Testing Out the Microsoft Translator Widget

Brandon LeBlanc — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:51:10 GMT

Back during MIX09 in March, the Microsoft Translator Widget for websites was announced. People with websites or blogs can embed the Microsoft Translator Widget (powered by Microsoft Translator) into their site. Visitors of websites and blogs that have the Microsoft Translator Widget embedded can translate the content on the website without having to leave the site at all – which is awesome.

I’ve added the Microsoft Translator Widget to the Windows Experience Blog. It’s not yet deployed to all our blogs here on The Windows Blog just yet as I’d like to test it out first. The Microsoft Translator Widget will show up in the sidebar of the Windows Experience Blog where you can choose a specific language to translate the content to without leaving our site. The widget looks like this:

I would love to get some feedback on how well the Microsoft Translator Widget translates my blog posts. If you are fluent in any of the languages the Microsoft Translator Widget can translate to, translate my blog posts and let me know in the comments below how well it’s translating the blog posts.

You feedback will be much appreciated!

Please note: I am looking for feedback on how well the Microsoft Translator Widget translates content here – not feedback on the widget specifically. If you have specific feedback regarding the Microsoft Translator Widget, how it works, issues with it on your site, etc – I suggest leaving that feedback on this blog post for the Microsoft Translator Team.

If you are a website owner and wish to add the Microsoft Translator Widget to your website or blog – you can register here for a invite code.

New Languages Available for Windows Search 4.0 Preview

Brandon LeBlanc — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:18:00 GMT

We're announcing quite a few new languages available of the Windows Search 4.0 Preview today.

The following languages are available for download for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008:

Arabic (Only for Windows Vista/Windows Server 2008)
Brazilian Portuguese
Bulgarian
Chinese - Simplified
Chinese - Traditional
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English (There is no MUI pack for English)
Estonian
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hebrew (Only for Windows Vista/Windows Server 2008)
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Latvian
Lithuanian
Norwegian - Bokmål
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Serbian - Latin
Slovak
Slovenian
Spanish
Swedish
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian

Please take note that the following languages are available on Windows XP/Windows Server 2003 only with an MUI pack:

Bulgarian
Croatian
Estonian
Latvian
Lithuanian
Romanian
Serbian - Latin
Slovak
Slovenian
Thai
Ukrainian

Got feedback on the Windows Search 4.0? We've got several places that you can go to leave your feedback:

For general discussion with Windows Search engineers and team members you can head over to this MSDN Forum.
For developer discussion, head over to this MSDN Forum.
For general (no-reply) feedback on Windows Search, you can submit feedback here.

Windows Experience Blog : Languages

Testing Out the Microsoft Translator Widget

New Languages Available for Windows Search 4.0 Preview