Now I'd like to talk about meaningful partners. Apple lives in an ecosystem, and it needs help from other partners. It needs to help other partners. And relationships that are destructive don't help anybody in this industry as it is today. So during the last several weeks, we have looked at some of the relationships, and one has stood out as a relationship that hasn't been going so well but had the potential, I think, to be great for both companies. And I'd like to announce one of our first partnerships today, a very, very meaningful one. And that is one with Microsoft.
現在我要說說意義重大的合作伙伴。蘋果生存在一個生態系統中，它需要來自其他合作伙伴的幫助，也需要去幫助其他合作伙伴。如今，關系的毀壞對這個行業中的任何人都沒有好處。所以在前幾周里，我們找到了一些合作關系，其中一個富有潛力但之前并沒有被開發的合作關系突顯了出來，我認為這對我們兩個公司均有益處。而我想在今天向你們介紹我們的首位合作伙伴，非常非常有意義的一個合作伙伴，這個合作伙伴就是微軟。
I'd like to take you through this. The discussions actually began because there were some patent disputes. And, rather than... I know. Rather than repeating history, I'm extremely proud of both companies that they have resolved these differences in a very, very professional way. And this has led, I think, to an overall relationship that we're announcing today that has got several parts to it, and we're extremely excited about.
我想為你們說明這件事。這一討論開始的時候，實際是因為一些專利權的糾紛問題。但是我們沒有重復歷史，而是兩家公司都以非常非常專業的方式解決了這些差異，我為此感到驕傲。我想這直接促成了一個全面的合作關系，我們今天會將其分成幾個部分宣布，并且我們對其無比興奮。
First part of it is a patent settlement and cross-license. The two companies have received a full cross-license for all patents that exist and for patents that are filed within the next five years. It has been a very serious patent settlement. The second part of this is, Microsoft is committing to release Microsoft Office on Macintosh for the next five years. They are going to release the same number of major releases as they release on Windows during that time. Their first release, they're going to target to have it out near the end of the year, it might slip a few months into next year, but they're working real hard on it, and it looks very, very good.
第一部分是專利的協議和和一個交換許可。在未來五年內，兩家公司已經收到了針對所有提出的專利的一個完全的交換許可。我們曾有過很嚴重的專利權糾紛問題。第二部分是，未來五年內，微軟將致力于發布在Mac電腦上運行的微軟辦公軟件。他們將會發行相同數量的基于Windows系統的和基于Mac電腦系統的辦公軟件。他們把首次發布的時間定在年末，這個也許會拖延幾個月到明年，但是他們真的非常努力地在做這件事，這非常非常好。
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