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Chapter 174: Meet Sandy; Will's Goodbye

Now Jester is in a dilemma about the computer brand he mentioned before.

He is familiar with the development of the personal computer industry in the future. Microsoft will dominate the world with their operating systems, but this will happen ten years later. The overlords in the past ten years are actually Microsoft, but they rely on ibm's unparalleled influence in the computer field in this era. Although Apple has launched the first commercial graphics operating system PC at the beginning of last year, the Macintosh, which created a new era of personal computers.

In Jester's eyes, although it will not be too easy to make a graphics operating system by yourself now, it will not be too difficult. It's just spending money to make it hard. However, he has no idea what kind of system it made. He knows that after Apple's Macintosh computer was sold, Microsoft also keenly discovered why this computer that is useless in terms of configuration can be sold so popular because of the extraordinary graphics operating system on this computer.

At the request of ibm, Microsoft also quickly started the development of their graphics operating system. In Jester's memory, he remembered that it was in November this year that Microsoft launched its first visual graphics operating system. The way they used was the same processing method as Apple, which was just a graphics program running on Dos, and the experience it gave users was not as good as Apple did. This system named win1.0 did not cause much storm in the industry.

However, people like Bill Gates, who have business vision, naturally, like Jobs, the creative thief, have also seen the future development path of PC. The advantages of visual operating systems will inevitably become greater and greater, because only the simpler operating system can bring more users. Therefore, although Microsoft has experienced the painful failure of win1.0, its research on visual operating systems has not been terminated.

Because this is the road to the future.

After experiencing the dormant of win2.0 in turn, we finally ushered in the success of win3.0. The game "Mine Sweeping" that Jester copied before was launched is a small game that Microsoft installed when launching the win3.2 system.

However, until the interview with Win95, neither win3.x nor Apple's operating system were the overlords of the PC system at that time. The overlord of the PC system at that time was still the classic Dos system, which was also a masterpiece of Microsoft. Even before 1995, Microsoft was strongly resisted by many PC users when it was promoting Win95. In a promotion event, Bill Gates was vigorously hyping the superiority of Win95 on the stage, but the users below were shouting dos and dos in the same voice... Perhaps this is extremely incredible to future people. Clearly, win95's operability and convenience are completely beyond doc, so why would anyone still object?

But this is the real history.

He knew all the disadvantages He Guoyuan had told him before, but Jester also knew how important it would be to have a perfect and self-consistent closed environment in the future. The reason why Apple was able to achieve such brilliant success after resurrecting the dead in the future was not only because of Jobs' vision and means, but more because of their persistence in their own system.

It is this closed persistence that has enabled them to cultivate a large number of loyal users.

Jester thought about it for a long time in his seat, but still couldn't make his own decision. He knew that if he was willing to develop a visual operating system with Microsoft now, or if he took a step back and cooperated with Microsoft on the visual operating system of personal computers to a certain extent, it must not be a big problem. After all, both for Microsoft and them now, the foundation in this aspect is zero.

And in Jester's impression, this year should be the year for Microsoft to raise funds. Microsoft will officially go public at the beginning of next year, with a market value of nearly $500 million after listing. After that, Bill Gates will become the youngest billionaire in the United States. Therefore, Bill Gates cannot give up any good news that can increase his financing amount.

Cooperating with its own Mars Entertainment is not an optional good news for Microsoft.

But Jester was still hesitating. Although he knew that if Microsoft went public, he would never have such a good opportunity to form an alliance with Microsoft, if he really cooperated with Microsoft, then his dream of a closed ecological environment could only be given up, because in this regard, Bill Gates and his Microsoft could not compromise.

How to make choices and choices?

Jester hesitated. He looked at the time and found that it was almost noon. At noon today, he was preparing to have lunch with Sandy Will who came to the West Coast to relax. He originally planned to go to New York once a month ago to discuss some things with the future Wall Street tycoon who had just been fired. However, after he called, Sandy Will said that he was about to relax on the West Coast immediately, so it was not too late to meet again after he arrived on the West Coast.

This time we had a reservation for the meeting, and Sandy Will was his elder, so Jester didn't want to be late.

However, when Jester arrived at the restaurant he had booked before, he found that Sandy Will was already there in the box. There were still a large stack of newspapers in front of him, all of which were mainstream media, such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune. When he saw Jester come in, he just smiled, waved his hand to signal Jester to sit down, and then continued to look at an article he was browsing seriously.

Jester was not at all dissatisfied. He took his seat respectfully. Only then did he have time to seriously look at his elder.

To be honest, Sandy Will looks much older than when he met his grandfather a year ago. At that time, he could not see much white hair in his hair. Now he could see a lot of silver threads, and the folds between his eyebrows were much more than when he met before, not to mention the lonely look in his eyes that could not be concealed no matter what.

After waiting for three minutes, Sandy Will finished reading the article he was reading. He put down the newspaper in his hand, then looked up at Jester, looked at Jester carefully for two seconds, and then sighed with some self-deprecating sigh.

"I'm old, old, I've taken a look before and told you to go to Wall Street with me, saying that there is no prospect for electronic games. I didn't expect that I was swept out myself first, but you started to do this industry that is almost dead. It's not simple." As he said that, Sandy Will also admired his tone. The achievements Jester has made in this short year are indeed worthy of admiration.

"It's just good luck." Jester naturally needs to be modest in front of his elders, and he also knows how powerful the person in front of him is. Although he is now swept out by Wall Street, it's just a dragon lurking in the abyss, waiting for the other party, just an opportunity, and he also knows that this opportunity is not far away.

So, Jester put his attitude very low, and said, "Grandpa Sandy, you don't need to be so pessimistic. I read Fortune magazine before, and there was an article about you. In that article, you said that you are a rare manager, affirming your contribution to the Yuntong Group, and I think they are right. You are indeed a talented manager."

Obviously, Sandy Will knew about this article in Fortune magazine. Although he knew that this was the help one of his friends wanted to help him solve his current unemployment plight, Sandy Will still feel that the article they published was all about things. He himself also thinks he is an extremely outstanding manager. To be precise, if he wants to find a job in a general company, according to his resume, there is definitely no problem.

However, as a person who is only one step away from being able to take the throne of the head of Yuntong, his arrogance in his heart does not allow him to work in a company that he would not have taken seriously before, let alone the size of these companies is not as large as the company he started his own business before joining Yuntong. If he goes, does not mean that he will be back as he lives, and is Sandy Will, a genius from the slums in Brooklyn, can only manage such a small company?

He, Sandy Will, shouldn't have done this. He is to manage people like the four major banks.

But unfortunately, the idea is beautiful and the reality is skinny. Although he wrote a letter to his previous assistant, wanting him to start a business with him, and his assistant agreed without hesitation, the feeling of starting over from scratch is still obvious for him, who had almost had the chance to become the top predator on Wall Street.

So, he just sighed, and the lonely expression in his eyes became even stronger.

Jester accidentally glanced at the newspaper Sandy Will was reading just now. The New York Times looked up on the page he placed on the table. It was an article about Japan's foreign trade surplus and the US trade deficit. Jester just glanced a few times and was discovered by Sandy Will.

Sandy Will smiled distractedly, and he asked casually curiously.
Chapter completed!
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