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What forces casting out the ChengJiYiShi computer software industry and the world's richest man, Microsoft empire

What forces will Microsoft itself out of the throne, under the IT industry and let IT lost in Internet tide

Last Monday, namely, Microsoft CEO Steve ballmer trip to China, Microsoft (Microsoft) day market for the first time in 15 years by IBM transcendence. This is the last apple was crowded market under after IT, Microsoft ranking 5-2 fell again.

But that did not affect ballmer in China for mobile Internet show Microsoft of ambition, he said in the speech, please the next few months, Windows will into China.

In the 1990s, contrast with today's picture, was over decades of IBM computer market losses in mud, apple is also struggling to despair. In Bill Gates of Microsoft is led by sudden, key blunt right on a rival corpse, boarded IT top of the world.

2000 outbreaks of Internet technology bubble become turning point, Microsoft's crazy expansion standing still, value began piaffe until was the apple and the recoveries of IBM successful transformation of transcendence.

Not only that, IT Google, Facebook counterpart in different fields were also ChaoSha with Microsoft's living space.

Microsoft how? Investment community began to accuse Microsoft, thinks ballmer indulge in past, and is the biggest obstacle to Microsoft's stock price, and publicly demanding its class is over.

Is the wrong? One ballmer What is history, comb Microsoft ChengJiYiShi cast the strength of software empire? What is the next throne drive power? Whether Microsoft has the ability to return to peak? Future where to go?

"Borrow chickens lay eggs" a lift IBM

IBM selected for its newly launched Microsoft PC write operating system software, with the popularization of IBM PC, Microsoft's MSDOS will be a great success.

"In the northwest, between XiSanHuan erhuanxi and a new century hotel office technology company. To tell the rise and fall, the building must be won't last long."

May 19, LiShiLu a place in south LiuBo teahouse, IT appeared in senior reporter presence.

He entered IT in 1991, she has served as foreign sales of Microsoft China vice President and OEM division director, the greater China region now is the identity of IBM software group China strategic business director.

"IT's fun, in the early 1990s, the global top technology company (China division) gathered in this building. The world's second largest digital equipment corporation DEC, the world's largest supplier of UNIX system, old computer company days from soar (tandem), the world's second largest database company" beth (Sybase), the third largest database company Informix, and IT rookie Microsoft." LiuBo said.

Then he enumerate a heap of acquisitions, on the table, "said it also interesting, these giants are, now except a company outside, other were acquisition or bankruptcy."

The only surviving company is Microsoft.

The early 1970s, IBM, HP wait a few big company ruled the computer market, the main business of large computer and microcomputer manufacturing and sales, profit total billions of dollars, but these giants are not aware of the importance of microprocessor.

In 1975, 19-year-old Bill Gates and his high school friend Paul Allen developed can in microcomputer is used on the BASIC language, and creates a Microsoft. Company name Microsoft a word microcomputer (by microcomputer) and software (software) two parts.

A year later, Bill Gates from harvard dropout, rendering business Microsoft. In 1977, Microsoft profitable one million dollars, Bill Gates will the company moved to Seattle in Redmond, ambitions for the base.

In the 1980s most, is Microsoft history of 10 years, not only lucky solicit to large quantities of talents, like IBM also get the "noble" help. IBM selected for its newly launched Microsoft PC write key operating system software, which become Microsoft major turning point.

To finish the contract, Microsoft to $50,000 of the price of a programmer from Seattle to buy an operating system in use, again it to rewrite for disk operating system software (MSDOS). IBM PC, make the popularity of MSDOS has been a huge success in the 1980s, become the standard PC operating system.

Microsoft and IBM's cooperation, were later deduce for "borrow chickens lay eggs" strategy. Microsoft after war, also will continue to use this strategy.

June 1986, Microsoft announced, estimated at that time for nearly 70 million dollars in annual sales, half from its income from sales operating system. Until the late 1980s, sold on the market MSDOS operating system has reached 30 million sets.