"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。”

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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。

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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。

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But executives at Microsoft and partners such as Intel Corp.

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Of course, this is almost exactly the same message we've heard from Palm about the Pre, but at least Microsoft's ideal users aren't a creepy alien lady or a mom from the 50s -- and they have a much better reason to Bing their way through the WP7S UI.

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Ya know, Microsoft Research is like the uber cool kids at Microsoft that are always doing things but all the people we know at Microsoft rarely have any idea what they're up to.

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