微軟超越蘋果 重奪全球市值最高公司寶座

Microsoft's big bet on cloud computing is paying off as the company has surpassed Apple as the world's most valuable publicly traded company.

微軟在云計(jì)算業(yè)務(wù)上的豪賭正在取得回報(bào)，目前該公司已超越蘋果公司，成為全球市值最高的上市公司。

The software maker's prospects looked bleak just afew years ago, as licenses for the company's Windows system fell with a sharp drop in sales of personal computers.

就在幾年前，這家軟件制造商的市場(chǎng)前景還不被人看好，隨著個(gè)人電腦銷量的大幅度下滑，微軟正版的Windows操作系統(tǒng)安裝量也隨之有所下滑。

But under CEO Satya Nadella, Microsoft has found stability by focusing on software and services over the internet, or the cloud, with long-term business contracts.

但在首席執(zhí)行官薩蒂亞·納德拉的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)下，微軟與許多合作伙伴簽署了長(zhǎng)期的商業(yè)合作合同，專攻軟件和互聯(lián)網(wǎng)服務(wù)，即云服務(wù)，逐漸穩(wěn)定下來(lái)。

 

 

That 1990s personal-computing powerhouse is now having a renaissance moment, as it eclipses Facebook, Google, Amazon and the other tech darlings of the late decade.

20世紀(jì)90年代的微軟是電腦行業(yè)一把手，如今它正在東山再起，近10年，它超越臉書、谷歌、亞馬遜和其他科技公司。

Apple had been the world's most prosperous firm since claiming the top spot from Exxon Mobilearlier this decade.

蘋果公司自從本世紀(jì)初從Exxon Mobil手中奪下榜首以來(lái)，一直是全球最繁榮的上市公司之一。

Microsoft surpassed Apple briefly a few times last week, but didn't close on top until last Friday, with a market value of $851 billion to Apple's $847 billion. Microsoft hadn't been at the top since the height of the dot-com boom in 2000.

雖然微軟公司的市值在上周也曾短暫的超越過(guò)蘋果幾次，但在上周五收盤時(shí)，微軟公司終于以8510億美元的市值正式超越蘋果8470億美元的市值。自2000年互聯(lián)網(wǎng)熱潮達(dá)到頂峰以來(lái)，微軟一直沒有登上過(guò)榜首。

Microsoft became a contender again in large part because Apple's stock fell nearly 20 percent in November, while Microsoft hasn't done any worse than the rest of the stock market.

微軟再次成為一個(gè)有力競(jìng)爭(zhēng)者，很大程度上是因?yàn)樘O果的股價(jià)在11月份下跌了近20%，而微軟相較股市上其他公司來(lái)說(shuō)則沒有變得更糟。