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Steve Ballmer Talks Up Windows 8 and Windows Phone in Europe and Israel

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was in Europe and Israel last week to showcase Microsoft’s wave of newly updated products, including Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, and Surface with Windows RT. He reinforced to customers, developers, students and others that the company is moving into a new era

REDMOND, Wash. – Nov. 13, 2012 – World, meet Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, and Surface. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer last week took Microsoft’s wave of new products on the road, visiting Europe and Israel. (more…)

Hello Mother: Microsoft Makes ‘Native Languages’ More Accessible

By Guest PostFebruary 21, 2011Technologycarla hurd, english to vietnamese, environments and communities, greater economic opportunity, high tech world, indigenous polynesian, international mother language day, inuktitut language, language interface packs, lauren woodman, lips, malaysia, maori language, microsoft local language program, microsoft windows, new zealand, te taka keegan, Technology, Vietnam, visual studio

*The Microsoft Local Language Program extends software to often underserved cultures, allowing people to experience technology in their native language. Feb. 21 is International Mother Language Day*

REDMOND – Feb. 21, 2011 – While visiting a government office in Vietnam nearly a decade ago, a Microsoft employee noticed one of the employees had Post-It® notes all the way around her computer monitor.

The notes weren’t daily “to-dos” or grocery lists, but English-to-Vietnamese translations of common Microsoft Windows and Office commands such as “file,” “save” and “print.” At the time, there was no Microsoft software available in Vietnamese. (more…)

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Steve Ballmer Talks Up Windows 8 and Windows Phone in Europe and Israel

Hello Mother: Microsoft Makes ‘Native Languages’ More Accessible