The Microsoft Language Portal has been updated with terminology and UI translations from Office 2013, Windows Phone 8 and new languages added to Windows 8 and Office 2013. The portal provides online search for thousands of translations used in Microsoft...

The final release of Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 is now available for download in 95 languages (including English): 64 bit: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36806 32 bit: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details...

Another 12 "Language Interface Packs" are now available for Office 2013: Afrikaans Bosnian (Latin) Icelandic Igbo Khmer KiSwahili Nepali Sesotho sa Leboa Setswana (S.A.) Sinhala Welsh Yoruba This follows the...

February 21 is UNESCO’s International Mother Language Day 2013 , which aims to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. This is also an occasion for us to highlight the contributions of the Microsoft Local Language Program...

Office 2013 will add 13 completely new languages as well as a fully localized experience of the User Interface (UI) and User Assistance (UA) content in Vietnamese, Malay and Indonesian. This means that you will be able to use Office in 106 languages...

Windows 8 became available in Cherokee this week. In the making for over 3 years, the Cherokee Language Interface Pack for Windows 8 was built in collaboration with the Cherokee Nation Language Team. The work also involved creating a completely new font...

If your language is not currently supported on Windows Phone, the Windows Phone Suggestion Box is a handy site to make your voice heard and vote up suggestions from other users. Once an idea has been implemented, you'll see a small COMPLETED label.

Do you want to challenge your language skills and technical knowledge? With MSDN Translation Wiki , you can earn points, medal and achievements for your translation contributions. Translation Wiki is a wiki environment that allows users to read and...

One of the most fun apps for Windows Phone is now available for Windows Phone 8 users. The Bing Translator app lets you simply point your camera at text in a foreign language - whether it's a road sign, poster, restaurant menu, or whatever - and the...

A couple of visitors to the Microsoft Language Portal contacted us via the Feedback page and wrote: Apparently only English products have an About box, because there is no translation for any other language! Search Terminology is a great tool! There...

Internet Explorer 10 Release Preview for Windows 7 is now available for download in 39 languages (including English): Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese (Hong Kong SAR), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English...

Fascinating talk and demo of real-time translation from spoken English into spoken Chinese. This was part of a presentation at Microsoft Research Asia’s 21st Century Computing event in Tianjin, China. Read the full article on the Next at Microsoft...

Funny Microsoft Norway video from the Windows 8 launch: From Rob Margel's Windows blog . And if you are wondering what the Norwegian word Musikk is called in US Windows 8, you can find user interface translations in over 57 languages on the Microsoft...

Developing an app for Windows 8 and want to make it available in multiple languages? The Microsoft Language Portal now enables you to find the Windows 8 translations of user interface terms such as Start screen , file explorer , charm , or Pin to Start...

If you are developing applications or content for Office 2013, you can use this handy glossary to get to grips with the new terminology in Office 2013 Preview and SharePoint 2013 Preview. The Office 2013 Preview Glossary contains definitions for terms...

Building a Windows 8 app and want to make it available internationally? It's now easy to get your app translated into multiple languages with the release of the Multilingual App Toolkit . This kit is a free download that allows you to set up a localization...

Windows Phone 8 was announced today. One snippet of news that's interesting for an international audience: it will expand the number of languages from currently 25 languages in Windows Phone 7.5 to 50 in Windows 8, including Arabic , Farsi and Turkish...

If you are developing Windows Phone apps in Simplified Chinese , Indonesian or Malay, you can now find the translations of the user interface and key terminology on the Language Portal Online Search . The terminology includes translations of key Windows...

The Windows 8 Release Preview was just announced! It's available for download in 14 languages: Arabic, English, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Swedish , and Turkish...

The Office localization team has published the full list of spellers available for the Language Interface Pack languages, from Afrikaans, Albanian and Armenian down to Yoruba - currently 49 languages. You can see the full list of spellers on the Office...

If you speak one of these languages, we are looking for feedback on the key Windows 8 terminology. The Terminology Feedback Program gives you an opportunity to comment on these terms as they will appear in the next version of Windows. The lists include...

We are now looking for feedback from our users on the key Windows terminology for Armenian , Tamil , Urdu and Vietnamese . So we have opened a Terminology Feedback Program that gives you an opportunity to comment on these terms as they will appear...

The Microsoft Translator MT system has added Hmong to the list of supported languages, bringing the number of languages available to 38. The work of adding Hmong was the result of collaboration between members of the Hmong community to help create...

February 21 is UNESCO's International Mother Language Day . To mark this, the Windows team are today announcing that Windows 8 will be available in 14 new languages , bringing the total number of languages supported to 109. The languages announced...

SharePoint Server 2010 and SharePoint Foundation 2010 have now released in 3 more languages: Indonesian, Malay and Azerbaijani. These new "Language packs" enable creation of sites and site collections in multiple languages without requiring separate...