But first,we tell about a million dollar software competition.

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Now Microsoft is sort of a funny place, we've got these big businesses but in the software business big businesses need to be constantly recreated.

现今的微软是非常有意思的地方，我们运行着庞大的生意，但是在软件交易上,大宗交易更像是消遣。

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So, an alternative to that that is incredibly common in just the programming world and in industry is to actually not write programs on your own personal computer but to actually write and run them on a server, someplace where the software is all standardized.

那么，在编程界和工业界普遍,使用的一个解决方案是,不在你自己的电脑上写程序,而是在服务器上编程运行，服务器上的软件都是标准化的。

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It's a little more involved on a PC but it's all free, the software you can download, and Linux in similar operating systems generally come with a compiler or you run a simple command to get it.

在PC机上有点复杂，但是它是免费的，你一般下载的软件，类似Linux的操作系统等等通常都需要,一个编译器，或者你可以运行一些简单的指令来获取。

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Odds are statistically most of you will tackle something web based although you'll be able to tackle something android based, iPhone based, C based, PHP, really the choice will ultimately be yours, but to think about exactly how to design good software is something you, is certainly a lesson that we want to promote.

你们中很多人,会使用基于网络的方案,虽然你有能力使用基于android，iPhone，C，PHP的方案，的确，最终是你们自己的选择，但是确切地想一想,怎样设计一个好的软件，是我们提倡的经验。

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