United States, Silicon Valley, Sunnyvale - Sunnyvale, Vi Private Company President Terryopdendyk - Terry Opdendyk, irritated and fell off the newspaper in his hand, cursing in despair, "It's okay for these shameless bastards to suppress us, but they even joined forces."

The rapid development of the personal computer industry in 1982 was proved by two signs - Time magazine in terms of public opinion chose personal computers as the storm of the year, and Fangyuan Computer Company in terms of business successfully listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

With the increase in the number of personal computers on the market, compared with the "one-time transaction" of hardware, the money-making ability of the software industry has become increasingly apparent.

For example, the spreadsheet software war has risen from the simple market competition among various software companies to the confrontation between which product is the most powerful on the two major platforms of Fangyuan Personal Computer and ibm-pc, which shows the important value of the software.

It can easily reach 60% and 70% of the huge profits, helping some software companies seize the opportunity to grow rapidly into the darling of the personal computer era with sales of more than 10 million US dollars, and ViPrivate Corp is one of them.

It was originally called personalsoftware - the Vi-corp of a personal software company. When it was established in 1976, its main business was to sell a chess game on the personal computer platform, and its business business model was similar to that of a book publisher.

After marrying the spreadsheet software ViPrivate Calc, the operating conditions of ViPrivate Corp have undergone earth-shaking changes and have been favored by venture capital.

In order to obtain exclusive distribution rights of ViPrivate Calc from Dan Bricklin's software art company, personal software companies gave commission conditions of 36 to 50%, far higher than the general market in the industry of 8 to 12%.

After Don Estelish selected ViPrivate Calc as one of the three troikas of ibm-pc platform commercial software and preinstalled it on ibm-pc, ViPrivate Calc began to bring considerable profits to personal software companies and became the pillar of the source of economic resources.

Therefore, the personal software company finally changed the company name to ViPrivate Corp, and even prefixed the names of other products with ViPrivate Prefix.

From a marketing perspective, this approach has indeed produced good results.

But don't forget that the real owner of spreadsheet software calc is Dan Bricklin's software art company. A large part of the profits of corp went to software art companies, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they have become the other party's worker.

For the sake of the golden dollar, the two companies that had originally had close cooperation began to get dirty, but the agreement was there, and ViPrivate Corp could not see the turning point to solve the problem, so it used the financial resources brought by ViPrivate Calc to actively develop other software.

At the same time, ViPeo Corp, which has been completely controlled by risk funds, has increasingly managed its management style. As a result, it has caused disintegration and disintegration, and some important figures, including Mitchell and Capol, have left one after another.

When Mitchell Kapol left Vi's private corp, someone reminded Terry Opdendik that Mitchell Kapol should sign a competition agreement, but Terry Opdendik simply said that it was out of disdain.

As a result, after Mitchell Carpol officially released the new architecture spreadsheet software lotus1-2-3 on Dex last year, it swept through other opponents on the ibm-pc platform. It achieved the hegemony of unifying the country and even had the qualifications to challenge philosophers.

Terry Opdendyk, who was slapped twice by the cruel reality, was able to imagine how ashamed he was.

Seeing that ViPrivate Corp's operating performance turned sharply, Terry Opdendik was so anxious that he was both burned inside.

Just at this time, ViPrivate Corp's investment in the field of graphical user interfaces has achieved significant results.

So Terry Opdendyk was like a drowning man holding a floating wood and betting all his money on a new product that had not been fully developed.

Not to mention, when Terry Opdendik's gambling was just a gambler and was spreading around with the semi-finished products of ViPeople, it really caused a huge sensation, and even overwhelmed the storm of the spreadsheet software war in full swing.

Many professional IT media, including Bytes, praised ViPrivate enthusiastically, believing it is a truly suitable operating system for ordinary users, and instantly put it on the altar of the world of graphical user interfaces.

Dog bites people but not news, but people bites dogs are called news.

Although these IT media strive to be rigorous in professional knowledge, they do their best to render and attract readers in reporting on industry trends.

Nowadays, microcomputer technology is changing with each passing day, and the personal computer industry is booming. People who are interested in this field are willing to see such lively content.

ViPrivate just met this need, and ViPrivate Corp was able to regain its foothold. Terry Opdendyk, who was overjoyed, immediately took advantage of the opportunity to launch a complete set of product sales strategies.

But this market trend has inevitably attracted the vigilance and rebound of Microsoft, Zheru, and Apple, which have their own plans for the application of graphical user interfaces.

In fact, vipon is not a completely independent operating system from the bottom to the top. It is an environment that runs on ms-dos, providing applications with a graphical user interface, similar to the graphical ll on the Fangyuan personal computer operating system Freedos, which is the command line shell program.

Or to describe it more accurately, in the 16-bit operating system s-dos environment that was originally run on ms-dos in the early 1990s, the graphical user interface was manually started by typing a command.

This mode is not unique, and the operating mechanism of another type of operating system Linux is similar.

Of course, vipun is definitely not as powerful as it is.

But at this stage, Microsoft was so anxious that his eyes were red when he was not as good as the Windo-pc platform.
Chapter completed!