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Microsoft’s language portal which was previously restricted to the company’s internal use has now been made available online for public use by the company. The portal is rich repository of resources and will not only allow users to search through Microsoft’s terminology database and localization glossaries in more than 70 languages but also download style guides and provide their feedback regarding the terminology used in Microsoft products. Links to other Microsoft language resources will also be available. Users can collaborate with linguists and/or participate in terminology forms.
All of the above benefits are enhanced by an easy to use term search function. All the user has to do is, key in the required term and select the language and after a few seconds the results window would display the definitions for all related terms. The portal provides individual translation for all Microsoft products. Advanced search options are also available; they enable users to search for translations of terminology narrowed down by specific Microsoft products as well for translations for all combinations of the given languages.
In the case of the Style Guide there are over 70 of these available for each language in the CHM format (MS HTML). They are excellent resources of information. However the CHM files don’t open, maybe because of security issues. This is a bug which hopefully Microsoft would resolve soon. At present users facing this problem try opening the CHM file with the help of the Internet Explorer and then follow-up with the tips provided in the portal for the purpose.
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