Sitting next to Song Yang, Wesley, who was in charge of the hotmail email project, said to Song Yang, "We have a hotmail email address now. The functions have not been fully developed yet, but the most basic email functions have been completed!"

With the addition of Wang An's company's software development engineering team, and the fact that Wang An himself is an early player in the email industry and has considerable technical reserves, the development of Hotmail email is progressing very quickly.

Song Yang looked at the homepage of the hotmail mailbox in front of him. He only needed a URL and could directly enter the hotmail mailbox webpage through the browser.

Not to mention the functions, the interface of Hotmail is quite simple, continuing the double-click style of the company's official website. Compared with other peers, the web design of Hotmail is definitely a step above.

The most obvious position on the homepage is the registration, login and other buttons, which make it clear at a glance that Wesley followed Song Yang's wishes and did not do those fancy things, and operated as "fool-style" as possible, even for a person who has never

Users who have experience with computers can get started with just a few reads!

Song Yang registered an account and then entered the hotmail email backend. The most conspicuous part of the backend also has only two functions: sending and receiving emails. Later major websites also have apps, etc., and the functions are becoming more and more complex due to demand.

more and more.

In today's Internet industry, most of them are novices who have just or have never been exposed to the Internet industry. The simpler the operation, the easier it is to win the hearts of users!

At present, hotmail mailboxes are still registered internally. Only developers such as Wesley have registered accounts for functional testing. There are only a few dozen accounts. Song Yang can send emails to these accounts.

After editing an email, Song Yang sent it to Wesley's account. A few dozen seconds later, a water drop sound sounded on Wesley's computer. This was the incoming email reminder sound set by Hotmail.

Wesley opened the email sent by Song Yang. There was only one sentence on it, "The email comes from hotmail!"

At this time, the entire hotmail development department clearly felt a sense of relief. They had been busy for so long and finally made no mistakes.

The entire hotmail mailbox has other functions, but now they are basically shelf stock and are still under development, including mailbox virus scanning, calendar services, scheduled sending, email search and other functions.

But the completion of the most basic sending and receiving of emails means that the launch of the hotmail mailbox has entered the countdown. As for the problem of unstable functions, isn't this the norm in the Internet industry now...

Upgrading while using it, everyone is looking for bugs. This is how Netscape, Yahoo, etc. came to be. Hotmail e-mail cannot let users lose this happiness. The key is to launch it first, which means to seize the market first. The rest are all

It can be improved slowly. Hotmail mailboxes are different from double-click companies. They need users and traffic, otherwise no big player will be willing to take over!

"When will all the development be completed?" Song Yang asked Wesley, quite satisfied with Wesley's performance. As expected, everyone who graduated from Rice University, a top university in America, has a lot of skills.

"If everything goes well, it is expected that internal testing can be carried out before the end of the month, and external testing can be carried out next month, and registration will be open..."

Song Yang listened to Wesley's words and made some calculations. If registration can be opened for promotion in the middle of next month, then Song Yang can start promoting hotmail mailboxes before going to San Jose University.

"but……"

Song Yang looked at Wesley and frowned, "But what?"

"But the virus scanning function of Hotmail email is a bit difficult to complete. We asked McAfee about the price. Not only McAfee, but Symantec also asked for too high a price!"

The current leader in anti-virus software in the world is undoubtedly McAfee, which went public three years ago, and Symantec is the current owner of Norton anti-virus software. These two are currently giants in the global anti-virus software industry.

These are all listed companies. Although Wesley did not identify himself when he asked about the price, even if he did, it would probably not be much cheaper.

Song Yang rubbed his brows. If you want to launch a free email, you must have the support of anti-virus software. Otherwise, no one will dare to use it. In fact, only God knows how effective this thing is, but it is just like using a wooden stick to fight.

Like a wolf, at least I can feel safer. In fact, wolves never act alone...

Not only hotmail email, but also icq, which will be launched in the future, and other products, whether hardware or software, cannot do without the support of anti-virus software companies.

If it's only once, that's it, but if he has to be controlled by others in the future, and it also involves many core data, Song Yang is really worried about putting the knife in other people's hands, especially in America, where anything can happen.

!

After thinking for a moment, Song Yang said to Wesley, "Let's find a new anti-virus software company!"

"No more cooperation with McAfee and Symantec?!" Wesley said in surprise. Nowadays, every well-known company in America is sending money to these two companies.

Song Yang shook his head, with a smile on his face, "Will the company that provides anti-virus software for Double Click Company, Hotmail, and ICQ be an unknown person?"

Wesley was stunned when he heard this. He already understood what Song Yang was going to do. He was going to support an anti-virus software company of his own.

However, after thinking about it, Wesley couldn't help but get a little excited. If we can really support an anti-virus software giant with the help of Double-click, hotmail, and instant messaging icq, or even go public, that doesn't mean that Double-click, hotmail, etc.

Has it become a real giant? If this comes true, it will become a legend in Silicon Valley in the future.

"Please work hard and complete the development of the Hotmail email as soon as possible. I will take care of the anti-virus software." Standing up, Song Yang said to the staff of the Hotmail email development department, "When the project is completed, I will take care of it in the Rick Club."

A party will be held for everyone, and all bonuses will be given out!”

As soon as these words came out, the entire development department howled like a wolf. Even Wesley yelled. He had already heard the name of Rick Club, not to mention Gallo's big mouth, who often recited it in front of him.

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After leaving the hotmail mailbox development department, Song Yang and Wesley came to the icq development department.

However, compared to the fast-developing hotmail mailbox, icq seems a bit slow. Developing a software that has never been done before is destined to take much longer, not to mention that there is still not enough manpower.

The current icq is not even a semi-finished product and is still under construction. Wesley also has a headache, "Song, your requirements for icq are too high. It takes too much time to develop many functions with current technology!"

If you just build a simple chat tool and use two computers to exchange text through one software, it will be much simpler.

But Song Yang's request for Wesley was a relatively mature instant messaging system, which was not simple.

Song Yang didn't mean to blame Wesley. He just checked the development progress of icq, and then said to Wesley, "When the development of the hotmail mailbox is completed, you and the icq project will go to San Jose with me. There will be meetings there."

I’ll find enough manpower for you, and ICQ will be able to pass the internal test before the end of the year!”

"The man who is about to change Silicon Valley, America's Internet, will also leave your name!"

Before leaving, Song Yang patted Wesley on the shoulder and gave him a large bowl of poisonous chicken soup. Bill Gates, Marc Andreessen and other technology figures who appeared on the cover of Time magazine deeply stimulated Wesley.

After leaving the hotmail mailbox and the icq development department, Song Yang thought for a while and made a phone call.

If you want to find a powerful small anti-virus software company in Silicon Valley, you must find an old Jianghu for guidance. Song Yang can't think of a more suitable candidate than that little old man Tristan.

When he received a call from Song Yang and heard that Song Yang was going to invest in a new small anti-virus software company, Tristan was obviously surprised.

"This takes time. I need to ask some old friends. I will call you tomorrow!" Tristan thought for a while and said. He has extensive connections in Silicon Valley and the Internet industry, mainly because many people in the Internet industry are attracted by him.

After complimenting him, he was naturally willing to help...

After finishing the matter here, Song Yang confessed to Irene, who was willing to be a cow and a horse, and was working hard to deal with Double Click Company, and then drove towards Gallo's car repair stall.

Like other cities in America, as the fourth city in America, like New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, Xiancun is also divided into many different communities, but basically there are also rich areas, poor areas and slums, of course not.

He screamed so directly and openly, but everyone knew it.

The car repair shop of Gallo's racing company is located near a slum community in Houston. It is obviously different from other areas in Houston.

The streets are obviously mixed. People from Lao Mo, African Americans, Eastern Europe, South America and other places are mixed here. It is not uncommon to see shirtless people with various tattoos on their bodies. When Song Yang drove by,

You can see people gathering in small groups, staring at the street all the time, obviously doing underground business.
Chapter completed!