: 在30年前，一个卖50美金的软体，所需要投入的人力，远比我们今天要卖50块钱 : 的其他东西都来得少 : **(这段我怀疑我有翻译错误，原文是The amount of person-hours that goes : into a $50 piece of software today dwarfs that of a $50 item of software : thirty years ago. )** 解析 Ａ dwarfs Ｂ. 就大小而论，Ａ使Ｂ看起来像个小矮人。 -> A > B The amount of person-hours that goes into a $50 piece of software today dwarfs that of a $50 item of software thirty years ago. Ａ dwarfs Ｂ. -> A > B -> B < A 是故，翻译无误 :) : (作者对这段的附注，往後再翻。简单的说，他认为XBox算是一个对MS来讲很少见 : ，开拓新市场的尝试) : Of note is the single major product success of late Microsoft: the Xbox : gaming console. While the Xbox has yet to turn more than a tiny overall : profit since its introduction in 2001, it has established itself as a : stalwart of the gaming world. This could occur for two reasons: first, : unlike anything having to do with the internet, it was completely isolated : from the Windows and Office empires, and so did not run afoul of those : groups; and second, there were clear, existing, profitable models to : copy—Nintendo’s and Sony’s—and Microsoft was willing to lose billions : of dollars in re-creating that model. For the last time, they caught up : to their competitors in short order and equaled them, at the cost of : turning no profit themselves. 试译 值得一提的是微软後期的一项主要成功产品: 凶盒 虽然自从2001开始出现，凶盒仍未带来大量利润，但它已经在游戏产业里奠定了它的 地位。这背後可能有两个原因 1. 不像其他与网际网路有关的产品，凶盒完全与 Windows 及 Office 帝国无关， 所以凶盒没有与 Windows 及 Office 团队起冲突、内斗 2. 已经有明确的既存获利模式可供复制 (任天堂与大学士索尼)，且微软愿意花费 数十亿美元重新建立同样的获利模式 再一次，微软以「无获利」为代价，在短期内追上了它的竞争者 --

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