Chapter 15 I, Lu Yiming, send money

While Ginny was fantasizing about the wonderful life after catching a rich husband, she opened her boss's email.

Her immediate boss, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, is currently at the peak of his career and is very popular, so he receives a large number of emails every day.

In these emails, some people are giving advice and want to teach the world's richest man Bill Gates how to make money.

Some people's life experiences are more tortuous than Tang Monk's journey to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures. They play the victim in various ways, and it is obvious that they want to beg for a job at Microsoft.

Some people have amazing academic qualifications and have founded an Internet company, but unfortunately they ran out of funds and are on the verge of death, so they have to ask Microsoft for money to keep it alive.

Some are purely for advertising, selling all sorts of random stuff.

All in all, out of a thousand emails, there are very few that are truly useful.

Ginny's job is to pick out the truly useful emails from the mountain of garbage and send them to Bill Gates.

Ginny propped up her pointed chin, dragged the mouse with her white and tender hands, stared at the screen listlessly, and continued her boring work.

After reading a letter and confirming it is rubbish, I cross it out.

I read another one, it’s still rubbish, so I deleted it.

The monotonous work wore away her limited patience and made her feel bored.

Suddenly, she saw an email and her expression changed slightly.

The title of the email shows that this email was sent from a distant eastern country, a land known as the Internet Desert!

Xia Guo has access to the Internet?

In Ginny's understanding, Xia Country is still a wild land. Even if the people living in Xia Country are not in a primitive society where people eat raw meat and drink blood, they are definitely far away from modern civilized life.

Now there is a person from Xia country who wants to talk to his boss via email?

This is really a scorpion poop.

Ginny couldn't help but perk up, and she opened this "unique" email with great interest.

The content of the email is very short, just one sentence.

"There is a fatal vulnerability in Windows 98. I have helped to fix it now. Please pay the service fee as soon as possible."

After reading it, Ginny couldn't help laughing out loud, and she sneered at the above words, her heart full of disdain: Today's liars are really fanciful.

She admitted that she had never expected that Xia Country actually had access to the Internet, but she was very skeptical. Given Xia Country's economic level, could people living there afford to buy computers?

As for the fact that the Xia people can understand the system code and patch Windows 98?

How can this be!

Anyone who dares to say such words would probably be laughed at by God!

Ginny thought this was a scam email and planned to delete it.

However, when she put the mouse on the upper right corner of the web page, she was surprised to find that the web page could not be closed!

"What's going on? Is the computer stuck?"

Ginny didn't panic at first, but she muttered something under her breath.

As the first operating system that broke through the DOS concept and entered the 32-bit environment, it is understandable that Windows 98 occasionally freezes.

After waiting for a while, Ginny tried again, but found that it still didn't work!

"What happened? Did it freeze?"

Ginny hit the off button.

However, the computer screen did not move at all!

Can't shut down! ?

Ginny panicked.

"Is the computer infected?"

Ginny looked at the power strip, debating whether to just unplug it.

Nowadays, the integration of computer hardware and software is not very good, especially the storage function of the hard disk. Direct hot plugging is likely to cause irreversible damage to the computer.

However, Ginny pressed the power off button several times in a row, but the computer did not respond at all!

The only solution is probably to unplug the power supply.

However, after Ginny unplugged the computer and restarted it, she was horrified to find that the screen was still filled with pop-up email web pages and could not be operated!

What kind of virus can’t even be solved by turning the computer on and off?

There was no other way, so Ginny had to call the technical department for help.

the other side.

In the president's office, Bill Gates had a serious look on his face. Sitting opposite him was his old partner Allen, the second-in-command of Microsoft.

Both of them were in a bad mood, and they talked with serious expressions about the antitrust lawsuit caused by the ban on Netscape.

The U.S. Department of Justice has always wanted to split up Microsoft. In addition to the high-sounding reason of "anti-monopoly", one of the reasons is that its former employer IBM is secretly working hard.

Talking about the love-hate relationship between IBM and Microsoft could not be finished in three days and three nights. The two sides went from love to hatred, which almost spanned most of the history of computer development.

Allen, whose hairline has been rising due to worrying about the company's affairs, now looks worried: "I think we should give up the ban on Netscape now, otherwise the situation will be very unfavorable to us."

Bill Gates remained silent about his friend's words.

"Bill, you know that the Department of Justice, IBM, and some traditional financial capital forces are full of hostility and covetousness towards us. They are all waiting for us to make a mistake. As long as we make a wrong decision, they will swarm in like ferocious sharks, smelling the blood, and eat our flesh and drink our blood."

However, although Gates appears quiet and elegant, like an older homebody, he is actually an extremely strong person inside.

After listening to Allen's words, Bill Gates looked at him with contempt and said in a cold tone: "Want to destroy us Microsoft? Forget it! There is no need to pay attention to the Department of Justice , they are just a bunch of clowns. As for Netscape, we must continue to ban it, there is no room for negotiation. This matter concerns Microsoft's future strategic layout on the Internet, and we must not give in even a little bit."

Bill Gates was determined to ban Netscape. On the one hand, he could not tolerate Netscape's growth through the browser, which would affect the promotion of IE browser and take away profits that should belong to Microsoft.

On the other hand, this is also to make an example of someone else.

After all, Netscape actually tried to get involved in the operating software field, which was Gates' Achilles' heel, and whoever touched it would be killed.

Just at this moment, Ginny walked in with her waist twisted and her hips undulating.

Bill Gates didn't like it when he was talking to someone and someone interrupted him. He immediately frowned and said in a hostile tone, "What's the matter?"

Ginny gasped and timidly replied, "Boss, my computer has a virus."

Bill Gates was very dissatisfied with this reason: "It's just a small matter? Why don't you go to the technical department?"

Seeing Bill Gates getting angry, Ginny felt very aggrieved: "Boss, I looked for it, but the technical department said they couldn't do it."

"What? Even the technical department can't handle it?"

It was only then that Bill Gates' expression changed.

The entire Windows system was written by the technical department, and they know every line of code in it.

Is there a computer virus that the technical department can’t handle?

Bill Gates thought it was ridiculous.

This is like a carpenter carrying an axe to show off his skills in front of Lu Ban, and then beating Lu Ban like a dog. This is simply outrageous!

After being angry, Bill Gates became interested in the identity of the culprit.

He is a technology fanatic himself. The original code of Microsoft was typed out by him letter by letter in the garage.

Therefore, Bill Gates has always believed that he is the person who knows computer operating systems best in the world.