Microsoft twenty-five years Bill Gates
Feel the market
At the beginning of Microsoft, I almost seriously, and pay the payment of the pay.
Lee, draft contract, indicating how to sell our products. Everyone in our small company is a developer, and I have also made a lot of development work. In fact, we have written a lot of code. Our life is this: get up, programmed, maybe you can catch a movie, eat some pizza, then program, sleep on our chairs. We madly write procedures, sales software, we have little time to do other things. Fortunately, our customers are fanatics, not being affected by the weak function, the simple manual and the advanced user interface. This is the situation at the time of computer software. Some companies put their software in a plastic bag, with a copy instructions and a phone number (you can call this phone to seek "Technical Support"). For Microsoft, when there is a user calls asking for some software, whoever picks up the phone who is "Delivery Department." They have to ran to the back of the office, put it in the email, and then return to their seat to continue writing code. As our customers are gradually maturing, we pay more attention to providing high quality software, not just high quality code. Creating software begins to become an extremely complex process. I often compare a good software into one piece of art. But to a large extent, it is necessary to create our products from beginning to end. In order to make the current software perfect, you need a variety of special skills. Of course, you need a good programmer, but you also need many people to test and support the software developed by programmers. You need product planners and constructors, document writers, practical experts, and smart managers that make them work together. You need to answer the technician who can answer customer questions and advice experts who can help customers get started faster. All of these only large companies can provide. Each software company must solve these people. With the development of the company, we must learn these questions. Start, I appoint some temporary workers who do not write programs. We are a software company consisting of excellent programmers, we should concentrate. I think we don't have to take traditional ways to manage our programmers because the quality they work is the source code. You have to manage them by browsing code. But I immediately realized that we needed a technique that would not know how to technologically, like Steve × Balmim, working with our developers to make our software a successful product. In fact, the introduction of Balmmer into Microsoft is one of the most important choices I made. Among these days, I hired many savvy people, most of them did not write procedures. They talk to customers, understand the current needs of the market and tomorrow's trend, and report these content to the developer. They localize the software into a variety of languages. They design the user interface, customers can use our software more efficiently. They are in contact with the company to determine our software to meet their needs. They help the company IT manager deploy a huge computer network, and help Grandpa sends the first e-mail to the grandson. They also studied advanced technology to ensure that our companies will continue to be in the leading position in the future. When Microsoft began to take off, we still think that we are still a relatively small company. Despite our dreams, "Let every family, every table has a computer", we can't fully understand how much software needs people. When I drive into our park or attend the company meeting, sometimes I am proud of the development of the company. Although we have developed from a programmer-filled house a company with more than 38,000 employees, Microsoft spirit and the difference in 1975 have not much different. We still work hard, bookbuses, drink cola, and joking between each other. Regardless of whether to write code, everyone is full of enthusiasm and concentrates on our customers to develop excellent products and services. The spirit and enthusiasm of the company have urged me to work every day.
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