Chapter 253 Win95 Release and What I Want to Do

For the year 1995 that Li Xiaofan was reborn in,

the most significant event in the history of human technology is probably the Windows 95 system to be released on August 24, which will usher in a new era of the Internet!

The news of this press conference was first announced by Microsoft CEO Bill Gates at the COMDEX computer exhibition held in Atlanta, USA on April 25, 1995, that Microsoft would release the Windows 95 system on August 24 of that year.

At that time, Microsoft was already a giant IT technology company with sales of about US$6 billion and 17,800 employees.

Throughout August, the CFido

S forum in China was hotly discussing this major event.

After returning to the office at Singapore Science Park from the Singapore Straits Times, Li Xiaofan went to the CFido

S forum and found that those bigwigs were leaving messages to discuss this matter.

Qiu Bojun: The development cycle of Windows 95 was too long. 1dowsago Chicago β, or test version, was demonstrated at the Comdex Fall computer exhibition in Las Vegas. It is said that Microsoft once planned to release Windows 95, but later postponed it to this spring, and now postponed it to August 24. I am now even worried that Microsoft will announce another postponement at the last minute?

Andy, a member of the site who is studying at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA, posted a comment:

It shouldn't happen. Recently, I passed by Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond near Seattle, Washington, and it seems that it has really entered the countdown state. The No. 5 R&D Building in Microsoft's headquarters is said to be the secret development base of the Windows 95 window system. I heard from friends that hundreds of engineers are busy conducting final testing and error correction work on Windows 95 every day. A senior who has been to Building No. 5 said that there is a large slogan in the corridor of Building No. 5 that seems to be pretending to be relaxed: Where do you want to go today?

Then, it is said that many Microsoft employees working there gave various answers: After the Windows 95 conference is over, "I want to find a beautiful woman to sleep with for three days and three nights!" "I want to go home!" "I want to go to Disney!" "I want to find myself a husband to marry!" "I want to go to the bank to withdraw money and go shopping!"... These interesting answers reflect the desire of Windows 95 developers to relax after long hours of intense work. So, I guess this conference will definitely not be delayed!

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Li Xiaofan went online to look at those professional business and IT media, and they all focused on the Microsoft Windows 95 window system conference to be held on August 24.

Many professional and authoritative media reported that in order to ensure the supply of Windows 95 hot-selling season starting from August 24, Microsoft's factories in the United States, Australia, Japan, Singapore, Europe and other places are working at full capacity to produce Windows or disk software, as well as supporting user manuals and other materials with a production capacity of 1 million copies per week. At present, thousands of Windows 95 have been distributed all over the world, just waiting to be put on the shelves on August 24.

Windows 95 will be launched in 30 languages. The English version of Windows 95 will be launched on August 24, the European version will be launched in September, and the Chinese version will be launched in December...

Many professional business and IT media reporters have tried Microsoft's Windows 95 test version in advance, and the response has been huge.

According to the US "Business Weekly", the estimated retail price of Windows 95 is 2ws3.1, and the price of upgrading to Windows 95 is $109. Although this price is not cheap, PC users, including home users, may flock to Windows 95. In the first year, we predict that Windows 95 may sell more than 50 million copies worldwide.

A radical IT business media even predicted that in the first week, Windows 95 may sell 14 million copies.

At that time, Gartner Dataquest, the world's largest IT consulting company, also predicted that by 1ws 95, the number of PCs will reach 200 million. And the total sales volume exceeded 100 million copies.

Some media commented that Windows 95 will enable the PC manufacturing industry, which has 85 million users and a production value of 130 billion US dollars, to migrate to a brand new technology, which will have a wide impact.

An IT financial media reported that the most excited company now may be Intel, the CPU supplier. They plan to launch a Pentium chip weighing about 1 ton in 1996, and Windows 95 will be of great help. PC manufacturers will also launch a large number of new machines that match Windows 95 in the fall. PBE claims to have already produced such machines, and Compaq plans to launch a home PC of the WS 95 type...

Li Xiaofan knew without a doubt that the exciting moment of the Windows 95 system launch conference on August 24 was coming.

This conference will also push the valuation of Yahoo and Netscape's stock to a new level. Now I just need to hold on to Netscape's stock and wait for it to soar.

Of course, in addition to holding on to Netscape's stock, I also have to do something to celebrate the great August 24 Windows 95 conference.

The time difference in Singapore is the same as that in Beijing, 12 hours ahead of the United States.

That is to say, on the evening of August 24, accompanied by the classic song "Start Me Up" played by the Rolling Stones, Bill Gates and comedian Jay Leno will participate in the Windows 95 launch ceremony in Redmond, Washington. It will be the early morning of the 25th in Singapore local time.

The Straits Times and Lianhe Zaobao on the 25th were printed in advance in the early morning, so they were too late to report the grand occasion of the conference. They can only wait for the newspapers published the next day, the 26th, to report the news.

If the newspaper on the 25th could publish the news written by Xu Manli about Singapore Yifan Company being the first local company to advertise on the Internet and start a new business profit model, and then combine it with the opening advertisement of her Yifan Optical Store, it might attract a lot of readers' attention and get some popularity.

Two days later, Xu Manli sent the news article she wrote about Singapore Yifan Company being the first local company to try Internet advertising successfully to Li Xiaofan for review via email.

Li Xiaofan deliberately delayed for a few days and replied to the email on August 21 to confirm the content of Xu Manli's manuscript and corrected a few minor errors in it.

After confirming the email, he also called Xu Manli: "Ms. Xu, I'm sorry that I was on a business trip recently and couldn't check emails while I was away on a business trip. I'm a little slow in replying to your email..."

"It's okay, Mr. Li, anyway, your manuscript is not very urgent."

"Ms. Xu, do you know that there is a big thing happening in a few days?"

"Big thing, what big thing?" Xu Manli asked curiously.

"Don't you know that Microsoft will release Windows 95 in Redmond, Washington on the evening of August 24th, which is the early morning of August 25th, Singapore time?"

"Yes, I know. Our colleagues in the US correspondent bureau will rush over to participate in and report on this event!"

"Then your newspaper will definitely not have time to report on the 25th, right? I suggest that you publish this news about Yifan Company on the 25th, which can be regarded as a warm-up for the Internet industry..."

"Haha, that's a good suggestion. I'll report it to my boss first and see what my superiors think."