The Office 2010 Language Interface Packs for Macedonian and Irish are now available for free download and installation: Macedonian Irish A Language Interface Pack allows you to change the User Interface in the following Office 2010 applications: Excel...

Windows 7 in Māori is now available for download . Māori is the second official language of New Zealand (the other being English). Fun Facts about Māori: In addition to being a great movie, Whale Rider portrays Māori culture and society. If you haven...

Windows 7 in Bangla - the official language of Bangladesh - is now available for download . In addition to Windows 7, a localized version of Windows Vista is also available. Bangla is sometimes referred to as Bengali, but is usually referred to as Bangla...

Windows 7 in Amharic -  the national language of Ethiopia – is now available for download . This “ Language Interface Pack ” version of Amharic Windows 7 must be installed on a system that runs an English client version of Windows 7. It is available...

3 new language versions of Office 2010 are now available for download: Urdu Uzbek Norwegian Nynorsk These “Language Interface Pack” versions be downloaded for free and installed on top of an existing Office 2010 installation. They include spell checkers...

We’ve completed a substantial update of the Microsoft Language Portal terminology and UI translations from scores of international Microsoft products that have released over the last few months. The newly added products (or newly added languages for existing...

We are currently updating the Language Portal online search database with the latest products and languages. You may experience that no or only partial results are returned while this is in progress. We hope to have the system updated very soon. Another...

The Windows localization team keeps churning out new language versions of Windows 7. Six new languages – five of them from South Africa - became available this past week: Afrikaans Setswana Sesotho sa Leboa isiZulu isiXhosa Sinhala Languages coming up...

How do we decide to localize one language, but not another? For some insight on this process, have a look at this blog post from Michael Kaplan from Microsoft’s software internationalization and localizability team. Michael's blog – Sorting it All Out...

What do you typically do when you get one of those notifications that prompt you to either allow a download or cancel? Do you usually just click “Allow” and hope nothing bad happens? Imagine the dilemma of seeing these notifications in a language you...

Check this new video from the Microsoft Local Language Program about translating products into Māori. It has some great insights from students at a Maori language school in Hamilton, New Zealand, and from Te Taka Keegan, PhD, senior lecturer at University...

Microsoft Research has just launched a beta version of “ WikiBhasha ” – a new tool that helps users create multilingual content on Wikipedia . What’s interesting is that you don’t have to be a subject matter expert to contribute, and you don’t even have...

We’ve updated two of our Style Guides – Amharic and Turkish. New versions can now be downloaded from the Microsoft Language Portal Style Guide download page . Style Guides are intended to provide Microsoft-specific language guidelines for major style...

The team behind Microsoft’s Machine Translation engine Microsoft Translator has just added 3 new languages to the system: Indonesian , Ukrainian and Vietnamese . That brings the number of languages supported to 35 . Read the full story on the Microsoft...

If you are using SQL Server 2008 and speak Czech, Polish or Turkish, the SQL Server product development team is looking for your feedback. They are testing a system to display translated Help topics in SQL Server Books Online using a combination of Machine...

If you’re interested in the use of IT in education, have a look at this new case study from the Microsoft Local Language Program about how localized software helps Welsh students use technology in their own language. Here’s a snippet from the article...

Internet Explorer 9 Beta launched last week and not just for English. It comes in 32 other languages : Arabic, Chinese Hong Kong SAR, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian...

The Office 2010 “Language Interface Packs” (LIPs) have started rolling out and are now available for Basque, Catalan, Galician and Serbian Cyrillic. 62 LIP languages in total will be available for Office 2010 over the coming months –...

Here’s a wonderfully circuitous way to use the Language Portal Search to solve hardware and software problems. Imagine you are using a German version of Windows and get an error message such as the following: Die Wiedergabe der Diashow wird aufgrund...

Norwegian is not just Norwegian. There's two of them: Norwegian Bokmål (literally: "book language") is used in writing in 85-90% of Norway, but Norwegian Nynorsk ("New Norwegian") has equal status as a written language. Why is it important...

Check out the new Windows 7 language download page . On this page, you can find the 95 language versions available for Windows 7 or Windows Vista and install them as extra languages on your system. For example, if you have Windows in Spanish , you...

A big “Thank You” to everyone who sent us great feedback and constructive suggestions about our redesigned site . Here’s a small update with some of your comments , plus a few other clarifications. Don’t forget — you...

We’ve launched a redesigned and enhanced Microsoft Language Portal ! What you're seeing on the Language Portal today is not only a redesigned and easier-to-use site, but part of a wider effort to provide IT terminology for public download...

We’re excited to announce that we have partnered with Evroterm of Slovenia to license our Slovenian Terminology Collection to be incorporated into the Evroterm multilingual terminology database . Our joint agreement aims at making IT terminology...

Office 2010 has launched! T erminology and UI strings are now available for the first 18 localized languages on the Microsoft Language Portal . The languages included are: Arabic Brazilian Chinese Simplified Chinese...