Hollywood Hunter

After all, it was the first experience of three people together. In the morning, I woke up very early and deliberately fell asleep, feeling that the two people around me were leaving one by one, and only one of her was left in the bed. Rachel Weizi slept again.

It was choking last night.

I don't know how long it passed. The bright sunshine in the spring broke into the bedroom through the gap between the curtains and happened to fall on her face.

Open your eyes.

The drowsiness completely disappeared, and some other tiredness was gone.

I remembered a certain argument.

Women have an advantage in this regard.

However, after sitting up, he was a little confused and had no idea what to do.

Looking around, I found a beautiful crystal ball on the bedside table. I reached out curiously and took a look. I didn’t know where I touched it. The crystal ball seemed to light up a bit. There are countless colorful cracks blooming inside, which is very beautiful.

So he became interested. After a little research, he soon realized that this is probably an electrostatic trigger. Without a switch, you only need to touch the surface of the crystal ball, and the radial light inside will light up.

I remember seeing such things when I was a child in the Science and Technology Museum when I was a child, but the principle was forgotten.

Very interesting stuff.

Temporarily put aside his situation, played around repeatedly, and made up his mind. After returning to Los Angeles, I went to the boutique to ask about it and bought one in the apartment.

The room door was pushed open with great interest.

Rachel Vichy looked up, and the palm of her right hand also happened to cover the crystal ball again.

Didi, Didi, Didi.

The crisp and fast electronic sound, similar to the common alarm clock ringtone, came from the wrist of the Waitress who had just known Isabel yesterday when she just entered the door.

Rachel Weizi and Isabelle's eyes briefly met, and subconsciously aimed at the other's wrist, instinctively realizing that they might have a big embarrassment, but the disobedient right hand took the initiative to help the master to verify it, lift it up, and fall again. .

Didi, Didi, Didi.

day……

I wish I was Alice, I could get into the rabbit hole and never come out again.

Isabelle watched Rachel's blushing face quickly and the other party panicked to put the crystal ball back on the bedside table, concealing the smile she wanted to overflow from the corner of her mouth.

Rachel quickly shook her head and pointed to the crystal ball back to the bedside table. Nane said: "This, I'm sorry, I thought it was just an ordinary ornament."

"It's okay," Isabel said, and said, "Are you going to get up now?"

I really wanted to go back to bed again, so that I could avoid the embarrassment just now, but there was a slight hum on my mouth.

I can't sleep.

Isabel walked to the window and pressed the electric switch to open the curtains. The bright sunlight immediately filled the bedroom and said: "You can wash first. The bathroom has already prepared new dental appliances. I will help you prepare the clothes. What to eat?"

Rachel looked around.

Last night from downstairs to upstairs, there was no shadow of his clothes at all, and a guy seemed to be violent. I remembered that the Versace dress that I just changed yesterday was torn and must not be worn again.

After opening the curtains, Isabel saw her thoughts, made a wait gesture, walked into the bathroom, and came out with a bathrobe to Rachel after a while.

After a little toss, he came down from the upstairs and found that it was already more than ten o'clock in the morning.

Seattle, which is in the rainy season, has a rare sunny day. It is in a temperate maritime climate area. The temperature in March seems to be just right.

The villa is very quiet.

Sorry to inquire about a guy who went there, so I had to ask that she didn't really want to see Kate Beckinsale. Last night, she actually...the two were enemies.

Probably not wanting to embarrass her. Isabel presented a new suit and did not show up again. Another waitress asked her when she saw her and took her to a room on the east side of the villa connected to a lake terrace. Living room,

The waitress placed breakfast on a round table closer to the floor-to-ceiling windows. Rachel and Kate greeted each other, walked over to sit down, and followed each other's eyes to easily see the two men sitting on the terrace.

One of them is naturally Simon Westeros.

Another one, recognized from the other party’s iconic black eyes, Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, and Westeros’ visit to Seattle this time was to participate in the launch of the other company’s latest operating system.

It is said to be a very powerful company.

The terrace is very large, and the two men are sitting beside the fence in the distance. Rachel can’t hear what they are saying, but just occasionally looks out while eating breakfast. It seems that Bill Gates is getting more and more excited, his forehead hair It was all because of the apparently angry movement of waving his hands.

Someone couldn't sit still and tilted his legs.

Quietly watching this picture, Rachel only felt that, as if in a zoo, a self-righteous monkey opened his teeth and danced in front of a lying tiger.

It's kind of ridiculous.

More powerful functions The release of the Windows 95 system, which is more friendly to the general public without a professional foundation, is a watershed for the entire information industry.

However, this is not the reason why Simon attended yesterday's press conference.

Taking advantage of this opportunity to come to Seattle, Simon intends to talk seriously with his classmates to resolve the many differences that Microsoft and the other companies in the Westero system, especially Igret, have unwittingly accumulated.

However, this meeting in the morning was obviously not very good.

Simon's request is that, for the release of Windows 95, at least the overseas version must have built-in Igret's IE browser.

Unlike North America, because of the differences in relevant laws and regulations in various countries, even if Igrid attaches great importance to the protection of intellectual property rights and technology patent applications worldwide, it is difficult to guarantee that some technology companies in other countries will not launch other types of browser software without authorization. The government deliberately condoned with one eye closed, and no one could guarantee that it would sever Igreat’s absolute monopoly on browser software.

The most convenient way to solve this problem is to let Windows, which will soon unify the PC market, have IE built in.

The reason why Microsoft used to defeat Netscape browser with IE browser, which is full of backward technology, lies in this pre-installed monopoly.

Moreover, in the mainstream PC market, Igreat can also negotiate with large OEM manufacturers for pre-installation, but with the outbreak of new technology industries, large and small OEM manufacturers around the world will blossom everywhere, and even include piracy of an alarming scale Market, these are no longer areas that Igrid can easily control, and will inevitably be used by competitors.

There are also government factors.

In the face of the huge benefits brought by the outbreak of the new technology industry, it is difficult to say whether overseas governments will force Igerett to authorize browser software on the basis of bullshit similar to the "national security" commonly used in the United States.

All in all, as long as the fact that Igrid’s version of IE is bundled with the Microsoft operating system is impossible to uninstall, many problems will be solved.

It is a pity that the door class students seem to think that they have taken Igrid's seven inches, insisting on asking for a deeper browser software core patent authorization as an exchange bargain. In addition, I also opened the door and asked Igrid to stop secret research and development. Linux version PC operating system.

Igret's operating system research and development projects have been in a state of non-disclosure and confidentiality. However, some things are hard to conceal in this circle.

Simon cannot agree to both conditions.

Ghost only believes that the door students promised that as long as the patent does not develop their own browser gibberish.

There is also the development of Igret’s operating system, which not only involves Simon’s layout of the PC era, but also the future era of mobile communications, which is also impossible to give up.

In the face of the gate students' oil and salt failure, Simon is certainly not without countermeasures.

On the contrary, for Microsoft, Simon has quite a lot of chips.

First of all, after various changes over the years, as of now, Simon still holds 18.7% of Microsoft's stock. With the continued reduction of Paul Allen, he has now firmly secured the position of Microsoft's second largest shareholder.Even if he can't compete with the door classmates who are still close to 40% of the shares, Simon has a considerable say in relying on the shares in his hands.

Microsoft's current board of directors has a total of 11 members, and the Westeros system occupies two of them, enough to play a role in some important company resolutions.

Moreover, as a major shareholder, the most important move is undoubtedly to reduce holdings.

Even if Microsoft's share of the operating system market is rising, it can't bear the continued decline and reduction of the Westeros system. If Simon insists on doing so, many other shareholders will pressure the door classmates to ask him to make a compromise.After all, the door classmates did not have absolute shares in Microsoft, lacked absolute control, and were forced to step down at that time.

Second, using the absolute advantage of the Westeros system in the Internet field, Simon can completely block Microsoft from the Internet industry.

The reason why Microsoft once reached the peak value of 600 billion US dollars around 2000, in addition to the monopoly of the PC operating system, Microsoft's layout in the Internet field is also crucial, especially the monopoly of pre-installed browsers, once let Microsoft master Industry advantages that other peers cannot match.

In addition, the memory of Microsoft also involved in the field of network access, data centers, portals, etc. during the Internet bubble around 2000, all of which provided a great boost for Microsoft to sprint $600 billion in market value.

This time, because of Simon’s series of first-hand layouts, Cisco, AOL, and Igret have formed a very strong monopoly barrier in the Internet field, but the large number of core patents held by these three companies are enough to make many interested The competitor who entered the cake division went home.

In the past few years, while focusing on the development of the Windows system, Microsoft has also begun to get involved in portals, data centers and other businesses, as in the original space and time. Among them, the Westeros system actively provides patent licenses to support it.

For example, the e-mail service under the portal website, Microsoft can't do it without Igrid's authorization.

There is also the data center business.

In the case of obvious competition between the two parties, Eaglet still shared some technological achievements with each other, and promoted Microsoft's data center services on network platforms such as the Eaglet.Although Microsoft paid a huge amount of advertising fees in this process, for other important competitors, even if they paid for advertising fees, Igrid would not easily advertise for others.

Coupled with Microsoft's desktop software mall launched with Windows 95, which also infringes a large number of related technology patents of the Igreat software store.

Before coming to Seattle this time, Simon had seen the draft document that Igrid planned to file a lawsuit against Microsoft's desktop software store, but was temporarily suppressed by him.

It can be said that once it becomes more real, Igrid is enough to force Microsoft to shut down the service completely.

At the beginning, the classmates directly infringed on the imitated Apple Macintosh to launch the Windows operating system. Later, they coaxed and even cheated on the system. Now, Apple has no way to take Microsoft, and the litigation between the two parties has continued. .

However, this kind of trickery is ineffective for the Westeros system.

Infringement of patents means not to change, just to keep dragging, and finally to accompany a large sum of money, just like the Netscape that was dragged to death in Simon's memory, but don't forget, this time, the Internet is West The absolute realm of the Luo system.

Many of Microsoft's network services always require suppliers and consumers.

Just like a software store, no one provides you with software, depending on how you play.

To achieve this goal, one'two choices' is enough.

Who wants to sell software through the Internet, it is difficult to bypass the marketing and payment channels of the Westeros system, and when that happens, how will those software developers choose?

There is also the data center business.

If the two sides are in a stalemate, those enterprise users, even if they do not turn to Ygrid’s YWS, as well as suppliers such as IBM and HP, in order to avoid being affected by Chiyu, in short, there are too many options.Without users, this part of Microsoft's business will not want to continue.

What's more, US intellectual property protection regulations are not vegetarian.

If the Westeros system completely tears its face and forcibly withdraws a series of non-permanent patent licenses to Microsoft in recent years, Microsoft really relies on perseverance to continue to use it, and the huge fines are enough for students to drink.

On the terrace of a lakeside villa in Mercer Island.

Listening to Simon's threatening statement of its interests one by one, the gate classmates could no longer remain calm and almost stood up from the chair, waving their arms and accusing Simon of extortion.

Unlike the gentleness in the media lens, everyone in the circle actually knows that Bill Gates is a very irritable and irritable person. This aspect is comparable to Steve Jobs, especially as Microsoft becomes more successful, and his temper is more and more Big.

Sensible of the scene where the spit stars flew out of the mouth when the classmates roared, Simon, who had intended to take a sip of coffee from the table, gave up the idea, frowned, and said to Gates, who looked like a cockfight, "Bill, We are all adults, don’t we be so noisy as children?”

Bill Gates poked himself with his eyes wide open and pointed at Simon: "Little boy? Hey, we two, who is the little boy, you don't know yourself? Westeros, you really think you have 14,000 Chitose? You are just a wayward lunatic, a neuropathy. I tell you, I will definitely not be threatened by you. I can even make Internet Explorer completely inoperable on Windows."

Simon's mouth sneered: "Otherwise, you can try it now, I look forward to doing it!"

Damen’s voice was louder: "Do you think I dare not?"

Simon shrugged: "I said, you can do this now, try it, maybe you can't wait, or call back and tell Steve to announce your decision, let's see if IE is blocked, or you first Was ousted by the board of directors?"

"I own 37.3% of the shares, and I have Allen's support."

"Of course, it's a pity that it's not an absolute holding. And, I don't think Paul will support you to do stupid things. Also, do you think that the capital attached to IE is only the Westeros system? If you dare to do this, you will become the entire message. The public enemy of the industry. By comparison, I have blocked Microsoft from the Internet industry, and everyone will love to hear it."

The door classmate stood half staring at Simon for a moment, and said fiercely: "In any case, Windows pre-installed IE, don't think about it, don't think about it in this life."

"I only give you one day to think about it. Before next Monday, you'd better give me a satisfactory answer. Bill, I was looking forward to Microsoft becoming a part of the Westeros system, and now completely abandon this kind of Ideas. So, I’m not negotiating with you, this is an ultimatum. If you don’t agree, I will speak, I will start to reduce Microsoft’s stock, I will release the free Linux desktop operating system in advance, I will also Microsoft is completely blocked from the Internet industry. You don’t have to do anything about portals, data centers, and network access. Keep your operating system alive. Oh, and office software. At first, you relied on Office to force Apple You tolerate the development of operating systems, right? It happens that Igrid has quietly developed a network office system for a long time, and we will soon become competitors in this field. So, let's make a bet Let’s look at the future development trend of office software, whether to continue to maintain a stand-alone, or rely more and more on the Internet?"