, I know you are usually very busy, but as the chairman of the board of directors of Microsoft, you don't even read the news in the industry. Do you want to see something?!"

The gunpowder-flavored speech made Carter frowned.

what this said
In this computer industry like the Warring States Period, there are not too many messy companies. How many can we really see?And, in the right direction: Windows!

Didn't we all point it out to you? !Isn't that enough? !

"Jobs' old boy's Apple introduced a personal PC the day before yesterday"

When Steve Ballmer saw Carter frowning, he quickly reminded him in a low voice.As Steve, who experienced the Cold War period between Carter and Gates, he doesn't want to have the same experience again.
Especially when he knew very well that his status was not as good as Paul Allen's.As a middleman, the boss fights, he must not have good juice
"Apple lisa, this PC, not only uses the graphical user interface you mentioned, but also has a mouse."

"what?!"

Surprised, surprised again
As a non-IT practitioner, I am not a fruit fan either.The first time I heard that Apple is not an Apple, but an electronic product, it all goes back to Carter in the iPhone 4S era. The earliest GUI in my impression has always been Microsoft Windows.

Even now that he knows that Otto is the ancestor of the earliest graphical user interface, it is difficult for Carter to focus on the one in the south. It was once brilliant, but now it is under the attack of IBM PC, and Apple is retreating steadily. .

This is true, a dog that can bite does not bark!
It was silent before, but according to common sense, Apple's main energy now should be to deal with IBM's market offensive.Who would have guessed that they still have the energy to toss new products? !
What the hell is it that you preempted the product route you designed as soon as you came up? !
So the question is, how did Microsoft in history respond to this wave of pressure from Apple? !

Carter: I'm a little flustered
Carter, who has never even heard of Apple Lisa, knows how Microsoft won this struggle.

For the first time, Carter felt that Gates scolded him, and it was not unfair.
"What's going on here? Has someone leaked the secrets inside us? Have the salesmen and programmers who often deal with Apple have investigated it?!"

After forcing himself to calm down, Carter's face turned cold instantly.

There is one thing to say, today's Microsoft and Apple have a lot of connections.In addition to the soft card in the hardware part, which is used for hardware expansion of Apple II, Apple's PC and many basic language support are all Microsoft products.

In this case, there are not many exchanges between the two.Occasionally, people from Apple come over, and people from Microsoft often come over
If the god in the eyes of the fruit fans, Qiao Gangzhu really wants to do something in it, instigate a few Microsoft technicians, or get words out of their mouths, it is really not difficult.

So, I really can't blame Carter and Gates for being small-minded, and they looked at their beloved relatives and friends, brothers and sisters whenever something happened.
Who makes this group of people, objectively speaking, it is really easy to be "added money"!

"I interviewed them individually, but there was no gain. They all said that they were just normal business contacts, and the people on Apple's side never asked them questions other than work."

Steve shrugged his shoulders, with a bit of a taste of "you think we are all fools":

"After all, we are all colleagues, and we are not a law enforcement agency. Our internal investigation is the only thing we can do. We don't want to be too rigid. In case someone is really wronged and runs away in a fit of anger, our The loss will be greater!"

The reason is this, self-developed products, were hit by a car, and were released first
If this fucker has a bad mentality, I'm afraid it will be split on the spot!

But to solve this problem.
"How about I take back the patent authorization of the mouse? Even if it is dragged, it must be dragged until our Windows goes online!"

Carter gritted his teeth and got a little ruthless.
Carter didn't want to use the patent right cardholder.After all, it is Carter's pursuit to make a bigger cake, but the problem is
The biggest cake, not to mention eating it all by myself, or let the old Joe next door be snatched by me, right? !

We're not fruit fans, and we never chase after Old Qiao, so there's no need to bother to make a wedding dress for that guy!

"This, I'm afraid it won't work either!"

Only now did Carter discover that Anna was also in the office.
"Apple has bypassed our patents, or they can completely bypass our technical patents. What we have obtained is only an initial version of the patent, perhaps on the wheel mouse, as long as there are not many changes in the design, then they They all need our authorization. But Apple's mouse, although they also pay for patent authorization, they are not learning from us, but Xerox Parker!"

"As early as 1979, Mr. Jobs allowed Xerox to invest $100 million in Apple in exchange for the right of his employees to work in the Xerox Park Center for three days! During those three days, they not only poached a lot of Xerox employees, especially with the technical strength of the Xerox Parker Center, do you think they will not upgrade the original XY position indicator? Or, simply change the sensing element."

"They have a lot of ways to get around patent restrictions"

"'79? That's when Apple wasn't in the market, right? Wait, how do you know about this?"

"I asked the people at Xerox Parker, it's not our family who are engaged in the graphical user interface. Isn't the earliest GUI created by them at Xerox Parker? I think it may not be that we leaked secrets here, but that others also It's planning like this. It's just that they acted earlier!"

Seeing the men in this room full of conspiracy theories, Anna curled her lips:
"Also, why don't you think about it, why did Mr. Jobs pay such a high price for a chance to work in the Xerox Park Center for three days? Alto came out in 73! There must be something he planned."

"Now, Carter, you want to do a GUI, and you firmly say that this is the direction of the future PC. If you can realize this, why can't others realize it?"

What a visionary thought of a piece? !

Carter instinctively wanted to refute, but thinking about this timeline, but
That's right, if it wasn't for plotting against something in the Xerox Parker Center, why would Jobs do it?
As for the Xerox Parker Center, which has almost no sense of existence in the future computer field, perhaps the only thing worthy of praise is the mouse and GUI!
"Instead of thinking about these things that can't change the overall situation here, why can't we think about how to deal with it? Are you afraid of competition?!"

"Please turn on the TV for me! You should know where Apple's ads are placed?"

"Let me take a look first."

(End of this chapter)