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  Terry Myerson spent a full 10 minutes detailing the capabilities of Dragon Shield and its potential impact on Microsoft, much like Steve Ballmer does.

  Terry Myerson summed up in a phone call: "Advanced technology is Microsoft's foundation, so we invest a lot of money every year in the R&D of next-generation operating systems. But now, we are threatened by technology, although it may not be apparent for the time being. If we don't pay enough attention to this, it will be a disaster!"

  After listening to Terry Myerson's statement, Steve Ballmer was silent for a while before slowly opening his mouth and asking: "So do you have any feasible suggestions, Mr. Myerson?"

  Familiar with Ballmer's management style, Terry Myerson had anticipated the question and replied without hesitation: "We must find a way to acquire the technology. If we can't buy it, we need to think of ways to put obstacles in its path. We cannot let him smoothly pass through the Dragon Shield system to get funding for research and development of new systems!"

  "How can you be so confident in this Longhorn system developed by the Chinese? With our technical reserves, we really have no way to solve it in the short term?" Steve Ballmer asked with a heavier tone.

  Terry Mairson, although he knew the other party couldn't see him, still habitually shrugged and said: "I know it's hard to believe, but that system is now in front of those top engineers at the research institute, and they're stumped. They can only ask me for more time, but can't give me a guarantee of success!"

  After that, Terry Melsen added: "If these facts make you feel uncomfortable, then there's another piece of news that might interest you. This Tiensheng Technology Company is actually the same Huaxia company that caused trouble for Apple a while back! I heard Cook is planning to replace the Asia-Pacific president, all thanks to the developer of this Longdun system. Apparently, that phone app that gave Apple a headache still hasn't been cracked yet."

  "Get a report ready, there's a board meeting tomorrow and have the report done before then. You'll be attending to present the situation!" Steve Ballmer finally nailed it down.

  ……

  Just as Terry Mairson was struggling to write his report, Wang Zhengyu had already returned to the hotel. At Qian Xiaohua's request, he temporarily could not return to Beijing, so Wang Zhengyu decided to stay in his hotel room and surf the internet to understand some recent online information.

  It's just like today at the press conference, a reporter mentioned that the vast number of people demanded that Tian Shu Technology develop a voice-controlled smart home dialect version, which has been making waves on the internet, and he actually had no idea, this was absolutely unimaginable in the past.

  Skilled in opening web pages, Wang Zhengyu first took a look at the Tieba established by Huo Guangbo for voice-controlled smart home, and the number of fans who paid attention to Tieba had already exceeded 10 million, with the popularity index directly approaching the first big bar, Da Emperor Bar. There are already hundreds of millions of posts in the bar.

  Open the bar, skip those pure water posts, a large part of them are substantial experience posts, it's clear that this software has been played with by netizens. Obviously, the primary software intelligence has brought endless joy to countless mobile phone enthusiasts.

  There are boring and funny conversations with smart phone butlers, all recorded and thrown into Tieba; also discovered new functions, shared with everyone in Tieba; also designed various butler images, provided for download by Tieba netizens...

  In short, this software is almost being played to death...

  The popularity of Tieba was somewhat unexpected for Wang Zhengyu, and it also served as a wake-up call for him that establishing the company's own official website had become an urgent matter.

  Thinking of this, Wang Zhengyu immediately called Huo Guangbo. This matter can be handed over to Huo Guangbo directly, he is too lazy to worry about it. However, as soon as he mentioned this, Huo Guangbo's reaction was surprisingly big.

  "What? I'm going to find someone to build a company website? By the way, we're also a tech company, and you're known as a freak in the IT industry who appears only once every hundred years. Can't even build a simple website?"

  "This is really unbelievable! Who else said I'm some kind of freak in the IT industry who only appears once a century?" Wang Zhengyu felt a bit embarrassed.

  "You really dare to not know, huh? As for the evaluation of you, isn't it what those two weirdos from Beijing said? By the way, are they really that awesome? They came here for less than two days and asked me to buy a bunch of network equipment, some of which aren't even available domestically. I heard they're trying to figure out how to get them back from abroad, damn! Worth tens of millions."

  "They want you to buy, don't worry, those two are treasures! Oh, right, about building the official website, just have them handle it, they'll definitely understand. Anyway, we don't need it to be too beautiful, as long as it's practical and looks okay." Wang Zhengyu instructed.

  "Wow! I watched the press conference today! You're amazing! Today, many people called our company to inquire about our Longteng system! Fortunately, the framework of our company is basically set up, otherwise, I would be busy to death!"

  "Okay, take care of the company's side. Also, let Liu Hongwei and Zhang Huqing know that our company is currently in urgent need of technical R&D personnel. I'll be staying in Beijing for a few more days, so if there are any applicants in this area, have them handle it first. If they have friends who can come over, that's even better! In addition, taking advantage of the fact that we've recently gained some fame, the recruitment efforts of other departments should also be increased. We don't have time to wait!" Wang Zhengyu instructed.

  "Don't worry, I understand all these. But why do I feel like you're getting more and more anxious? Take it easy, slow down, or you'll get nowhere! Can't gobble everything up at once and become a big fatso! Alright, I'm busy on my end, nothing else to say, hanging up!"

  Hanging up the phone, Wang Zhengyu smiled self-deprecatingly. Indeed, people in certain positions have certain concerns.

  When he was just an ordinary student, even if he saw infuriating news, he would just vent a few words and let it go. But now, with just one video, he felt a sense of urgency that time is not waiting for him, or maybe this is what growing up means.

  Shaking his head, Wang Zhengyu continued to browse the contents of the post bar. Soon he saw the user's call for a dialect version as mentioned by the reporter.

  The idea was first raised by a user who wanted to give his elderly parents two smart phones. Because mastering voice control is very convenient, it has given some older people who don't understand how to operate them a foundation for using smartphones.

  For example, when sending a video to the elderly via WeChat, they may not be able to operate it with their hands, but after connecting, speaking into the phone is always possible. However, unfortunately, the user's parents do not speak Mandarin, and the voice-controlled smart home system cannot recognize it either. As a result, he began posting on various Android forums, proposing the development of a Minnan dialect version of the intelligent voice-controlled smart home system.

  Who would have thought that this post was immediately interesting to many netizens?

  Then it was unstoppable, and posts seeking various local dialect versions sprouted up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, sweeping across major Android forums, with Tieba being one of the main battlefields.

  However, this demand is clearly an opportunity for the software to start charging formally. After all, voice-controlled smart home is one of his future cash cows, and Wang Zhengyu needs this funding to research a new generation operating system, so he can't give up.

  However, if a free software is suddenly changed to a paid one without any reason, although Wang Zhengyu dares to confirm that most users will eventually choose to pay, they will still have doubts in their hearts.

  Now that users have this demand, taking advantage of the opportunity to propose software in a paid way to support the research and development of various local languages in China is indeed a good reason.

  Moreover, a dialect version of voice-controlled smartphone butler is not difficult for his current technology, it's just very tedious.

  Because the intelligent response module of this mobile app is separate from its own dictionary system, only the pronunciation of dialects needs to be replaced with Mandarin. However, this requires someone who is proficient in local dialects to assist with inputting. These don't even need to be done manually, as long as someone inputs the dialect module well and then packages the software.

  Of course, this is only the local language version, and the international language version can also be operated in the same way. Looking at the popularity of Huaxia for this software, Wang Zhengyu believes that the language versions of other countries will also become popular sooner or later.

  That will be a new profit growth point for the company. Of course, considering the contract with Apple, other language versions can only develop IOS version first, but the Chinese dialect version does not have this restriction.

  "It seems that the company still needs to temporarily recruit a batch of talents who are proficient in languages from all over the world!" Wang Zhengyu thought to himself, his hand unconsciously reaching for the phone on his desk again.