A Microsoft Corp. joint venture in China announced a partnership with Sina Corp. that will link Microsoft's instant-messaging service with China's biggest microblogging service, in a move that could boost Microsoft's prominence in a market dominated by Chinese companies.
微软(Microsoft Corp.)在中国的合资企业宣布与新浪(Sina Corp.)建立合作关系，此举将把微软的即时讯息服务与中国最大的微博服务联系在一起，可能会提升微软在中国公司占主导的即时讯息市场中的声望。
Users of Sina Weibo, a Chinese Twitter-like microblogging service, will be able to link their accounts to Microsoft's Windows Live Messenger instant-messaging service and have their Sina Weibo messages automatically displayed to their instant-messaging contacts, the companies said in a statement Thursday.
新浪和微软周四在一份声明中表示，建立合作后，新浪微博(Sina Weibo)的用户届时将可以把自己的微博账户连到微软的即时讯息服务Windows Live Messenger上，而新浪微博的信息也将同步显示在后者账户内。新浪微博是一个与推特(Twitter)类似的微博服务提供商。
The companies didn't say when the integration will begin. Both Windows Live Messenger and Sina Weibo, launched in 2009, have tens of millions of users in China, and Sina has said it aims to reach 100 million users by next year.
两家公司未具体说明何时可以开始上述操作。Windows Live Messenger和新浪微博均成立于2009年，在中国各自拥有数千万用户。新浪已表示，计划到明年将其用户数量拓展至1亿。
Microsoft Internet services in China are operated by Shanghai MSN Network Communications Technology Co., a joint venture between Microsoft and Shanghai Alliance Investment Ltd.
微软互联网在中国的服务由上海MSN网络通信技术公司(Shanghai MSN Network Communications Technology Co.)运营，后者是微软和上海联合投资有限公司(Shanghai Alliance Investment Ltd.)的合资公司。
The new partnership with Sina will include a migration of Microsoft's blogging service, Windows Live Spaces, to Sina's blogging service as part of Microsoft's global move to exit the blogging business.
微软与新浪的新合作将包括，前者的博客服务提供商Windows Live Spaces可以将其博客内容转到新浪博客，这是微软退出博客业务的全球举措的一部分。
An MSN spokeswoman said the partnership may eventually also include collaborations on mobile Internet services, and will likely include marketing efforts that would raise visibility of Microsoft's services in China, which has more Internet users than any other nation. Sina, which also partners with Google Inc. by linking to the Internet giant's Web search results from its home page, operates one of China's largest Web portals.
MSN女发言人说，微软与新浪的合作可能最终还包括在手机互联网服务方面的协作以及为提升微软服务在中国能见度需做出的种种营销努力等。中国是世界上互联网用户最多的国家。此外，新浪还与互联网巨头谷歌(Google Inc.)建立合作，从自己的主页上链接后者的网络搜索结果。新浪是中国最大的门户网站之一。
The move comes as Microsoft's top instant-messaging service rival, Tencent Holdings Ltd., is in the midst of a spat with a Chinese software company that has led to service disruptions for many of its users.
新浪与微软开展合作，正值微软最大的即时讯息服务竞争对手腾讯控股有限公司(Tencent Holdings Ltd.)与一家中国软件公司发生口角，导致很多用户服务中断。
As of the third quarter, Windows instant-messaging users had a 4.3% share of active instant-messaging accounts in China, while Tencent's QQ instant-messaging service had a 76.4% share, says research firm Analysys International.
北京研究机构易观国际(Analysys International)表示，自三季度起，Windows即时讯息用户占中国有效即时讯息账户的比例是4.3%，而腾讯的QQ即时讯息账户占比76.4%。
Meanwhile, Microsoft is also providing Bing search results to Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group.
同时，微软还将其"必应"(Bing)搜索结果提供给中国电子商务巨头阿里巴巴集团(Alibaba Group)。
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