CMA, Silverlight, Live Translation

As some of you know, I and my teammates have been working on activities at the CMA Music Fest. We had a great time, as you can tell on my Facebook pages. Since it’s Microsoft’s end of year, we are now busily documenting the successes of the year including Music Fest. Today, I found that Santiago Leguiza  wrote a blog post in Spanish about CMA’s Be This Close, a cool game developed on Silverlight/DeepZoom by FireFly Logic of Nashville. Very cool. https://www.cmafest.com/bethisclose

That’s a blog post for another day. Today, I wanted to mention what you can do when you’re on a web page and can understand the language. In this case, I know a little Spanish, but couldn’t read this. But with 2 features from Microsoft, it was no problem. First, we have a Live Translation service (free), and second, IE8 has an accelerator that uses this service and translates to English. Highlighted the text, clicked on the accelerator icon, and a preview window showed me the English translation. Problem solved in just a few seconds.