Chapter 417 Gates: I want to overthrow XP and start over
Xiao Wang’s complaints are complaints, but the things assigned by the headquarters still need to be done.
He had no choice but to agree to the suggestion of Yanjing Shenchuan Sales Store.
After waiting for two days, the Shenchuan A-series low-end computers were finally transported from Jizhou to Yanjing.
Xiao Wang finally got the Shenchuan computer.
Microsoft's Xiaguo headquarters did not dare to delay too much. They immediately packaged the two computer hosts and prepared to send them to the United States.
However, logistics in 2002 was not as fast and convenient as in later generations. Even the express delivery companies in Xia Guo had little virtue, let alone fast international logistics.
In order to avoid further mistakes during the transportation process, the president of Microsoft's Xiaguo headquarters simply asked his assistant Renrou to take the two hosts to the United States in an emergency.
Not to mention, this trick was extremely effective. 24 hours later, two Shenchuan A-class PC hosts were placed on Gates' desktop.
Most of the computers used by Microsoft are designed and assembled by themselves, but they are not sold externally.
Gates compared Shenship's console with Microsoft's own console, and suddenly felt a little ridiculous.
No matter how good the workmanship and quality of Microsoft's consoles are, they are used by the boss himself after all, and he never skimps on materials.
But at first glance, the Shenship host is made of low-end materials.
From the outer casing of the host to the power supply and data cables, cooling fans, etc. inside the host, they all look very inferior.
There is no way around this. If Shenchuan wants to pursue the ultimate cost-effectiveness, it must work hard on materials.
As long as all the materials used in the computer host meet normal use and have a long enough lifespan, Shenzhou doesn't care about the appearance or surface quality at all.
Gates was quite surprised. Could it be that this kind of junk-looking computer led to the crazy installed capacity of Firefly OS?
Is this kind of inferior computer actually causing Lianxiang to suffer a lot?
Gates immediately asked engineers to analyze the Shenship's A-class computer.
Sure enough, there is a certain reason why computers are called production A series.
It uses an entry-level Intel chip, a 200-watt power supply, a high-end low-end motherboard, and a 126-megabyte memory and 80-gigabyte hard drive.
The only better thing is that the memory and hard disk are both carbon crystal storage.
It is because of the memory and hard disk that the performance of Shenchuan computers of the same level is more than 30% higher than that of other brands.
High performance and cheaper price, of course consumers vote with their feet.
However, Microsoft engineers are not testing the performance of computers this time, but studying Firefly OS.
Gates was very concerned about this matter, so he directly asked engineers to research and test the system in his office.
As soon as he turned on the phone, Gates was a little surprised.
Because according to his judgment on the performance of this computer, it will take at least about a minute to boot up when running Windows XP.
After all, the Windows XP system is richer than Windows 98.
But this computer equipped with Firefly OS only took less than 20 seconds to boot up.
Next are the application icons on the desktop, as well as the document manager, application market and other functions.
The highlight is of course the Xiaoying smart assistant.
Engineers conduct detailed research and judgment on the functions and structures of each layer of Yinghuo OS.
In the end, the engineers came up with a result that surprised Gates.
They determined that the underlying code of Yinghuo OS was indeed written by Changtian Technology alone, and that the underlying code was no simpler than Windows XP.
"The press conference said that Changtian Technology developed this system in less than half a year?"
Gates asked in surprise.
[Influence +10]
"Yes, Mr. Chairman! (In 2002, Gates was Microsoft's chairman of the board and chief software architect.)"
"It's unbelievable. How could they spend half a year to create such a terrifying thing?"
What made Gates even more unbelievable was what happened later, when engineers talked to Xiaoying and tested Xiaoying's intelligence.
They found that Xiaoying's level of intelligence was completely comparable to Microsoft's highest fantasy of artificial intelligence.
In the words of engineers, the artificial intelligence level of Changtian Technology is a whole era higher than that of Microsoft.
This is just the current thinking of Microsoft engineers. If they knew that Chen Xiao did not regard Xiaoying as an artificial intelligence at all, but as a collection of commands, they would not know what they would think.
However, this cannot be blamed on Microsoft engineers for being short-sighted.
Because in this era, software engineers only have so much vision and imagination.
For them, artificial intelligence that is more advanced than Xiaoying is just a product of science fiction and cannot be realized.
Artificial intelligence and operating systems are combined to help users become familiar with the system faster and use the system more conveniently.
This idea gave Gates a sense of enlightenment.
When Microsoft originally developed Windows XP, its purpose was to allow users to use more and more advanced functions.
For this reason, Windows XP has an order of magnitude more code than Windows 98. In actual system applications, XP does have many more advanced and convenient functions.
Gates is also proud of his design.
But he didn't think deeply about one thing, that is, most users are not very proficient in using the operating system.
If we compare users and the purpose they want to achieve by using computers to a user who wants to get from point A to point B.
Then the operating system is the vehicle from point A to point B.
Windows XP gives users the feeling of a bicycle. Users must assemble the bicycle before they can ride it to point B.
It is true that riding a bicycle is much faster than walking, but assembling a bicycle is quite difficult for many users.
The Yinghuo os is more like a skateboard. Users only need to step on the skateboard gently to reach their destination smoothly.
The advancement of Yinghuo OS is still to come.
Engineers also discovered that Yinghuo OS is indeed a closed operating system as described in the press conference.
To this end, engineers deliberately try to download some Trojans and plug-ins from the browser.
But they found that even if these things were downloaded, there was no way to install them.
Including the Trojan horse program itself, it cannot be installed and lurked into the system independently.
A closed operating system is equivalent to adding a protective wall to the entire system.
Engineers know very well that if the same operation method is used on a Windows XP system. Even if Windows XP has a firewall turned on or third-party anti-virus software is used, the system will definitely be infected with Trojans.
Gates has been behind the engineers, watching the engineers' entire operation.
When he got the test results report from the engineers, he suddenly had an idea——
He really wants to overthrow Windows XP and start over! The design concept and development technology of Yingying OS are so advanced that even Gates has to admire it.