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Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has not given up on the ambition to monopolize the Internet market, although Microsoft will soon accept the decision to split the
Gates has now given most of the day-to-day management of the company to Microsoft CEO Ballmer and his team to manage, and he is only responsible for the technical work. But as the founder of Microsoft and the "God of Microsoft", the genius is still directing the direction of Microsoft's giant ship.

At a Microsoft-sponsored software development partner meeting in Atlanta this week, Gates introduced Microsoft's flagship product, Web services, to the delegates. NET plan and hail plan. According to insiders, the two plans will likely reopen Microsoft's industry monopoly and will make Microsoft a "bodyguard" for hundreds of millions of PC users.

In a subsequent media interview, Gates also described Microsoft's intentions to invest heavily in the hail plan and explain why Microsoft is fighting the current popular open source code. He even described the company's $5 billion trillion annual research and development funding.

Q: We all know that Microsoft has always bundled Internet Explorer browser and Windows systems, and now Microsoft is publishing Windows XP
Answer (Gates): Simply put, our customers want to see an increasingly rich and powerful Windows system, they also want to make the system more reliable and secure. With this in mind, Microsoft is committed to adding the functionality that users need. If not bundled, can you imagine what Windows is like now? Some people want to sell TCP/IP stacks to consumers at a price of 100 dollars, but we have free TCP/IP protocol to users in the system, which is no wonder these people are attacking us.

It is a matter of reproach that Windows combines its own development with the needs of its customers. As long as you know the relevant programming language, anyone can run some of their own programs in the Windows system, which is actually a stage to show the programmer's style. In programming, neither Microsoft's consent nor the need to pay Microsoft any additional costs. Windows has been thoroughly tempered by an unprecedented mature operating system. If you encounter problems in use, it does not matter, to any bookstore can find a book on Windows operations, whether it is a Microsoft version or any version, I believe you can find quite detailed information. So Windows has been widely accepted by the public. Windows also has a real-time help feature that drives its spread.

You often hear your friends say, "Windows adds a new feature!" "You may not be fully convinced that there are so many new features coming out so quickly," he said. But you also have to consider that our annual research and development of 5 billion dollars can not be white?

Will AOL do that often? No! Because they have few competitors in that particular market, their enterprise has been greatly weakened. The PC industry relies on the progress of its own manufacturing process and the development of the software industry, so why does Microsoft not make its own contribution to it?

Q: What is the status of Microsoft's Web browser technology?

A: All programs are running on the PC. But have you ever imagined the interconnection of computers? When you are running a User Service program or Microsoft Word, or even playing a game, you will find that the stand-alone operation is rather boring, and you want to be online. Then came the online instant information system, the sharing of programs, and real-time APIs.

Real-time technology is very much like HTML, you can use a computer to send and receive e-mail
Q: What do you think of Linux
A: Now, can you clearly show the location of Microsoft in the popular trend of Linux and open source code? I don't want to say much about that, Craig Mundie (Microsoft Senior Strategy VP) is an expert in this area, ask him, you may know more, more details. Historically, or realistically, free software has always started with academic environments such as schools, where programmers never have to worry about their eating problems, after all, by government investment. The TCP/IP protocol is the environment. Now, about 90% of the executable procedures are listed goods, and its after-sales service also has a strong commercial atmosphere. But the software company is very different, I believe everyone is very clear. They need to pay taxes and invest in research and development. In a word, a software company wants to develop, no money is completely unworkable. The current software has been divided into free and commercial two large categories, consumers can be free to choose among them. Now the sales environment has been fairly normative and healthy.

Q: What does the GPL mean for the GNU Universal Public License, the GNU General License?

A: The open source code has a part called the GPL, which makes it difficult for the software company to work, you can't use any of the source code, and you can't expand or update it. TCP/IP and an email technology called "Sendmail" is a good example. We recognize the existence of free software and commercial software, but also the function of the software market circulatory system, but some people do not like commercial software, they even think such software should not be produced at all. The GPL has also been a headache for Microsoft.

Now, someone is slowly getting to know and accept the GPL. When people bring up the source code, they often refer to the GPL. They are also gradually accepting the two major classifications of the software market.

Q: Where does Microsoft stand in the open source movement?

A: We understand the behavior of those who open the source code, without any objection. We are also making positive attempts in some areas. We have published some source code, hoping to make our system more perfect, such as the Windows CE operating system source code, and so on. But some of the source code will require official permission, such as windows, so as not to cause some incalculable loss. We also have a big investment in free software, which will be a permanent business strategy for Microsoft. But the current understanding of the GPL by commercial users is still more difficult, and we must ensure that their systems are secure and that they understand the true meaning of the GPL. Unfortunately, there are a lot of misunderstandings in this area. Many people think that Microsoft does not do free software at all. In fact, it's not.

Maybe someone will ask, "will Microsoft release more source code?" "In fact, Windows has done this. Microsoft has made it simple. People want to see the source code for Windows, and we want to make it public to get more attention and eventually improve the system. But for security reasons, it is not yet possible to do the relevant operations.

We now have a lot of powerful tool software that you can even debug online. Therefore, there is no need to repeat the investment in the future. We also make those patches available on the Web for easy user action. This is really a simple source code access to a major breakthrough.

Q: What do you think of people's demand for online services? Will they pay according to Microsoft's initiative?

A: Hail (HailStorm) program will operate on the basis of user's payment. Some of these services are free and others are not. This is determined by Microsoft's market position.

Q: Have you launched a service that only requires a small amount of pay?

A: We are confident that it will be an area of great commercial value. But services like Hotmail and passport, we will stick to the principle of free. Although registration also requires a certain fee, but we will reduce the registration fee to attract more people to use. Since Microsoft's service has been marked by high quality and low fees, it has to stick to it.

Q: What services are most attractive to business users in hail planning?

A: Hail program is located in the personal service, the design of all aspects of the user's own data. It is not a specific device, but a lot of devices are connected together. As a result, such services can also serve business users.

Q: Can you draw the conclusion that hail planning is the best plan for Microsoft at present and has a considerable impetus to the interests of the company?

A: There is no doubt that the implementation of this plan will bring the current level of online communication to a higher grade. It will make all communication into a real organism. This has a big impact on business-to-business as well. As the plan becomes reality, XML languages will be widely used and office will become a rather sought-after tool. And they don't need to change any software, and their work doesn't get complicated. XML is a popular network standard, which makes it easy for each merchant to exchange information of employees, customers, partners and vendors.

Q: How will your XML operations proceed?

A: Our XML operations are closely linked to business. In fact, most XML operations are associated with business and business-to-business. This is especially true for hail schemes, which are quite attractive to the parties that are cooperating. If your company has a hail plan in place, there is no need to use the passport system anymore.

Q: According to what you have described, hail schemes can be run freely on a Web server, but how can they be secured?

A: We have invested a lot in this area. In fact, the network protocol itself has ensured the network security and service quality, and its transmission speed has reached the highest point after the optimization. We have reached a broad agreement on the quality of transmission and Ciscos, Akamais and Intel. They all want to achieve product optimization and upgrades through online services. Therefore, these companies are very concerned about the development of broadband
Q: Which consulting company is currently working with Microsoft? It is responsible for Microsoft on. NET and hail plan which aspect of the consultation?

A: We are now focusing on developing XML Web services with other partners. Microsoft has a dedicated team focused on the development of Accenture and other integrated systems. We have also signed a wide range of training programs with Accenture, which is mainly about XML Web services. Among our partners, the most outstanding is the Visual Studio.NET. This is a strategy of Microsoft and we have even given our future to it. And our consultants ask to know more about XML Web services, they are very professional consulting team, give Microsoft many aspects of help.

Q: What do you think of your competitors: Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard and IBM? Have their progress in Internet services aroused your attention?

A: Actually HP has given Microsoft a lot of help. We are in the period of cooperation, customers can benefit from the shallow. IBM is a respectable competitor, and we compete in many ways. IBM is also a giant of the computer industry, in many areas occupy the position of the leading boss. But we are also number one in terms of software usage, so the competition between IBM and Microsoft will be particularly fierce.

In this sense, the projects we have worked together are quite important. We are pleased to see that IBM has also gradually focused its attention on XML Web services. If you look only at the aspects of soap (simple Object Access Protocol) and UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and integration), IBM is a pretty good partner. But once they have access to an unfinished platform, they choose WebSphere, and we choose. Net.

This is also true in many other ways. IBM will give our products a range of activities in some areas, such as their production and sale of windows-based servers. They are also using their superior hardware technology and production levels to start producing a wide range of Windows based laptops
Q: So what do you think of the development of sun company?

A: Sun is a company that is difficult to describe in words. All of their money comes from sales of high-end hardware and is involved in a number of industry competitions. It developed the Java language independently, and we thought it was great. But because of the copyright problem, we can not use this language in our own products yet. However, we have been able to make our products compatible with them. Sun is actually a pretty scary opponent for us. They still want to believe in expensive hardware, think the money for research and development should be limited, and they think it's a stupid idea to teach the necessary knowledge to employees. It's impossible for Microsoft to do anything about it.

Q: What does Microsoft think about the development of the Java language recently?

A: Sun has been working on Java as an industry standard, and Microsoft has strongly supported it in many ways. We have the best Java virtual Host, this host has given us a lot of help. Java is also an important part of the Visual Studio architecture. But it would be rather foolish to position it as the only language in the industry. Java is really a good language, and many have accepted it. That's enough.

Q: Visual Basic has had only a few changes in the past 10 years. But Microsoft is now implementing a new network Service system, how VB will adapt to the development of the entire technology?

A: The biggest change in basic language is that it is graphical. Visual Basic has been very successful in this regard. But C language is very difficult to achieve from the text interface to the graphical interface of the transformation, and we have done this, when you are writing to see their own program running state. This feature is called "Microsoft Foundation Classes". Most of the Windows programs written in C now use MFC features. In the era of dial-up Internet, we have MFC; In the XML era, we have. NET architecture. For those who really understand XML, the future belongs to them.