MSDN Magazine in 7 languages!

re: MSDN Magazine in 7 languages!

Stephen Toub - MSFT — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 01:23:31 GMT

Thanks, Luis. As I said, all feedback (positive and negative) is welcome, and we'll work to address any issues or suggestions as soon as we can. We've sent this specific piece back for a localization quality assurance pass, pointing out this issue in particular, and hopefully any other issues will also be cleared up.

re: MSDN Magazine in 7 languages!

Luis Abreu — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:13:52 GMT

the other post went too soon...

as i was saying, thanks for improving the quality of the msdn mag with translations (lets just hope that that sentence was the only thing wrong there).

re: MSDN Magazine in 7 languages!

Luis Abreu — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:13:01 GMT

Hello Stephen.

i know that you're working hard to improve msnd and that is great.

i'll read one of the articles tomorrow in portuguese br and i'll give you feedback on it. thanks for improving.

re: MSDN Magazine in 7 languages!

Stephen Toub - MSFT — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 00:34:08 GMT

Hi Luis-

Thank you for the feedback! I agree that there's a significant distinction in this context between "secure" and "security", and we'll get that sentence fixed, however I hope that one mistake won't prevent you from taking advantage of the rest of the translations. Did you find additional significant mistakes? Please write to us at mmombud at microsoft.com with any corrections you think are appropriate, and we'll work to rectify the problems as soon as possible. We're excited about being able to provide the translations, and that entails ensuring that they're as accurate as possible.

Sincerely,

Stephen

re: MSDN Magazine in 7 languages!

Luis Abreu — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 01:34:03 GMT

hello.

well, sorry to be the 1st one to say this, but the portuguese translation really sucks big time and i've just read the 1st setence from michael howard article. let me put it here:

the original said this:

"I have been lucky enough to work with thousands of good developers over the years who wanted to learn how to write more secure software".

the pt translation said this:

"Eu tive muita sorte em trabalhar com milhares de bons desenvolvedores durante muitos anos que queriam aprender a escrever mais software de segurança".

this is completly wrong. the pt sentence doesn't say that he's writting more secure software, it says that he wants to write more security software (which is completly wrong, wrong, wrong).

as you might guess, after this sentence, i went straight back to the english version.

just had to say it...

re: MSDN Magazine in 7 languages!

Yasser Shohoud — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:13:13 GMT

This is very cool. The most impressive part is the "simultaneous" aspect.

re: MSDN Magazine in 7 languages!

Stephen Toub - MSFT — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:09:25 GMT

Moli, currently these are all human translations.

Arik, excellent, glad you liked it!

re: MSDN Magazine in 7 languages!

Arik — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 07:50:26 GMT

Great news, I read the article about STRIDE in the Spanish version, and the translation is very satisfactory. Good work. Bye.

re: MSDN Magazine in 7 languages!

moli — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 07:47:44 GMT

Is this done by Machine Translation?

MSDN Magazine x 7

Sorting It All Out — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 06:17:05 GMT

Fellow Technical Lead Stephen Toub posted about the coolest thing earlier today in his MSDN Magazine