Name: 比爾蓋茲專訪 (Exclusive interview of Bill Gates - co-founder & chairman of microsoft)
Uploaded: 2013-05-11T14:44:32.000Z
Duration: 19 min 44 s

well, microsoft was the first software company where

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we wrote software for personal computers and we believe that we could hire the best engineers

我們為個人電腦寫軟體，還有我們相信我們可以聘請到最優秀的工程師

過去簡單式

there was a unbelievable amount of software to be written

那時有多到難以想像的待寫軟體

and we could do it well we could do it on a global basis

而如果我們可以做好的話，我們就可以向全球邁進

and... the original customer base was the hardware manufacturers

and we sold to literally hundreds and hundreds you know... over a hundred companies in japan

而我們真的賣給好幾百家，你知道的... 上百家在日本的公司

and over a hundred companies doing word processors and industrial control type of things

還有超過一百家做文字處理器和工業控制系統之類的公司

we know in the long run we wanted to sell software directly to users

我們知道長期計畫是要將軟體直接賣給使用者

but we actually didn't get around that till nineteen eighty

when we had uh... our first sort of games and productivity software that

當我們有 恩... 我們第一個像是遊戲和生產力軟體

that people would go to a computer store in actually buy the the software package

人們去電腦商店就真的可以買到軟體包

we actually talked about it in an article

我們其實有在一篇文章中談過這個

and i think nineteen seventy seven was the first time it appears in print

在 我想1977是它第一次以印刷本的形式出現

where we say a computer on it on every desk and every home

我們說一台電腦在每張桌子和每個家

if we were just talking about the vision we'd leave

如果我們只是在討論願景，我們會去掉

talking in an internal company discussion

how crazy and wild that was you know on every desk and in every home

那是多麼的瘋狂，你知道的，在每張桌子和每個家

you know why would somebody needed computer or even Ken Olsen

你知道，為什麼會有人需要電腦，或甚至是肯‧奧臣

who would run this company digital equipment

that people would want to have a computer

saw that we had written software for all the personal computers

看到我們為所有的個人電腦寫軟體

they came to us sought our advice on the design

他們來找我們，詢問我們對這個設計的建議

但是我們說你應該要將這個討論

and since they wanted to ship very quickly

and they were starting to do a version for this new these new sixteen machines

以及他們正開始做一個版本給這個新16位元裝置

we commenced by the end of the sixteen bit machine

eighty eighty six eighty d eight processor. Well Digital Research

and then IBM was getting frustrated because Digital Research

然後IBM開始有點沮喪，因為"數位研究"

wouldn't sign even a non-disclosure agreement

and then some of us uh... particularly Paul

接著我們有些人 恩... 特別是保羅

said no no no we should just do that ourselves

說"不、不、不，我們應該自己做"

we end up liscensing the original code from another company

我們最後向另一家公司購買原始碼的版權

uh... after about two or three years and MS-DOS

all those MS-DOS things in it. that's the full operating system

那些MS-DOS的東西在裡面 那才是一個完整的操作系統

although most of you think of the graphics in Windows and stuff there's a lot of

雖然你們大多都會想到在Windows中的圖像或是其他的東西，那是有很多

more classic operating system capability that that's built in there

the IBM initial deal is a flat fee deal uh... another flat the deal

IBM最一開始的交易是統一價交易 恩... 另一個統一價交易

we would get the revenue by doing business directly with those people

我們可以透過與那些人直接交易來獲利

and that the deal was very complicated but it was a deal that

那個交易是很複雜的，但是那是個交易

Steve Balmer who's a key person of the company by that time

史蒂芬‧巴爾默 那時他是公司的關鍵人物之一

junior team from IBM so we tried to make sure they're giving our belief that

資淺的團隊，所以我們試著要確認他們是在給我們一個信念

personal computers would be hyper popular

they felt they got a very good deal, which they did

他們認為他們得到一個很好的交易，是事實沒錯

for new versions and for different machines, we got that opportunity even

因為有新的版本和不同的裝置，我們得到了那個機會

even in the early days if you set a computer on every desk in every home and

甚至在早期，如果你裝設一台電腦在每個家的每張桌子上，然後

you'd say okay how many homes are there on the world how many desk are there on the world

你會說OK，世界上有多少個家、多少張桌子

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