Microsoft twenty-five years Bill Gates
Step by step, step by step
How can I create revolutionary software? Is there a good idea to make this
It is more important to transform into a product? Will we conduct a pre-study, or should we continue to improve existing products until the requirements? Should we become a giant, or stand on the shoulders of the giant? The answer is often both, and most of the software fuses the invention, inspiration, and continuous improvement. Regardless of the integration, only a good idea cannot be successful. You must also build a product and service that can convert these ideas into use, great value and extensive utility. You must also be able to face the future of adventure, you can have an endurance of some kind of technology and a strategy for several years. It is easy to spend time in the current market and competitors, but it is not prepared for things that will encounter in the future. This is why I arrange a few "considering week" in the year, I interpreted in this time and analyzed the future development trend. It is not easy to make a conjecture in the future. In 1975, people believe that the personal computer industry should purchase software from the business of the computer at the time of the entire computer industry. Almost no one finds this is a completely different "software industry". Paul and I don't look like this. We believe that computing power will be more cheap, computer from different manufacturers will flood every corner, and the software should benefit from this trend. So we decided to write and provide software for your personal computer, but do not involve hardware manufacturing and sales. Our first product is Microsoft Basic. At that time, the Basic language has been applied to large computers, but we know that it is also ideal for personal computers. Because it is very simple and easy to learn, and can create complex programs to make computer complete useful work. Once we have created a Basic version that can be applied to early computer memory, we start to expand it - add new commands to play the advantages of more powerful machines. Today, Visual Basic is the most widely used programming language in the world. The software that uses it written is exciting. In the past years, Basic is critical to our success. We have also made us different licensing methods for future PC development. We are not selling our software with a high price to a hardware developer, but is provided with a very low price. We gamble is quantity. At that time, the vast majority of other companies took a high price because they believed only to sell very little copies. In addition, when we develop MS-DOS PC operating systems, we work closely with all PC users to ensure that the various features they need can enter our system quickly as quickly as possible. We don't want to miss any consumers. Developers' support for MS-DOS is the key to the mainstream of the PC. Starting, young PC companies, such as Kangbia, know that the PC is compatible with each other and makes users similar and identical experience. Since MS-DOS helps compensate for the difference between computers, soon become the most popular operating system on your computer. Software developers developing applications running on MS-DOS understand their products will run on millions of computers. So starting a benign loop: more and more applications for personal computers, more and more users buy PCs, and then more and more developers want to write applications for PC. This makes the PC have achieved huge success. As the power of the PC increases to graphics processing, we found the opportunity for computing technology to continue to develop: Graphical User Interface (GUI). GUI began to appear in the mid-1970s, and some companies began to build GUI-based computers. We believe that our experience in establishing platform and development is greatly beneficial to promote GUI. So, we pressed the company's bet on Windows. Initially, people think we were crazy. Why do you want to turn to Windows when others use MS-DOS? Through our hard work of improved Windows, we are very happy to see everything that MS-DOS has happened on Windows. Windows makes the PC use more convenient to make more people use it.
Plus Visual Basic for Windows Software, Simplified Visual Basic, encourage developers to develop many Windows-based applications. Subsequent years is like our work for Basic, we continue to introduce new Windows that is getting better and better. We greatly improve its performance and multitasking support, we will continue to add new components for GUI. Improved work should be done. We changed people's business calculation by Microsoft Office. We will improve our work efficiency as a whole, and develop a development tool that bundles some of our daily different tasks. Although most software companies still provide separate applications, we realize that most people want to share text, data, and graphics between applications. They also hope that these applications can work seamlessly and have a certain similarity in appearance and operation. Office is just satisfying this need. We still have a big bet on many new concepts. Obviously, one of our biggest bets is on the Internet. But there are many other aspects. For Windows NT, we conducted a huge long-term gambling: expecting the power of the PC to support business operations. Our Cleartyper font technology reads e-books in most people in a day. Microsoft Bob is a special interface for gambling for the "humanized" computer. It seems that some advances are not strong enough, and it is unable to complete the work we want BOB to do, so this product is commercially failed. But we have learned a lot from the middle school, and some of the techniques and theories that have been tried in BOB have been used in other products. We are very lucky, living in a computer technology will change the era of our lives unlimited. Mixing of PCs, Internet, wireless and broadband technology will have a revolutionary impact on our work, learning and entertainment. We are looking forward to the revolution brought by Microsoft .NET. This impact on the next generation calculation is not impact on MS-DOS and Windows to computers, that is, through cheap, handful, easy to operate, to change people's lives. Although I have some big risk issues, I shows a certain number of alert and spirituality, but I can't use other methods. I always want to build new things and use creative methods to solve the problem, so I look forward to the creation of software that will increase computing capacity in the next 25 years. I believe we will succeed. We have human and technical conditions to achieve this goal. We are also full of enthusiasm for technology as in 1975. table of Contents:
Microsoft 25 years (Bill Gates) -
Microsoft twenty-five years (Bill Gates) --- Step by step, step by step
Microsoft 25 years (Bill Gates) --- Spirit Market
Microsoft's twenty-five years (Bill Gates) - How does Microsoft succeed?
Microsoft twenty-five years (Bill Gates) - we are swimming in the same swimming pool
Microsoft's twenty-five years (Bill Gates) - What is our future?
