giants of the era

Chapter 235 Shocking new Microsoft project!

Microsoft's IPO has achieved great success. The market value has risen from 125 billion US dollars to more than 210 billion US dollars, an increase of 90 billion US dollars, shocking the world!
Wall Street institutions said that Microsoft's stock price is inflated, and it will definitely come down in the future.

Sure enough, in the following days, Microsoft's stock price was below $40, and its market value was less than $200 billion, and finally stabilized at around $180 billion.

Even so, it is still shocking!

These days, the media has been constantly reporting the news of Microsoft's IPO.

In addition, many entertainment media also made a special trip to report Xiao Youran, claiming that she is the smallest bell ringer in the history of Nasdaq.

Countless people can't help but envy her, envy her having a father who is the richest man in the world, calling her the richest second generation in the world!

In the bar, a man watched TV and said, "Made, I want to be Chronos Li's son, and going to NASDAQ to go public and ringing the bell will not be commonplace in the future!!"

"Hehe... With your crooked looks, if you go to be Chronos Li's grandson, he won't even want you!"

"Damn, you are assigned to be his son because of your hanging look??!"

"At least I'm more handsome than you!"

"Handsome, you are paralyzed!"

The two of them started fighting and fought in the bar. The other people in the bar were all stunned. While watching the excitement, they said, "Fuck me, the two of them are still fighting to fight over who will be assigned as Chronos Li's son!" Here comes the hand..."

"Yeah, the two of you are amazing! They really don't deserve what they look like, so there's nothing to argue about! By the way, do you think I'm handsome?" A man who thought he was good-looking held a glass of wine in his right hand. Red wine, with his back at 45 degrees, posed a pose.

"..." Everyone was speechless, and each of them rushed to be someone else's son, really drunk.

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Microsoft Corporation.

Li Zetian, Bill Gates and other company executives are in the conference room.

"Microsoft has raised 25 billion U.S. dollars in its IPO. With this huge amount of financial support in the future, it will be able to recruit more talents, acquire some technologies and companies, and increase the development speed of Microsoft!" Li Zetian said with a smile, "IBM wants to If you compete with Microsoft on the personal computer operating system, you will definitely lose, and you will only be able to hold a candle to it in the future!!!”

In the previous life, only Sun Microsystems was called by the media and the industry as the company most likely to replace Microsoft. It was because Sun Microsystems invented a super awesome technology-Java language! Java does not require hardware-related compilers, so in the Internet age, Java programs are not limited by computer platforms, and are especially suitable for programming on the Internet. It provides Sun Microsystems with a possibility to replace Microsoft's dominance in the computer field .However, Sun Microsystems failed in the end.

As for IBM, it is even less likely to be an opponent of Microsoft!

At this point, Microsoft is already full-fledged!
Li Zetian continued: "However, the Windows operating system still needs to be improved in many areas, and Microsoft must not relax. Today, I called everyone together to design a new product for Microsoft——PowerPoint. It is a presentation software. Like Word and Excel, it is also a killer office software!"

Li Zetian holds so many shares and does not usually manage the company, but no shareholder has any complaints or opinions. It is precisely because his brain and creativity are extremely valuable. All the heavyweight software of Microsoft are designed by him!
Now, when everyone heard that he had designed a very powerful software, they were all very excited, looking at him with anticipation, waiting for him to introduce what this PPT is.

Li Zetian smiled lightly, and was used to seeing everyone's eyes.

He said: "With the advent of the graphical computer era, have you not thought that Microsoft can actually do more? Haven't you thought that the huge market for commercial slideshows is different from the emerging graphical computer era?" Form the perfect union?"

As soon as the words fell, a spark of inspiration suddenly appeared in the minds of everyone present!

Li Zetian looked at them and said with a smile: "Different from Microsoft-DOS in text format, Windows 1.0 window operating system allows PowerPoint to have more colorful materials. In addition to text, there can also be pictures, charts, animations, sounds, and even Videos and more.

PowerPoint can be played not only on a projector, but also on a computer.

I firmly believe that PowerPoint can become an important part of people's work and life, and it plays a pivotal role in work reports, corporate publicity, product promotion, wedding celebrations, project bidding, management consulting, education and training, etc.! "

The people present are all smart people. Li Zetian just mentioned it a little, and they have already realized the value of PPT. Even without Li Zetian mentioning the specific design, they already know the general design direction of PowerPoint.

Everyone couldn't help applauding!
"When PowerPoint is developed, it will definitely become popular all over the world!"

"Mr. Li, you are really amazing. With PowerPoint, Microsoft's core competitiveness has greatly increased!"

"..."

Li Zetian smiled and continued: "PowerPoint, Word, and Excel are all indispensable office software, so I propose that Microsoft establish a Microsoft Office suite of office software for bundled sales, and PowerPoint, Word, and Excel are all in front of the name. Adding Microsoft Office means that these three software are components of Microsoft Office, thereby increasing the popularity of Microsoft Office!"

"agree!!!"

"agree!!!"

"..."

The crowd agreed.

Li Zetian nodded, quite satisfied, and immediately asked: "Do you know sndmsg?"

Some people nodded, while others showed doubts, Li Zetian said: "sndmsg is the world's first email software, that is, SendMessage.

In 1971, the Arpanet funded by the U.S. Department of Defense was in full swing, and a very acute problem emerged: the scientists participating in this project were doing different jobs in different places, but they could not share their knowledge well. Research results.Because everyone is using a different computer, everyone's work is useless to everyone else.They urgently need a method to transmit data between different computers by means of the network.

Thus, sendmsg email came into being.

Ray Tomlinson, a Ph.D. from MIT who works for Arpanet, combined a software that can be copied between different computer networks with a communication software that is only used for a single computer. This is sndmsg. Tomlinson chose the "@" symbol as the interval between the user name and the address, because this symbol is relatively rare and will not appear in any person's name, and the pronunciation of this symbol also has the meaning of "in".The scientists at Arpanet welcomed this earth-shattering innovation with great enthusiasm.Since then, their genius ideas and research results have been shared with colleagues as quickly as possible.

Today, the Arpanet has grown into the largest network in the world, and email has played a big part in its success! "

Bill Gates frowned slightly, e-mail seemed to have no commercial value.

"Chronos, you want Microsoft to develop e-mail?" he asked.

"Yeah." Li Zetian nodded. There was a reason why he suddenly brought up the e-mail at this time...

PS: It’s been a long time since it broke out, so try to update two more chapters tonight~~
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