四年前写的习文。还未重新编辑过。这四年来微软也发生了很多变化，尤其是在投资OpenAI以后。OpenAI的AI技术给微软在AI发展的竞争中处于有利地位。用英文写就是in pole position or in the catbird seat. 我打算重新修改这篇文章。还会加入最新的发展动向。
"There he is. Bill Gates is coming", a Chinese girl calls out to her friends as other pumped-up Chinese students jostle her and push their way to the security line. Seeing this, Bill Gates, who has come to China to scout out business opportunities , smiles and waves in their direction, his face gleaming. " Bill Gates, Bill Gates," more and more Chinese students start screaming in unison, behaving like a nutter when a headbanger is listening to psychedelic music. "That's remarkable for Microsoft and Bill Gates," David Kirkpatrick, who used to work for Fortune, wrote in an article published by Fortune , adding that he's just another well-regarded tech rock star for tech-savvy students in China. That is to say, they'd love to do anything to be the next Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. " I want to be a role model just like Bill Gates. He is my king, " a Chinese student told a journalist when asked about his own life goals.
We don't know if this student has achieved this goal or not; he may be still struggling to find his bearings. Yet one thing we know is Microsoft will be a different company without Bill Gates, who just announced that he would be stepping down from its board, becoming a technical advisor to current CEO Satya Nadella, who was born in India.
In a sense, Bill Gates, who founded Microsft with his friend Paul Allen, has already handed over the reins to Satya Nadella, who is said to be working hard to turn Microsoft into a best-in-class cloud computing company with the launch of Azure and its game streaming service. Speaking to Bloomberg Businessweek, Satya Nadella said cloud computing would be the cash cow or money-gusher for tech stalwarts that offer cloud computing services, namely Micrsosft, Amazon, and Google.
Satya Nadella has a point. Unlike the cash-incinerating WeWork, which still hasn't been able to find a way to break even(not to mention to turn a profit), Microsoft has already found a new way to generate profits by harnessing the benefits wrought by cloud computing and cloud gaming.
Piggybacking on their incomparable computing capabilities offered by their massive global data-centers, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google are in a good position to provide such lucrative services to companies eager to tap into cloud computing and use it to dial back operating costs-it would be difficult and costly for most companies to set up their own date-centers. On top of that, unlike WeWork's founder Adam Neumann, who was sacked by WeWork's board after he failed to give credence to the view that his business model is viable, Satya Nadella, who appears to be a cerebral sort, knows what he is doing. And Microsftsoft, flush with cash, has no trouble snapping up tech upstarts that have state-of-the-art technologies or poaching brainy techies , thereby giving Microsoft a chance to make the pie bigger.
Microsoft also has the upper hand when it comes to harnessing advances in AI, in light of the fact that it has invested in the red-hot ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, which wowed audiences with the launch of new text-to-video AI model called Sora. months ago. Its Dall-E 3, which is another AI art tool, has cut a swath . Yet Just like the big-picture Bill Gates, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, is not satisfied. Having snagged a huge investment from Microsoft, OpenAI is striving to work with other tech behemoths in a bid to expand the AI market. Case in point: Apple just announced that it will embed ChatGPT into iPhones. Another tech powerhouse Oracle said it had cut cloud deals with both Google and OpenAI.
Regardless, there are no grounds to think that Bill Gates will "decouple" from Microsoft's day-to-day operations if Satya Nadella strays from the right path as the founder of Microsoft. After all, Microsoft is part of his life.
四年前写的习文。还未重新编辑过。这四年来微软也发生了很多变化，尤其是在投资OpenAI以后。OpenAI的AI技术给微软在AI发展的竞争中处于有利地位。用英文写就是in pole position or in the catbird seat. 我打算重新修改这篇文章。还会加入最新的发展动向。
"There he is. Bill Gates is coming", a Chinese girl calls out to her friends as other pumped-up Chinese students jostle her and push their way to the security line. Seeing this, Bill Gates, who has come to China to scout out business opportunities , smiles and waves in their direction, his face gleaming. " Bill Gates, Bill Gates," more and more Chinese students start screaming in unison, behaving like a nutter when a headbanger is listening to psychedelic music. "That's remarkable for Microsoft and Bill Gates," David Kirkpatrick, who used to work for Fortune, wrote in an article published by Fortune , adding that he's just another well-regarded tech rock star for tech-savvy students in China. That is to say, they'd love to do anything to be the next Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. " I want to be a role model just like Bill Gates. He is my king, " a Chinese student told a journalist when asked about his own life goals.
We don't know if this student has achieved this goal or not; he may be still struggling to find his bearings. Yet one thing we know is Microsoft will be a different company without Bill Gates, who just announced that he would be stepping down from its board, becoming a technical advisor to current CEO Satya Nadella, who was born in India.
In a sense, Bill Gates, who founded Microsft with his friend Paul Allen, has already handed over the reins to Satya Nadella, who is said to be working hard to turn Microsoft into a best-in-class cloud computing company with the launch of Azure and its game streaming service. Speaking to Bloomberg Businessweek, Satya Nadella said cloud computing would be the cash cow or money-gusher for tech stalwarts that offer cloud computing services, namely Micrsosft, Amazon, and Google.
Satya Nadella has a point. Unlike the cash-incinerating WeWork, which still hasn't been able to find a way to break even(not to mention to turn a profit), Microsoft has already found a new way to generate profits by harnessing the benefits wrought by cloud computing and cloud gaming.
Piggybacking on their incomparable computing capabilities offered by their massive global data-centers, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google are in a good position to provide such lucrative services to companies eager to tap into cloud computing and use it to dial back operating costs-it would be difficult and costly for most companies to set up their own date-centers. On top of that, unlike WeWork's founder Adam Neumann, who was sacked by WeWork's board after he failed to give credence to the view that his business model is viable, Satya Nadella, who appears to be a cerebral sort, knows what he is doing. And Microsftsoft, flush with cash, has no trouble snapping up tech upstarts that have state-of-the-art technologies or poaching brainy techies , thereby giving Microsoft a chance to make the pie bigger.
Microsoft also has the upper hand when it comes to harnessing advances in AI, in light of the fact that it has invested in the red-hot ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, which wowed audiences with the launch of new text-to-video AI model called Sora. months ago. Its Dall-E 3, which is another AI art tool, has cut a swath . Yet Just like the big-picture Bill Gates, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, is not satisfied. Having snagged a huge investment from Microsoft, OpenAI is striving to work with other tech behemoths in a bid to expand the AI market. Case in point: Apple just announced that it will embed ChatGPT into iPhones. Another tech powerhouse Oracle said it had cut cloud deals with both Google and OpenAI.
Regardless, there are no grounds to think that Bill Gates will "decouple" from Microsoft's day-to-day operations if Satya Nadella strays from the right path as the founder of Microsoft. After all, Microsoft is part of his life.