Loneliness of the long-distance linguist.

Information central.

Just in time for the Vista street date, the Vista International Support Portal is live at www.microsoft.com/globaldev/vista/vistahome.mspx ! It contains lots of information about the locales, language packs, LIPs, fonts, and keyboards that we ship, and Read More...

Posted Monday, February 05, 2007 10:24 AM by KieranS | 1 Comments

So I want Windows to support my language. How does that happen, exactly?

One of the disappointing things about the end of a product cycle is that it's too late to add into this version all the cool new customer requests that we get. (Of course, the flip side of this is that one of the great things about new product cycles Read More...

Posted Monday, August 07, 2006 6:16 PM by KieranS | 5 Comments

Lights, camera, action!

For everything you ever wanted to know about Windows globalization and localization, or at least for one or two things, you might like to check out this Channel 9 interview. It features Michael Kaplan , whose blog you may know; Jeff Allen, our director Read More...

Posted Thursday, August 03, 2006 3:44 PM by KieranS | 3 Comments

Next stop: Antarctica?

A couple of days ago I posted about the Microsoft Locale Builder. But what about the locales that we're adding new for Vista? A few interesting facts: When Vista ships, it will include locale support for over 130 languages built in as part of Windows Read More...

Posted Monday, July 24, 2006 3:46 PM by KieranS | 4 Comments