Loneliness of the long-distance linguist.
Kieran Snyder's webulated chit-chat.
Language detection and system settings, part 1
Once upon a time, a customer got in touch with us about a font rendering problem, where instead of...
Date: 12/18/2008
To update or not to update?
Can't we all just get along? One of the struggles that we go through every release is in figuring...
Date: 11/07/2008
What's new for you in Windows 7: Extended Linguistic Services
Now that you've been able to go check out our PDC talk (online here), I'm excited to introduce you...
Date: 10/30/2008
PDC -- Windows 7: Writing World-Ready Applications
If you're at the PDC this week, be sure to check out Yaniv Feinberg and Erik Fortune's talk, where...
Date: 10/27/2008
Hello (again) world! Also: The Hiring Chronicles.
Hello world! It's been a while, but I'm coming out of hibernation to mention a couple of things --...
Date: 08/21/2008
Shameless self-promotion.
And now, some shameless advertising! Our team is looking for a good tester to work on our next set...
Date: 10/12/2007
Vosotros? Ustedes? Who, me?
For various reasons I've been doing statistical analyses on word frequencies in a number of...
Date: 10/01/2007
A to-do list.
The last several months have been packed with planning our next set of features in the international...
Date: 09/28/2007
Information central.
Just in time for the Vista street date, the Vista International Support Portal is live at...
Date: 02/05/2007
Blogging the LSA: Epilogue.
The moment I published my ranty LSA blog part one I was given something else to chew on. I left my...
Date: 01/08/2007
Good at process.
If you work for Microsoft or maybe in the software industry more generally and you hear someone...
Date: 12/16/2006
My .002 cents.
What's a LOCALE_SDECIMAL among friends? In Verizon Doesn't Know Difference Between Dollars And...
Date: 12/10/2006
What comes around goes around.
Yes, it's been a while. Since I've last blogged, we've shipped Vista and I've gone on a long...
Date: 11/17/2006
Oh, the enumeration? Part two.
A few days ago, in Oh, the enumeration!, I wrote about some changes to the enumeration of our...
Date: 10/03/2006
Oh, the enumeration!
Note (10/3/06): This post contains outdated content. For the correction, please see the update in...
Date: 09/25/2006
What's the emoticon for nerd?
I saw a really cool talk the other day by doctoral student Daniel Avrahami from CMU. Daniel is...
Date: 09/14/2006
Found in translation.
Though languages can be interestingly different from one another, the majority of work in modern...
Date: 09/07/2006
Develop locally, think globally!
So you want to develop a globalized application for Windows. You're up to speed on development best...
Date: 08/22/2006
Information scavenger hunt: How do you find a needle in a haystack?
Shawn and I are working on an article for MSDN Magazine about how to design and take advantage of...
Date: 08/21/2006
Lexical diffusion, software style.
The Microsoft Community Glossary - Linguistic Partnership Project allows members of a speech...
Date: 08/17/2006
I'll take an Italian hoagie with the works.
On my way home from work I pass a restaurant that seems from several blocks away to have the...
Date: 08/16/2006
Not all custom locales are created equal.
If you're going to use the Locale Builder tool to create a custom locale, you have a couple of...
Date: 08/09/2006
So I want Windows to support my language. How does that happen, exactly?
One of the disappointing things about the end of a product cycle is that it's too late to add into...
Date: 08/07/2006
The cats and frogs are really raining out there.
If I do say so myself, I'm pretty good at picking up new languages. My chosen line of work was not...
Date: 08/04/2006
Lights, camera, action!
For everything you ever wanted to know about Windows globalization and localization, or at least for...
Date: 08/03/2006
So I'm ready to test-drive Windows Vista. What next?
Many of our Windows Vista beta testers contact us excited to be test-driving the beta but wondering...
Date: 07/31/2006
Developing features in order to develop features.
Someone asked me not too long ago for a list of Windows-supported languages that don't rely on white...
Date: 07/29/2006
Why wikipedia doesn't work?
My last post produced a real onslaught of mail. It turns out that when it comes to community...
Date: 07/27/2006
Why does wikipedia work?
I had an interesting conversation this morning with a colleague about community approaches to...
Date: 07/25/2006
Next stop: Antarctica?
A couple of days ago I posted about the Microsoft Locale Builder. But what about the locales that...
Date: 07/24/2006
Linguistics vs. linguistics.
There are some linguistics jobs in software. There are many, many more applied linguistics jobs in...
Date: 07/21/2006
Languages, regions, locales, oh my!
Michael Kaplan has blogged quite a bit about our release of the Microsoft Locale Builder Beta, the...
Date: 07/20/2006
Loneliness of the long-distance linguist.
At long last, here it is! The blog I've been threatening for some time. I think I was inspired to...
Date: 07/19/2006