Du Qiu said that Microsoft does not value the Internet, but it is not accurate, because Microsoft does not value the Internet, but it looks too long and forgets the way under its feet. They are ambitious to develop fiber broadband, but they look down on narrowband Internet access.

There is a department within Microsoft called the High-end Consumer Technology Research Group, referred to as ACT, which specializes in how to increase the profits of Windows operating systems. As early as 1992, this group proposed a forward-looking broadband Internet strategy: using giant servers to store all information, and then through fiber optic broadband, it provides users with high-value-added content such as video on demand, online shopping, and online games.

Bill Gates liked this strategic concept very much, so he specially set up a technical team called "Homer" to develop a telematics standard suitable for families, referred to as RIP. In 1994, Bill Gates spent $53.4 million to build a luxury house built by him for $53.4 million.

The person in charge of the RIP project is named Marin Eller. He wanted to design a highly flexible client software that allows users to interact with the server through it. In short, it was to make a browser. However, in 1992, almost no one in the world knew how to develop a browser. After Marin Eller explored for several months, he found that neither C nor Forth could meet his needs and had to develop a brand new interpretive scripting language.

However, ACT director Nathan Miverde was not interested in developing new languages, so Marin Eller had to take the pressure to study and produce some results. However, the good times did not last long. In December 1992, Microsoft dug up a management talent from a bankrupt company. This guy was a fanatical broadband network advocate. Not long after he went to work, he cut off the RIP project based on narrowband networks and turned to the MSN project based on broadband networks.

By chance, Microsoft has missed the research and development of browser and scripting languages ​​continuously. In the next three years, expensive fiber broadband has been delayed in promoting, and cheap dial-up Internet access is popular. MSN has always been an empty shell, but Bill Gates is very stubborn and stays in Seattle far away from Silicon Valley, insisting that broadband networks are the future development trend and narrowband networks are not profitable.

In early May, Microsoft held a routine board meeting. David Marquardt of Tech Ventures in Menlo Park, California, was one of the board members. After the meeting, he handed a copy of the iView browser to Bill Gates, reminding him: "Bill, if you are in Silicon Valley, you know that the Internet is everywhere. I suggest you check it out in person."

David Marquard was one of Microsoft's early investors and has been on the board for many years. Bill Gates trusted his vision very much, so he took a while to use iView to surf the Internet, but the time finally turned into 10 hours. After turning off the browser, he immediately wrote a memo and sent it to all management teams using the company's internal email system. The first sentence was: "Now, the Internet is our top priority!"

It must be the top priority...

Because browsers and Internet content are cross-platform, under the same browser, users can get the same experience no matter what operating system they use. Microsoft is blank in Internet technology and standards. If Netscape and Snapdragon are allowed to develop, the consequences will be unimaginable...

In the next few days, Bill Gates reorganized many R&D departments with a decisive attitude, and then issued a mobilization order: I hope that every product plan will first consider the supreme goal of the Internet, so that computers installed with Windows will become the best choice for network users, so that our assets can preserve and increase value.

In order to cooperate with the mobilization, Bill Gates asked to integrate MSN dial-up Internet service and a browser that cooperated with it in Windows 95, which was basically completed, to make the person in charge of the Windows 95 R&D project worry because the browser acquired from Spyglass last year was so bad. It was originally planned to provide it to users in the form of an additional CD, but now the big boss has spoken, so he had to find a suitable replacement temporarily.

There are only two alternatives in total, one is Netscape-Navigator of Netscape and the other is Snapdragon iView. The previous one has been in contact with it last year and was rejected. It is also seeking to go public on Nasdaq. The purchase price is too high, so iView is the best choice. Bill Gates likes iView, but is very reluctant to the idea of ​​open source software, so he wants to acquire Snapdragon.

It is a common trick for Microsoft to buy a closed-source license to buy a small company. If the other party is frightened by Microsoft's fame and strength and agrees obediently, everyone will be happy. If the other party disagrees, send a huge negotiation team to come and take weeks or even months to negotiate, which will exhaust the other party and panic, and then handle it at the lowest price.

This method has been tried and tested since the acquisition of DOS in 1980. Many small companies know that it is a routine, but they cannot resist it because the gap between the two parties is too big. If they agree to the acquisition, they will make as much money as possible. If they do not agree to the acquisition, once Microsoft launches similar products, they will lose all their money.

Unfortunately, this trick was ineffective for the Time Travel Party. Du Qiu knew Microsoft's background very well. After reading the email sent by Chen Dayou, he only replied with one sentence: "Fraud them to China."

After the news that AOL was about to install iView pre-installed, Chen Dayou became a celebrity in Silicon Valley overnight. Investors, interviewers and advertisements came one after another. He was busy, so he followed suit and waited for the two Microsoft employees to come to the door again, but he didn't even listen to the other party's offer, so he wrote an address and said, "iView was developed by Du Qiu. You either go to China to find him or not come here."

Zhou Yuan added next to it: "Du Qiu is a very honorable person. You'd better send a senior executive with status to China, otherwise you might not be able to meet him."

While Chen Dayou and Zhou Yuan were fooling Microsoft's negotiators in the United States, Du Qiu was racking his brains to think about how to fool Xinhua News Agency.

After Liu Yunlai brought Du Qiu's article back to the capital, there was no movement at first, but a week later, he began to frequently call Du Qiu to discuss how to set up a "portal website". From the discussion, Du Qiu learned something that many netizens hated.

In 1994, when the three guys from Xinhua News Agency's Hong Kong Branch were preparing to carry out the Guozhong Network plan, in order to allow CIC to successfully obtain the authority to control the Internet, they deliberately fabricated a white paper, comparing the Internet to a platform for spreading viruses, which will endanger national sovereignty and poison the body and mind of the people. Therefore, the information in it must be screened and blocked. Although the CIC failed, this white paper was submitted to the relevant leaders' desks, which eventually led to a well-known consequence, that is, the firewall...

Du Qiu has no interest in politics, but if he is trapped in a pool, how can he become the king of the Internet?

Therefore, the influence of this white paper must be minimized as much as possible!

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Chapter completed!