Kip Kniskern: Yeah, I read (edit: this was actually “write”) about Windows Live, and if you could just kind of assess where you think Windows Live is right now, and what do you think the perception of Windows Live versus some of your competitors is now. It seems like that Microsoft — maybe the tools are there, but maybe the perception of it being the cool thing to use, at least U.S.-centric, isn’t as good as (off mike).

BILL GATES: Well, it’s hard to say. I mean, Messenger has a certain strength, Hotmail has a certain strength. We’re doing a broad set of things under that Windows Live banner.

The first time we actually delivered on Live as something that’s kind of unified and integrated together is the Windows Live 2 download that we just did, what’s that, like a month ago, and the numbers on that are super good, and we’re just in the planning for what we call wave three, and the kind of things we’re going to build into that. So, we feel pretty good about it.

All those consumer services are basically big, big volume. They’re tiny businesses in a sense, but they’re very important for the population of users that you connect up to and the opportunities you get out of that.

Some of the things like state in the sky, obviously we want to do a lot more innovation so that everybody just understands that they should use that. Today, no matter whose thing it is, .Mac or the various eDrive cloud store type things, they actually are all pretty small share, they’re kind of messy to use. We think that by the way that we’ll connect up to Windows in a rich way we’ll be able to do something pretty dramatic there, but that awaits the next big wave that comes along.

So, those are all businesses that are going quite well. Messenger is the lead product in most countries in the world. I think Hotmail is still the lead in most countries or number two in most countries, so they’re fairly strong.

There are people doing other things, and nobody really has kind of the breadth I’d say that we have. Maybe Yahoo! comes the closest to it, but you’ll just have to see how that unfolds in terms of the usage and the numbers.


以上乃Livesino.net代表和BillGates的一段對話.
但由于英語能力不行,所以能否幫忙翻譯一下?

Kip Kniskern：嗯，我了解过Windows Live了，您能给自己对其感觉不错的方面做个评价么，还有，您对Windows Live目前的竞争对手有些什么看法呢？Microsoft现在是这么一种情况，好像什么工具都有，但是这些工具用起来还是不如 Mike 家的爽啊，至少在美国中部是这样的哈。

Bill Gates：唉，这个东西很难讲啊。我的意思是说，Messenger 有它自己的特点， Hotmail 也是一样。 我们在 Windows Live banner 下面开发的东西实在是比较广泛啊。
在 Live 上面，我们第一次发布的东西实际上是一些整合并集成到一起的玩竟儿，其实那就是 Windows Live 2 啦，那到底是个啥？就像一个月前，那东西上面的数量还真是倍儿好呢。（没看明白前面这两句的结构-_-||）我们现在正在为一个叫 Wave 3 的玩意儿作准备，还有要在它上面开发的一些东西。所以啊，现在自我感觉还是比较良好。
所有的这些客户服务基本上都特大。在某种意义上它们不过是个小东西，但是对于你所连接到的用户数量以及你从中获得的机会来说，却又是非常重要的。
有些事情总是风云瞬变的（不知道是不是这意思。。）很显然，我们想多做创新，让所有人都明白他们应该用这些东西。现在，不管是谁的产品，Mac 或各种各样的 eDrive 都可以存储挺多东西的，但是他们实际上只做到小部份的共享，就像是对用户的一种施舍似的。而我们认为，通过以各种方式将用户都串到 Windows 上可以让我们的效果更加显著，当然这要等到下一波创新的来临。

所以，我们现在干的所有这些事儿都在有条不絮的进展着。 Messenger 在世界上大部份国家都是领头羊产品吧， Hotmail 也仍然是引导产品，至少也排老二哈。所以说，它们都还是挺强劲的。

有些人也在做其它方面的东西，但是没有任何一个人能有能力干下去，但我敢说，我们还是有的。也许 Yahoo!是最有可能的公司，但是你肯定会看到在使用量和数量方面的显露（不如我们）。

貌似是听写出来的。有些词看上去比较别扭。

[ 本帖最后由 Togetherlllll 于 2007-12-10 10:26 编辑 ]

非常感謝...太感謝了.

这样要求似乎有点过了吧？ -_-"

闲着无聊尝试了一下。

2楼精神可嘉，但不得不说，从翻译标准来看，错误比较多。

恳请楼上的指教

There are people doing other things, and nobody really has kind of the breadth I’d say that we have. Maybe Yahoo! comes the closest to it, but you’ll just have to see how that unfolds in terms of the usage and the numbers.
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有些人也在做其它方面的东西，但是没有任何一个人能有能力干下去，但我敢说，我们还是有的。也许 Yahoo!是最有可能的公司，但是你肯定会看到在使用量和数量方面的显露（不如我们）。

There are people doing other things, and nobody really has kind of the breadth I’d say that we have.
正确的翻译应该是：有些人正在尝试一些其它东西（类似windows live的技术），而实际上没有人可以像我们这样真正有活力的做下去，也许yahoo，最为接近吧，不过你真正要看的还是可用性和用户数量上。