演示示例 2007 is being localized
There are probably a few of you out there that can read this headline but the majority of us wouldn't know this is how you write 'Demo Showcase 2007' in Chinese. The point here is that many of our partners/customers don't use English to conduct business so the current version of Demo Showcase provides challenges to adopt no matter how great they think it is. If you can't put a demo in front of the customer it's probably a resource that you will rarely use except for internal training and education.
We recognize that having localized versions of sales tools is important and can help partners drive incremental revenue. So we're in the process of localizing the Demo Showcase 2007 release into 8 languages. The languages are Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese and Japanese. And actuallly there will be 9 languages total since Germany already has a local version of Demo Showcase called Contoso. The content to be localized includes the Virtual Machines (data and products), scenario scripts and the simulations.
So I can hear you yelling at your computer screen - "This sounds great but when am I going to get it??!!" All 8 language versions are scheduled to be delivered by the end of September. Of course since this is a rather difficult project delivery dates are subject to change but we just completed the Spanish beta last week with French and Italian finishing up this week.
If you're a partner and want to know when your language will be available please keep in touch with your PTS or PAM resources and keep coming back to this blog and I'll give you the updates here.
More coming soon.....
