Tag: Microsoft

The 25 Best Globalized Websites

After recently releasing his Web Globalization Report Card for the 17th year, author John Yunker said he's been getting positive feedback on what it...

Microsoft Adds Inuktitut, but is that good?

It's one thing to train a machine translation engine and quite another to continue improving it. This is Inuktitut speakers' concern.

Friday Roundup | Aug 29, 2020

News you may have missed from the last week Akorbi Ranked as Largest Woman-Owned LSP in the US Akorbi, a US-based group of companies specializing in...

Translation App Now Features Auto Mode

Translation app companies are continually developing new features that will better facilitate experiences abroad for users. Microsoft Translator’s Auto mode is the latest addition...

Programming and Programmer Languages: Beyond "Hello World"?

Interesting discussion (of old) on the StackExchange blog podcast about coding in other natural languages. Other than English, that is. So,should programming languages should be localized...

Common Sense Advice about Machine Translation and Content

You'd need to be living on the moon if you still don't get it about how data quality impacts machine translation quality (actually, every...

The Dublin Windows Phone Code Camp: A Localization Debrief

I attended the Windows Phone (WP) code camp at Microsoft in Dublin, an event organized by the Microsoft Ireland Development and Platform Evangelism (DPE) team and...

Whatever Happened to the Real Irish Localization Industry? The Lessons for the Community

I’ve worked in, and around, Irish-based localization for 20 years. Once, it was heralded as a cornerstone of foreign investment in Ireland....