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Chapter 1338 Eventful Autumn
For Song Yang's implication, Ballmer didn't seem to understand at all, or didn't care at all. He was already a winner and won the power of Microsoft. From Paul Allen to Bill Gates, now it's finally his turn for Microsoft. Bao came to be the master of the house.

"The acceptance of the supersonic speed is inseparable from your support, Song!"

Ballmer took a sip of coffee, and said to Song Yang with the same pun.

The supersonic team's big sponsor has just been replaced by Ballmer, who also exempted this team.The risk of being acquired by other funders and then moving away.

Ballmer can be so smooth, accepting the Sonics team, not being taken advantage of, and not spending too much money, it is inseparable from the support of Bruno Yankee Sports Company, otherwise Ballmer would never be able to pay 3.5 million US dollars. Price to buy the Sonics.

If it is not holding the NBA broadcast rights, it is the NBA's largest advertiser, Bruno Yankee Sports, which is putting pressure on NBA teams and the NBA Board of Directors. The major shareholder of Supersonic's equity has to make a big killing. Selling him for a billion dollars is not always possible.

In the previous life, Ballmer bought the NBA team in Los Angeles. Although it was also in Los Angeles, it was incomparable with another rich team. Such a team could be sold to him for 20 billion US dollars. It's a killing pig.

However, after helping Ballmer acquire the Supersonics team, according to the agreement with Ballmer, the operation and business of this team will also be taken over by Bruno Yankee Sports. Rights, jersey peripheral products, etc., are all managed by Bruno Yankee Sports Company.

This can save Ballmer a lot of thought. He is still in charge of Microsoft's affairs, and he doesn't care about the Sonics team at all. Of course, leaving professional matters to professionals can also prevent him from being killed. Pig plate, to prevent the team from signing hundreds of millions of dollars with a large group of Bo Glass people. Every year in the NBA playoffs, several leading stars in the team have never met. This really proves that sentence, the NBA only I've seen players who have a bad relationship, but it's the first time I've seen someone I'm not familiar with...

"Song, I need your support. I hope that ICQ, PayPal, Google, and Xueleshan game platforms can release versions suitable for the Vista system as soon as possible!"

Ballmer looked at Song Yang and said, Bill Gates has retired, so he naturally wants to solve the trouble of Vista as soon as possible, and let the companies in Song Yang's camp launch software adapted to Microsoft's new system as soon as possible. The main purpose of this visit.

When he said this, Ballmer stared at Song Yang closely. What Bill Gates said was still in his mind. If Song Yang really took the opportunity to add trouble to him this time, then Ballmer Mo was ready to regard Song Yang's side as Microsoft's main opponent!
But what reassured Ballmer a little was that Song Yang heard his words without any hesitation, as if he never thought of adding trouble to him.

"Of course, by next week at the latest, companies including ICQ's Twitter, Sierra Games, Google, PayPal, Uber, Fortinet, eBay and other companies will all complete the upgrade, so that users who have installed the Vista system can Use these software!
President Ballmer, you know, I have always supported you. This has been the case in the past, and it will not change in the future! "

Listening to Song Yang's words, Ballmer felt a little ashamed for a while. He felt that he was judging a gentleman's belly with a villain's heart. Since he became the head of Microsoft, Song Yang has always treated him He is quite cooperative, and even sold him the most popular Skype platform, and now he has cooperated with him to control the power of Microsoft. It seems that it is really unreasonable to speculate on Song Yang.

"Microsoft will support you, Song, as long as I am still at Microsoft, I promise!" Ballmer also declared his attitude to Song Yang, no matter whether it can be done or not, the slogan is loud anyway.

"President Ballmer, there is another thing..." Song Yang glanced at Ballmer and said to him, "Director Bill Gates, invited me to his retirement dinner!"

People like Bill Gates, how could they leave quietly after retiring? Just like Welch back then, when they retire, they must hold a provocative retirement speech, and then hold a grand retirement banquet. The outside world announced that he was going to return to his hometown with honor.

Although Bill Gates warned Ballmer to beware of Song Yang, he couldn't completely sever the relationship with Song Yang. Instead, he needed Song Yang's help, because Bill Gates needed a name behind him!

Thanks to what Microsoft did in the past, Bill Gates offended too many people. Now he is about to retire, but he is facing an embarrassing problem. Other contemporaries have more or less gained some names, like Jim Clark He even won the grand slam, such as the Federal Internet Hall of Fame, the Federal Commander-in-Chief Medal, the Federal Inventors Hall of Fame, the Federal Academy of Sciences, and the Federal Academy of Arts and Sciences. Jim Clark has been selected. Jim Clark has earned a dollar in his life. It's here, the name is also there, and Microsoft is almost split up, and there are no regrets in this life.

But Bill Gates is different. He hasn't entered any of these halls of fame yet. It has been rumored that there is an overseas academy of sciences that intends to invite Bill Gates to join in order to express his contribution to the technology industry. Bill Gates is even more embarrassing. Overseas academies of sciences have named him, but America's local Hall of Fame institutions and the Federal Academy of Sciences do not accept him. Isn't it enough to show that his reputation is bad? !
Bill Gates also wants to be famous after his death. He invited Song Yang to his retirement banquet this time because he wanted to use Song Yang's connections to help him enter the Internet Hall of Fame, Federal Academy of Sciences and other institutions. You can't expect Bill Gates to yell all over the world that he wants to go in. It would be more embarrassing. When it comes to things like fame and fortune, you just want to play hard to get, even if you want to be powerful, but you just have to pretend to be like shit, so Bigger is the only one who can bluff people by talking about the title!
Hearing that Bill Gates invited Song Yang to the retirement banquet, Ballmer thought about it and understood what was going on. Ballmer did not stop him, but said with a smile, "Song, this is what you should do. You have always, They are all Microsoft's best allies, Gates' retirement banquet, you should also attend!"

Bill Gates wants to be named after him, but Ballmer doesn't want either. Who doesn't want a series of titles engraved on his tombstone in the future, which will be engraved in textbooks, various newspapers and magazines. To get started, building a family tree of...

After solving the problem of adapting the software of companies such as ICQ and PayPal to the Vista system, Ballmer was in a good mood and set off for Seattle.

Song Yang looked at Ballmer's figure and shook his head slightly. He wondered if he would regret it in the future. Maybe he will make a comeback, support another professional manager, and fight against him. With Bill Gates' character, he is by no means so easy to let go.

However, the harder Microsoft fights internally, the more beneficial it will be for Song Yang. Song Yang can't wait for their brains to come out!

When Ballmer's figure disappeared into the manor, Song Yang took out his phone and said to Wesley on the other end of the phone, "You can go online now!"

Right now, Ballmer is at his wits' end. He wants to increase the sales of the Vista system and take over the power vacuum left by Bill Gates' retirement. This is his busiest time, and he focuses his attention and energy on Microsoft. It is impossible to have the energy to stare outside, and it is a great time to fish in troubled waters.

Unlike the overwhelming publicity when Twitter launched, Facebook and LinkedIn launched without much fanfare. This is not to say that there are no advertisements for the two new social platforms, ICQ, Xueleshan Online Platform, Google, and the AOL portal They have also appeared on many Internet platforms, but they have not been yelled at directly.

However, after the launch of Facebook and LinkedIn, the growth rate of users is not slow at all, especially Facebook, which hit 130 million users in two days after its launch, and the number of LinkedIn users also exceeded 60.

With ICQ, the world's largest social platform, driving traffic to Facebook and LinkedIn, it's hard not to grow the user base of Facebook and LinkedIn!
By the time Yahoo, Microsoft, Murdoch's MySpace and other social platforms reacted, Facebook and LinkedIn had begun to sweep the world, especially Facebook's acquaintance social networking, and the user growth rate was astonishingly fast. As long as there is one person in a family, within a few days, relatives such as seven aunts and eight aunts will slowly open Facebook accounts, which makes Facebook's single-day user growth rate directly soar to the million level , not only in America, but also in old Europe, Asia and other places.

In contrast, LinkedIn's performance is somewhat "regular", but this is also a normal performance. After all, this is a social platform for the workplace. Compared with Facebook and Twitter, the user activity is definitely higher. It can’t be done, but LinkedIn’s daily increase in user scale is also around [-]. It has begun to build its own data files, and has also acquired several headhunting companies to attract more companies and job seekers.

"ICQ's social empire has been built!"

When Facebook and LinkedIn became popular on the global Internet, Vidok, who is in charge of Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Messenger, the social platform owned by Yahoo, said helplessly in an interview with the media that this is both a complaint and a helplessness. When ICQ’s The social platform matrix was established, and social platforms such as ICQ, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook appeared. The user scale of these platforms exceeded [-] million, or even hundreds of millions, so that challengers could not produce anything at all. Mind the challenge.

If before, what kind of social platform ICQ launched, it still caused a lot of discussion from the outside world, but now it sold the Skype Internet phone platform and made a comeback again, which made the outside world a little numb, and the media even began to acquiesce that ICQ is the Internet social industry. Empire!
In the technology industry, since Christmas this year, it has been troubled. First, Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, retired. When ICQ released two new social platforms, Alcatel was preparing for the global release of P7. At the time of the meeting, there was another news about big melons in technology. Semel, the CEO of Yahoo, resigned. The CEO of Yahoo will be replaced by Chief Yang Zhiyuan.
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