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This did not please Amelio.
這話讓阿梅里奧感到很不爽。
Apple's chief technology officer, Ellen Hancock, argued for going with Sun's UNIX-based Solaris operating system,
蘋果的首席技術(shù)官埃倫·漢考克贊成采用Sun公司基于Unix的Solaris操作系統(tǒng)，
even though it did not yet have a friendly user interface.
盡管它還沒有一個友好的用戶界面。
Amelio began to favor using, of all things, Microsoft's Windows NT,
而阿梅里奧居然開始傾向于使用微軟的Windows NT操作系統(tǒng)，
which he felt could be rejiggered on the surface to look and feel just like a Mac
他認(rèn)為可以做一些外觀上的改動，使之看起來感覺就像個Mac，
while being compatible with the wide range of software available to Windows users.
又能跟Windows用戶可以使用的大量軟件相兼容。
Bill Gates, eager to make a deal, began personally calling Amelio. There was, of course, one other option.
比爾·蓋茨非常渴望達成這項合作，開始親自給阿梅里奧打電話。當(dāng)然，還有另外一個選擇。
Two years earlier Macworld magazine columnist (and former Apple software evangelist) Guy Kawasaki
兩年前，《Macworld》雜志的專欄作家（前蘋果軟件布道者）蓋伊·川崎 ，
had published a parody press release joking that Apple was buying NeXT and making Jobs its CEO.
曾經(jīng)發(fā)表了一篇模擬新聞通稿，開玩笑說蘋果即將收購NeXT，然后讓喬布斯擔(dān)任CEO。
In the spoof Mike Markkula asked Jobs, "Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling UNIX with a sugarcoating, or change the world?"
文中模仿邁克·馬庫拉問喬布斯：“你想把下半輩子用來賣裹著層糖衣的Unix，還是用來改變世界？”
Jobs responded, "Because I'm now a father, I needed a steadier source of income."
喬布斯同意這項收購并表示：“我現(xiàn)在是個父親了，我需要一個穩(wěn)定的收入來源。”
The release noted that "because of his experience at Next, he is expected to bring a newfound sense of humility back to Apple."
文章評論說，“由于他在NeXT的經(jīng)歷，人們期待他會把一種從未有過的謙卑感帶回蘋果”。
It also quoted Bill Gates as saying there would now be more innovations from Jobs that Microsoft could copy.
文章還擬引了比爾·蓋茨的話說，現(xiàn)在會有更多喬布斯的創(chuàng)新可以供微軟抄襲了。
Everything in the press release was meant as a joke, of course.
當(dāng)時這篇新聞稿里所有的話都是玩笑。
But reality has an odd habit of catching up with satire.
但是現(xiàn)實總有一個奇怪的習(xí)慣，要追上嘲諷的步伐。
