Coquettish Rebirth

() "Mr. Jia, hello, welcome to Microsoft." Bill Gates with dark blonde hair received Jia Hongjian very warmly.The Microsoft company they belong to is located in Redmond, Washington State, USA. This Washington state is not around Washington, but the most northwest position of the continental United States, which is basically adjacent to the Pacific coast of Canada.This city of Raymond is near the famous Seattle, not the Silicon Valley near San Francisco.

"What would you like to drink? Coffee? Wine? Or tea?" Bill Gates sat on the sofa and asked Jia Hongjian enthusiastically.Naturally, it was impossible for him to take the initiative to pour drinks for Jia Hongjian, but Jia Hongjian did not have the habit of asking big shots to pour tea for him. "A glass of water is fine, thank you." Young Bill Gates, "Mr. Gates, I heard that you came to me to discuss something called the Venus Project. Can you describe this thing in detail?"

"Well, I didn't expect your pace to be very fast. Okay, Alan, please show us our ideal next-generation product!" After Bill Gates finished speaking, he called Microsoft's co-founder Paul Allen began to show Jia Hongjian the calendar years they designed with a projector and slides.

"Project Venus, a great plan to let the Chinese people enter the Internet age cheaply and quickly! Under the software development capabilities of Microsoft and the hardware development capabilities of Huaxia Hi-Tech, the two parties will jointly invest 40 billion US dollars to develop computers that can Set-top boxes or cvd machines connected to the Internet, this is the Venus plan! In the Venus plan, Microsoft will adopt the embedded simple win95cao operating system—an epoch-making ao operating system, and try to make the set-top boxes or cvd machines intelligent It will replace computers at one time, and lead the Chinese people and the people of developing countries into the future Internet world in a cheap and intelligent way. At that time, the people of developing countries will be able to use the Internet for online shopping, and will Chat online. They will be able to bypass their imperfect consumption facilities through the Internet, and live a perfect life online like people in developed countries... At the same time, Microsoft will carry out its business in China around the Venus Project The basic activities of Internet and computer education allow Chinese people over 30 years old who have never had access to computers to quickly master the skills of surfing the Internet through set-top boxes or cvd machines..."

What?Microsoft's Venus Project, so it is such a thing?If the concept of using a set-top box to surf the Internet is quite novel, then the concept of making a VD machine a cheap computer is not the so-called "Yuxing popular computer VCD" that should have been on the market in this era. "The stuff?

as a reborn.Of course Jia Hung-chien remembered this so-called "Yuxing" thing. In 9798 in history, it was this Yuxing thing that was everywhere on TV. They combined the learning machine and VCD into one, and then still Some computer or learning machine skills are added to the vcd.This vcd can practice typing and learn programming, and even seems to be able to surf the Internet later.It's almost like a relatively simple computer.Even in such a so-called vcd, what kind of game discs are given out - that is, the games of the red and white machine, Sega md machine and even Nintendo's sfc machine are compressed into the disc, and then through the built-in emulator in the vcd Running, it's just such a thing. When the advertisements were popular in the past, one thing that has always puzzled Jia Hongjian is-this thing reads the game through the CD, but how to save the progress?You should know that this is not a computer game, but a computer-simulated cassette game.Cassette games must be stored in the cassette!Such a vcd machine does not have any additional storage devices, how to store archives?

Such a thing was very memorable to Jia Hongjian back then. Now, according to the concept of Bill Gates, if you think about it, then this Yuxing popular computer vcd should also be one of such Venus projects. product?

Just when Jia Hongjian was recalling the products that were widely advertised back then, Bill Gates said: "According to our research on the Chinese market, the price of personal computers in the Chinese market is basically 8000 yuan. RMB is around 1000 US dollars, and the annual per capita income of Chinese people is about 4000 US dollars. It takes a quarter for them to buy a computer. The price of such a computer is obviously too expensive. Therefore, in the The love of ancient China stems from the love for the Chinese people. We at Microsoft have thought of such a Venus project. Our goal is to use the cheapest way to provide Chinese people with a plan to use basic computer functions and access the Internet... "

Having said that, Bill Gates nodded at Paul Allen, and then saw Paul Allen continue, "According to our statistics, China has a total of about 2 million TV sets in the market so far. It is quite a large resource! When buying a computer, most of the functions are not available to ordinary people, and some excessive computing functions are only used by some scientific researchers or enthusiasts. In fact, ordinary people only use A relatively small part of the functions is enough. On this basis, if the cpu, hard disk and memory are integrated on the basis of the cvd machine, then a cvd machine can become a primary computer, and at the same time, it can be matched with what consumers already have at home. Isn’t this a basic computer? Our goal is to provide powerful computing, entertainment, communication and information equipment, which is easy to learn, easy to use, cheap, and maintenance-free for non-PC users. It will meet the needs of ordinary Chinese It meets the urgent needs of ordinary people to use computers and surf the Internet, and at the same time suits their economic level and education level!"

Hearing this, Jia Hongjian applauded, as if he was really moved.Yes, just from these words, how much Microsoft loves the Chinese people, even a Chinese like Jia Hongjian didn’t think of this, but they, a group of Americans who have no relatives and no relationship with the Chinese, are What kind of spirit is it that wants the Chinese to catch up with the Internet boom?This is definitely Bethune's spirit of internationalism!

So, after the applause was over, Jia Hongjian said to Bill Gates with bright eyes, "Do you want to enter the living room? Do you want to set up an entertainment center to occupy the living room?" Originally drinking coffee at this time, listening to Jia Hongjian's applause And Bill Gates, who was full of smiles, almost spit out a mouthful of coffee at that time! "Mr. Jia...you, what do you mean?"

"It's very simple. If I do this kind of thing, it may be because I am a patriot, but if you, a capitalist who has nothing to do with China, must have a plan of your own! Then combine your current As for the Venus plan, I think you all want to occupy the center of the living room, so that people all over the world can't do without your Microsoft for entertainment, besides work, right?" Jia Hongjian's reasoning is just like the great detective Sherlock Holmes At that time, Bill Gates was dumbfounded. He was not surprised to be discovered that he didn’t love China, but Jia Hongjian found out his deep plans for Microsoft’s future, which was very surprising. !To know this kind of layout for the future, in many cases, even the executives inside the company may not necessarily know it!

Looking at Bill Gates' surprised expression at this moment, Jia Hongjian obviously got an answer.He wouldn't tell Bill Gates that he didn't really guess it just now, but based on the history that Microsoft will develop the xbox, a game console platform located in the living room, in the future.If Microsoft will compete with Sony for the game console market of the home entertainment center platform in the future, and now it develops such a cvd that dominates the TV set, then maybe it has something to do with the xbox plan?So he cheated Bill Gates just now, but seeing the other party's expression, he directly verified his guess!

"Hahaha! You are worthy of being the executive of the fastest-growing company in China in recent years, and you are worthy of being a person who can go from being unknown to a nationally famous person within 3 years. Mr. Jia's vision is really sharp!" Bill Gates is indeed worthy of being a hero, After Jia Hongjian discovered his plan, he didn't blush or turn his face, but directly and generously admitted that he was really a bachelor! "Since Mr. Jia has seen this, why not become a strategic partner with Microsoft? I believe that after the cooperation between the two sides, we will definitely allow both of us to dominate China. You can develop chips, and we provide software. Let's do it together. How about a big business?"

When he said this, Bill Gates' eyes were shining brightly, and he was smiling all over his face, as if he was not worried about Jia Hongjian's rejection at all.But to be honest, Jia Hongjian is not optimistic about this plan at all in his heart!Because historically this plan is apparently every outcome!If there is a result, then why no one in the future uses this kind of thing at all?

But after all, this is a plan to cooperate with Microsoft. Are there other places that can be used?Is there some other place to operate?Jia Hongjian was lost in thought. Obviously, such an opportunity is not something that can be encountered casually. Now that he has encountered it, he obviously wants to analyze carefully, whether there is any room to squeeze out of this opportunity!He, Jia Hongjian, was not so easy to let go of the things that came to his door!