诺基亚宣布与微软结盟 采用Windows平台

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Shares in Nokia fell 14 per cent on Friday after its announcement of a strategic allegiance with Microsoft failed to convince investors that the handset maker could fight back against Apple and Google in the smartphone market.
诺基亚(Nokia)股价周五下跌14%，该公司宣布将与微软进行战略合作的消息未能让投资者相信，这家手机厂商能够在智能手机市场反击苹果(Apple)和谷歌(Google)。

Stephen Elop, who left Microsoft to take over as Nokia chief executive last year, said the deal offered the best chance for the two companies to create a software platform capable of challenging Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android operating systems.
去年离开微软担任诺基亚首席执行官的斯蒂芬•埃洛普(Stephen Elop)表示，这笔交易提供了最佳机会，让两家公司创建一个能够挑战苹果iOS和谷歌Android操作系统的软件平台。

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Pierre Ferragu, analyst at Bernstein, said that, given the widely accepted need for Nokia to become nimbler and less bureaucratic, a partnership with “another heavy giant” such as Microsoft “doesn’t sound like the right remedy”.
伯恩斯坦(Bernstein)分析师皮埃尔•费拉居(Pierre Ferragu)表示，鉴于各方已达成广泛共识：诺基亚必须变得更为灵活并减少官僚作风，与微软这样的“另一个沉重的巨擘”结盟，“听上去不像是一条正确出路”。

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There was disappointment over a lack of detailed commitment to cutting Nokia’s research and development costs – by far the highest in the mobile industry – which had been assumed to be one of the main benefits of striking a software partnership.
让投资者感到失望的是，在削减诺基亚研发成本方面缺乏具体承诺，而这被视为双方达成软件合作所带来的主要好处之一。目前，诺基亚的研发成本为手机行业最高。

More broadly, analysts questioned what was to be gained from a combination of two jaded brands that have both been put in the shade by Apple and Google.
更广泛地说，分析师们质疑，这两个处于苹果和谷歌阴影之下的呈现疲态的品牌合作，究竟将产生何种好处？