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Context-sensitive speller
Today’s post in the Office Natural Language Team Blog reminds us that a great addition to Office 2007, a context-sensitive spelling checker , is also available for Spanish (as well as English and German). It is a very useful feature for languages with Read More...
Windows 7 Beta in Arabic, German, Hindi and Japanese available on Jan 9
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 Read More...
Windows Live terminology - what users told us
For a couple of months earlier this year, we ran a terminology feedback program to solicit comments and alternative suggestions from our users. This program was specifically aimed at the existing terminology in the Windows Live suite of services (Messenger, Read More...
Multilingual documentation: English and localized Help
The Search tool in the Microsoft Language Portal lets you access the Microsoft terminology database, with thousands of English terms, their definitions and their translations in more than 90 languages, and millions of software strings from localized Microsoft Read More...
Animals and... IT terminology!
English is a very creative language which often uses semantic neologisms (a new meaning is given to an already existing word) and/or terminologization (a generic word is transformed into a new term in a special language). Here are a few well-known examples* Read More...
Terms under the spotlight
This page is a compilation of the "terms of the month" featured in the Microsoft Language Portal . It includes the following terms: Breadcrumb Cookie Nudge Ribbon Tag cloud Tap Wizard Breadcrumb The term breadcrumb navigation was coined in reference to Read More...
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