Loneliness of the long-distance linguist.

Kieran Snyder's webulated chit-chat.

Once upon a time, a customer got in touch with us about a font rendering problem, where instead of...

Date: 12/18/2008

Can't we all just get along? One of the struggles that we go through every release is in figuring...

Date: 11/07/2008

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

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 world! It's been a while, but I'm coming out of hibernation to mention a couple of things --...

Date: 08/21/2008

And now, some shameless advertising! Our team is looking for a good tester to work on our next set...

Date: 10/12/2007

For various reasons I've been doing statistical analyses on word frequencies in a number of...

Date: 10/01/2007

The last several months have been packed with planning our next set of features in the international...

Date: 09/28/2007

Just in time for the Vista street date, the Vista International Support Portal is live at...

Date: 02/05/2007

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

If you work for Microsoft or maybe in the software industry more generally and you hear someone...

Date: 12/16/2006

What's a LOCALE_SDECIMAL among friends? In Verizon Doesn't Know Difference Between Dollars And...

Date: 12/10/2006

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

A few days ago, in Oh, the enumeration!, I wrote about some changes to the enumeration of our...

Date: 10/03/2006

Note (10/3/06): This post contains outdated content. For the correction, please see the update in...

Date: 09/25/2006

I saw a really cool talk the other day by doctoral student Daniel Avrahami from CMU. Daniel is...

Date: 09/14/2006

Though languages can be interestingly different from one another, the majority of work in modern...

Date: 09/07/2006

So you want to develop a globalized application for Windows. You're up to speed on development best...

Date: 08/22/2006

Shawn and I are working on an article for MSDN Magazine about how to design and take advantage of...

Date: 08/21/2006

The Microsoft Community Glossary - Linguistic Partnership Project allows members of a speech...

Date: 08/17/2006

On my way home from work I pass a restaurant that seems from several blocks away to have the...

Date: 08/16/2006

If you're going to use the Locale Builder tool to create a custom locale, you have a couple of...

Date: 08/09/2006

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

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

For everything you ever wanted to know about Windows globalization and localization, or at least for...

Date: 08/03/2006

Many of our Windows Vista beta testers contact us excited to be test-driving the beta but wondering...

Date: 07/31/2006

Someone asked me not too long ago for a list of Windows-supported languages that don't rely on white...

Date: 07/29/2006

My last post produced a real onslaught of mail. It turns out that when it comes to community...

Date: 07/27/2006

I had an interesting conversation this morning with a colleague about community approaches to...

Date: 07/25/2006

A couple of days ago I posted about the Microsoft Locale Builder. But what about the locales that...

Date: 07/24/2006

There are some linguistics jobs in software. There are many, many more applied linguistics jobs in...

Date: 07/21/2006

Michael Kaplan has blogged quite a bit about our release of the Microsoft Locale Builder Beta, the...

Date: 07/20/2006

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