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Support of Holi^h^h^^hDAZE, in Outlook (aka Situations when competition might help customers)

Before I forget, here is what the top of the day looks like in Outlook right now: Now I am not going to try and tell anyone that holidays are easy. Because they aren't. And anyone who tries to tell you that they are is probably trying to sell you something. Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 08, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

By some accounts, the names can be changed

At the risk of repeating myself, I find that once again I quote a particular releveant bit from Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams, just as I did here and here : Ford Prefect hit the ground running. The ground was about three inches farther from the ventilation Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 06, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

Note to Outlook: Koninginnedag isn't the reigning Queen's Birthday

The other day in Was last night Walpurgis [Night|Eve] or May Day Eve? , I showed the following picture of my Outlook calendar: and specifically mentioned how I was going to have us leave the Queen aside for the moment. Reader Bart Samwel commented on Read More...
Posted Monday, May 05, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 6 Comments

The pros and cons of context, aka CONTEXT is a four-letter-word

Content of Michael Kaplan's personal blog not approved by Microsoft (see disclaimer )! Regular readers should keep in mind that all I said in The End? still applies; the allusion to the X-Files continues for people who understand such references.... It Read More...
Posted Monday, April 21, 2008 6:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

Fight the Future? (#10 of ??), aka Looks like I wasn't mistaken

Content of Michael Kaplan's personal blog not approved by Microsoft (see disclaimer )! Regular readers should keep in mind that all I said in The End? still applies; the allusion to the X-Files continues for people who understand such references.... Over Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 08, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

Fight the Future? (#8 of ??), aka The Bug(s) Spotted, aka Design flaws are worse than bugs

Content of Michael Kaplan's personal blog not approved by Microsoft (see disclaimer )! Regular readers should keep in mind that all I said in The End? still applies; the allusion to the X-Files continues for people who understand such references.... It Read More...
Posted Monday, April 07, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments

Hebrew Vistas (aka And that's where I found Vista, was on the way to Jerusalem)

Content of Michael Kaplan's personal blog not approved by Microsoft (see disclaimer )! This post has nothing to do with any issue in the Middle East whatsoever. I suppose I have an opinion or two about that but it is unlikely to be a topic in this blog Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 27, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

Language detection, language translation... it IS exciting, so why I am yawning?

Content of Michael Kaplan's personal blog not approved by Microsoft (see disclaimer )! In particular, I am speaking for neither Microsoft nor Google nor AltaVista nor Yahoo nor Systran nor my nieces nor my grandmother nor any ex-girlfriend I have ever Read More...
Posted Friday, March 21, 2008 10:36 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

The right hand knows what the left hand is doing, but not that the left hand might be missing some fingers?

Please read disclaimer ; content of Michael Kaplan's blog not approved by Microsoft! Wonderful news. Well, of a sort.... You may have read As Forrest Gump used to [sorta] say, "Smarmy is as Smarmy Does." from last week. And you may have felt the same Read More...
Posted Saturday, March 15, 2008 8:51 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments
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Yesterday was GlobalDev; Tomorrow is GoGlobal!

Please read disclaimer ; content of Michael Kaplan's blog not approved by Microsoft! Perhaps you have been to Microsoft's Global Dev elopment and Computing Portal at http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/default.mspx at some time in the past (if you are Read More...
Posted Saturday, March 15, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments

Swahili^H^H^H^Hllowing our lumps?

Please read disclaimer ; content of Michael Kaplan's blog not approved by Microsoft! In this case in particular, these are my opinions as someone not working on the project, and not those of anyone connected with the project itself.... You may have read Read More...
Posted Friday, March 14, 2008 6:16 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

Requirements first, criticism of attempted solutions second!

Please read the disclaimer ; content not approved by Microsoft! Dujuan's question to the larger distribution list was easy enough: Hi, I want to get the language name in the OS, such as string ”en-US” or “it-IT” . I use the GetLocaleInfo(GetSystemDefaultLCID(), Read More...
Posted Friday, March 07, 2008 5:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 2 Comments

Getting the IME name (for someone who speaks Chinese, based on code from an article written in Chinese, when you don't speak Chinese)

Please read the disclaimer ; content not approved by Microsoft! The other day I heard from programmer Scawen Roberts via the Contact link over a couple of days. His question was: Thank you for your "random stuff of dubious value" which has helped me here Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 06, 2008 7:16 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments

As Forrest Gump used to [sorta] say, "Smarmy is as Smarmy Does."

Please read the disclaimer ; content not Microsoft-approved! Amazing the things you see over in the microsoft.public.dotnet.internationalization newsgroup.... :-) Like the other day, when Laurent PIERRE asked: Hello, Some month ago, it was possible to Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 06, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

The story on Language Packs and Windows Vista SP1

Please read the disclaimer ; content not approved by Microsoft! I've had a couple of people ask me about this via the Contact link, so I figured I should explain what is going on. To be honest I was not sure myself, when they asked. One of the downsides Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 04, 2008 7:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments
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