On March 14, 2017, Microsoft announced that LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman (Ride Hoffman) officially added to the Microsoft Board. Then, Hoffman also announced the reasons why you join the Microsoft Board on your personal Linkedin page, mentioned:
After joining the Microsoft Board, I will continue to help Linkedin grow in the previous direction, and help Microsoft deepen existence in Silicon Valley, and help it better use social means and artificial intelligence.
(Reid Hoffman)
There is no other moment, "helping Microsoft in the Silicon Valley area to deepen the existence of existence" this sentence is tricky. Because as a company rooted in Seattle, Microsoft did not have high in silicon valley in the past for a long time.
Not only that, Microsoft has also been the public enemy of Silicon Valley.
At that time, Microsoft is really a devil.
Microsoft has been enemy of Silicon Valley, but also from the 1990s.
As early as 1990, the US Federal Trade Commission surveyed the issue of the MS-DOS system suspected of bundling application software sales, and later, this survey took over the US Department of Justice. Later, in 1995, Microsoft and the Ministry of Justice reached an agreement. Microsoft could not attach other conditions when issuing Windows using licenses to PC manufacturers, but did not stop Microsoft to develop integrated products.
However, this year, a netscape company that is sufficient to represent the Silicon Valley Technology Power.
(Mark Anderson)
The main products of Netscape Company have developed by Mark Anderson developed by Mosaic browsers developed in 1993. Mosaic is released, which is widely popular; Anderson has established Mosaic in Silicon Valley and uses browsers as business operations.
In November 1994, MOSAIC reamerled Netscape; August 1995, Netscape Company, which was not found in two years, was listed.
The emergence of the net viewer made Microsoft feel threatened, so the latter began to fight crazy. The main way of Microsoft counterattacks is to hurry to develop IE browser, but package it into the Windows 95 system packaging for sale; therefore IE IE in a sense is free. This is a fatal blow to rely on the net view of the browser.
IE is not an inequalitude on the product; its fast iteration, some technical partial leading in a certain extent, has promoted IE development. However, in order to rob the browser market share, Microsoft did not hesitate to use the advantages and market positioning of his operating system, taking bundled sales, free, forcing partners to use, web standard monopoly by commercial terms, to suppress netizen .
At the end of 1998, Netscape, unbeloved, was acquired online by the United States. This Silicon Valley is lost to Microsoft.
However, Microsoft got the victory of the browser battle, but it completely lost the good feelings of Silicon Valley. A Software Company of Silicon Valley Loopt Joint Founder Sam Altman later recalled:
Microsoft was very bad at the time. I can say no exaggeration, the Microsoft at that time is really a devil, I will never work with them.
Therefore, when the US Department of Justice mentioned the lawsuit against Microsoft in 1997, the attitude of the entire Silicon Valley is a bit of a gloating. On November 5, 1999, the US judge Thomas Penfield Jackson judged that Microsoft was suspected of monopoly, and made companies such as Apple, Java, Netscape, Lotus Software, RealNetworks.
Judgment is out, the entire Silicon Valley is rejoicing. Later, a book called Gary Rivlin wrote a book entitled "conspiracy to pay Bier Gates", and mentioned this sentence:
I am sure that Silicon Valley celebrates Microsoft to Mei Mo.
When Microsoft's most unlucky, even by the court asked to split into two companies.
From confrontation to catering, Microsoft and Silicon Valley have changed
The anti-monopoly encountered by Microsoft in the Century, letting this company began to reflect. Since then, Microsoft is increasingly paying attention to government relations and public images, and also begins working with technology industries to launch charitable projects.
Microsoft is responsible for the spokesperson DOUG FREE for Silicon Valley Affairs.
After all, you will definitely have a clearer understanding of yourself. We have now taken different acts.
More than ten years, Microsoft opened the park in Silicon Valley, invested in Facebook, and reached a cooperation agreement with multiple companies such as Twitter, Yahoo. From the volume, Microsoft is still a giant, but Microsoft has changed significantly compared to the end of the last century.
(Microsoft in Silicon Valley)
The loopt joint founder SAM Altman said, although it passed Microsoft like a devil, now when he needs to find technical support for the company's smartphone, he also chose Microsoft's developer tool, search engine and drawing. service. He said:
Microsoft is an incredible partner.
Microsoft's understanding of Silicon Valley, maybe there is one reason: under the tide of mobile Internet, Microsoft dominates the Windows operating system platform is no longer as important as before. Since 2007, Apple's iOS and Google's Android began to have a big line, and Microsoft's Windows Phone launched in a hurry was almost tutative after several waves.
Don't forget, Apple and Google are Silicon Valley. That is, the mobile Internet era, the wind of the Silicon Valley is far away from Microsoft in Seattle.
Just as the Gary Rivlin is accepting an interview in 2015:
Perhaps Microsoft is working hard to become a nice partner, no longer as aggressive as before, but this is because they are not afraid as before. When you are no longer more huge and strong than others, you will hardly threaten others.
Silicon Valley is acceptable to Microsoft, perhaps related to Microsoft's latest CEO Nadra. After Nadra, Microsoft became a lot, one of them was Microsoft's Outlook, Office, Cortana, etc. APPs launched in the iOS and Android platforms.
Microsoft also moves frequently in open source projects, including .NET and Visual Studio Code, many projects, are open. According to the data published in September 2016, Microsoft has ranked first in Open Source Contribution, exceeding Facebook and Google.
This makes Microsoft look more in line with Silicon Valley to pursue open and free temperatures.
With LinkedIn and Hoffman, Microsoft is closer to Silicon Valley.
LINKEDIN is also a Silicon Valley, while the founder Reid Hoffman, founder of LINKEDIN is a king of the people of Silicon Valley. The Senior Editor-in-Chief of Well-known Science and Technology Media. Jessi Hempel said:
If the Silicon Valley is human, keep the heart of Silicon Valley is healthy. It only needs a telephone or an email, and Hofman can contact anyone in Silicon Valley in a few minutes, and he can always find the most useful person.
In fact, after Nadra, after Microsoft CEO, I immediately saw Hoffman; later Hoffman said when recalling this matter, Nadra called himself "Silicon Valley Expert", and the two people's dialogue quickly turned The problem of leadership.
So, with Hoffman, Microsoft will be more likely to go next step in Silicon Valley, especially when it needs to seek partners or talents in Silicon Valley.
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