When mighty IBM unwittingly granted Microsoft the right to sell its PC operating system to other hardware firms, it did not see that it was creating legions of rivals for itself. Mr Gates did.

当ibm不经意的允许微软把它的PC操作系统卖给其它硬件厂商时，他根本没意识到这将使盖茨为他培养一大批的竞争对手。

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Microsoft triumphed in the PC industry, analysts say, by fostering an ecosystem of software developers and hardware makers that relied on the company.

分析师指出微软围绕公司建立产品生态系统，通过扶持软件开发商和硬件制造商，在个人电脑行业取得了胜利。

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These solutions can include special server and client hardware, such as PC-over-IP, to allow the use of complex graphical software.

这些解决方案可以包含特殊的服务器和客户机硬件，比如PC - over - IP，从而支持使用复杂的图形化软件。

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Indeed, most of the agenda-setting for the future of the PC occurs at Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference and the Intel Developer Forum.

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If this is the future of post-PC hardware, bring it on.

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His evidence showed how Microsoft effectively controlled IBM's PC hardware and software businesses by making the price of Windows considerably higher than for other comparable PC makers.

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