Although it has been expected for a long time that carbon crystal hard drives can definitely be used on deeply optimized Windows 98 systems.
But after actually completing this series of tests, Microsoft's technical department was extremely shocked.
Members of Microsoft's technical department are definitely the world's top software engineers.
The tens of millions of lines of code for Windows 98 were typed out one by one by these technical engineers.
Including the Windows XP system currently being developed, it is also the masterpiece of these outstanding engineers.
They absolutely couldn't believe that pirate manufacturers in Xia State were able to modify the underlying code of the system.
This technique is extremely difficult and time-consuming.
It is absolutely impossible for people in Xia, whose computer technology is extremely backward, to do it.
Microsoft engineers firmly believe that unless Microsoft takes the initiative to reveal the underlying code of Windows 98, no one in the world can do such a thing.
This matter is not trivial. If the underlying code of Windows 98 can be deeply modified, it will almost expose Windows 98 to others without any defense. This situation is quite dangerous.
For a system, this is absolutely fatal.
Fortunately, this company called Deep Optimization System only allows the system to support carbon crystal hard drives.
If this company has more ideas, such as using this technology to penetrate deeply into the system, steal user information, or do more extreme things, it will be a huge blow to the hundreds of millions of Windows 98 PCs around the world.
crisis.
This kind of thing is very serious!
The technology department did not dare to hide it and immediately reported the cause and consequences of the incident to Microsoft's senior management.
Microsoft now devotes most of its energy to the development of Windows XP systems.
It is expected that Microsoft's latest system, Windows XP, will be available to users next year.
In fact, most of the underlying code of Windows XP is the same as that of Windows 98. XP is a deep optimization and improvement of the 98 system.
If the underlying code of Win 98 has been leaked, then the Windows XP system that Microsoft has put so much effort into developing may also have corresponding security issues.
A report on the extremely optimized system was placed on the desk of Microsoft CEO Gai Chi.
Gates' first reaction was that the underlying code of the Windows 98 system must have been leaked by relevant technical personnel.
This matter is no small matter!
Gai Chi immediately held a high-level meeting of the committee members and seriously informed that a company in Xia Guo had the ability to modify the underlying code of Windows 98.
At the high-level meeting, Gates said: "We admit that China is indeed an emerging market. They have a population of 1.2 billion, and there is definite news that China will join the WTO at the end of this year."
"But many of us have gone to Xia Guo on business or have traveled. Many technical leaders have also communicated with their counterparts in Xia Guo. Our Xia Guo head office was also established in 1995, so we are very familiar with Xia Guo.
The country’s computer level is very good.”
"We believe that so far, even Xia Guo's national and computer research laboratories have no way to obtain the underlying code of our Windows 98 system."
"The most likely thing is that it was leaked from within us."
When Gates said this, his expression was already quite serious.
There is no need to look for any evidence. Microsoft people are very clear about their own technology, and they are also very clear about the difficulty of the underlying code of the Windows 98 system.
It is absolutely impossible for any company or individual in the world to obtain tens of millions of lines of Windows 98 system code.
Both Gates and other senior executives at Microsoft are very sure that there must be an insider inside the company. It is the behavior of insiders in the company that caused the underlying code of Microsoft's Windows 98 system to be exposed.
There are only two things in this high-level meeting: The first thing is to conduct a thorough inspection of Microsoft's key departments. The second thing is to ask the technical department to take measures as soon as possible to weaken the impact of the deep optimization system on the genuine system.
A vigorous plan to find the traitor was launched within Microsoft.
The results of this action are very obvious.
No one has found out the traitor who is related to the pirated system. Instead, they have discovered many commercial spies lurking within Microsoft.
These people have very close ties with Nokia's Symbian Systems Division, Apple and South Korea's Samsung.
A lot of Microsoft's trade secrets were even sold.
This result surprised Microsoft executives.
However, in the storm of this incident, the Chinese engineers at Microsoft were the most affected.
The discrimination against Chinese people in the United States is not something that happens in a day or two, but has started since the end of the 19th century.
Especially after the founding of New China, Chinese from mainland China have become the lowest-class citizens of the United States. Their status is not only lower than whites and blacks in the United States, but also lower than Latinos, Southeast Asians, Asians and South Koreans.
Their status is only higher than that of the Chinese who came from the Wanwan area, and they are at the lowest end of the entire discrimination chain.
However, the Chinese in mainland China are talented and very hard-working, so they quickly competed for their foothold in various industries in the United States.
Especially in Silicon Valley in the United States, there are a large number of Chinese engineers.
On the other hand, without Chinese engineers, the glory of Silicon Valley in the United States would not exist.
Similarly, at Microsoft, there are also a large number of Chinese engineers.
However, after this incident, Chinese engineers were ostracized and discriminated against by their colleagues, intentionally or unintentionally.
The senior executives of the technology department directly transferred several Chinese people from the core technology department, terminated their participation in the research and development of Windows XP systems, and even reduced their salaries.
Ma Tao, who graduated from Yenching University and went to the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for graduate and doctoral studies at public expense, is one of them.
This is Ma Tao's fifth year at Microsoft. He has less qualifications than many engineers, but because of his strong technical ability and excellent talent, he quickly became a core figure in the technical department and has become the leader of Windows XP
Development project team's core mission.
But today, as soon as Ma Tao entered the workplace, he was called to the office by his supervisor.
Supervisor Wells said to Ma Tao very apologetically: "Ma, I'm very sorry, you have been transferred out of the project team. Now you are responsible for the maintenance and update of the system. In your new job, I hope you can work with your colleagues as soon as possible.
Get familiar with it and adapt as soon as possible.”
Wells said it very euphemistically, but Ma Tao was very clear about the various positions at Microsoft.
After being transferred from his current development position, his salary level will be reduced by at least three levels. This is actually a disguised form of keeping him away from the core department and demoting him.
Ma Tao became puzzled and even a little angry, but he did not dare to say harsh words to his supervisor. He could only suppress the sadness and anger in his heart and asked: "Mr. Wells, did I make any mistakes at work?