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In September last year, when yahoo was set aside, Microsoft is authorized by the board in five years the company can use $4 billion company stock buyback. When Microsoft’s chief financial officer Chris Liddell said, “that this shows that our long-term development of the faith, and that is our commitment to shareholders capital return.” So Microsoft in the past three months how much stock to buy? Almost no!

In the last Wednesday the company performance conference, an analyst Chris Liddell ask about the buyback matters, Linddell response to, “this is a big environment. In the current situation to keep cash reserves is a responsible way.” In fact, the Microsoft Office company in this season by season on cash held grow to $20.715 billion 25.34 billion dollars, and at last season, Microsoft used around the $2.2 billion shares in the company.

Liddell continue to say, “we will still keep repurchase stock in a company, but it will based on where we change the environment, and our working capital, this is a long-term decision.” According to the chief executive’s comments “economy is not so fast recovery”, we can understand so: don’t expect this season will buy the company stock Microsoft…….

That our problem is, Microsoft why so stingy? And other companies are also do the same thing. According to Liddell, despite declining profits, Microsoft this year’s cash flow of $20 billion, and the stock price is also in 10 years of low around…

Shanghai Volkswagen insurance company use Microsoft software piracy, was sentenced yesterday to Microsoft compensate for 217. Ten thousand yuan. This case is the first case of Microsoft in China against large state-owned enterprise infringe upon their software copyright case, is also so far Microsoft in China the biggest amount of compensation for the case.

Comment on: “the boy”, Microsoft anti-piracy efforts started with the power to the enterprise level, many enterprises to China was a wake-up call.

“I am in the old family in the growth of the parents said what had to obey. This pattern is not suitable for son. I respect, admitted to the way and the son get along with, the topic of discussion all-encompassing. I also don’t regularly held the Olympic Games’ family ‘, this makes the children can feel and understand from big family love, this is to help them succeed elements”

Editor’s note:

According to the bund pictorial “report, Microsoft founder Bill Gates’s father, William Henry gates has accepted the newspaper interview, how to train the richest man in the world expressed his views. Old memories gates, found in the personality of the gates after independence, he realized from the parents “opinions type” education style has not suitable for use on a small gates, decided to use a more equality and respect with the attitude of son exchange, and obtain the ideal effect. In order to develop the small gates’ emotional intelligence and confidence, old gates invented the “family Olympic Games” game, and children in the game, the communication and teaching. This not only inspired little gates curiosity and self consciousness, more let gates know the cooperation, the friendship to the standard. At the same time, he was from his familiar “family Olympic Games” were inspired, roll out called “Microsoft game” outdoor competition project, and become Microsoft company every year of one of the major activities necessary.

Old gates thinks, family education mode is not immutable, parents should learn to according to the characteristics of children, the education mode timely adjust and innovation, only such ability can help children find the correct road to success.

The following is William Henry gates interview the.

William Henry gates:

Mary and I are in the old family in the growth of the parents say what we all have to obey. This pattern is not suitable for son. He began his preteens, the emotional aspects is very independent. He want to do what, don’t want to do what, all want to own.

Once, the rebellious young delay our travel time, he asked us: “I’m thinking about. Don’t you never think?” He give me a powerful lesson-no matter how busy you are, you do have more important, it takes time to think.

I grow up in the great depression, know the meaning of saving water, the money you spend to smart, is also need by working hard to earn. I still have the idea. I have never to children said “later to like me, don’t like me” word. Our criteria is always do the best, to follow them. Bill from Harvard University drop out from school, I not only feel depressed, but also for his future worry-he has no college degree? But now I’m sure the children follow our teaching, in order to dream do the best. The results prove he selected a the most the right path.

He is a successful entrepreneur, a good husband, father, to his way of life I pride but again……. Of course I am sure he mentally, ability, the life will also grow-I hope that any of us don’t for their achievements complacency, stagnant. In the world there are a lot of unfinished business, life still need to improve.

In a lot of things we have different opinions, we respect, admits of the exchange, the discussion, and debate, but it is a useful and informative practice, we improve the understanding of each other, improve the think of things and ideas.

When the children were little, sometimes we hold “joy Olympic Games” activities. In the family education, the game is very important education mode. Parents and children play together, in the game develop the child’s IQ and eq. The children in the game contact new things, feel the concern of the family, and through the virtual competition environment, can cultivate children’s adventure and enterprising spirit, and their victory in them a sense of accomplishment and you are grown old self sure consciousness, virtually, foster the consciousness of competition up, be helpful for they mature of knowledge and amraphel after clinging to the stage of life.

“Happy Olympic Games” activities in the past 15 years Microsoft succeeded in the great rondo, in our family’s help, gates invented for what he called the “Microsoft game (Microgames)”–will be “happy Olympics,” the reconstruction design into a bitter outdoor competition, “Microsoft game” had become one of the year’s big event of Microsoft.

As the child was young, Mary those initiated by the effect of the traditional family realize, “Microsoft game” nourish everyone involved in the enthusiasm and sense of cooperation, and his teammates friendship let everybody more wholeheartedly into the game.

Our family often party topic of discussion all-embracing, such as to discuss China become future leaders of the world behind the power, to discuss those who don’t like us rich people, will also be discussed child-raising experience, and our school team when can we get “the rose bowl” (NianDuXing American university football game title). Our topic no boundary, the party is often drag late into the night. These activities can make children from a YanShenXing family feel and understand love. I believe that these is to help them succeed elements.

Sometimes I have some upset since my son with the–with me the same name, and I no longer to this for many years the name of its patented, occasionally will think I be debased the-but the feeling then be proud son for emotional replaced. I hope China’s family also understand, gates family life with them–our parenting with them by any different.

On 24 August morning, in the Microsoft’s China headquarters is located in Beijing door, there appear company signs were hit of the scene. Once and Microsoft cooperation of fame ten eye the authentication company boss ZhouJingZhi, in order to is a contract dispute “get a view”, make Microsoft China headquarters. According to information, ten eye company will next week in respectively in China international economic and trade arbitration commission and the Beijing intermediate people’s court that it 100 million yuan and 60 million yuan of litigation.

Comment on: executives unrest affects not only the company internal operation, and external cooperation business, Microsoft China’s encounter alarmed.

In the 1990 s, IE should be the most large groups of users, the most widely used browser, and the record keeping ten years unchanged until later appeared Netscape, it is the earliest fight with IE browser. IE9 is the development of major works Microsoft recently, now it seems the praise highly of Microsoft’s latest browsers do release available.

Below I came to IE9, for example, throughout the IE9 browser technology.

1. IE9 follow meet the future development trend of standard

If you ask web developers: “why not use meta CSS3 or web site?” Most of them can answer: “because many browser does not support.”

IE has more than 50% of the market (statistical time: in April 2010 source: wikipedia)

Despite the current CSS3 and meta still far less than the most ideal effect of the W3C, but IE developers but have not let us down, this upgrade is support the meta CSS3 and, even more than some media, developers expected (the thought that in 2022, IE will launch support.) So the IE9 release, for network developers is a good news.

Interactive browser test results (source IE9 test center)

For example, IE9 supports CSS3 media demand module, and its function is to show different user requirements for web developers of development the web page rendering technique, desktop client, laptop, mobile equipment.

IE9 showed CSS3 media demand rendering page (computer, laptop, respectively for mobile devices to display)

Key to emphasize that despite the current IE9 official version has been published, use IE older versions (don’t support and meta CSS3) the number of users is considerable. But we can confirm, CSS3 and support the meta IE9 will let IT managers and technical director raised with the power of the update system (IE9 only support Vista and Windows 7).

2. Expressive conspicuous

IE version with other browsers before performance compared to some dark. Responsible for developing the IE workers also realize this, so this time the IE9 d-will is also hope to be the person finds everything new feeling.

IE9 used the Sunspider (a popular JS script expressive benchmark tools), for its graces many. JS script adopt different standard function ascension browser speed. The emphasis of the software IE9 expressive, if speed improvement to continue to ascend, then advanced users and technical staff will pay more attention to the IE9.

3. For early users with convenient

In order to let the public to experience IE9, developers, established the IE9 platform test page.

The test page based on Microsoft’s website, IE users test for early IE9 preview version, and IE9 developers, on top of the meta CSS3 and share the test data.

Developers also provide can be installed IE9 platform, let users to experience and the preview IE9 interface and function.

Also, developers and receive the user feedback system, let users to more easily provide views, platoon wrong reports.

4. Encourage outside developers to contribute force

Any software, can collect feedback from developers get improvement. Such as Linux, Wordpress and Drupal, they are popular, mainly because tens of thousands of open source the author’s contribute ideas, to product development into popular applications.

IE9 adopting similar technique, provide developers tools for programmers, to make them wrong to retrieve or test.

Although Microsoft programs don’t open source, but at least they providing a close to the way to find the mistakes and debugging rendering.

In a way, this method is very effective for public relations. If you and developers get along pretty well, then you can blend in to his boss, customers, friends and social circle. What a huge crowd!!!!! So IE9 for developers have open than before a big step.

5. More responsible for more transparent

Microsoft has been to product development take the possession of attitude, so for the IE9 blog release on development news, everyone will think of surprise. Blog talk about progress and development of IE9 obstacles, and encourage tourists participate in them. All this can see, Microsoft is no longer to product development and severely further transparent.

For example, in the public speculation of the video coding meta elements, IE9 development team in the blog on official admits, continue to support the industry standard codes h. 264.

Why to say the special case? Because it shows Microsoft started to pay attention to the user, and not as it was that allow the user to guess and at its own conclusions. No matter whether you attention, at least we can get the product development of the response, isn’t it?

IE9 lets users know to Microsoft will also admitted mistakes, such as Google’s Gmail products in IE9 render error, and official recognition that a mistake, from the former Microsoft image is completely different.

In the display Gmail IE9 (source: IE official blog)

As a network development and design staff, I know that in the work to accept criticism is very difficult, but it is also important to work improvement, to this kind of criticism topic, can choose to have constructive feedback to help improve their work.

So, this is not a Microsoft’s innovation?

Very likely. Over the years, I have been submitted to the Microsoft browser improvements, but make me angry, they have been ignored. However, I have to admit, IE development team in the development of a lot of work in the next IE9, although at present the IE9 Chrome, firefox and than up is not too perfect, but I am writing purpose is, I am engaged in so many years of network development and design, the first time readily see Microsoft is gradually change, new applications and released in a much different.

Although there are still some defects in IE9, but for future network experience will be better, looking forward to more and more meta CSS3 and the factors appear, that can help people save many test network development time, also can let users get better sensory experiences.

If you are “brother”, in front of the hospital saw two people at the same time wave to you, a drug in hand, another hand top take a washbasin, you’ll get what get on? Some may say, of course, is nearby principle, who leave near let who get on the bus. Shanghai has a “brother” that ZangQin, he said should take over and wash basin, the reason is simple: the person most hand may or may not prescribe medicine for pain ailment is small, can’t run too far from their home to the place to go to a doctor, and take wash basin person must be be in hospital, journey usually farther, is also pull a trip to the guest, but income difference between.

ZangQin is called “magic’s”, he’s in Shanghai opened 17 years taxi, originally obscure, until a few months ago, he met a special passengers, is well known.

A day of noon, ZangQin in Shanghai beauty ROM building the door to a passenger, the car just starting out, he told passengers enthusiastically the conversation, “was finally I keep to you, from the office building out, sure distance does not short.” Passengers one leng, your own will go to the airport, “how do you know?” He said, “I see a person as long as 3 seconds, those in the supermarket, at the door of the subway stations take a taxi, people may be to wear pajamas airport? The airport also won’t let them go into……” The passenger was a interested, please he went on said.

ZangQinJu one example: “I once at people’s square see three people in front: the first wave is a young woman, with a small package, just after shopping, a young man and woman, is among a see be shopping; the third is to wear down jacket young man, hand was still carrying laptops. I do not hesitate to drive down the man before, on the car also feel strange, saying, why do you give up the two front, just not pick up to open to my face? I said before, the first girl is to sneak out at noon buy something very close to the company, estimates; the couple is among tourists, didn’t take what things, will not go very far. Down jacket, said to him, you say thumbs up for, I go to baoshan.

“I did the exact count, I open every day 17 hours of car, calculate fees and expenses, various oil average cost per hour for $34.5. If come up one of 10 yuan price, about to start a 10 minutes, plus every time the average time between passenger totally seven minutes, and then I spent 17 minutes earn only 10 dollars, and 17 minutes cost price is 9.8 yuan, not expensive, $20 to 50 yuan between business the most cost-effective high.” Passengers can gaping, pleasantly surprised, I thought today in the legend, this where like a taxi driver, cost unexpectedly accurate to every minute, the clear is a cost accounting division.

Speaking to an airport car has between, the passengers off, designed left his phone. The passenger named LiuRun, is Microsoft China company global technology support department department manager, after the event in his own blog wrote: “ZangQin give me a vivid MBA lesson!” Soon after, LiuRun invited ZangQin for Microsoft’s 50 employees told the class, 45 minutes of the lecture was applause interrupted 8 times. “Magic’s” ZangQin thus into name, has also accepted a number of companies of lecture the invitation.

The taxi drivers in Shanghai in average income 3000 yuan, and the ZangQin monthly income is 8000 yuan. At first, almost all counterparts all think ZangQin bluffing, and he didn’t SanTouLiuBei, every day also get food and sleep, income disparity so how could? Someone special to the taxi company checked a year of business records, had to believe. ZangQin opened the taxi for a business to do every day, and watch carefully and attentively summary, as time passes and practice of clattering so empty loading rate is extremely low, the efficiency is higher than many others nature.

It is, three hundred and sixty line, have a master. ZangQin is worthy of “brother” kwame brown. “Magic’s” actually not mysterious, but is more than the others work hard, that’s all. The world has never been short of wealth, but the lack of vision that wealth. Vision thus come to? If you would only hard, is the wealth.

Nokia world congress (NokiaWorld2011) in London opening, the congress, nokia has released the first batch of cooperation with Microsoft’s mobile phone, WindowsPhone four of the intelligent low-end machine and new services and accessories.

However, to the disappointment of the outside world, in nokia and Microsoft two giant high-profile marriage is not offering to the industry after those products. The personage inside course of study thinks, WP in technology and configuration mobile phone did not achieve the beyond, let the cooperation with Microsoft tried to through the revitalization of smart phones nokia product line of future have more uncertainty.

Comment on: nokia Microsoft as the last life-saving straw, but innovation is not enough, window is insufficient, WP7 products all have no obvious advantages, this means that nokia is hard to and apple etc mobile phone manufacturer to compete.

The innovation is almost always by market position stable industry leader development out of, however, they never launched disruptive innovation, also not good at disruptive innovation to the challenge, nokia now to think this sentence.

Macromedia and Adobe’s “two feelings mutually yue” make Microsoft is very fast, and it may bring new surprise for design is Microsoft, I’m afraid the true sense of the crisis

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Recently at the Macromedia Studio 8 Chinese market conference performance low-key, Beijing crowne plaza hotel in a small conference room only hold the few media. The launch of the Macromedia Studio 8 suite, as regularly updated products, and bound before sales strategy, increase many new function. Although Macromedia vice President Jim Guerard emphasize that this is the most important in the past two years the Macromedia product, but the “network three musketeers” of the latest release obviously lose past a stir effect. Because, in the Macromedia already have much more serious on something, the industry has been drawn to the eye the graphics software field on an unprecedented change, this is the upcoming two giants Adobe and Macromedia “giants wedding”.

“Marriage” meeting

In the conference follow the routine clearance, individual character lively Flash product manager Mike Downey in table to fold the strange shapes of paper airplane, its partners Dreamweaver product manager Jennifer Taylor also played a positive, optimistic, be full of spark. Founded in 1992, Macromedia, its “spiritual style” as it lively and creative employees, the Studio 8 Dreamweaver, Flash in the website, image design field already widely known, so far no one can and dash. Although Jim Guerard in response to a question about modest, will pay attention to the tendency of Microsoft rivals, such as FrontPage, but it is well known the product function and users and Dreamweaver are far apart. In fact, were it not for integration in the Office in FrontPage, I’m afraid to reduce the number of users, and more.

Make an enemy of countless software tycoon Microsoft at present the most attention “enemies” is probably one of the will “get married” Macromedia and Adobe.

“I was very reluctant to and Microsoft collision, they are a $40 billion software company, has the monopoly power, unfortunately, we have to compete with it. We can only focus on what we are good at,” Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen on Microsoft is not afraid to beware of, the latter after all is every field pioneer all dare not relax vigilance treat the plantation. Although Adobe excel in their areas of ability still can’t be beat, despite $1.7 billion in annual revenue is still the envy, though Microsoft does not currently have to bring the real crisis. But Adobe still vigilant because Microsoft XML Paper Specification (Metro) refers to the Adobe PDF already sword, Acrobat, Microsoft also plan to embedded in its Windows Vista operating system, conceal its obvious heart.

Macromedia although also always is Adobe competition, but not always several of competitive products, both business almost no overlap. Adobe focus to the plane, video, documentation, and Macromedia more in network, multimedia and network solutions. Dreamweaver and Macromedia Flash occupies the 80% of the annual income. Among them, the Flash has a monopoly on the desktop computing market. But if Microsoft determined to get in the game, the launch of AVAlon technology, will also want to threaten the Macromedia push RIA system. The plane figure image will establish software field. In fact September Microsoft’s PDC on congress, Microsoft shows, called “Expression” network development set, the formal Macromedia Studio to the challenge.

Adobe and Macromedia the two with an average annual growth rate of over 20% of the software company, is already a most state power, but the tiger in the taste of the side will not feel good.

“Unite against cao” is an inevitable trend, “shu wu” marriage in the April put on the agenda. Adobe will with the price of 3.4 billion dollar Macromedia acquisition, so as to form a new giant content creation tools. Then, the future of the plane image professional fields, Adobe will XiongBaTianXia. And in general field, Microsoft may borrow its operating system for free in the integrated image processing software a slice of this action. Of course, super technology complementary become the marital prerequisites, in addition, Macromeida a set of perfect network service solution, is a strong into mobile terminal market of Flash, also for Adobe subordinate meaning.

“In fact, we have now with mobile phone giant nokia and samsung phone design manufacturers and some of the major telecommunications operators launched cooperation, to speed up the popularization of mobile applications Flash comprehensive popularization.” Jim Guerard on Flash become mobile terminal mainstream player with confidence. According to introducing, Macromedia currently used to make video and animation Flash software has been installed in the 20 million mobile phone. At present, nokia and samsung have support Flash phone listed, such as nokia’s 40, 60, 80 series mobile phones; At the same time, samsung will Flash applied directly in samsung smart phone user interface, through the Flash friendly interface, realize the dial, functions such as links to the application.

In China, Macromedia also and ShanKe empire into strategic partner relationship, the two sides will specifically on the mobile communications market for cooperation, joint development wireless value-added business, jointly promote the Flash animation in the application of the wireless terminal.

So, analysts believe that Adobe takeover of the real motives is seen in the cell phone market prospect of Macromedia, the rich dowry for Adobe profits would very considerable. It is reported, the manufacturer will for each handset in the installation of the Macromedia Flash products to pay the cost of 50 cents, and global mobile phone sales this year is expected to more than 700 million in the half of mobile phones have enough memory to use Flash software. Despite the current Macromedia company $370 million annual income, only the equivalent of Adobe systems a quarter of the income, but analysts believe that five to six years later it in the combined company will substantially increase the income share.

So it seems, with a quarter of its value, Adobe price “married” xiuwaihuizhong Macromedia still seemed the accounts for a lot of cheap. After the success of the merger, documents and mobile phone market can easily help Adobe-Macromedia realize average growth rate of 30%, it is almost two companies core business growth rate of the two times.

“Marriage” prediction

Adobe systems and Macromedia two companies that jointly a few days ago, the two companies investors through the Adobe company “to the acquisition of all stock” way of Macromedia company merger plan, is expected to the “wedding” later this year. In the new “family”, Bruce Chizen will continue to serve as the chief executive of Adobe, Shantanu Narayen still served as President and managing director. The chief executive Stephen Elop Macromedia will join the Adobe, served as the President of mobile business.

Although Adobe and Macromedia’s powerful combination will realize many designers dream Dreamweaver, Flash, Photoshop three between the software with seamless, make stylist work tend to be simple and rapid and efficiency. But for Macromedia’s lovers, Macromedia after getting married of future is still they of the most attention. This one involving “acquisition Macromedia will affect the development of the product,” “product name if there is a change”, “Macromedia products in the combined situation”.

Jim Guerard said, in the release of the Studio 8 two three months ago, Adobe also released a new creative software combination to the latest version, Adobe and Macromedia the two companies in the new product is released on all follow the same cycle-18 to 24 months. Macromedia in the future of product development, the cycle and route will not because of merger and produce substantial changes. According to introducing, Studio 8 simplified Chinese and simplified Chinese products is expected to separate October in China officially listed, and Flash Basic 8 simplified Chinese also in the October synchronous supply. As to explore new trends, science and technology and trade share information MAX2005 theme of the conference was in November in Hong Kong will be held on time.

Adobe also said “will keep and carry forward the Macromedia original important product line”, but will replace all the trademark Adobe name. As for each separate the development trend of the products, the need to wait until after the merger to be sure. Bruce Chizen said, once the merger, PDF and Flash will blossom everywhere, our feelers will more than Microsoft. Adobe still emphasize “Flash platform will become the new company a development centre of gravity”.

In addition, Bruce Chizen also point out that the two companies m&a motive is to develop a new business and market, the combined company may take measures cost reduction, this means that the two companies’ some products may be give up. The personage inside course of study thinks, in graphics, is in the lead of the Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator may replace the Macromedia Fireworks and Freehand, and in Web design, Macromedia excellent DreamWeaver may replace the Adobe GoLive.

In two companies on the web site of the FAQ section, also have software developers to talk about “Adobe the merger of the Macromedia, the Director must be Freehand and there is no escape from fate. However, I have recently or by back to the Director, because it integrates JavaScript”. Seems to matter is not a simple may take up with that simple, and the technological advantages integration is necessarily going to be faced with Adobe part of the problem.

“The marriage would make them the coordination between the program more perfect, and thus be able to bring convenience for consumers and user… so this also be brought to us a good!” Lynda. One of the founders of the com website Bruce ha wen said.

“Before the end of the year will have a results. This dramatic combination will bring to design what kind of surprise, quite value looking forward to!” “Merger dramatic, often become reports focus, but to succeed eventually is not much. ‘marriage’ happiness or not remains to be time to test. People, in this or that wedding eve to comment in succession.