game trailblazer

Chapter 152 The New Era of Network

The first thing Zhang Lexing did when he came to the United States was to call Chen Zishan. Fortunately, it was Chen Zishan who answered the phone.

"Zi Shan, I just arrived in San Jose, and I miss you very much." Zhang Lexing said into the microphone.

Chen Zishan's voice came from the phone: "Oh, I miss you very much too, the journey went smoothly."

"Well, it went well. Zishan, when you are free, I will come to you when the time comes."

"I'm sorry, I'm very busy during this period, I'm afraid it will take two months to be free."

"Oh, what a pity. Then I might as well call you when I'm free and keep in touch."

"Alright, I'll call you if I have time. I'm sorry, I have something to do. I'll contact you next time."

The phone was hung up in a hurry, leaving only the beeping sound from the receiver, Zhang Lexing was stunned for a moment, shook his head and gave up the plan to contact again.

……

The Alpha version of the operating system code-named "Baiji" has been tested for a while. As soon as Zhang Lexing arrived at the headquarters of the VisualSystem Group, he first took a set of Alpha version test CDs, and then got a Pentium 75 DELL computer to test it by himself.

Insert the CD into the CD-ROM drive of the computer, then restart to boot from the CD, then select the partition for installation and confirm.The progress bar moved slowly from left to right, and the read and write lights of the optical drive and the hard disk began to flash wildly. After about 10 minutes, the progress bar reached [-]%, the file copying was completed, and the installation of the operating system officially started.

The installation of the operating system took longer, almost 40 minutes, but Zhang Lexing did not wait to see the progress bar, but called up a minesweeper game to pass the boring time during the installation process. This was one of the several suggestions made by Zhang Lexing one.

After installing the operating system, Zhang Lexing briefly tried it out. The functions of the current "Baiji" operating system are very complete. It can be said that almost all the functions envisaged at the beginning of the design have been perfectly realized.After using it for a while, Zhang Lexing installed another game from the CD, which was the application he was most interested in.

This game is produced by Blue Dragon Company and is specially customized for the "Baiji" operating system. It is a 3D flying shooting game with very popular graphics. And the sound effect has been greatly improved, which is also one of the selling points of "Baiji" as a home multimedia operating system.

While having fun, the phone on the desk rang suddenly, Zhang Lexing picked up the phone and put it to his ear.Yang Xinxin's voice came from the receiver: "Brother, come to my office and I have something good to tell you."

After finishing speaking, before Zhang Lexing could react, the phone hung up.Zhang Lexing couldn't help but muttered in his heart: "How come I have been hung up on the phone these two days, it's really..."

After thinking about it, Yang Xinxin had already been summoned, and since it was a good thing, Zhang Lexing definitely had to go.After exiting the game he was playing in full swing, turning off the system and power, Zhang Lexing got up and left his office.Go out and turn left, and within a few steps, Yang Xinxin's office arrives.

Walking into Yang Xinxin's office, Zhang Lexing saw that she was sitting alone on the sofa looking at a file.The sound of pushing the door and coming in alarmed Yang Xinxin. She put down the documents and looked at the door. When she saw Zhang Lexing, she immediately waved and shouted, "Brother, come and sit here."

Zhang Lexing came to the sofa and sat down casually, and said, "Sister Xin, what's the use of calling me here?"

"Look at this first." Yang Xinxin handed over the information in her hand.

Zhang Lexing took it over and took a look. It turned out to be a browser sales report, which read: "...The explorer, a subsidiary of our group, officially launched the browser Internet Explorer 8 on August 22, and the cumulative sales volume has reached 1.0 copies so far. ...

10月3日，成立于今年4月4日的网景公司推出他们的浏览器产品Netscape1.0，目前累计销量大约为16万份……”

"Brother, it's fortunate that you proposed this project back then, and this time we are ahead again." Yang Xinxin leaned over and pointed to the previous data in the report and said, "Look, our weekly sales have reached 18.6 copies, and that Netscape sold only 7.2 copies a week, and we were way ahead of that."

"Sister Xin, don't be too proud yet. This is just the beginning. We need to work harder and launch a new version as soon as possible to keep our browser's functions and performance at a leading position."

"Brother, don't worry, the boys in the research institute are thinking about how to improve the browser every day. By the way, you seem to be quite good at this. Why don't you spare some time to give them pointers."

Zhang Lexing knew what his so-called "expert" was because he had used more mature products. Of course, it would be fine if he just offered suggestions, so he said, "Well, if you have nothing to do in the afternoon, go and study it." Let’s take a look at what those people have changed the browser to, and by the way, see if there are any novelties.”

After Zhang Lexing put down the documents in his hand, he stood up and planned to leave, but Yang Xinxin quickly stopped him: "Brother, don't leave in a hurry."

"Sister Xin, is there anything else?"

"Of course there is something else, you can go to my computer first and check it out." Yang Xinxin pointed to the computer on the desk and said: "The computer is not turned off, the screensaver password is ****"

"What is so mysterious." Zhang Lexing muttered in his heart, and went to Yang Xinxin's desk and turned off the screen saver. What appeared on the computer screen was the desktop of the "Baiji" Alpha version of the operating system.

"It's this operating system. I've already seen it. I was using it before I came here just now." Zhang Lexing said dismissively.

"It's not that," Yang Xinxin also came to the desk, leaned down and moved the mouse to point to an icon on the taskbar, and said, "It's this."

Zhang Lexing leaned down and looked at it. It was a bust of a green villain. At this time, Yang Xinxin clicked on the icon, and a very familiar interface appeared in front of him. Zhang Lexing couldn't help pointing at the screen and said: "This, this Is it instant messaging software?"

"That's right, it's instant messaging software." Yang Xinxin said with a smile.

"It was done so quickly." Zhang Lexing couldn't believe it. In fact, he didn't understand this. The biggest difficulty of instant messaging software is the idea, not the technical problem of development.

"Of course, the boys in the research institute are very motivated, and it's only been done in three months. Please help to see if there is anything that needs to be improved."

Zhang Lexing lowered his head, seemed to be in deep thought for a while, and muttered: "Sure enough..."

"So what?" Yang Xinxin leaned closer and asked.

Zhang Lexing still lowered his head, and spit out a few words: "It's really deep!"

"What do you mean?" Yang Xinxin looked down in confusion, and suddenly noticed that the opening of her clothes seemed to be a little too big. She covered her chest with her hands reflexively, and then stabbed her with the other hand. Zhang Lexing said angrily, "Brother, you are lecherous, and you even take advantage of your sister."

"Ah, what!" Zhang Lexing seemed to have woken up suddenly, and asked again and again: "What's cheap?"

Yang Xinxin glanced at Zhang Lexing's innocent face that didn't seem to have any hypocrisy, and the affirmation in his heart suddenly became shaken: "Brother, you just said that it is really deep, what do you mean?"

"Oh, what I mean is that the person who developed this instant messaging software really studied the spirit of the last meeting very deeply." Zhang Lexing looked at Yang Xinxin sincerely and said, "Sister Xin, what did you think it meant just now?" ?”

"It's nothing interesting," Yang Xinxin blushed slightly, and shook her head repeatedly in denial.

"This software, I have to study it carefully. Sister Xin, you give me the installation disk, and I will go to my office to study slowly."

Yang Xinxin took out a CD from the drawer and handed it to Zhang Lexing, then waved and said: "The installation program is in the CD, and there are instructions for use. Currently, only 1001 numbers are open for testing, from 1080 to 123. The passwords are all Vs[-], if you want to try, try to choose a later number."

"Understood, sister Xin, then I'll go first." Zhang Lexing took the CD, and quickly slipped away as if he had been pardoned.

Yang Xinxin sat in her executive chair, looked at Zhang Lexing's leaving back with a complicated expression, and wondered in her heart: "Xinxin, what's wrong with you, what are you thinking in your head? By the way, it's all about that damn Mai Jiajun, he ran away for several months and didn't even make a lot of phone calls. Hmph, when he comes back, he must tidy up..."

On the other side, after Zhang Lexing returned to his office, he let out a long breath, and secretly rejoiced in his heart: "It was really dangerous just now, and I was almost about to reveal my secrets. Zhang Lexing, Zhang Lexing, you are too. It's hard to see where your eyes are. I'm going to glance over at Sister Xin. I just looked at it, and I still can't keep my mouth open. Alas, it seems that I need to contact Zishan more, and something will happen if this continues."

……

In the afternoon, Zhang Lexing and Yang Xinxin went to visit the San Jose Research Institute. When they met, they put aside what happened in the morning in a tacit understanding, talking and laughing as usual.

When they came to the research institute, their first stop was to go to the Internet Explorer browser research and development group.The browser research and development team was established in November 92, and currently has eight members. The leader is Andrew, who is said to have jumped over from IBM.When Zhang Lexing and Yang Xinxin walked into the office of the browser R&D team, all the staff of the R&D team were discussing what functions should be added to the new version.

"I think this part of the output should be more extensive in terms of character formatting...The use of these escape characters must be judged more strictly..." Andrew said while writing and drawing on the whiteboard with a pen.When he accidentally raised his head, he noticed that Zhang Lexing and Yang Xinxin came in together. He quickly put down his pen, gave up two seats to the side, and then greeted: "Mr. Zhang, Miss Yang, you are here. Do you want to sit down?" , give us some advice."

Seeing that other people wanted to get up to say hello, Zhang Lexing pressed down with both hands, indicating that everyone should not get up, and then said: "I have used the Internet Explorer 1.0 developed by you, and it is not bad, but there are still some things that need to be improved. .Well, it’s easier for one of you to turn on a computer and start the browser.”

A young man with brown hair led the way, turned on a computer, and launched a browser.Zhang Lexing moved a chair in front of the computer and sat down. Andrew and others immediately surrounded him.

"I tried it out, and you have done a good job in being compatible with the WWW standard. Basically, there are no problems with the display of web pages made according to the standard. But I found that this browser lacks security considerations, such as security Socket support, etc., I suggest you add it in the new version... Also, the current browser can only display plain text pages, and cannot fully display web pages with pictures. If a web page only has text, it is like Newspapers do not have pictures at all, it is too monotonous, and more and more pictures will be added to web pages in the future, so this problem must be solved... If the function of picture display is added, then another problem needs to be considered , image caching, now when only text needs to be displayed, the required traffic is not large, it doesn’t matter if you add cache or not, but the traffic required for pictures will be several times or even dozens of times that of text, if you still want to do the same every time If you read from the Internet, the user will feel that the speed of opening the webpage is relatively slow. If you add a cache, it will greatly improve the user experience during repeated visits... In fact, the most important thing in the final analysis is a good user experience. Bad, good user experience will bring us more users, bad user experience will only push our users to competitors."

"Mr. Zhang, what you said is very reasonable. We must put the user first." Andrew sighed: "The security issue we just mentioned, we have already planned to add it in the version 2.0 under development. In addition, the image display aspect We will consider the problem, but it will take time, and we may not be able to catch up, maybe it will be put in the next version.”

"Everyone, do a good job." Zhang Lexing stood up and said to everyone: "Don't think that the browser is just a gadget for viewing web pages. In fact, the work you do is not simple. In the future, the number of websites on the Internet will only increase. , the amount of information is increasing, and to access the Internet, you must use the help of a browser. For users, the browser is a portal to open the Internet for them. Think about it, what you do in the future The browser will run on every computer in thousands of households. Just as the current computer cannot do without the operating system, it will also be inseparable from the browser at that time. What kind of situation will it be? Every one of you A person's name will be engraved on the monument of Internet development."

Zhang Lexing's speech immediately excited everyone in the browser R&D team, and expressed their opinions and suggestions for the cause of "promoting browsers to thousands of households' computers".

After leaving the browser R&D team, Yang Xinxin glanced at Zhang Lexing and said, "Brother, I really didn't realize that you are quite good at inspiring people."

"Sister Xin, I'm just expressing my feelings at the moment, just talking casually."

"Brother, do you really think that one day browsers will become as common as operating systems?"

"Yes, I believe that the development of the Internet will change the habit of human beings to obtain information. With the increasing number of various websites in the future, many people will get used to obtaining various information from the Internet, just like watching TV now. Like newspapers, at that time, the first thing many people do every day is to open the browser. With the gradual enhancement of browser functions, it may replace many commonly used software in the future, and even computers in the future may only need one A browser can do everything a computer can do today.”

"Is there such a possibility? Brother, will anyone use the operating system in the future?"

"I think that as long as the computer is used by people, the operating system will never disappear, but it will change into a different form. For example, the kind of 'cloud computing' I mentioned before. At that time, you joked that in the future If the operating system is not popular, it will sell computing power. In fact, "cloud computing" also needs an operating system. In addition, there are servers. If there are more and more websites in the future, more and more servers will be needed, and the servers also need to be operated. System. So, Miss Xin, you don’t have to worry about the operating system being unused.”

"Brother, you always have so many wonderful ideas, sometimes I just wish you could stay here a little longer."

"Sister Xin, I can actually think about it. When it comes to doing it, I still have to rely on you."

"Okay, let's go to the instant messaging software R&D team first, let's talk about it later."

"Ok."

The instant messaging software research and development team was established in July this year, with a total of five members, and the leader is a Chinese named Gao Huaiyi.The R&D team's workroom is located on the 7th floor of the research institute building. Because there is no similar product on the market, the level of confidentiality is relatively high, and there are even dedicated security personnel.

After passing the cordon, the two walked into the workshop of the instant messaging software R&D team.At this time, everyone in the R&D team was busy. Three people were writing and drawing on the whiteboard while talking excitedly, as if they were discussing a problem. The other two were sitting in front of the computer, typing quickly. keyboard.

When Zhang Lexing and Yang Xinxin walked in, the three people who were discussing the problem found out first. They put down the whiteboard in their hands and stood up, saying hello: "Mr. Zhang, Ms. Yang, hello!"

"What were you discussing just now?" Zhang Le walked closer and asked.

"Mr. Zhang, we were just discussing what functions need to be added to this instant messaging software?"

"Then what was the result of your discussion?"

"Mr. Zhang, our idea is to make the functions of this instant messaging software more complete and meet the needs of users as much as possible. We plan to add a schedule management function in the next step."

"Is there no official name for this instant messaging software?" Zhang Lexing turned to Yang Xinxin and asked.

Yang Xinxin nodded: "It's true that I haven't considered this issue yet. For the time being, there is only one internal code name '**', which means SendMessage (sending information)."

"Then it's better to call it ICQ. It sounds like ISeekYou (I'm looking for you), just like the user lookup of our instant messaging software."

"It's a good name, and it even has a promotional slogan, just 'ISeekYou'." After hearing this, Yang Xinxin praised it repeatedly, and several people in the R&D team were also very satisfied with the name.

"Now let me talk about the functions of ICQ. I have seen your development suggestions attached to the CD, and combined with what you said just now, it seems that you are planning to go full-featured. I hope that users can solve the problem with an ICQ software. All questions. Your ideas are very good, but you have forgotten one thing. The performance of the computer is limited. If you add too many functions, it will only cause ICQ to run slower on the user's computer. From the user's point of view For example, what most people want most is fast. Clicking the icon to start the program should be fast, start the function of sending messages quickly, and the speed of sending messages should be fast. Any other additional functions should not be at the expense of instant communication The main function of the software is the price, otherwise it is better not to add it. I think you should feel this way when you use any software. If it takes several minutes to start a software, I am afraid you will not like to use it.”

"We didn't think too thoroughly about this, Mr. Zhang, please rest assured, we will pay attention to it in the future, and we will be cautious about adding any functions to it."

"That's right. First of all, the core functions must be done well. I think your main task in the near future is to make this software more stable. The server can support more online users, and the speed of information forwarding will be smoother."

"Okay, Mr. Zhang."

Regarding instant messaging software, Zhang Lexing still has a lot of ideas, but it's not yet time to come up with them.Leaving the ICQ R&D team, Zhang Lexing asked casually as he walked: "Sister Xin, how will ICQ be promoted in the future?"

Yang Xinxin glanced at Zhang Lexing with a knowing look, and said, "Of course it is the same as the Internet Explorer browser. Determine the price and sell it."

It was only then that Zhang Lexing remembered that some time ago, when talking about instant messaging software, he was busy talking about the bright future of the future, but he forgot one important thing, free of charge.This will not work. If ICQ costs money to buy, it is certain that it will never be able to achieve the goal of rapid popularization, and instant messaging software must occupy enough users if it wants to survive, so as to be invincible.

Thinking of this, Zhang Lexing shook his head and said: "This is not acceptable, ICQ software cannot be sold for money, it must be promoted for free."

"It's free! No, we won't even be able to recover the research and development expenses, let alone set up servers in the future. This is absolutely impossible."

"Sister Xin, ICQ's technical means are not very sophisticated, and it is easy to be imitated. The precious thing about instant messaging software like this is not the software, but the users who use the software. If it is free, then for users, think To use our software, you only need to download it from the Internet, and you don’t have to pay for anything other than the Internet fee. Then they will definitely install one and try it. If they find it easy to use without spending money, they will tell their friends. In this way, our number of users will expand rapidly. Once millions or even tens of millions of users use our ICQ, we don’t have to worry about other competitors appearing, because our number of users is the largest. Yes, the probability of finding friends or suitable chat partners is also the greatest, so we will be the first choice for users. Until then, it will be convenient to develop the applications I mentioned before.”

"Oh, so that's the case. It seems that this is a new business model, and it can no longer be considered in the way of making traditional software." Yang Xinxin suddenly realized after hearing this, and nodded.

"That's right, ICQ is user-oriented. What we need to do is find ways to increase the number of users quickly." Speaking of the number of users, Zhang Lexing thought that an auction website would be established in the near future, but it could be acquired to compete with ICQ. It seems that we need to send someone to investigate and investigate, so as not to miss the best time.

(End of this chapter)