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The last several months have been packed with planning our next set of features in the international space -- talking to customers about what they need and what they want, looking at the teams we have and seeing where our skills are up to the challenges
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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
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Yes, it's been a while. Since I've last blogged, we've shipped Vista and I've gone on a long vacation to Hawaii. Personally I find both of these things very exciting. It's understandable if you care more about the first than the second. :) But I'm back
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The Microsoft Community Glossary - Linguistic Partnership Project allows members of a speech community to work together to create and standardize technical vocabulary for their language. Community Glossaries can be an important step on the road to software
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If you're going to use the Locale Builder tool to create a custom locale, you have a couple of options: You can create a brand new locale for a language-region combination that is not currently supported by Microsoft, or you can replace a locale that
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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
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My last post produced a real onslaught of mail. It turns out that when it comes to community solutions in general and to wikipedia in paticular, people have no shortage of opinions. Curiously enough, it is the people who identified themselves as wikipedia
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I had an interesting conversation this morning with a colleague about community approaches to large-scale projects. We were mainly thinking about software, and in particular, the pieces of software that are most susceptible to a modular approach using
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Michael Kaplan has blogged quite a bit about our release of the Microsoft Locale Builder Beta , the final version of which is planned for use on Vista when it ships. We're pretty excited about the Locale Builder here for a whole bunch of reasons. Like
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