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What’s New for International Customers in Windows 7
This article provides an overview of the new core language enablement features in Windows 7 and the key advances in Windows globalization infrastructure. It also describes how and where IT professionals can leverage these new features for their international customers.
What’s New in .NET Framework 4 Globalization Features
This whitepaper describes the main new features in the globalization namespace of the .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 release.
Extended Linguistic Services in Windows 7
Learn how the new Extended Linguistic Services (ELS) feature in Windows 7 allows you to auto-detect the language of Unicode text and use that information to help make smarter user experience choices for customers around the world, convert text from one writing system to another, and pick up new linguistic services in the future without learning new code.
Writing World-Ready Applications in Windows 7
This session from the Professional Developers Conference 2008 introduces the Extended Linguistic Services API (new to Windows 7), and the Multilingual User Interface (MUI) technology inside Windows 7 and .NET—including an end-to-end look at how to use MUI to take your application worldwide and extend your customer base into new language markets.
Understanding MUI
This article provides a conceptual overview of the Multilingual User Interface (MUI) technology, the platform support it provides for enabling multilingual user experiences, and the benefits it offers to the Windows ecosystem.
Microsoft Terminology Translations
You now have access to the terminology databases on the Microsoft Language Portal, which features an online search tool. The tool enables access to Microsoft's terminology databases that contain English terms, their definitions, and their translations. You can look up terms from English into selected target languages and from a target language into English!