Science knows no borders

Author: Beijing Youth weekly reporter Gu snow liucong

Who is hung xiaowen, most commonly called newspapers of his title, Director, Microsoft Research Asia, but if you read his resume, will see what is a low-key gorgeous: United States Institute of electrical and electronic engineers, academician; serving the computing machinery newsletter editorial board; he participated in the coauthored the voice technology for treatment of world universities adopts textbooks for teaching; in addition, hung in a number of technical xiaowen has 36 patented invention — he is one of the joint inventors CMUSPHINXSystem, this outcome is including Microsoft, Apple, many companies as commercial speech recognition systems.

October 2007 has officially been hung xiaowen appointed as President of Microsoft Research Asia.

On the traces of the original appointment, Xiao Ren Shen to praise its management capacity of the ocean "ultra", is "leading Asian Institute towards the next decade's best candidate". In fact, Hung xiaowen in 1998 has been involved in the planning of the Microsoft Research Asia.

Hong Xiao 20 year career, working for Microsoft's time is taken up with 3/4.

In this software empire, he is more of an academic perspective the development of enterprises, including from the beginning of the year has been popular since the end of the "Microsoft Yahoo".

31 January this year, Microsoft submitted bid submitted to the Yahoo Board of Directors, and hope to a total value of about 446 billion acquisition of the latter company, the price premium over Yahoo's stock price was 62%.

However, the Yahoo Board subsequently rejected Microsoft's takeover bid request that Microsoft seriously underestimated the value of Yahoo. However, with Microsoft's stock prices continued to decline, the transaction value has shrunk to 416 billion.

(Microsoft Research Asia, President of Hsiao-wuen Hon)

Apr. 6th, 2008, Microsoft to investigate the company issued "ultimatum", limited to Yahoo in three weeks for $ 31 per share, cash plus swap acquisition proposal, otherwise it will be at a lower price to launch malicious takeover.

Yahoo immediately claimed did not oppose the deal with Microsoft, but only if the latter raise the bid.

But after a few days, Yahoo announced that it will implement a pilot project, the next two weeks of not more than 3 percent of Yahoo search ads from Google's launch.

People guess, this means that for both sides to further cooperation in future possible; then there was news that Yahoo's contemporaries Warner cooperation negotiations are nearing completion; the last has disclosed that Microsoft plans combined with the News Corp acquisition of Yahoo, MSN, Yahoo, Microsoft and News Corp MySpace together.

2008 April 13, according to foreign media reports, according to sources, the Yahoo Board of Directors meeting is evaluating Microsoft takeover requests and other alternatives.

However, the Yahoo Board of Directors has not adopted a formal decision on the programme. In addition to Microsoft to buy Yahoo Board of Directors request, also considered the other programmes, including with Time Warner's AOL Internet sector will merge; and search advertising business outsourcing to Google, while increasing revenue while continuing to maintain independence.

Although there are many variations, but most industry insiders and analysts still think that Microsoft will eventually be successful acquisition of Yahoo.

"We certainly think that led to the merger is a good thing, but more should look into the long-term future of the Internet. "Hung xiaowen said.

According airui earlier published research report, once the merger is successful, for China's Internet sector, Microsoft will integrate China Yahoo and Ali group resources, thus reaching a new Internet strategy, layout, and Baidu, Google, Tencent, NetEase, Sohu, Sina, and other existing Internet giant formation of strong competition.

Hong Xiao Wen believes that Chinese enterprises into the Internet's biggest advantage is that its starting point and the gap is much smaller than the world of business, or even seeking a "with Chinese characteristics," the development of the Internet.

"From this perspective, the Chinese enterprises not only in the Internet world from the beginning, in occupies an important seat of relative relatively late in the software industry also won more equal opportunities. ”

Br value today >, the Internet's influence on the development of the software industry has long been a truism. With Hung xiaowen, saying, "software is a service, the Internet is part of the software industry."

As the saying goes, standing on the shoulders of giants would have seen further, the importance of basic research for the future development of the Internet has played a decisive role.

The particularity of the "software industry is that it does not have a hardware wear phenomena can occur, if you use XP feel very good, maybe you will choose this software, not to update. The user is not a direct result of the renovation is the profitability of enterprises cannot continue. So there are only in the software industry has a solid foundation for research, the creation of better products to sustainable development. "Scholars who hung the science xiaowen, international academic shared view is particularly important, the" software industry promotion is also very important, otherwise everyone ' liuyishou ' result is the industry's stagnation. "

In fact it is very easy to copy, when the software itself does not have the scarcity and not easily copied, no alternative three important judgment core competitiveness, who can quickly master new products and new technology represented by has become particularly important.

Dialect words, no new technology products is not a viable product.

When a new technology after the birth, enterprises are facing the most important issue is whether the effective implementation of the technology, called production.

"Hard leather cartilage" high-tech products, the competition is determined by the intrinsic strength of the software, the "Foundation of technology we have, but how will they make the best combination of products, is a manifestation of corporate executive power."