微軟比較大的錯(cuò)誤

“我最大的錯(cuò)誤”:比爾·蓋茨后悔微軟在安卓系統(tǒng)上的失敗

Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates has said that his "greatest mistake ever" was the company losing on the Android opportunity, which has costed Microsoft nearly $400 billion and made Google the real winner.

微軟聯(lián)合創(chuàng)始人兼慈善家比爾•蓋茨曾表示，他“有史以來最大的錯(cuò)誤”是該公司錯(cuò)失了Android平臺(tái)帶來的機(jī)遇。Android平臺(tái)讓微軟損失了近4000億美元，讓谷歌成為了真正的贏家。

In an interview during an event hosted by venture capital firm Village Global, Gates revealed that the mistake was to allow Google to develop Android and not creating a profitable model themselves, reports TechCrunch.

據(jù)TechCrunch報(bào)道，在風(fēng)險(xiǎn)投資公司Village Global舉辦的一次活動(dòng)中，蓋茨在接受采訪時(shí)透露，他犯的錯(cuò)誤是允許谷歌開發(fā)Android系統(tǒng)，而不是自己創(chuàng)造盈利模式。

"In the software world, particularly for platforms, these are winner-take-all markets. So the greatest mistake ever is whatever mismanagement I engaged in that caused Microsoft not to be what Android is. That is, Android is the standard non-Apple phone platform. That was a natural thing for Microsoft to win," Gates told Eventbrite cofounder and CEO Julia Hartz.

“在軟件世界，特別是在平臺(tái)上，這些都是贏家通吃的市場(chǎng)。因此，我所犯的最大錯(cuò)誤，就是我的管理不善，導(dǎo)致微軟無法成為Android。也就是說，Android是標(biāo)準(zhǔn)的非蘋果手機(jī)平臺(tái)。蓋茨對(duì)Eventbrite聯(lián)合創(chuàng)始人兼首席執(zhí)行官朱莉婭o哈茨表示:“微軟能贏是很自然的事情。

"If you're there with half as many apps or 90 per cent as many apps, you're on your way to complete doom. There's room for exactly one non-Apple operating system and what's that worth? $400 billion that would be transferred from company G (Google) to company M (Microsoft)," he emphasised.

“如果你在那里的應(yīng)用程序數(shù)量只有現(xiàn)在的一半或90%，那么你就注定要完蛋了。只有一個(gè)非蘋果操作系統(tǒng)的空間，這值多少錢?4000億美元將從G公司(谷歌)轉(zhuǎn)移到M公司(微軟)。

Google acquired Android for just $50 million in 2005. The original iPhone came out in 2007 and the first Android device was released in 2008.

谷歌在2005年以5000萬美元的價(jià)格收購了Android。第一代iPhone于2007年問世，第一部Android設(shè)備于2008年發(fā)布。

Android today has 85 per cent of the smartphone OS market and Microsoft Windows OS-based devices are nowhere to be seen.

如今，Android占據(jù)了智能手機(jī)操作系統(tǒng)市場(chǎng)85%的份額，而基于微軟(Microsoft) Windows操作系統(tǒng)的設(shè)備卻不見蹤影。

Microsoft has asked its users to switch to an Android or iOS device as it announced the end of support for Windows 10 Mobile.

微軟宣布不再支持Windows 10移動(dòng)操作系統(tǒng)，并要求用戶改用Android或iOS設(shè)備。

The company told users that Windows 10 Mobile will stop receiving new security updates after December 10.

該公司告訴用戶，Windows 10手機(jī)將在12月10日后停止接收新的安全更新。

Gates stepped down as the CEO in 2000 and as Chief Software Architect in 2008. Satya Nadella took over as the company's CEO in 2014.

蓋茨于2000年辭去首席執(zhí)行官一職，并于2008年辭去首席軟件架構(gòu)師一職。2014年，薩蒂亞·納德拉(Satya Nadella)接任該公司首席執(zhí)行官。