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Chapter 1001 Familiar Taste

People are more popular than others, and Bill Gates' power, worth, status, and influence are absolutely top notch in America and even in the world.

But being as strong as Bill Gates is not without troubles. His word of mouth and reputation are really bad in America. His private life has been speculated and reported in various ways, and a large group of competitors are also arranged in various ways. Bill Gates Gates has completely lost his popularity. To sum it up, American people feel that he is not a good person. Even if he donates a dollar knife to charity, it makes people feel that there are ulterior motives...

To be honest, Bill Gates is a little envious. Song Yangde, who started to lay out the media industry in advance, if he could have bought media TV stations, newspapers, and magazines earlier in the past, instead of waiting until his reputation has become rotten, he started. Slowly deploying the media, it is estimated that they will not be so passive.

Now that Jim Clark is about to enter several halls of fame and the Federal Academy of Sciences, he is in the same position as Bell, Edison, Franklin and other textbook figures, but Bill Gates can only watch!

It is absolutely false to say that you are not greedy. Listening to the report from Todd and Greg Maffei on the phone, Bill Gates did not cause trouble, and refused to make a deal between Microsoft and ICQ. Of course, that can cause trouble for Ballmer , but Bill Gates probably offended Song Yang completely, which is not what he is willing to do.

Especially now that the living example of Jim Clark is right in front of us. After Bill Gates retires in a few years, if he wants to become famous and enter the Hall of Fame, he may have to rely on Song Yang to offend Song Yang. If he is dead, what if he does not recommend nominations for him, but also adds trouble to him? !

Although Bill Gates is still fighting openly and secretly with Ballmer to regain power, he also knows that it is easy to step down, but it is not so easy to retake the position of president.

Relying on the development of Microsoft's new generation of operating systems, Bill Gates can try his best to maintain his current power, but when the system development is completed, if the response is not good, it is probably time for Bill Gates to retire. Make a plan, who wants to become a deadly enemy with someone who may be re-elected as the richest man in America after retirement, and be missed all day long, at least Bill Gates doesn't have that idea.

Ballmer and other Microsoft executives could see Bill Gates' hesitant expression several times. Ballmer and Bill Gates have been partners for so many years. How can they not guess Bill Gates? What I was thinking, I just wanted Todd, and asked Song Yang to help, to recommend Bill Gates for nomination to the Inventors Hall of Fame, etc., but in front of so many people, Bill Gates couldn't help it face.

There is no impenetrable wall in the world, let alone Jim Clark. In almost one afternoon, the news that Microsoft bought a set of scrap products for more than one billion dollars spread throughout the technology industry. The media is hyping it up.

There was a scene where Microsoft was praised by all parties. The last time the media had such a big year was when the Microsoft antitrust case was in court. The media was almost one-sided in applauding and criticizing Microsoft in different ways.

But the anti-monopoly case was overwhelmed by Microsoft, just like the villains in film and television dramas, who can't be beaten to death. Many people hate Microsoft, the "villain", but they can't get rid of it. ...

This time, it broke out again that Microsoft was forced to cut leeks by ICQ. The media naturally reported it vigorously. The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, etc. are still relatively reserved, and they often receive public relations fees from Microsoft, so when reporting, they are still secretive. To hide it, it only reported that Microsoft reached a new cooperation agreement, and the focus was on the news of Microsoft's Xbox console. Netscape just "passed it off" at the end.

"Microsoft's home entertainment hardware department reached a new cooperation agreement with ICQ worth 13 billion dollars today, including game consoles, exclusive 3A game masterpieces, LCD TVs, TV set-top boxes and many other hardware projects. In the future, Microsoft's business in the hardware industry The income will gradually increase!"

Although a crop of leeks was cut, various analysts on Wall Street still praised the deal as a "good deal."

Merrill Lynch analysts declared, "Microsoft has solved a big problem, and Netscape will no longer be Microsoft's Achilles' pain. Netscape's browser patents and technical teams have all gone to Microsoft's IE browser department. Will continue to maintain the dominance of the browser industry!"

"Peace for $13 billion?!

"President Ballmer, made a wise decision!"

Analysts at the Lehman Brothers investment bank tracking technology stocks praised Ballmer as "mature and prudent", "Ballmer ended a possible war by sacrificing his face, in exchange for $13 billion, Not just Netscape, but a possible all-out war with ICQ, but now, Microsoft's troubles are gone.

Lehman Investment Bank's investment bank will adjust the rating of Microsoft stock to recommend buying in the next quarter! "

As for Yahoo and other portals and forums, there was another voice, all ridiculing Microsoft for being cut by Song Yang.

"I really can't figure out that an Internet company with no users at all is worth $13 billion!"

"I suddenly had a bold idea. I don't know if Microsoft is interested in the bankrupt Pets website. Maybe I can make this deal!"

As the stronghold of anti-Microsoft, the Sun technology community gathers a large number of development engineers for exchanging technologies. Today, the forum community is extremely lively, and there are endless posts mocking Microsoft's collection of rags.

"That guy Ballmer has today!"

Sun CEO McNealy, after seeing the media reports, finally couldn't help laughing, showing a rare smile this year. Sure enough, the bad news of his rival made him forget the pain of Sun for a while, and he was exposed to the rain. Only when the umbrella of the deadly enemy is also broken can I feel happy...

Seeing that Microsoft was slaughtered, McNealy felt in a good mood, but it took a while, and then he saw that Sun, which had a revenue of more than 183 billion US dollars last year, lost [-] million US dollars in the first half of this year alone. McNealy couldn't help but laugh. This is the first time Sun has lost money in more than ten years, and it was too sudden and too fast after making a lot of money last year.

Originally, the rival Microsoft was unlucky. It should be the time when Sun was showing its strength. However, before Microsoft collapsed, Sun himself was about to lie on the ground. When this performance report was released, McNealy felt that he was going to follow in the footsteps of Bill Gates. , lived a retirement life in advance.

People reacted differently to the news that Microsoft had been cut off from leeks, some were excited, some mocked, some gloated, but some couldn't laugh.

When Immelt saw this news, he inexplicably remembered that General Electric was forced by Song Yang to cut a crop of leeks. When General Electric was at its weakest, it was forced to sell its controlling stake in ICQ. , security and military business, Baker Hughes Energy and other companies, when seeing this news, Immelt only felt sympathetic, and also a little bit itchy with hatred.

Watching the report on the TV news, Immelt looked coldly. He has not forgotten what Song Yang did to General Electric back then.

If there is a chance, Immelt will definitely give back everything he had at the beginning, but he knows that this is not the best time. Like Microsoft, General Electric has just passed the storm, so it is not time to make a big move when.

No matter how many people had their hearts and ideas, Song Yang did not reach out indiscriminately after he succeeded. ICQ, American Telecom, Western Pictures and other companies also began to split up AOL Time Warner step by step.

It is easy to swallow AOL Time Warner, but it is not easy to digest it and let it be like an arm. AOL swallowed Time Warner and finally choked itself to death. ICQ dismantled Time Warner and ate it. , and there is no guarantee that Time Warner will be digested immediately. It will take a lot of time. In the short term, ICQ will not be able to do anything.

Besides the news that Microsoft was cut off from leeks, the most attention-grabbing news in the Internet industry was that Song Yang wanted the American Internet Association to prepare for the establishment of the Internet Hall of Fame, which made many Internet giants , I can't help but start to move around, who is eligible to be the first batch of candidates to be selected into the Internet Hall of Fame, and the big forums are also full of noise!
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