When you buy the English version of Office 2007, you also get the ability to install proofing tools (e.g., hyphenators , spellers, etc.) for Spanish and French, the two "companion" languages for English. That is, "Each language version of the 2007 Office...

Here are some more details on the Microsoft Office Multi-Language Pack 2007.... (Note, this is in addition to an earlier post we put up.) This information was taken from some internal documentation that has been approved for release: What is the Microsoft...

It’s interesting to see how useful the new Contextual Speller feature in Office 2007 can be. If Office 2007 had been used to write the news release about the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 issued yesterday by Microsoft over the PR Newswire, the following...

A friend of mine, a university researcher, tells of a colleague whose students trusted the English spellchecker beyond reason. He got a paper labeled with the name “Troika Miller”. He didn’t recall anyone by that name in the class, and he couldn't imagine...

Bill Gates announced last month that Joshua Goodman would be his new technical assistant. Joshua writes: I joined Microsoft as a Researcher in MSR in 1998. During that time, I’ve worked on speech recognition, stopping spam, and email among other topics...

A user was asking us the other day whether there was going to be a Proofing Tools 2007 kit, as was the case for previous releases of Office. The answer is not just “yes”, so it may be worth giving a little more details. There will indeed be a Proofing...