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Microsoft Confidential

Have you ever wondered?
In the 21st century, the technology era dominated by computers,
Why did one computer high-tech company after another fall from grace and suffer heavy losses?
Is it really due to poor management, improper administration, or lack of talent?
But why? He -
Microsoft Corporation,
stands out uniquely and dominates the computer kingdom?
Is it only it that can really preserve its strength and continuously innovate?
Is it only it that is well-managed and has a wealth of talent?
Or is there indeed a hand behind its success, manipulating the market, manipulating the world, and manipulating all behind-the-scenes transactions?
Have you noticed that behind the colorful halo of Microsoft,
That little-known - confidential document!


Washington was in front of a large pile of documents on his desk, confused.
"How is this possible? This is so astonishing!" he said to his colleagues. His colleagues, like him, were currently mired in a large pile of documents about Microsoft, and these documents made them feel, besides surprise, a bit incredible.
At the end of 1992, Microsoft's development showed a leapfrog speed, and sales soared like a helicopter. So far, it seems that Gates' goal has been achieved. In the operating system market, only Microsoft's software is left. Gates has successfully eliminated all his competitors and monopolized the entire computer software market. The market seems like a chess piece in Bill Gates' hand, for him to manipulate.
Washington and Sicoret were at this time studying the secret memos between Microsoft's business department and computer OEM manufacturers.
They discovered that in the fall of 1990, in the emails and documents exchanged between Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and other people and Microsoft's negotiation expert Joe Cheng Kempin, they talked about that "per processor" contract that many people mentioned. The strange thing was that at that time, Microsoft had not yet developed the MS-DOS 5.0 version, but in their confidential document, it showed that they had used this product to tempt computer manufacturers around the world to sign contracts with Microsoft in order to block the market in advance.
A Microsoft secret memo pointed out that the company was the leading one in the industry and that the future must be bright. This memo written in October 1990 clearly instructed his managers on how to create this bright future.
"The Microsoft Confidential Document" shows that Jeff Lan, the European director of Microsoft, under the guidance of Ballmer and Kempin, carefully analyzed the performance of the European market of Microsoft in the first quarter of the fiscal year 1991 and wrote down the goals for the second quarter. At that time, Lan had just been promoted from the position of regional group manager in the United States to the business director in charge of Microsoft's computer OEM manufacturers in Europe.
Just the performance under Lan's hands, this quarter had already exceeded the budget by 120%, and sales reached nearly ten million US dollars.
"DOS, just this product that will always monopolize the market, has already accounted for 66% to 70% of Lan's total income."
It seemed that there were no other software in Europe, and it seemed that every computer in Europe had sucked Microsoft's "cocaine" and only adored Microsoft's DOS.
The sales of Windows in Europe were also very strong, accounting for 8% of the total income. By 1992, Windows had become as popular as DOS, with monthly sales as high as 1 million copies. This was mainly because Microsoft used methods of giving for free and cutting prices to distribute, threatening computer manufacturers to make them sign a large number of Windows contracts, just as they had to sign Microsoft's DOS under the drive of interests back then.
In Jeff Lan's correspondence, it also recorded the "major negotiation" between Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard. In this negotiation, Microsoft obviously attempted to "substantially increase Hewlett-Packard's DOS royalty".
The lawyers of the Federal Trade Commission flipped through these thrilling confidential documents and kept opening their mouths in surprise, as if the things in front of them were some tales from a thousand and one nights. They noticed that in a Microsoft internal secret communication, Microsoft openly told those computer manufacturers: Unless they sign a DOS contract with Microsoft, they cannot purchase Windows software. Although this forced pre-installation practice was an obvious transaction violating fair competition laws, Microsoft repeatedly mentioned it in the confidential documents.
The person in charge of the Far East Diamond Trading Company, Mike, had received such a letter:
Dear Mike:
I am writing this letter in response to our discussion yesterday. I must further confirm with you that Microsoft cannot sell Windows software alone.
Microsoft can only sell you the combination of Windows and DOS 5.0.
Sincerely
Business Department of Computer OEM Manufacturers
Microsoft Corporation
Everyone in Microsoft knew that their boss Bill Gates hated DR-DOS extremely. He once said that he never wanted to see any manufacturer, especially those in the Far East, using DR-DOS to equip their computers. He repeatedly reduced the price of Microsoft's MS-DOS, willing to risk not making a profit to knock the opponent down. Driven by Gates' strategy, almost all large and small manufacturers in the Far East were fond of Microsoft's DOS products that were almost below cost price.
The sky was gradually darkening, and the gray weather cast a heavy shadow in Washington's heart. Washington stood up, and he seemed to have seen Bill Gates' intention through these messy exchanges of documents marked "Microsoft Confidential". It seemed that Microsoft had been heading towards the path of a monopolist: increasing market share, secretly undermining the rival's sphere of influence, monopolizing the entire market, and then driving up prices. At this time, they could plunder back the money they lost in the price war a thousandfold and a hundredfold.
Although Microsoft repeatedly claimed that they had never done anything against the market because the price of the products sold to consumers by Microsoft had been decreasing. But Washington and his colleagues had already felt that the current price consumers got was not the only standard to measure plunder. Maybe, after Microsoft successfully suppressed the opponent, the price supplied to computer manufacturers would start to increase.
In April 1990, DR-DOS 5.0 was launched, and Gates' all anger was vented. In a few months, all of Microsoft's business teams went out to fight, and almost signed contracts with all computer manufacturers for Microsoft's MS-DOS 5.0, making these manufacturers have no choice but to use DR-DOS 5.0. Gates repeatedly claimed that his product (DOS 5.0) would also be launched in the market in 1990, but in fact, it was not until June 1991 that Microsoft's DOS 5.0 was truly launched.
Washington and his colleagues noticed that since Novell acquired Digital Equipment Corporation a few months ago, Gates' anger burned in every letter sent from his computer. During this period, Novell tried hard to try to get computer manufacturers such as Compaq and IBM to use DR-DOS, but no matter what price it used, it had no chance to get any business because Microsoft's price was always lower than theirs. At the same time, Gates kept complaining to his friend and deputy Ballmer through one email after another that it was because of this hateful DR-DOS that he could not increase the price of Microsoft's software.
"How can we make a profit with DR-DOS?" Gates roared.
Novell's lawyer Bradford and his partners successively handed over many materials to the Federal Trade Commission. In the hallway of the competition bureau office where Washington was located, the evidence materials had piled up higher than his knees. All the materials showed that Microsoft continuously lowered prices to tempt computer manufacturers, and at the same time, Microsoft sold DOS and Windows together and promised to provide the upcoming Workgroup Windows version for free.
There were so many materials from all sides that Washington and his colleagues felt out of breath. "Gates is really an energetic person", he sighed, "He is not only a genius in computer software, but also has the talent to strangle his rivals."
At this time, Lotus' lawyer Berg wrote a letter to the investigator of the Federal Trade Commission, pleading with the Federal Trade Commission to take action against Microsoft's unfair competition practices. He said: "Lotus will fully cooperate with your actions. We will expose how Microsoft violated the US antitrust laws, especially the second part of the Sherman Act."
Berg was most worried that the Federal Trade Commission would ignore Microsoft's current crazy plundering behavior in the application software market. Gates used his power to rapidly take over the market share of each of his rival's best-selling products in the application software market. And when the Federal Trade Commission's long-term investigation was over, there might be no products other than Microsoft in the market.
Berg wrote in the letter: "We believe that any forced action... should be greatly focused on Microsoft's unfair competition practices in the application software and other related product markets (such as spreadsheets, word processing, email, etc.), not only limited to the operating system market (such as DOS)... Those unfair competition practices have not only spread greatly but also strongly harmed the competition and rivals in the related markets. We believe that in the application software market and related software markets, the harm that such unfair competition practices may bring to consumers will be far greater than that in the operating system market."
Every day, the huge "Microsoft Confidential Document" database brings many shocks to Washington and Sicoret. Washington simply didn't know if his mouth that kept involuntarily opening wide could still close when he kept reading like this. As he read, he thought that it seemed that Bill Gates, like every senior programmer of Microsoft, might have some "quite wild" ideas after a few cans of beer. Of course, Gates and ordinary designers thought differently at present. Designers thought about how to design their software, while Bill Gates thought about how to set a trap for his rivals.
It was really a miracle that the lawyers of the Federal Trade Commission had this opportunity to peek into the true face of the world's most profitable enterprise. He found that all the meetings and conversations within Microsoft, including their emails and memos, were quite unrestrained. Sometimes, the lawyers couldn't believe why they could express their will so bluntly, and this will was obviously wrong.
As early as the beginning of this century, Senator Sherman, the founder of the Sherman Act, had distinguished between "attempted monopoly" and "maintaining monopoly status with superior technology". But the lawyers of the Federal Trade Commission found that in Microsoft's confidential documents, there was no place showing that Microsoft was trying to win through "superior technology". On the contrary, their monopoly intention was gradually permeating.
In an email from Jim, the senior vice president of Microsoft, to Gates, discussing the importance of making Novell unable to gain a foothold in the operating system market, the letter directly wrote: "As long as one mistake is made, we will be frustrated in many aspects. This is not as difficult as imagined. If you want to kill someone, you don't need to waste too much effort, and you don't need to get angry. You just need to pull the trigger. No matter how red-faced the discussion was before, it's just a waste of time. We just need to smile and then gently pull the trigger at Novell."
Washington's jaw started to come unhinged again, and he felt that this tone was so much like someone, like who? Was it that German named Hitler?
The pile of documents in front of Washington and his colleagues, and the documents piling up higher and higher in the hallway, were all revealing the wanton illegal acts of a famous big company to these lawyers with rich professional knowledge. And here, they also discovered many strange things that they had not noticed before. These situations were not only shocking but also intolerable.
- Before May 1991, the federal government's antitrust investigation of Microsoft was not made public, but a senior executive of Wenquan Software Company leaked this secret to an analyst on Wall Street. He said that the ins and outs of this matter were heard from Microsoft.
- A colleague of the Federal Trade Commission mentioned an investment report during a meeting with Microsoft's chief lawyer Newcomb. That was all professional secrets. But after a few days, the content discussed that day appeared in newspapers all over the country.
- A reporter called Sicoret and asked him if he was going to expand the scope of the investigation of Microsoft to the entire business methods of Microsoft. Sicoret said that he couldn't disclose the Federal Trade Commission's investigation, which was a well-known discipline. But this reporter told Sicoret that Microsoft had faxed the letters from the Federal Trade Commission to Microsoft to major media.
Washington and Sicoret were very dissatisfied with Microsoft's irresponsible behavior. They found Newcomb and asked him why he leaked the news. All along, the unpublicized investigation would not have a decision until the entire investigation was completed. During this period, it should not be publicized to the media or the outside world. But Newcomb didn't take their questions seriously at all. "It's none of your business." he answered arrogantly.
Now, Washington and Sicoret were reading the emails exchanged between Microsoft's senior executives in September 1991. At this time, it was just before Microsoft released the "Christmas test version" of the primary version of Windows 3.1. According to the letters, Microsoft's senior executives were intensively discussing how to promote this product incompatible with competitors' operating systems.
This was a memo from David Cole, the vice president of Microsoft. This memo was also sent to Jim Silverberg, the senior vice president of Microsoft, and another engineer.
The email read: "We must clearly ensure that Windows 3.1 can only run on MS-DOS or the MS-DOS computer OEM manufacturer version. I have discussed with our legal department. The legal department is drafting a warning text. If someone tries to run Windows on an 'incompatible' operating system, this text will immediately appear on the computer screen. We will let the user still have the option to continue working after the warning text appears. But after a while, we can definitely mess up that computer's system, and all users will find that they must use our operating system, and they have no choice."
Then Cole asked how Microsoft would start to "ensure that Windows is only compatible with MS-DOS".
Silverberg replied: "The guy who sees this warning text may first be very unhappy, and then when he finds a bug, he will be more suspicious that there is a problem with DR-DOS. Then he may go out to buy a copy of MS-DOS, or simply decide not to use the computer anymore."
Next, in the email that Silverberg wrote to Steve Ballmer, he suggested that when Microsoft received a customer's call asking what to do about the error warning message appearing on the computer, Microsoft's employees should tell those customers using DR-DOS: "We only support customers using MS-DOS." Of course, they might also call the manufacturer producing DR-DOS, or we could "add a mild statement during installation... but it doesn't need to appear every time the user starts Windows."
He explained that this "kind" statement should not anger anyone or alarm the media. To deal with the calls from DR-DOS users, it was only necessary to record a paragraph in Microsoft's telephone voice system, such as: If you are not a customer using MS-DOS, press " #" twice. Then, he pointed out that the person who pressed " #" twice could hear a pre-recorded message.
Next, Silverberg and Ballmer discussed the decisive key of the matter, that is, how to lock the customers so that they always only use Microsoft's MS-DOS. He wrote: "Judging from the development of the situation, the wisest choice is to continue to establish the dependence of Windows on MS-DOS."
This last sentence was exactly the core of the whole incident. "Continuing to establish the dependence of Windows on MS-DOS" itself was monopoly.

(Continued from the previous text)

Washington felt that maybe the theory proposed by Lotus's Berg was correct. Microsoft had become convinced that no other company could enter the computer operating system, and Microsoft's MS-DOS had already controlled the entire computer industry, with other companies just trying to produce some application products compatible with Microsoft's operating system. And even that was something Gates couldn't tolerate. Microsoft was secretly engaging in some activities to make its own products only run on its own system. If competitors wanted to create a better system, like DR-DOS, Microsoft would insert a password in its own product, deliberately creating an illusion on the user's computer, making users mistakenly think there was something wrong with the competitor's product, and Microsoft's answers were deliberately vague, just to make customers completely confused about where the problem was.

Microsoft was well aware that for those not very proficient in computers, a computer that kept having various problems was the most annoying. So, in order to make their computers run normally and not have those inexplicable "failures," people had to use Microsoft's supporting products.

Gates, Silveberg, Ballmer, and Newcomb and others repeatedly strongly denied such "groundless" accusations to the media, but the Federal Trade Commission found a large number of naked evidence in their internal letters to expose the truth.

Washington was wandering in front of the Federal Trade Commission, always thinking about various doubts. The stone horse in front of the Federal Trade Commission was still standing tall. Washington felt like he had become the warrior on the horse, holding a spear and sword to pierce the secrets of a huge empire.

Until the case was handed over to the Department of Justice, Washington and Schoerret both stuck to their positions, because they had learned too many secrets of Microsoft, and those secrets were too astonishing.

A few months ago, the Federal Trade Commission had already sent a letter, requesting access to Microsoft to collect evidence, and requiring Microsoft to stop destroying any records or documents from that time on, including electronic mails or other similar things. It also required Microsoft to provide internal memos, e-mails, and correspondence between senior executives of Microsoft, etc. They also needed to review Microsoft's internal work diaries, because these diaries often showed Bill Gates' personal leadership style and management methods.

They found that in Microsoft, everything, down to a small request to the lowest-level programmer, had to be decided by Gates. Gates' personal strategy was to win everything he wanted regardless of cost. Interestingly, when the lawyers of the Federal Trade Commission talked face to face with Microsoft's executives, they found that those executives were imitating their boss Bill Gates in both tone and actions, even the habit of shaking his head and nodding that Bill Gates had formed since childhood was imitated by his subordinates vividly.

It's really hard to imagine that this is a fashion of a typical American-style company. Isn't the American style most about personal characteristics and original spirit?

One day, when Washington was flipping through a stack of thick documents, a thin piece of paper floated out of the document. Washington picked up that small and unremarkable piece of paper from the ground, and his jaw began to open slowly again. On that paper was Bill Gates' handwriting. He wrote a line of words on the paper like a child's doodle, a line of words that made Washington's eyes pop out: "Delete e-mails".

Washington almost couldn't believe his eyes. He flipped the piece of paper back and forth, and yes, it was indeed Gates' handwriting. He thought, he didn't know if the helmsman of this world-famous big company had any legal knowledge. He only knew that Gates was born in a lawyer's family, and he himself had studied pre-law in college. The university where Gates studied pre-law was a world-famous school. Although Gates only studied for two years, Washington believed he should know what responsibility he would bear for destroying evidence.

And Microsoft had so many excellent lawyers, and they wouldn't fail to tell their big boss this legal knowledge. Washington sighed.

Washington had always heard rumors about Microsoft destroying some key documents, but he didn't really believe it, because if such a thing really happened in such a big enterprise, the consequences would be unimaginable. Once such a thing was discovered or confirmed, it would be prosecuted as a criminal offense.

He looked at this piece of paper carefully, and then flipped through the documents in his hand, and found that this piece of paper fell out of the documents from 1989 to the end of 1992.

It seemed that all the rumors were not impossible.

Washington picked up the phone and called Newcomb's office. He couldn't be silent anymore. He wanted to find out what Microsoft and Gates were really doing.

"What is this?" he asked Newcomb. "Is it that Bill Gates is deleting e-mails, or is Gates ordering his subordinates to delete e-mails?"

There was a silence on the other end of the phone. Obviously, Newcomb was thinking about something. Then he said, "I'll call you back immediately." Then he hung up the phone.

A few days later, Newcomb called Washington. He simply said that this piece of paper was about "the privilege between lawyers and clients", and he didn't provide any further information.

Washington was still obsessed with this piece of paper.

No wonder the other company CEOs compared doing business with Bill Gates to a date with Tyson - you could be punched heavily at any time and any place.

The Federal Trade Commission found some things in the secret correspondence between Microsoft and GO that were unknown to others, and the facts proved by these things made them feel very incredible. Washington called Jerry Kaplan, the CEO of GO, and asked to meet with him. He wanted to see if Kaplan knew what Bill Gates had done to GO.

On July 8, 1988, Microsoft and GO signed a "non-disclosure" agreement. The agreement required Microsoft to keep secrets, not use, and not disclose GO's information.

By February of the following year, a vice president of Microsoft signed another agreement with GO, which was still that GO required Microsoft to guarantee not to disclose GO's business information.

When Kaplan came to testify at the Federal Trade Commission, Washington stared into his eyes, and felt a little sorry for him. Washington couldn't tell Kaplan that he had roughly figured out what was going on from the document exchanges of Microsoft.

But the party GO might still be in the dark.

In 1988, GO invented a new operating system and hardware technology, designed for the handwritten computer we are familiar with today. Therefore, Jerry Kaplan asked Bill Gates if Microsoft was interested in developing software systems for this new machine.

Gates flew to GO's office to understand the other party's product and showed great interest and sincerity in the cooperation. Then GO reached an agreement with Microsoft. Microsoft promised to keep GO's technology secret, and GO invited Microsoft to develop a new operating system for this new machine.不久之后, Gates followed the contract and sent an engineer and several employees to GO to carefully study this new product of the company.

About two years later, a handwritten computer operating system produced by Microsoft suddenly appeared on the market. This system was almost copied from GO.

Kaplan said to Washington: "There is no doubt that those products were stolen from GO by Gates. Microsoft stole GO's intellectual property."

Washington had already read Microsoft's internal documents, so he knew the course of events. He knew that Kaplan didn't know all the truth. He looked at Kaplan and continued to speak, and several times had the urge to tell him something. But he forced himself to shut up. He thought, "If Kaplan knew what I saw in Microsoft's secret documents, he would be so shocked that he would fall to the ground on the spot."

In the agreement signed by both parties, Microsoft said it was very interested in cooperating with GO to develop software and promised to send an engineer to be in charge of this work. And Gates seemed sincere and said that Microsoft was also interested in GO's notebook computers and hoped that the two sides could cooperate in this regard.

However, in the e-mails inside Microsoft, Gates said that Microsoft had no interest in cooperating with GO at all. The only simple and clear instruction he gave to the Microsoft engineer he sent to GO company was: "I want you to find out anything you can explore."

In addition, since everyone had signed a non-disclosure agreement, which stated that Microsoft's engineers would protect GO's information. So GO provided all its confidential technologies to Microsoft's engineers. They never expected that as soon as this engineer returned to Microsoft, he would send GO's information to Gates and several other senior Microsoft executives.

A few months later, the Microsoft engineer wrote an e-mail to Microsoft's senior executives, asking to retrieve all copies of GO's materials. At this time, he knew that Microsoft had violated the cooperation agreement signed with GO. He was obviously going to destroy those technical materials leaked by him.

GO was very angry with Microsoft's practice, because Microsoft not only stole GO's technology, but also they had been dealing with those computer manufacturers who were interested in doing business with GO, using various methods to force them not to sign GO's operating system, so that GO's products couldn't be launched on the market.

Originally, Compaq Computer Corporation had promised to adopt GO's software system, and even Compaq had built a system specially matching GO's technology. However, Microsoft told Compaq: "If you still want to get the good price of cooperating with us now, don't cooperate with GO."

Compaq had to give in. Because GO was after all a small company, the products they could provide to Compaq were much less than those of Microsoft Corporation.

There were also Asante Corporation,天帝 Corporation, and many other customers. Microsoft blocked GO's products with their unlaunched products. All of GO's efforts were finally in vain under Microsoft's blow. Kaplan sometimes felt that he had brought a wolf into his home.

"Have you ever thought about filing a lawsuit?" Washington asked.

"Yes, I have thought about it very seriously," Kaplan sighed. "But I have never taken any action. We have been driven into a corner. The company is in trouble, and the litigation costs are quite high. With our current financial resources, we can't afford it. At the same time, such litigation also takes a lot of time. If we invest these energies and time in the research and development of other products, we may still find a way out for the company."

Indeed, in today's market, who can compete with Microsoft? He had plenty of money, and he could buy everything he wanted with money. Even if you held justice in your hand, could justice pay your lawyer's fees? Could justice maintain the operation of the company? Could justice be eaten?

Of course, it wasn't just a small GO. There was also Micro Image Corporation. Microsoft adopted a similar method as it did with GO. While signing a non-disclosure agreement with Micro Image Corporation, it tried to steal Micro Image's information. But the president of Micro Image, Paul, was very cautious. He refused anyone from Microsoft to see his system. Although Microsoft repeatedly guaranteed that they would only give Micro Image's information to the software department, Micro Image still didn't want Microsoft's people to enter their company. They only met with Gates in person and told him their technology.

However, as the negotiation deepened, Micro Image began to believe that Microsoft really had the sincerity to cooperate with them. So, they finally opened up some things to Microsoft. Then, Microsoft incorporated Micro Image's technology into its own system. Then Microsoft told Micro Image: "I'm sorry, you guys are really unlucky. We can't use your product because your product is not good at all."

However, the fate of Micro Image seemed to be better than that of GO, because they soon reached a cooperation and development agreement with IBM. Using the technology they developed, they were added to OS/2, making the speed of running Windows applications on OS/2 faster than on Windows.

But GO was dead. Kaplan watched GO being killed by Microsoft bit by bit helplessly. What was even more incredible to Kaplan was that just before Washington called Kaplan, Gates also called Kaplan. In the phone call, he told Kaplan how much money Apple had wasted because of the lawsuit with Microsoft. So he hoped that GO, a small company, wouldn't stubbornly go up against a rock with an egg. And what made Kaplan most unbearable was that Gates even asked Kaplan to sign a contract that would never sue Microsoft, and then Microsoft would provide technical support to Kaplan in return.

Kaplan almost fainted with the phone in his hand.

Microsoft, is this Microsoft? Is this the great, innovative, century-representative Microsoft Corporation? Is this the high-tech enterprise model that the century is proud of? Is this the shining star in the world?

Microsoft, Microsoft is the representative of American corporate culture, Microsoft is the most beloved masterpiece of the earth mother, Microsoft is the fairy tale of the 20th century...

But, oh my god, what is Microsoft doing?!

Appendix 10: The price of Microsoft stocks: (6-month average price)
First half of 1986: $2
Second half of 1986: $2
First half of 1987: $5
Second half of 1987: $6
First half of 1988: $7
Second half of 1988: $6
First half of 1989: $6
Second half of 1989: $8
First half of 1990: $13
Second half of 1990: $15
First half of 1991: $22
Second half of 1991: $29
First half of 1992: $40
Second half of 1992: $41
First half of 1993: $44
Second half of 1993: $40
First half of 1994: $45
Second half of 1994: $58
First half of 1995: $73
Second half of 1995: $93
First half of 1996: $105

Number of employees of Microsoft Corporation:
1975: 3
1980: 40
1981: 129
1985: 910
1986: 1153
1987: 1860
1988: 2793
1989: 4037
1990: 5636
1991: 8226
1992: 11542
1993: 14430
1994: 15257
1995: 17801
1996: 20561

Bill Gates' personal assets (approximate)
1986: $315 million
1987: $1.25 billion
1990: $4.8 billion
1992: $8.2 billion
1994: $14.8 billion
1996: $23 billion
1997: $35 billion
1998: $51 billion

The email reads: "We must be very clear to ensure that Windows 3.1 can only run on MS-DOS or on the MS-DOS computer OEM versions. I discussed it with our legal department, and the legal department is drafting a warning text. If someone tries to run Windows on an 'incompatible' operating system, this text will immediately appear on the computer screen. We will let the user still have the option to continue working after the warning text appears. But after a while, we can definitely mess up the system of that computer, and all users will find that they must use our operating system, and they have no choice."

Then Cole asked, how does Microsoft start to "ensure that Windows is only compatible with MS-DOS"?

Silverberg replied: "The person who sees this warning text may first be very unhappy, and then when he finds a bug, he is even more suspicious that there is a problem with DR-DOS. Then he may go out and buy a copy of MS-DOS, or simply decide not to use the computer anymore."

Then, in an email that Silverberg wrote to Steve Ballmer, it was suggested that when Microsoft receives a customer's call asking what to do about the error warning message that appears on the computer, Microsoft employees should tell those customers using DR-DOS: "We only support customers using MS-DOS." Of course, they may also call the manufacturer of DR-DOS, or we can "add a mild statement during installation... but it doesn't need to appear every time the user starts Windows."

He explained that this "kind" statement should not offend anyone or alarm the media. To deal with the calls from DR-DOS users, just record a passage on Microsoft's phone voice system, for example, if you are not a customer using MS-DOS, press " #" twice. Then, he pointed out that the person who presses "#" twice can hear a pre-recorded message.

Next, Silverberg and Ballmer discussed the key decisive point of the matter, which is how to lock in customers so that they will always only use Microsoft's MS-DOS. He wrote: "Judging from the development of the situation, the wisest choice is to continue to establish the dependence of Windows on MS-DOS."

This last sentence is exactly the core of the whole incident. "Continuing to establish the dependence of Windows on MS-DOS" is this itself a monopoly.
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So poisonous!!!
I will use this tough approach when writing the server tomorrow.

9494

Did everyone see that?

9494.........
Now Microsoft is also using similar means.....
To suppress Linux......
Such as acquiring the only company that launched antivirus software for Linux, making Linux lose its antivirus capability......

Hehe, the shopping mall is like a battlefield~ Microsoft of course also has to protect itself~~

And...
Using the method of price cutting...
Make computer manufacturers use WINDOW$ instead of lindows...

Hehe~ This is a normal situation~
Malls are just like this~

Are there no anti-virus software under Linux now?

hunome, why can't I access your FTP?

DD, my ftp was built on the intranet, and it doesn't seem very stable. I wasn't there the other day. Now it should be fine. You can try it!

Oh, I'll try again~

Yes, that's right, almost every big boss is a wolf in sheep's clothing!

Bill Gates' speech at Tsinghua University was so charming. In Li Kaifu's writing, Bill Gates is a kind person who makes every employee feel equal and there is no hierarchy.
Most bosses are like this (wolf-like):
More cunning tricks than a wolf; more ruthless like a wolf's heart of stone; more lustful than a wolf's unlimited desire; more cruel than a wolf's harsh means.
And on the surface, they pretend to be a very gentle sheep.

I still think that the future will be the world of Linux, and Microsoft Windows will be out of the historical stage!

So it turns out the experts are all concentrated in the water-cooling area! I'm really stupid. I'll come to visit more in the future.

This article is so long...

re 13th floor
Hope that the future will be dominated by Chinese software development! Long live!
When I have the ability, I'll go and compile a programming language in classical Chinese, hee hee hee Just a joke

[ Last edited by 523066680 on 2008-10-19 at 09:30 ]

Originally posted by 523066680 at 2008-10-19 09:27 AM:
So it turns out that all the experts are concentrated in the chat area! I'm really stupid. I will come to visit more in the future.

This article is so long...

Re: Post 13
Hope that the future will be dominated by Chinese software development! Long live!
...

E language, developed by Chinese people, is a genuine Chinese programming language with extremely powerful functions. Even the if() is written as if() in this way. You might as well study it. If you want to develop, go for simplified Chinese, as classical Chinese is difficult to understand and inconvenient.