If you are developing Windows Phone apps for international markets, it’s now easier to ensure that your app speaks to the user in the same tone, style and level of formality as the Windows Phone OS. The Windows Phone team have just made 5 international...

Hot on the heels of the 5 Windows Phone-specific style guides we posted last week , we are now making 38 updated and expanded international style guides available for download . International Style guides provide general Microsoft guidelines for style...

A few days ago, we posted the new and updated European Portuguese Style Guide . With this new edition, we will now begin to gradually adopt the Portuguese spelling reform in new products and services until the expiry of the transition period in Portugal...

The new Russian Style Guide posted last week (together with 37 other international style guides ) contains a significant change in the way we will address users in many new Russian products and services going forward. Basically, every single part of the...

The Microsoft Language Portal has been updated with terminology and UI translations from a number of international Microsoft products that have released over the last 3 months. This data will help you globalize and localize products quickly, efficiently...

This new video from the Microsoft Local Language Program tells the story of why it’s important to have translated IT products in Georgian . Why it matters: “When the computer is in my language, it gives me the feeling of identity and I can be at the same...