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> <channel><title>Global by Design &#187; Microsoft</title> <atom:link href="http://www.globalbydesign.com/blog/category/microsoft/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.globalbydesign.com</link> <description>Adventures in web and mobile globalization</description> <lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:56:34 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator> <item><title>Microsoft launches a new global gateway</title><link>http://www.globalbydesign.com/blog/2011/03/29/microsoft-launches-a-new-global-gateway/</link> <comments>http://www.globalbydesign.com/blog/2011/03/29/microsoft-launches-a-new-global-gateway/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:23:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Yunker</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Global navigation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art of the global gateway]]></category> <category><![CDATA[global gateway]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.globalbydesign.com/?p=4791</guid> <description><![CDATA[TweetI&#8217;m happy to see Microsoft launch a new global gateway on its home page. Here&#8217;s a detailed view: Notice how the country/region options are all nicely presented in the native languages. You might wonder about how the list was sorted, with &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.globalbydesign.com/?p=3356</guid> <description><![CDATA[TweetTwo months ago I wrote about an effort to evaluate the quality of the three major free machine translation (MT) engines: Google Translate Bing (Microsoft) Translator Yahoo! Babelfish Ethan Shen has wrapped up the project, soliciting input from more than &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.globalbydesign.com/?p=2922</guid> <description><![CDATA[TweetTwo weeks ago, I introduced Ethan Shen and his project to analyze the three major free machine translation (MT) engines &#8212; Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! Babelfish &#8212; by relying on translator reviews. Ethan has provided me with a mid-point summary &#8230; <a
href="http://www.globalbydesign.com/blog/2010/03/11/google_machine_translation/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.globalbydesign.com/?p=2786</guid> <description><![CDATA[TweetGoogle Translate is the first place I turn for free machine translation (MT), mostly because it supports the greatest number of language pairs. I use Microsoft Translator as well, but usually only when I want to compare engines. I haven&#8217;t &#8230; <a
href="http://www.globalbydesign.com/blog/2010/02/21/best-free-translation-engine/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.globalbydesign.com/?p=2736</guid> <description><![CDATA[TweetAfter more than a year at Microsoft, I have decided to return to Byte Level Research. It was a tough decision to make. I enjoyed working with the many people who are passionate about globalization. And I enjoyed being a &#8230; <a
href="http://www.globalbydesign.com/blog/2010/02/16/back-to-byte-level/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.globalbydesign.com/?p=1837</guid> <description><![CDATA[Tweet Firefox 3.5 is now out and available in more than 70 languages. Yes, 70 languages. Naturally, I was curious to learn how many languages the other browsers currently support. Here is a rough list: Internet Explorer 8: 63 languages &#8230; <a
href="http://www.globalbydesign.com/blog/2009/07/14/firefox-global/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.globalbydesign.com/?p=1847</guid> <description><![CDATA[TweetDisclaimer: I work for Microsoft, so take this with a grain of salt. Since Bing launched I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about search engines and how I use them. I&#8217;ve got two recent examples that illustrate why I think Bing &#8230; <a
href="http://www.globalbydesign.com/blog/2009/07/12/bing-cuts-the-clicks/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.globalbydesign.com/?p=1808</guid> <description><![CDATA[TweetBing recently added a nifty new translation feature &#8212; one that is so simple and in many ways so obvious that I can&#8217;t help wondering why Google never got around to doing it. But that&#8217;s a topic for a later &#8230; <a
href="http://www.globalbydesign.com/blog/2009/06/15/bing-beats-google-in-insta-translation/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.globalbydesign.com/?p=1749</guid> <description><![CDATA[TweetMy previous post on Twitter got me thinking about what other companies had registered language-specific domains for their Twitter accounts. Turns out, most companies haven&#8217;t even registered Twitter accounts for their primary brands. Like who? Apple, for one. Here we &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.globalbydesign.com/?p=1622</guid> <description><![CDATA[Tweet I&#8217;m happy to see Microsoft Research launch this new Web site widget. I&#8217;ll have to test it out on my site when I get the time &#8212; and would love to hear from others who have tried it. A &#8230; <a
href="http://www.globalbydesign.com/blog/2009/03/19/microsoft-translation-widget-moving-mt-one-step-closer-to-the-web-page/">Continue reading <span
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