They're one of dozens of companies that build productivity software; the market is estimated at nearly $50 billion.

他们是数十家开发生产力软件的公司之一；该市场估计接近 500 亿美元。

Gartner analyst Dave Micko said leading AI developers are pushing the latest technology with their current line of products, including search engines and workplace productivity software.

高德纳的分析师戴夫·米科表示，领先的人工智能开发商正在用他们目前的产品线推动最新技术，包括搜索引擎和工作场所生产力软件。

Microsoft's own Office dominates the market for “productivity” software, but the start-ups represented a new wave of technology designed from the ground up for the smartphone world.

微软自创的 Office 在“生产效率”软件市场独占鳌头，而这两家初创企业则代表了智能手机领域全新科技的一股新潮。

Microsoft says firms testing a Copilot for its " productivity" software (meaning, for email, spreadsheets, word-processing and the like) report similar benefits.

微软表示，测试 Copilot 的“生产力”软件（即电子邮件、电子表格、文字处理等）的公司也报告了类似的好处。

Because if you think about the most important database in any company is the database underneath all of your productivity software except that data is all siled today.

因为，对于任何公司而言，最重要的数据实际就是生产力方面的数据，只不过现在所有的数据铺天盖地地向我们袭来。

Jared Spataro, who is in charge of Microsoft's productivity software, says that Copilots entail an " entirely new way of working" , in which the machine helps you produce more " but it isn't always right" .

负责微软生产力软件的贾里德·斯帕塔罗(Jared Spataro)表示，Copilots带来了一种“全新的工作方式”，机器可以帮助你生产更多的东西，“但它并不总是正确的”。