When Wang Lie left, his face turned pale with fright. Although he is ignorant, he also knows what Microsoft's release of Word word processing software means to Wang An's company, and he can't help but feel scared. He followed the ambulance to the hospital in a frightened way all the way. If something happened to his father, the sky would collapse...
"Doctor, how is my father?"
"Don't worry, it's just a coma, nothing serious."
Wang Lie breathed a sigh of relief.
At this moment, the news that Wang An was stunned at Microsoft's product launch quickly spread.
The noon news of major TV stations reported this incident one after another, and the stock price of Wang An Computer Co.
In the hospital, Wang An just woke up and asked about the company's situation. Wang Lie hesitated and was speechless.
"How much has the company's stock price dropped!!" Wang An shouted at Wang Lie.
"So far, the stock price has dropped by at least $4!" Wang Liesheng was afraid of his father's reprimand and said it.
"No, I want to return to the company immediately to stabilize morale!" Wang An said, and stood up from the bed.
"Dad, the doctor said it's better to let you rest in the hospital for a day or two..." Wang Lie stopped him from getting out of bed.
"Go away! If I don't go back to Wang An Computer Company, the stock price will continue to fall!"
Wang Lie couldn't stop it, and he didn't want to stop it in his heart.
Wang An Computer's stock price continued to plummet, and his family's wealth shrank significantly.
On the other hand, Li Zetian also sent people to keep an eye on Wang An's physical condition. He just made an unintentional mistake. He didn't expect Wang An to be stunned. I think that Wang An has been smooth sailing over the past few years. Because he has won the computer giant IBM many times, he is a little complacent. , Unexpectedly, he fell a big somersault on himself, a young man in his early twenties. He couldn't think of it very much, and he became depressed. As a result, the moment the Word word processing software appeared, it finally broke out, causing him to faint.
"Everyone is fine. Although it is said that shopping malls are like battlefields, I am not so despicable that I deliberately kill people. What's more, Microsoft faces many enemies, and Wang An Computer is not the most powerful role in it. Our goal is to defeat all opponents!"
In the Microsoft office, Li Zetian said to Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Gary Kildare and others, "No matter what, the Word software will definitely be very popular. In the next period of time, the company will be very busy, everyone. effort!"
"Yeah!" Everyone nodded in unison.
Now, Microsoft has four popular products, the first is the Microsoft-DOS operating system, the second is the Excel spreadsheet, the third is the Word word processing software, and the fourth is the BASIC language. With these four products, Microsoft has become a world-class software company!
On the day of the Word conference, Wall Street valued Microsoft at $2 billion!
Of course, in Li Zetian's view, this valuation is very low, because currently people generally value hardware, and software is often just an incidental product.
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Wang An is not dead, but his health is not as good as before. It seems that he may "handover" ahead of schedule.
Wang An's prestige is still very high in the United States. After he was discharged from the hospital, the stock price of Wang An Computer Company was contained. Although it was still falling, it was not as sharp as before, but the company's market value had fallen to less than 5 billion US dollars. At this time, many people in the company made suggestions to develop personal computers. In this regard, Wang An hesitated, developing a personal computer was equivalent to giving up the company's most profitable product at the moment, the Wang An word processor.
"Personal computer is indeed a development trend, but the market is not big enough, wait a minute... Wang An's word processor still has a lot of room for development, especially in Asia and Europe, which should be the market we urgently need to open up!"
When Wang An said this, his tone was very confident. Yes, he admits that PCs are promising, but the market is small, so he's too lazy to get in. When the market becomes bigger, he believes that as long as Wang An Computer Company launches personal computers, he will definitely get a share of the pie, and this incomparably powerful, or somewhat blind confidence, has always been derived from his decades of success!
Obviously, in his later years, Wang An had been carried away by the victory, and he had become invincible and defiant.
By the time he decided that Wang An Computer would enter the personal computer market, it was too late.
After the Word software was released, it was sold in major shopping malls, and there was an endless stream of users who came to buy it. When major printer manufacturers promote their products, they also promote Word software, which makes it easier to sell.
A week later, Word had sold more than 60,000 copies for $200 alone. It's really not that expensive. You know, the first version of Word for Windows was released in 1989 for $500. It's just a common version. Microsoft will also develop a professional version, a small business version, a home and student version, and other versions, and the price is naturally different. The same goes for Excel spreadsheets.
The popularity of Word word processing software has naturally also driven the sales of Excel spreadsheets, with 35,000 copies sold within a week.
At present, software companies that can make as much money as Microsoft are extremely rare. Excel and Word just solve the office needs of enterprises, and most of the PC users are white-collar workers who sit in the office.
A month later, Li Zetian saw that Wang An Computer Company did not have the attitude of transformation at all, but instead increased the development and sales of word processors, striving to open up the overseas market in the United States, and knew that Wang An Computer Company was completely helpless.
"In this era, the Chinese still have to rely on me to support the sky!!!"
After Li Zetian returned to the villa, he began to learn about robots and artificial intelligence. People always have to find a goal for themselves. He hopes to make major breakthroughs and contributions in this regard. In his previous life, he was only in his early 20s, and he did not have time to learn many things, such as electrical engineering, robotics, artificial intelligence and other knowledge. Otherwise, when he developed the first-generation personal computer Apple-l, why did he have to ask a technical god like Wozniak to help him...
Among the top ten global robotics patent companies, Japan accounts for eight! ! !
If robots have very powerful artificial intelligence, wouldn't Japan be a bunker? !
What horror would it be like if the world were flooded with Japanese robots with artificial intelligence? Li Zetian couldn't imagine it.
"You are studying and researching here by yourself, why don't you invite those skilled people to study together?" Yu Jingqiu made Li Zetian a cup of Blue Mountain coffee and put it on his desk.
"Don't worry, I have to know myself before I invite them to join. I don't remember anyone who said, 'Don't go into unfamiliar territory!' In robotics and artificial intelligence, I do Unfamiliar, and it can cost a lot of R&D money in this area, I have to be cautious."
"Well, you're right."
"By the way, Nolan Bushnell just called and said that the Atari 2600 has been developed, and a press conference will be held at the end of May, and it will be released globally on June 1."
Hearing this, Li Zetian smiled, took a sip of coffee, and said with a smile, "Haha, our cash cow has finally been born!"
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