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August, 2010

The blog of Rob Margel - Windows Help

Microsoftie 4 ever (18+ years) working in Windows Web Services and Content team in the UK. The blog is mainly focused on the Windows family of products and trying to provide help pointers and resources for customers on our products.
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  • The blog of Rob Margel - Windows Help

    Microsoft and languages a bunch of recent links and resources

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Rob Margel
    • 1 Comments

    Over the last few days i have spotted a number of links related to Microsoft and languages:

    • Why Microsoft localizes software for Norwegian Nynorsk – nice video from the Microsoft Language Portal Blog.

    “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. “

    Nynorsk Language Interface packs for Windows 7 and Windows Vista

    • Microsoft Mines Web to Hone Language Tool – article from the Online Wall Street Journal about Microsoft's efforts to create and enhance a Chinese-English dictionary and language practice service.

    “Engkoo, at www.engkoo.com, is written in Chinese with two characters meaning "English" and "vault." It has a core of translation data that Microsoft draws from sources such as dictionaries, which it licenses from their publishers. That content is mixed with data that Microsoft gleans by such methods as sweeping the Web for sites with parallel Chinese and English versions.

    Microsoft computers align the parallel websites—their paragraphs, sentences and individual words—then assign a quality ranking to the resulting translation and file it away.

    When an Engkoo user types a word or sentence into the website's input bar, in either Chinese or English, the site draws on statistics from its vault of data to translate it. It also displays sample sentences that use similar words and, in many cases, links to where it found them.”

    • Windows 7 Language Packs – Stephen L Rose posts on the official Windows Team blog in the Springboard (ITPro section) about Microsoft language packs

    “All together Windows supports close to 100 languages.. ”

    and posts some useful links for ITPros

    • Download Languages for Windows 7 
    • Understanding Multilingual Deployments
    • Planning MUI Deployments for Windows 7
    • Windows LIP: Frequently Asked Questions
    • Microsoft Local Language Program
    • The Microsoft Indic Language Input Tool comes out of Beta – I blogged about this back in December and the tool is out of Beta

    “It gives us great pleasure to announce that the Microsoft Indic Language Input Tool is out of beta and is now a full-fledged release. We thank all of you for the valuable feedback you have provided us to help improve the features, quality and performance of the product.

    Please download the latest version of ILIT for your language:

    Bengali Gujarati Hindi Kannada Malayalam Marathi Oriya Punjabi Tamil Telugu

    Rob

    Technorati Tags: Norwegian,Nynorsk,Language,Language Interface Packs,engkoo,Windows 7,LIP,MUI,Microsoft

     

    Technorati Tags: Bengali Gujarati Hindi Kannada Malayalam Marathi Oriya Punjabi Tamil Telugu




  • The blog of Rob Margel - Windows Help

    How to Twitter

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Rob Margel
    • 1 Comments

    too good to pass up

    spotted by @scottisafool

    Rob

    Technorati Tags: twitter

     




  • The blog of Rob Margel - Windows Help

    Need help with Windows Live Hotmail

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Rob Margel
    • 0 Comments

    If you are looking to get the most out of the latest version (Wave 4) Windows Live Hotmail  then try the updated content at http://explore.live.com/windows-live-hotmail where there is content about topics such as:

     

    Keep junk mail out

    Keep junk mail out

    • Hotmail helps you keep junk mail out using Microsoft SmartScreen‍, the same technology that businesses and governments use to protect their email. And Hotmail gives you a virtual broom to sweep unwanted email out of your inbox.
    Use Office in Hotmail

    Use Office in Hotmail

    • View, edit and share Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote files right in Hotmail for free—even if you don't have Microsoft Office installed on your PC or Mac.*
      *Not yet available in all regions.
    Save time and get more done

    Save time and get more done

    • With Hotmail, you can send up to 10 GB in attachments and get content and updates from sites like LinkedIn, Flickr, and YouTube—without leaving your inbox.

    as well as a bunch off other content such as  getting started, organize your inbox | get more done and staying more secure plus more…

    Rob

    Technorati Tags: hotmail,Windows Live

     




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