The Release Candidate for Virtual PC has been released for the following languages: English Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) French German Japanese Korean Spanish Virtual PC will allow you to run multiple Windows...

We talked about Microsoft Language Detection in this blog before, and how it can be used to validate correct localization of resources and text files . Another application of the new Extended Linguistic Services (ELS) is the analysis of customer...

I have some ESL (English as Second Language) friends. Very often the question I have asked is: “How could I enable my Mom use my computer? She does not know English? Well it is quite challenge to buy localized OS in the market here in United States” ...

Windows 7 Release Candidate is now available for download: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/download.aspx The download is available in the following languages: · English · German · Japanese · Spanish · French ...

The Windows Application Quality Cookbook familiarizes developers and test engineers with how to verify the compatibility of their applications with Windows 7. The document is available to download here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Windows7AppQuality...

Introduction In the international Testing world, we are facing a variety of challenges. One of them is to ensure correctness of localization files in the target builds. The builds matrix is huge as a result of the large number of languages we are localizing...

The following blog post contains a great summary of the work that we are doing to improve the International Application Experience for Windows 7: http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/03/09/application-compatibility-testing-international.aspx The...

Japanese To get the Japanese string “ 今日は医者に行く ” (Today, I go to Doctor) , do the following. 1. Invoke Notepad and activate Japanese IME by hitting [Alt]+[~] or using input mode button on Language Bar. 2. Input reading by roman input mode. Type...

Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems all offer some interesting complexities not found in Latin writing systems. Latin based languages (English, German, French, Spanish, etc.) are represented by the combination of a limited set of characters...

Testing in multilingual environments – Windows Server 2008 Application Test Framework The Microsoft Certified for Windows Server 2008 Application Test Framework contains the following test cases to ensure that applications execute appropriately...

DPI (dots per inch) refers to the number of pixels present per inch of display screen. Windows Vista provides a system DPI setting which can be set to closely match the physical DPI/PPI of the screen. Assuming the system DPI is set correctly, an application...

Among other things, our team is testing International applications on Windows 7. We focus on delivering comparable experience to international customers (i.e. customers who are using non-English UI) to help ensuring key applications work on international...

Welcome to the Windows International Testing team blog! This blog will provide topics of interest to software developers and test engineers who are interested in Software Localization Testing, Globalization Testing and Software Localizability (the...