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【中文标题】微软是中国互联网乱战的得益者？
【原文标题】Microsoft a Winner in China Internet Gang War?
【登载媒体】《华尔街日报》（Wall Street Journal）“中国实时报”（China Real Time）栏目博客
【来源地址】http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealti ... -internet-gang-war/
【译者】rhapsody
【声明】本译文供Anti-CNN网站使用，未经AC或译者同意、谢绝转载
【译文】
The public battle between Chinese Internet giant Tencent and antivirus software company Qihoo 360, referred to by some as “small gang” (Qihoo 360) vs. “mafia” (Tencent), has led to a spike in new users for other firms, including one of Tencent’s chief rivals, Microsoft.
中国互联网巨头腾讯和杀毒软件公司奇虎360这场被一些人称作是“小混混”（奇虎360）对阵“黑社会”（腾讯）的公开对战，导致一些用户蜂拥倒向其他公司，包括腾讯的主要对手——微软。
New user signups in China for Microsoft’s MSN Messenger, a competitor to Tencent’s leading QQ instant-messaging service, have gone “from tens of thousands normally to millions” per day since a flare-up between the two Chinese companies began, a person familiar with the situation said.
据知情人士透露，自从这两家中国公司爆发争执以来，在即时通讯服务领域处于领先地位的腾讯QQ的竞争对手——微软MSN的中国新增注册用户“从往常每天数万增加到了数百万”（好像早就改叫WLM了吧＝＝——译注）。
The conflict, which appears to have ignited two months ago when antivirus software company Qihoo 360 alleged that Tencent’s QQ was scanning the private data of its users and released software claiming to block plug-ins that could cause such privacy leaks. Tencent denied the allegations, then discontinued its services to QQ users who were also using Qihoo 360’s software. Qihoo 360 responded by encouraging users to discontinue use of QQ.
这场争执似乎是在两个月前被开始引爆：杀毒软件公司奇虎360声称腾讯QQ扫描了其用户的个人数据，并推出相关软件，声称能够屏蔽导致个人数据泄漏的插件。腾讯否认了这一指控，之后中断了对使用奇虎360软件的QQ用户的服务。奇虎360则鼓动其用户不再使用QQ作为回应。
The spike in MSN users shows that at least some users have taken that request to heart. But while analysts say the incident may push some users to competing services, Zhang Yanan, analyst for Zero2IPO, said the incident is unlikely to turn a significant portion of users against Tencent, which has a loyal following of hundreds of millions of people.
MSN用户的激增显示了至少有部分用户是真心响应了这个号召。不过尽管有些分析人员认为此次事件会使一些用户导向其竞争对手，Zero2IPO的分析师张亚男（音）认为，这次事件不会使腾讯流失较大份额的用户，该公司有着数以亿计的忠实追随者。
Tencent “really did a poor job in managing this public relations crisis” and the incident might “change QQ users’ view toward the company from trust to emotional resistance,” Zhang said. But, he added, “I can’t see the possibility that a large number of users are going to abandon the service.”
张亚男认为，腾讯对此次公关危机处理得“很糟糕”，此次事件可能使QQ用户对该公司的态度由信任变为“情感上的抵触”。不过他补充道，“我并未看到大量用户抛弃其服务的可能性”。
Still, criticisms of the two companies continue to spread, despite reports by state-run media that Tencent and Qihoo have moved to make their services compatible again. Thousands of users have signed online petitions (in Chinese) saying the companies’ actions disregarded the needs of users, or requesting that China’s State Administration for Industry and Commerce launch an anti-monopoly investigation into Tencent’s business practices.
对两家公司的批评声浪仍在扩散，尽管据国营媒体报道，腾讯和奇虎已使其服务又能相互兼容了。数千名用户在网上发起诉状，声称两家公司的行径罔顾用户需求，要求中国国家工商行政管理总局对腾讯的商业运营发起反垄断调查。
“It’s possible that users might convert to another IM service some day … but from my point of view, it’s not going to happen very soon,” Zhang said. “For the short term, I don’t think this incident is going to change the current market structure.”
“用户可能在未来转向其他的即时通讯服务商……但以我个人观点来看，这不会很快发生”，张亚男说道，“在短期内，我不认为这次事件会改变现有的市场结构”。 |
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