But using Windows as the operating system for tablets also implies that Microsoft will update the devices' operating systems on the Windows time frame, typically every three years.

但是，使用Windows作为平板电脑的操作系统意味着微软会按照三年的周期对系统进行升级。

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"Astronauts who are accustomed to views that you and I cannot really describe were moved to tears when they looked out the windows of the cupola for the first time tonight."

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It used to be the case-- I forget how long drive-in windows have been around, certainly as long as you guys can remember-- but there was a time when drive-in windows didn't exist.

曾经是这样的情况,我忘了免下车餐厅已经出现多久了,当然可能自打你们记事时就出现了,但是在免下车餐厅尚未出现的时候

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But, Microsoft took its time with the transition from Windows Mobile to Windows Phone, and by the time Windows Phone launched most of the potential customers had already chosen sides and invested in either the iOS or Android ecosystem.

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And the Windows run time (what the RT stands for) sounds closer to Windows 8 than iOS is to Mac OS X.

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More than 1.5 billion devices used Windows 7 and earlier versions of the system at the time of Windows 8's launch, making the OS both the most popular of its kind and one of the company's key sources of revenue.

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