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Microsoft reached a market value of US$661.6 billion in 1999, the highest market value record for a listed company in human history. Adjusting for inflation, it was equivalent to $913 billion in 2012.

As a company that has created such a market capitalization, Microsoft has more than 100,000 employees worldwide. With so many employees, one can imagine how huge Microsoft's organizational structure is.

Downers said that he worked for Microsoft, but he did not tell Wen Ming exactly which department he worked in, whether it was the headquarters or a branch, and so on.

Wen Ming's question, in fact, is to learn more about Downers' position in Microsoft, so that he can take advantage of it.

Although I'm just a senior engineer at Microsoft.

When Downers said this, he had a very smug expression on his face, because Microsoft's senior engineer is really very senior.

But as far as I know, Microsoft has no idea about the mobile game market.

Wen Ming was very surprised by Downers' identity, because the profession of senior engineer seemed to be very incompatible with his current expedition. Shouldn't the so-called senior engineers, especially Microsoft's senior engineers, stay in the office every day, drinking coffee, typing code or having meetings?

Senior engineer? Wen Ming said with a smile on his face: Then your rating must be very high.

Before 2013, Microsoft implemented an employee technical rating system, and each employee had a grade. This seemingly cruel system was only abolished in 2013, but in fact, was it really abolished?

Downers continued to reply proudly: It's not too high, just level 66.

If you are a person who does not understand Microsoft's rating system, you will not be surprised at level 66, but in fact, this level is no longer an engineer. In a department, this level is definitely the most admired existence, and they have the final say on any problems. Moreover, it is already the highest level of a Microsoft engineer, and there are 67 levels above it.

Further up, it is no longer an engineer, but directly linked to the profit of the product. If you do well, you will be rewarded with a lot of bonuses. If you don't do well, you may be fired directly.

Wen Ming looked at the smug Downers, without any envy, because with his current ability, he can definitely become a senior engineer of Microsoft, and even go further in a short time. But this is not to say that he looks down on Downers. Being able to get to this point is already among the top group of people in the computer industry, except for those entrepreneurs like Bill Gates.

Of course, technically, Downers can definitely throw off Bill Gates.

Microsoft doesn't do the mobile game market, is it because the profits in the mobile game market are too small?

Wen Ming actually already had the answer to this question in his heart, and the reason why he still asked it was to find out about Downers' thinking and Microsoft's thinking.

What Donalds saw and heard was interested in chatting, and it happened that he had nothing to do, so he chatted on the deck.

As far as I know, the total revenue of the global mobile game market last year was less than 4 billion U.S. dollars per year. Although this year is only halfway through, the mobile game market has improved due to the upgrading of mobile phones and technological improvements. Raise, however, will never exceed $5 billion per year.

Downers talked eloquently: This number is very high. Except for a few dozen people in the world, it is impossible for other people to get such a high social status in their lifetime. However, this number represents the global market.

Wen Ming kept nodding in coordination beside him, which made Downers more interested in talking.

There are more than 200 countries and regions in the world, and each country and region has local protection policies. Whether it is mobile games or computer games, if you want to achieve real global marketing,

It's already very difficult. Even if it is possible to achieve global marketing, the profits obtained will be divided among many levels.

To develop a game that is popular all over the world, the capital and technology required to invest in it is difficult to guarantee sufficient income. And our annual turnover of Microsoft is nearly 100 billion U.S. dollars, and the profit is also tens of billions of U.S. dollars. Why do you think we would Do you value the mobile game market?

The most important thing is that we are the owners of the platform, in other words, we are the rule-makers. God's concern is how to create a world, not what products will be produced in this world. Like We invented the Xbox, but the most popular game on the Xbox is not made by our company, you know what I mean?

Wen Ming certainly understood what Downers meant, but only Microsoft had the confidence to say such a thing.

Microsoft, which has occupied nearly 98% of the global computer system market, really looks down on a mobile game market with a global revenue of only 4 billion US dollars.

Wen Ming was very happy in his heart, because for him, the key to the problem was that Microsoft hadn't really turned their attention to the mobile phone market.

If Microsoft can really regard the mobile phone market as an important development direction for them, then they must be able to see that smartphones will eventually replace the current mobile phones. And when smartphones continue to improve from generation to generation, the configuration of mobile phones will become more and more like a computer.

When playing games on mobile phones becomes the mainstream, no one can ignore the market share of mobile games.

Wen Ming's Tencent company in his previous life, because of the explosive revenue from mobile games, made the founder of Tencent the richest man in China. In the past, although the founders of Tencent were also among the top few on the rich list, they were never able to reach the first place. Although the difference in money is not too much, the meaning is completely different.

(ps: In fact, I want to say that I also contributed a negligible amount of income to the richest man.)

I can see what you mean.

Wen Ming replied: It's like the windows phone system that you plan to launch, but you don't plan to manufacture your own hardware products. You just want the windows phone system to become the same as the windows series system and occupy the global mobile phone system market.

The Windows phone system will be officially announced by Microsoft to the outside world in February 2010. At this time, there are already related news.

Downes smiled and nodded, and said, It seems that you are not the kind of student who immerses himself in his studies, and you are also very concerned about external news. In fact, the Windows phone system is the project I am working on.

Wen Ming finally knew what Downers was doing at Microsoft. Being able to participate in Microsoft, or even lead such a project as a senior engineer, is definitely a very important existence.

However, at this time, Wen Ming expressed a lot of sympathy for Downers. Because the Windows phone mobile phone system is a very failed system, the first official version of Windows phone7.0 will be adopted by Nokia to deal with Apple's ios mobile phone system.

In Wen Ming's previous life, after Nokia adopted the system produced by Microsoft, it couldn't recover at all, and was eventually acquired by Microsoft. Of course, there are also conspiracy theorists who believe that Microsoft just wants to use this system to make Nokia fail and be acquired by them.

It stands to reason that there is no Apple in this world, and the Windows phone system may not be used by the flourishing Nokia. Therefore, the Winodws phone system may not necessarily fail, and Downers will not be a tragedy.

Ke Wenming knew that Downers was destined to become a tragedy.

Because this world has him, and he has Apple's decades of technical reserves, Apple's series of amazing products are destined to be born in this world in his hands.

Whether it is Nokia, which is still in full swing, or Microsoft, which occupies 98% of the global computer system market, they will all become obstacles in his way and be kicked away by him.

Mr. Downers.

Wen Ming smiled and said, I want to make a bet with you!