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When the leadership issue was partly resolved by Amelio's ouster, one of Jobs's first phone calls was to Gates.
當阿梅里奧的驅逐者部分地解決了領導權的問題后，喬布斯首先打電話的對象之一就是蓋茨。
Jobs recalled: I called up Bill and said, "I'm going to turn this thing around."
喬布斯回憶說：我給比爾打電話說，我會扭轉這個局面。
Bill always had a soft spot for Apple. We got him into the application software business.
比爾一直都喜歡蘋果。是我們讓他進入了應用軟件業務領域。
The first Microsoft apps were Excel and Word for the Mac. So I called him and said, "I need help."
微軟的第一批應用軟件就是為Mac開發的Excel和Word。所以我給他打電話說，“幫個忙。”
Microsoft was walking over Apple's patents.
微軟在侵犯蘋果的專利。
I said, "If we kept up our lawsuits, a few years from now we could win a billion-dollar patent suit.
我說：“如果我們繼續打官司，幾年以后我們可以贏得10億美元的專利罰金。
You know it, and I know it. But Apple's not going to survive that long if we're at war.
這一點你知我知。但是如果那樣的話，蘋果反而撐不到那個時候。
I know that. So let's figure out how to settle this right away.
所以讓我們想想如何立即解決這個爭端。
All I need is a commitment that Microsoft will keep developing for the Mac
我所需要的就是微軟承諾繼續為Mac開發軟件，
and an investment by Microsoft in Apple so it has a stake in our success."
并且微軟要向蘋果投資，這樣我們的成功就事關微軟的利益。
When I recounted to him what Jobs said, Gates agreed it was accurate.
當我向蓋茨復述喬布斯的話時，他確認內容非常準確。
"We had a group of people who liked working on the Mac stuff, and we liked the Mac," Gates recalled.
“我們有一群人愿意做Mac的東西，而且我們喜歡Mac。”蓋茨回憶說。
He had been negotiating with Amelio for six months, and the proposals kept getting longer and more complicated.
他已經跟阿梅里奧談判了6個月，而提案越來越長、越來越復雜。
"So Steve comes in and says, 'Hey, that deal is too complicated.
“這時史蒂夫進來說，嗨，那個交易太復雜了。
What I want is a simple deal. I want the commitment and I want an investment.'
我想要一個簡單的。我想要個承諾，我想要筆投資。
And so we put that together in just four weeks."
于是我們4個星期就搞定了。”
