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“So, tonight is the big game, my team has finally made it to the finals. I feel like inviting some of my friends over to watch the game together. I fire up my email client and invite them to my place. I note down some additional items in my todo list for tonight’s gathering. At 7:00pm, the game starts, the match is tense and exciting, and... NO NOT AGAIN, a last minute header past the goalie. For the 6th time in a row, my team suffers a loss to his rival. The guys left, I head to my computer, launch my browser, search for the match’s news, the reviews are there, I read the first one, I don’t like the writers bias to the winning team, I leave a flaming comment. I head to Youtube to watch the goal again, I am sure that goal was an offside, yes! It’s true, I leave comment pointing to the exact second in the video where the offside is apparent, and annotate the video. I log in to my IM application, search for that contact who always gets on my nerves in those situations, I block him, now I am looking for someone who cheers for my team. Found, I IM her telling how miserable our team was today. She acknowledges. I log into Facebook, change my status to show sorrow, I tweet the match result and I head to my team's official forum to participate in the heated discussion”

 

This a real life scenario where communicating in your own language makes all the difference. Expressing your intense feelings of joy or sorrow is better served using your native tongue. Maren helps you communicate efficiently in Arabic if you lack access to an Arabic keyboard or you are not familiar with one.

 

The fact that Maren is usable across Windows enables a world of possibilities. It now becomes all about you and how you use it. We have heard some unusual stories of people using Maren to rename their folders to Arabic, or to type up that Arabic document that their boss urgently needs.

 

The above is MY story on how I use Maren, now I want to hear yours. How are you using Maren? What are your favorite scenarios? What kind of problems is Maren solving for you? Are you using it intensely in your chatting sessions or are you mainly using it to submit Arabic queries to your search engine of choice or are you doing an entirely different thing? How can we improve it to even help you more?

 

Thanks,

Mostafa Ashour

Program Manager @ Microsoft

Comments

  • Anonymous
    July 22, 2009
    I really Like it before I had to copy paste things from the yamli editor. One drawback is that it is limited to windows if it worked on firefox, or notepad, that would be cool maybe as an addon. I wish it was smart and adapted though. For example if i write donkey it comes out red. In the future i want it to know that this is the way I write donkey. A7mar vs 7mara. If it could adapt and remember which spelling I prefer kind of like dictionary it would be better. I hope the guy behind Yamli got  some credit though

  • Anonymous
    August 15, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    August 15, 2009
    why do you make an ad that humiliate those who type in Arabic ? > if you lack access to an Arabic keyboard or you are not familiar with one. why do you suppose that those who are not familiar with Arabic typing are not marginal ? could you site any kind of reference on the stats claimed by the maren ad ? leave us alone and we are fine.

  • Anonymous
    August 23, 2009
    I agree with this programe ONLY IF SOMEONE HAVE TO WRIGHT STEP ARABIC WITH ENGLISH ALPHABET BECAUSE OF HIS KEYBOARD DIDN'T PROVIDE ARABIC ALPHABET but don't tell me that wrighting with english faster than arabic....OUR ARABIC WILL NOT REMOVED AS LONG AS WE ALIVE!!!!!!!!

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