Microsoft Language Portal features an online search displaying results from our terminology database and text strings used in our products. In addition to the online search, you can download the text strings (a.k.a. "UI strings") in CSV format with...

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...

Another 15 localization style guides for developing international Windows Phone apps have just been made available by the Windows Phone team. Style guides provide instructions to help ensure that your app speaks to the user in the same tone, style...

  Have you ever heard about TBot, Windows Live Messenger translator robot? TBot can translate your instant messages into several languages. Would you like to give it a try? Then, add TBot ( mtbot@hotmail.com ) to your contact list in Windows Live...

Visual Studio 2008 has been localized into Arabic, Czech, Hebrew, Hindi, Polish, Tamil, Turkish, Malayalam and Oriya as a free "CLIP" download package . "CLIP" stand for " Captions Language Interface Pack ". It's basically an add-on with localized...

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...

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...

A few weeks ago we asked speakers of Chinese Simplified, Japanese, German and French help us translate the planned, new terminology in Windows 8. We got some brilliantly creative suggestions and insightful comments that will help us get the language experience...

Internet Explorer 9 is final and available for download in 39 languages (including English): Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese (Hong Kong SAR), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German...

The 4 th edition of the Microsoft Manual of Style that was announced last week is now available! Microsoft Press and O’Reilly have just released the first public update since the 3 rd edition came out in 2004. This Microsoft Press edition includes...

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...

Do you have suggestions on how to translate sideload or semantic zoom in Chinese? Spanish? Japanese? Or any of the languages below? Why not join the community and help refine the Windows 8 Developer glossary for your language! Your input is invaluable...

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...

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...

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 Beta is now ready and in addition to English, it'll also be available in German, Japanese, Arabic, and Hindi on January 9. Each language will be available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions (except Hindi which will only be available in 32-bit). Read...

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...

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 –...

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...

Microsoft Office 2010 Language Interface Packs are now available in 3 Nigerian languages, covering over 60 million speakers. You can install them from here: Hausa (Hausa) Office 2010 Language Interface Pack Igbo (Ndi Igbo) Office 2010 Language Interface...

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...

We’ve added another 53 new and updated international localization/translation style guides to the Microsoft Language Portal . International style guides provide general Microsoft guidelines for style, tone, orthography and other language topics. They...

On January 1 st , 2009, Brazil started adopting the new spelling rules, defined in the Spelling Agreement signed in 1990 by seven Portuguese-speaking countries. Grammarians estimate that the spelling reform affects 0.5% of the Portuguese (Brazil) lexicon...

Today, we are announcing 59 Language Interface Packs (LIPs) for Windows 7, Office 2010 as well as new LIP additions for Visual Studio 2010 for the first time. We are also announcing that we have begun to share the contents of the Microsoft Terminology...

The Office 2010 Language Interface Pack for Albanian (Shqip) is now available for free download ! A Language Interface Pack allows you to change the user interface in the following Office 2010 applications: Excel, OneNote, InfoPath, Outlook, PowerPoint...