Microsoft Language Portal Blog
News and updates for Microsoft users, customers and developers to efficiently localize software and services.
Internet Explorer 9 RC ships in 40 languages
Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate is now available in 40 languages simultaneously: Arabic,...
Author: Date: 02/10/2011
Office 2010 now available in Icelandic!
The Office 2010 Language Interface Pack for Icelandic is now available for free download! A Language...
Author: Date: 02/04/2011
New Microsoft Translator apps for Windows Phone 7 and ipad
The Microsoft Translator team blog has an interesting post about a couple of new machine translation...
Author: Date: 02/02/2011
Office 2010 released in Macedonian and Irish
The Office 2010 Language Interface Packs for Macedonian and Irish are now available for free...
Author: Date: 01/31/2011
Windows 7 Māori Language Interface Pack is live!
Windows 7 in Maori is now available for download. Maori is the second official language of New...
Author: Date: 01/25/2011
Windows 7 now in Amharic!
Windows 7 in Amharic - the national language of Ethiopia – is now available for download. This...
Author: Date: 01/14/2011
Office 2010 released in Urdu, Uzbek and Norwegian Nynorsk
3 new language versions of Office 2010 are now available for download: Urdu Uzbek Norwegian Nynorsk...
Author: Date: 12/22/2010
Notification: Language Portal data update in progress
We are currently updating the Language Portal online search database with the latest products and...
Author: Date: 11/22/2010
How we decide to localize into one language, but not another
How do we decide to localize one language, but not another? For some insight on this process, have a...
Author: Date: 11/07/2010
Video: Don't just click OK! Localizing into Vietnamese
What do you typically do when you get one of those notifications that prompt you to either allow a...
Author: Date: 11/05/2010
Video: Translating Microsoft products into Māori
Check this new video from the Microsoft Local Language Program about translating products into...
Author: Date: 10/26/2010
WikiBhasha: Microsoft Research tool for translating Wikipedia pages
Microsoft Research has just launched a beta version of “WikiBhasha” – a new tool that helps users...
Author: Date: 10/18/2010
Two Microsoft Style Guides updated: Amharic and Turkish
We’ve updated two of our Style Guides – Amharic and Turkish. New versions can now be downloaded from...
Author: Date: 10/14/2010
New on Microsoft Translator: Indonesian, Ukrainian and Vietnamese
The team behind Microsoft’s Machine Translation engine Microsoft Translator has just added 3 new...
Author: Date: 10/11/2010
Calling Czech, Polish and Turkish users of SQL Server
If you are using SQL Server 2008 and speak Czech, Polish or Turkish, the SQL Server product...
Author: Date: 09/26/2010
Welsh versions of Office and Windows – helping support “immersive” education
If you’re interested in the use of IT in education, have a look at this new case study from the...
Author: Date: 09/22/2010
Internet Explorer 9 Beta available in 33 languages
Internet Explorer 9 Beta launched last week and not just for English. It comes in 32 other...
Author: Date: 09/19/2010
Office 2010 Basque, Catalan, Galician and Serbian Cyrillic have released
The Office 2010 “Language Interface Packs” (LIPs) have started rolling out and are now...
Author: Date: 09/12/2010
Search tip: Finding answers for obscure, localized error messages
Here’s a wonderfully circuitous way to use the Language Portal Search to solve hardware and...
Author: Date: 08/18/2010
Video: Why we localize software for Norwegian Nynorsk
Norwegian is not just Norwegian. There's two of them: Norwegian Bokmål (literally: "book...
Author: Date: 08/03/2010
Installing extra languages on your Windows 7 or Vista system
Check out the new Windows 7 language download page. On this page, you can find the 95 language...
Author: Date: 07/27/2010
Our redesigned site: your feedback
A big “Thank You” to everyone who sent us great feedback and constructive suggestions...
Author: Date: 07/22/2010
Redesigned Microsoft Language Portal features terminology downloads
We’ve launched a redesigned and enhanced Microsoft Language Portal! What you're seeing on the...
Author: Date: 07/09/2010
Microsoft IT Terminology Included in Evroterm of Slovenia
We’re excited to announce that we have partnered with Evroterm of Slovenia to license our...
Author: Date: 07/04/2010
Office 2010 terminology for 18 languages available
Office 2010 has launched! Terminology and UI strings are now available for the first 18 localized...
Author: Date: 06/14/2010
New language added: Amharic
For the first time, we’ve added reference material for Amharic on the Language Portal:...
Author: Date: 06/13/2010
Microsoft Translator adds collaborative translation feature
Today, at the MIX 2010 conference, the Microsoft Research team behind Microsoft Translator announced...
Author: Date: 03/16/2010
Sharing IT terminology with local language communities
Today, we are announcing 59 Language Interface Packs (LIPs) for Windows 7, Office 2010 as well as...
Author: Date: 02/22/2010
Windows 7 terminology published on Microsoft Language Portal
Following the worldwide release of Windows 7, we have now included the terminology and software...
Author: Date: 11/06/2009
Downloading UI translations for offline use
Microsoft Language Portal features an online search displaying results from our terminology database...
Author: Date: 10/26/2009
Dutch Style Guide Updated
The Dutch Style Guide has been updated and is available for download from the Language Portal Style...
Author: Dalene Feucht Date: 09/28/2009
How are we doing?
The Language Portal (https://www.microsoft.com/language) has been available for over a year, now and...
Author: Dalene Feucht Date: 08/12/2009
Spelling Reform Topic Updated in Portuguese (Brazil) Style Guide
The 5th edition of Vocabulário Ortográfico da Língua Portuguesa (VOLP) was published on March 19,...
Author: Dalene Feucht Date: 07/22/2009
Danish and Ukrainian Style Guides Recently Updated
The Danish and Ukrainian Style Guides available from the Microsoft Language Portal were updated...
Author: Dalene Feucht Date: 02/26/2009
Context-sensitive speller
Today’s post in the Office Natural Language Team Blog reminds us that a great addition to Office...
Author: Anonymous Date: 01/15/2009
Windows 7 Beta in Arabic, German, Hindi and Japanese available on Jan 9
Windows 7 Beta is now ready and in addition to English, it'll also be available in German, Japanese,...
Author: Date: 01/08/2009
Cultural awareness and product development/localization
Sarah Dillon in There's something about translation has a very interesting post on multilingualism...
Author: Anonymous Date: 12/16/2008
Czech Terminology: changing “klepnout” to “kliknout”
Based on strong feedback from our users, we are changing our Czech translations for click and...
Author: Date: 12/13/2008
Windows Live terminology - what users told us
For a couple of months earlier this year, we ran a terminology feedback program to solicit comments...
Author: Date: 12/09/2008
Puget Sound STC meeting on terminology at Microsoft
The Puget Sound chapter of the Society for Technical Communication (STC) invited me and a panel of...
Author: Date: 12/02/2008