"We've always been peers in raising the kids together, which is a huge project," Gates says. "But at Microsoft, we weren't really professional peers."
“我们一直平等地一起抚养孩子，这是一个浩大的工程，”盖茨说，“但在微软公司，我们不是真正的职业平等。”
But Jerry Yang, Yahoo's chief executive, has said his company was not opposed to selling to Microsoft at a higher price.
但是杨致远，雅虎的首席执行官，说雅虎公司并没有反对以更高的价格的买给微软公司。
But the talks are at an early stage, and it will be tricky to get companies such as Apple and Microsoft to agree to common standards.
但是，商谈还在初步阶段，让苹果和微软这样的公司同意使用同样的标准，是有一定难度的。
Nintendo brought us the notion of playing games by waving a controller, but Microsoft showed off something even better this year: gaming with no controller at all.
任天堂让我们认为玩游戏就是挥动控制器，而今年微软向我们展示了更棒的方式：玩游戏根本不用控制器。
At the beginning of this decade Microsoft, then feared as a bullying monopolist, tried but failed to create a "single sign-on" called "Passport" for the whole web. Nobody signed on.
在本世代初微软尚作为一个恃强凌弱的垄断者而广为畏惧时，它即试图为整个网络提供一种名为“通行证”的“一次性登陆”的解决方案，但却以失败告终，因为没有人登陆它。
But his friends at Microsoft are fighting for the other side, as are the bosses at other iconic firms in Seattle, such as Amazon and Nordstrom.
然而盖茨在微软的朋友们却对此有不同态度，他们都是来自西雅图其它的有名的公司，诸如亚马逊公司与诺斯通公司。
But after hearing that youngster, ms Boyd, a social-media researcher at Microsoft research New England, felt that something more than whimsy might be at work.
然而，作为微软新英格兰研究中心的一名社会与媒体研究人员，波伊德女士在听完那位年轻人的描述之后，却感到事情背后或许大有蹊跷。
This offers a solution for users who may have Microsoft Outlook on their computers at work and Lotus Notes on their laptops, but need to work with the same data.
这为想让MicrosoftOutlook在其计算机上运行和想让LotusNotes在其笔记本电脑上运行的用户提供了一种解决方案，但是需要使用相同的数据。
A version of Conficker began circulating at the same time as Microsoft released its patch, but had little effect.
微软发布这个补丁的同时一个新版本的Conficker开始传播，但是没有产生大的影响。
Microsoft may be planning to address that in Windows 8, or even with a port to the ARM platform, but at a minimum that is years away from the market.
微软可能计划在windows8中发布手触操作功能，甚至还会在其中加入ARM平台接口程序。但是windows8投入市场至少还要再等几年。
Spreadsheets such as Microsoft Excel facilitate more sophisticated sorting and filtering, but at the expense of losing the context a document provides.
诸如MicrosoftExcel的电子表格软件使较为复杂的排序和过滤变得容易，但这是以丢失文档提供的上下文关系为代价的。
Microsoft Dynamics POS is a bit like their CRM option, but instead of focusing solely on a sales-based perspective, it's aimed at comprehensive inventory and supply chain management for retailers.
MicrosoftDynamicsPOS有点像微软的CRM产品，但是专注于销售业务，目的是为零售商提供盘货和供应链管理功能。
Microsoft offers its own alternatives to several Adobe products, but they don't really compete at the same level.
Microsoft提供了许多Adobe产品的替代品，但是他们的水平相去甚远。
Su remembers when he kept a sleeping bag at the office but that was in the late 1990s, when Microsoft still reigned as one of Wall Street's better stories.
苏还记得，上世纪90年代后期，他在办公室的地板上用睡袋打地铺的情形，彼时微软仍是华尔街的一个传奇。
At Microsoft there would sometimes be heated disagreements, but at least the firm got the benefit of the "real Bill", whereas so far at the foundation he is perhaps being too nice.
尽管当初在微软有时盖茨先生会和其他成员产生激烈的争执，至少在那时真我本色的盖茨先生让微软受益匪浅，然而到目前为止，他在基金会的表现都过于谦和了。
What I meant was not that Microsoft is suddenly going to stop making money, but that people at the leading edge of the software business no longer have to think about them.
我不是说微软会突然开始亏钱，而是说在软件行业里走在前沿的人已经不需要考虑微软了。
Researchers at Microsoft have developed mobile social networking software that lets users share personal information with friends but not the network itself.
近期，微软的研究人员表示他们已经开发出一套移动社交网络程序，它使得人们可以和好友分享私人信息而不暴露在网络中。
The functions are coming closer, but simpler programming models are needed before people other than the geeks at Google or Microsoft can develop these apps.
这些功能变得越来越近，但是需要更简化的编程模型，否则只有Google或Microsoft的那些大师才能开发这类应用程序。
Box has been adverting itself as an alternative to Microsoft SharePoint, but only with these features in place can it compete at all with Microsoft for enterprise customers.
Box已经在极力宣传自己是微软Sharepoint服务的替代者，但只有目前的这些功能，它真的能在企业用户中与微软竞争么？
But Microsoft executives hope that the new website, which has been in development for several years, can chip away at the dominance Google exerts on the lucrative web search market.
但微软高层希望这个开发了好几年的新网站可以逐渐削弱Google在利润丰厚的网络搜索市场上所拥有的统治地位。
Both Microsoft and Yahoo — but especially Microsoft's Ballmer — used their joint statement and conference call to offer several digs at search market leader Google.
微软和雅虎，尤其是微软的Ballmer，在他们的共同声明以及电话会议中，多次冒犯了，或者说挑衅了搜索市场的老大Google。
Microsoft Corp. employees are passionate users of the latest tech toys. But there is one gadget love that many at the company dare not name: the iPhone.
微软公司(MicrosoftCorp .)的员工都是科技新玩意儿的狂热使用者，不过有一件他们喜欢的科技产品让这家公司里的许多人讳莫如深：那就是iPhone手机。
REDMOND, Wash.— Microsoft Corp. employees are passionate users of the latest tech toys. But there is one gadget love that many at the company dare not name: the iPhone.
微软员工们是最新高科技产品的钟情用户.但是有一款电子产品微软中的许多人不敢说出:iPhone.
But Microsoft says that it is seeing more businesses looking to upgrade to Windows 7 than it has previously seen at similar stages in the update cycle.
但微软表示，其相信升级到Windouws7的业务会比之前相类似的更新多。
At Microsoft, we see the world not just as it is, but as it might someday become.
在微软，我们看到的不只是世界现在的样子，而是将来它会变成的样子。
The suit was eventually settled in January 2001, at a cost to Microsoft of $20m, but by then it was irrelevant.
这起诉讼最终在2001年1月终结，微软赔付了2000万美元。
Microsoft is certainly looking at strategic opportunities in Asia, but it might not always take the form of an acquisition.
微软固然会在亚洲探求各类计谋机遇，但不必然因此并购的方法举办。
Microsoft is certainly looking at strategic opportunities in Asia, but it might not always take the form of an acquisition.
微软固然会在亚洲探求各类计谋机遇，但不必然因此并购的方法举办。
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