比爾蓋茨的精彩演講(中英對照)

Bill Gates' Keynote Speech

Good morning. It’s a great pleasure to be here. Today is a major milestone for Microsoft as our first Developers Conference here in China. The key partnerships we build with software developers around the world are central not only to the success of Windows but also to realize the great possibilities that PC technology provides. It’s through applications of every variety that businesses will be using the personal computer as the tool of the Information Age.

Microsoft has a vision for where the PC is going. And that vision says that PCs will become a central element of how companies share information inside the company. The name of that vision is, the so called Digital Nervous System (DNS), allowing companies to reduce paper work and make better decisions. The Digital Nervous System means that not only do you have the PCs that are connected together, and not only do you have standard elements like electronic mail but also you’ve really thought carefully about what information is important, and so all of the processes-order taking, sales planning, personnel management, project management- all of those have been set up to take full advantage of the capabilities of the computer.

Now, another major vision that Microsoft has is that writing the programs, writing the applications for these machines needs to get very easy and we need to be able to do it, so we can write programs that run across the entire Internet which is millions of machines. So this is a new approach to programming that draws on what was done previously. DNS says that developers should be able to focus on their particular task and not have to learn a lot about management of the machine resources.

Great chips and systems developed by our partners who are here with us sponsoring this event, make this all possible. And there’s an incredible opportunity for developers. The applications that are written today will sell to an even larger base of machines out in the market. There is a lot that we’re doing to increase the work of developers-make sure they understand where the PC is going and how tools can help them and we’re even helping them now, with more and more marketing type of activities making sure they get out in with the customers.

And this is something that we are just going to increase year after year, after year. And so the overall DNS message is one about helping developers seize that opportunity by bringing together the different architectures, making things automatic and allowing this to be done in a great evolutionary fashion. And so I think it’s a fantastic time to be a developer and we appreciate your being here and look forward to the opportunity to work with you more.

Thank you.

比爾蓋茨主題演講

早上好。非常高興與大家共聚一堂。今天，在這裡舉行微軟中國第一屆開發人員大會，是微軟公司的一個重要里程碑。我們與全球軟體開發人員建立的夥伴關係不僅是微軟視窗取得成功的關鍵，而且使個人計算機技術提供的各種潛在價值成為現實。通過程式在各個領域的應用，個人計算機將成為企業在資訊時代的一個工具。

微軟對個人計算機的未來走向有一個設想。根據該設想，個人計算機將成為公司內部資訊共享的核心。這一設想的名稱就是數字神經系統（DNS），它能使公司減少書面文書工作，制定更好的決策。數字神經系統的作用不僅把個人計算機連線起來，也不僅是你將擁有類似電子郵件這樣的'標準配置，而且意味著你能夠認真地考慮什麼是重要的資訊。這樣的話，諸如訂單處理、銷售計劃、人員管理以及專案管理等，所有這些過程都已經建立起來，可以全面利用計算機的功能。

微軟的另一個主要設想是把編寫應用程式這項工作變得很容易，這樣程式就可以在連線數以百萬計計算機的網際網路上執行。和以前的程式設計不同，這是一個新的做法，有了DNS，開發人員可以集中精力從事其特定的任務，而且不需要學習很多機器資源管理的知識。

這一活動的主辦者之一是我們的合作伙伴，他們開發的系統再加上優異的晶片將使所有這一切成為可能。這是開發人員一次的極好機會。今天編寫的應用程式將賣給市場上更多的計算機使用者。我們正在做許多事情以增加開發人員的工作能力，確保他們理解個人計算機的走向，讓他們知道目前的工具能為他們提供什麼樣的幫助，以及讓他們參加越來越多的促銷型別的活動，使他們與顧客保持良好的關係。

這就是我們年復一年所增加的東西。發展整個DNS的目的就是通過結合不同的體系結構、實現任務自動化以及允許以一種發展的方式完成這一工作，幫助開發人員抓住機會。因此我認為，這是一個開發人員可以大展才華的時代，感謝你們的光臨並希望有機會與你們進行更多的合作。

謝謝！