Now it gets interesting. Caught on the back foot by the introduction of Apple's iPhone two years ago, Nokia recently launched its own – albeit inferior – touch-screen handset, the N97. Then yesterday the Finnish group announced a deal to install Microsoft's Office Mobile software on its phones, with the aim of winning over business customers reluctant to forgo Research in Motion's popular BlackBerry. Microsoft, meanwhile, gets potential access to Nokia's millions of customers as it squares off against Google in the market for mobile phone software.
事情現在開始變得有趣起來。兩年前因蘋果公司(Apple)推出iPhone而處于不利境地的諾基亞(Nokia)，最近推出了自己的觸摸屏手機N97——盡管比不上iPhone。昨日，這家芬蘭集團宣布與微軟(Microsoft)達成協議，將在自己的手機上安裝微軟的Office Mobile軟件，目的是爭取那些不愿放棄RIM公司(Research in Motion)廣受歡迎的黑莓(BlackBerry)的商業用戶。與此同時，對正準備在手機軟件市場迎戰谷歌(Google)的微軟來說，該協議有可能為其爭取到諾基亞的數百萬用戶。