Microsoft's IPO has been a huge success. The market value has risen from US$12.5 billion to more than US$21 billion, an increase of US$8 or 9 billion, shocking the world!
Wall Street institutions said that Microsoft's stock price is inflated and will definitely come down in the future.
Sure enough, in the days that followed, Microsoft's shares traded below $40, with a market cap of less than $20 billion, before stabilizing at around $18 billion.
Even so, it's still shocking!
These days, the media has been constantly reporting the news of Microsoft's IPO.
Many entertainment magazines also made a special trip to report on Xiao Youran, calling her the youngest bell ringer in Nasdaq history.
Countless people couldn't help but envy her, envied her having a father who is the richest man in the world, and called her the second richest generation in the world!
In the bar, while watching TV, a person said, "Mad, I want to be Chronos Li's son. It will not be common for me to go to Nasdaq to ring the bell in the future!!"
"Haha... Just your crooked appearance, you go to be Chronos Li's grandson, he doesn't even want you!"
"Damn, you're worthy of being his son as you look like??!"
"I'm at least more handsome than you!"
"Beautiful you are numb!"
The two of them went to work and fought in the bar. Everyone else in the bar was stunned, watching the excitement and saying, "I'm going to fight, in order to compete for who should be Chronos Li as a son, the two of them are still fighting. Here comes the hand..."
"Yeah, the two of them are really weird! Just like they look, they really don't deserve it, what's there to argue about! By the way, let's see how handsome I am?" A man who thought he was pretty good-looking held a cup in his right hand. Red wine, 45 degrees on the back, put a pose.
"..." Everyone was speechless, and they all rushed to be someone else's son. They were really drunk.
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Microsoft Corporation.
Li Zetian, Bill Gates and other company executives are in the conference room.
"Microsoft has raised 2.5 billion US dollars in its listing. With this huge financial support in the future, it will be able to recruit more talents, acquire some technologies and companies, and improve Microsoft's development speed!" Li Zetian laughed, "IBM wants to Competing against Microsoft on personal computer operating systems is a sure-fire way to lose, and it will only be the same in the future!!!"
In the past life, only Sun Microsystems was called by the media and the industry as the company most likely to replace Microsoft, that was because Sun Microsystems invented a super powerful technology-Java language! Java does not require hardware-related compilers, so in the Internet era, Java programs are not limited by computer platforms, and are especially suitable for programming on the Internet. It provides Sun Microsystems with a possibility to replace Microsoft's dominance in the computer field. . However, Sun Microsystems ultimately failed.
As for IBM, it is even less likely to be Microsoft's opponent!
At this point, Microsoft's wings are full!
Li Zetian continued: "However, the Windows operating system still needs to be improved in many areas, and Microsoft must not relax. Today, I am gathering everyone to design a new product for Microsoft—PowerPoint. It is a presentation software, which also has the same Like Word and Excel, it's also a killer office software!"
Li Zetian takes so many shares and usually does not manage the company, but none of the shareholders have any complaints or opinions. It is precisely because his brain and creativity are extremely valuable that he designed all the heavyweight software of Microsoft!
Now, when everyone hears that he has designed a very powerful software, they are all excited, looking at him with anticipation, waiting for him to introduce what this PPT is.
Li Zetian smiled lightly, facing the eyes of everyone, he was used to it.
He said: "With the advent of the era of graphical computers, haven't you thought that Microsoft can actually do more? Haven't you thought about the huge market of business slideshows and the emerging era of graphical computers? Is it the perfect union?"
As soon as the voice fell, a spark of inspiration flashed in the minds of everyone present!
Li Zetian looked at them and said with a smile: "Unlike Microsoft-DOS in text format, Windows 1.0 Windows operating system can make PowerPoint have more colorful materials, in addition to text, there can also be pictures, charts, animations, sounds, and even Videos and more.
PowerPoint can be played not only on a projector, but also on a computer.
I firmly believe that PowerPoint can become an important part of people's work and life, and plays a pivotal role in work reports, corporate publicity, product promotion, wedding celebrations, project bidding, management consulting, education and training and other fields! "
The people present were all smart people. Li Zetian just mentioned it a little, and they already realized the value of PPT. They didn't even need Li Zetian to tell the specific design, they already knew the general design direction of PowerPoint.
The crowd could not help but applaud!
"When PowerPoint is developed, it will definitely be popular all over the world!"
"Mr. Li, you are really amazing. With PowerPoint, Microsoft's core competitiveness has greatly increased!"
"… "
Li Zetian smiled and continued: "PowerPoint, Word, and Excel are both essential office software, so I propose that Microsoft establish a Microsoft Office office software suite for bundled sales, and PowerPoint, Word, and Excel have names in front of them. Adding Microsoft Office means that these three software are components of Microsoft Office, thereby increasing the popularity of Microsoft Office!"
"agree!!!"
"agree!!!"
"… "
The crowd agreed.
Li Zetian nodded, quite satisfied, and immediately asked, "Does everyone know about sndmsg?"
Some people nodded, while others showed doubts, Li Zetian said: "sndmsg is the world's first email software, that is, SendMessage.
In 1971, when the U.S. Department of Defense-funded ARPANET was in full swing, a very acute problem arose: Scientists participating in the project were doing different jobs in different places, but could not share their knowledge well. Research results. Because everyone uses different computers, everyone's work is useless to everyone else. They desperately needed a way to transfer data between different computers via a network.
Thus, sendmsg email came into being.
Ray Tomlinson, a Ph.D. at MIT who works on the ARPANET, combined a software that can be copied between different computer networks and a single-machine communication software. This is sndmsg. Tomlinson chose the "@" symbol as the interval between the username and the address, because this symbol is relatively rare and will not appear in any person's name, and the pronunciation of this symbol also has the meaning of "in". Arpanet scientists welcomed this groundbreaking innovation with great enthusiasm. Since then, their genius ideas and research results have been shared with colleagues as quickly as possible.
Today, the ARPANET has grown into the largest network in the world, and the reason why it can achieve great success is email! "
Bill Gates frowned slightly, e-mail seemed to have no commercial value.
"Chronos, you want Microsoft to develop email?" he asked.
"Yeah." Li Zetian nodded. He suddenly asked for an email at this time. Naturally, there was a reason...
PS: It has been said that it has not erupted for a long time, and I will try to update two chapters at night~~