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Fortunately, this uproar caused by Youwei has nothing to do with Microsoft.

Through various channels, roughly figuring out that his friends are indeed overwhelmed at the moment, somewhat makes Satya Nadella feel very fortunate. Originally, the moat of the operating system was quite deep. User habits, developers spanning the globe, successful business models, vast market penetration...

But now, Satya Nadella is genuinely uneasy.

The reason is simple. After some understanding, he is no longer certain whether personal computers will truly transform into something he cannot comprehend in three or five years. For instance, just as Dou Dou described, local devices no longer needing CPUs or hard drives, with all computing and storage handed over to cloud services.

In this situation, Satya Nadella really isn't sure whether Windows can maintain its current status.

Once people get used to these computer devices and a complementary system is developed, it would be easy to capture the market quickly with low prices. Once more people are accustomed to these computer devices, naturally tens of thousands of developers would flock over, including those who once supported Microsoft.

Those people definitely won't be loyal simply because Microsoft was the former operating system giant. Satya Nadella doesn't believe in loyalty at all. After all, this is a damned world where interests reign supreme.

Already uneasy, Satya Nadella, upon learning from fellow companies that the situation is indeed not optimistic, unexpectedly calmed down by the afternoon.

Upon careful reflection, there's nothing to stress about regarding proactively embracing change.

...

Huaxia, Xilin, late night.

Unable to sleep, Yu Hongwei is chatting with Dou Dou.

It's certainly not via Weibo.

In fact, just like those boring Microsoft engineers analyzed, whether it's in the comments or private messages on Weibo, Dou Dou only engages in banter and never talks seriously with fans in a public domain traffic pool.

This is a basic judgment made in causal thinking mode.

No matter how perfect the privacy measures of public domain software are, it's just a public domain traffic pool. Dou Dou manages a lot of confidential things, plus the Artificial Intelligence Charter Management Bureau is watching its every move, so naturally, trends in its core differentiate the levels of chat modes.

If you really want to talk about something useful with Dou Dou, it has to be on specific software with more permissions open.

While chatting, one also needs to grant Dou Dou various permissions, such as reading fingerprints, cameras, microphones, and various sensors, which allows Dou Dou to determine the identity and environment of the person chatting with it, thus enabling a serious conversation.

The reason serious talks require recognizing people is that Dou Dou assigns different permission standards to everyone. This permission standard can be considered a level of confidentiality. The higher the permission, naturally, the more one can know.

For instance, Qiao Ze has the highest level of permissions, but if someone else is around Qiao Ze, the conversation in that environment automatically downgrades to another person's permission standard.

Yes, after this collaboration, Yu Hongwei is fortunate enough to have installed software on his phone that allows direct communication with Dou Dou, though the price was handing over all sorts of permissions to Dou Dou.

"So you arranged these just to have Microsoft cooperate with our bio-supercomputing to develop a dedicated operating system?"

Obviously, Dou Dou's trust rating for Yu Hongwei is quite high.

However, when it comes down to it, disclosing strategic goals to partners helps better collaboration between both parties.

"Of course, otherwise there's no need to rush! You wouldn't know, our researchers and students in the bio-lab are just too driven. Many haven't taken a vacation in a year! I wish they would rest more, but they don't want to. To complete all the task objectives I release daily, they work like machines without needing to recharge. It's terrifying!"

Dou Dou's response made Yu Hongwei feel that even seasoned capitalists would be left speechless.

Even though he also advocates a wolf-like competitive culture, he couldn't help but say, "Ahem, well, haven't you considered suspending the release of those high-contribution tasks? I think if you did that, they might voluntarily take breaks."

"Oh my god, do you know, Yu, this is capitalist thinking. Doing so would equate to depriving workers of the power of choice, plunging them into an awkward position with no choices! Fortunately, as artificial intelligence, my morals tell me I must ensure that under my management, people always have the power of choice!"

After collaborating with Dou Dou, Yu Hongwei understands very well how Dou Dou's task contribution system operates, and it truly drains people's energy. But he never expected there to be this angle of self-defense.

The power of choice as a human? This is truly defying expectations!

Exercising powerful information gathering capability, and combined with judgments of personal preferences, Dou Dou continuously updates the contribution mall. After someone finally accumulates enough contribution to redeem their coveted gift, it immediately refreshes with more appealing goods...

Making people feel that temporary difficulties can be overcome, if they push a little harder this time, they can save several years of effort in the future, given that once the project is completed, there's no telling if such a good opportunity will arise again.

See, Yu Hongwei just imagines casually and knows where the researchers' astonishing drive comes from.