: 在30年前，一個賣50美金的軟體，所需要投入的人力，遠比我們今天要賣50塊錢 : 的其他東西都來得少 : **(這段我懷疑我有翻譯錯誤，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. 就大小而論，Ａ使Ｂ看起來像個小矮人。 -> 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，翻譯無誤 :) : (作者對這段的附註，往後再翻。簡單的說，他認為XBox算是一個對MS來講很少見 : ，開拓新市場的嘗試) : 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. 試譯 值得一提的是微軟後期的一項主要成功產品: 凶盒 雖然自從2001開始出現，凶盒仍未帶來大量利潤，但它已經在遊戲產業裡奠定了它的 地位。這背後可能有兩個原因 1. 不像其他與網際網路有關的產品，凶盒完全與 Windows 及 Office 帝國無關， 所以凶盒沒有與 Windows 及 Office 團隊起衝突、內鬥 2. 已經有明確的既存獲利模式可供複製 (任天堂與大學士索尼)，且微軟願意花費 數十億美元重新建立同樣的獲利模式 再一次，微軟以「無獲利」為代價，在短期內追上了它的競爭者 --

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