Windows 7 Lost in Translation
Windows 7, Microsoft's next iteration of the Windows client and the successor of Windows Vista, is nothing short of lost in translation.
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14.7.2008 Microsoft Launches Translation Service
Microsoft launched a service for automatic translation called Windows Live Translator. The site lets you translate a text limited to 500 words or a web page from English to German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Russian.
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9.9.2007 Vista SP1, and then Windows 7, Windows 8 and Non-Windows Midori
2008 saw the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2008, but Microsoft's journey on the Windows path is far from over.
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5.8.2008 Windows 7 RC Brings Windows XP Mode Beta and Windows Virtual PC Beta
The Release Candidate of Windows 7 will bring with it the first Beta development milestones for Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC.
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29.4.2009 Windows Reactivator 2.0 - Backup & Restore Activation Status of Windows XP with Windows Reactivator
Every time you reinstall your windows XP you need to reactivate it online using your product key & worst if you lost your Windows XP product key.
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3.6.2009 Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2
Feb 26th, 2008. Principled Technologies has released two Microsoft commissioned reports on Windows Vista SP1 performance. In these tests, Principled Technologies measured responsiveness of Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2 when performing a set of common business and home tasks.
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28.2.2008 Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9 1 Billion and Counting
Is Windows dead? Or, at least, is this the beginning of the end for Microsoft's proprietary operating system?
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15.9.2008 Week in Microsoft: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9
This week in Microsoft, we covered 128-bit support possibly coming to Windows 8 and Windows 9, Windows 7, Windows Mobile 6.5, Bill Gates, Office 2010 Starter, Microsoft MVP status, Windows Live Hotmail, the EU, and Microsoft Security Essentials.
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10.10.2009 Windows Vista Build 5231 and Windows Media Player 11 Leaks!
Windows Vista Build 5231 has leaked to the web. The new build is said to include Windows Media Player 11 included. View the screenshots below! This is a Main branch build that was released on September 12th, 2005 at 8:20PM.
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Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3: Official Release Dates
A French website, PC Inpact, has posted the official Microsoft product change request forms for Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3.
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6.2.2008 Download Free Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2 Straight from Microsoft
Via the Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image. That's right! Microsoft is offering access to free downloads of Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2.
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6.3.2008 Windows Vista SP1 outperforms Windows XP SP2 in file copy
"Its interesting that people seem to think that Vista under performs in every area of the system which is quite an incorrect perception.
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27.5.2008 Windows Fiji Has RTMd as Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008
Microsoft officially confirmed that Windows Fiji has been released to manufacturing.
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18.7.2008 Windows 7 Beta Doesn't Play Nice with Windows Azure Cloud OS Tools
The promise for Windows 7 is that it will deliver an evolution when it will come down to stretching into the Cloud compared to its precursor, Windows Vista.
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16.1.2009 Internet Explorer 8 MUI packs for Windows XP, Windows Server 03
As detailed in our previous blog post, the following Internet Explorer MUI packs shipped today.
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17.5.2009 Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta adds Windows 7 support
Microsoft announced the release of Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta, along with news that it will feature Windows 7 support.
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20.7.2009 Check for RAM Error or Defect in Windows 7 and Vista with Windows Memory Diagnostic
Memory or RAM is one of the most important electronic hardware component on a computer systems, not only in term of speed or clock frequency and size, but also the reliability of hardware ecosystem of the RAM sticks or memory modules and its subsystem.
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1.10.2009 The Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 98 Threat Mitigation Guide
Well, Microsoft still puts effort in old Windows versions...
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31.3.2006 Windows Vista comes with 19,500 drivers on DVD more on Windows Update
Ever needed to find a driver for a product and wished Windows would either just have the driver in it, or that their Windows Update service could provide it? With Vista, it can and new features and updates will be forthcoming too. Its about time!
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20.11.2006 Windows XP Home No Longer Qualifies for Windows Vista Upgrades
Windows XP Home Edition no longer qualifies for Windows Vista Business Upgrade or Upgrade + SA through Volume Licensing.
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17.10.2007 Microsoft Offers a Complex Windows Vista vs. Windows XP Perspective
A new standard of security is an integer aspect of the evolution puzzle represented by the move from Windows XP to Windows Vista.
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3.11.2007 Windows XP SP3 to Drop Concomitantly with Windows Vista SP1?
Yes, it's time for every Windows user's favorite obsession: Windows XP Service Pack 3. The third and final service pack for Windows XP has been quite elusive for the past three years.
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25.11.2007 Windows Vista vs. Windows 9x/Me, NT Server, 2000 and XP
If at just a couple of weeks short of the first anniversary since Windows Vista hit the shelves you are still looking for reasons to upgrade to the latest Windows client, then Biplab Paul, Partner Technical Consultant with Microsoft India, has an impressive, and exhaustive list of features that are bound to tilt the balance in Vista's favor.
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14.1.2008 Free Windows Vista Business and Windows XP SP2 on Parade
Free Windows... Not a concept you would expect from Microsoft. With a business strategy focused on proprietary software, the Redmond company is by all means at the opposite technology spectrum from open source and free software.
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9.3.2008 Microsoft Presents the Lost Comparison: Windows Vista vs. Windows XP
With both Windows XP and Windows Vista being available concomitantly on the market, Microsoft is doing nothing more than inviting the consumers to compare the two operating systems.
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20.4.2008 Windows Server 2008 = Windows Vista SP1 Minus the Pain
Windows Server 2008, formerly codenamed Longhorn, is essentially intimately connected with Windows Vista Service Pack 1, to the level in which the RTM version of Microsoft's latest server operating system features the
SP1 label
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6.5.2008 Windows Embedded NavReady 2009 - Latest Windows Platform from Microsoft
The latest Windows operating system is available for download as of June 16, 2008. And no, it's not a new release of Windows 7, nor the first taste of Windows 7 Server.
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16.6.2008 Free Windows for Supercomputers Available for Download - Windows HPC Server 2008
Microsoft made the latest iteration of its Windows operating system for supercomputers available as a free download.
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23.9.2008 How to Install Windows 7 or Windows Vista on Physical Machine Without DVD Media
A lot of Windows Vista and Windows 7 license has been sold media-less nowadays, where buyers only receive a piece of authenticated certificate with a genuine and legitimate product key printed on it.
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23.12.2008 Windows 7 beta testers find critical Windows Installer Bug
Mary Jo reports that a number of Windows 7 Beta testers have come across a bug that crashes the system randomly whenever they try to start a Windows Update or install anything using Microsoft's MSI installer.
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19.1.2009Windows Live Messenger translation bot now available
The Microsoft Translator team is excited to announce the new translation bot for Windows Live Messenger! This Messenger bot does translations for you.
Just add
mtbot@hotmail.com to your contacts and start chatting. You can have one-on-one conversations with
the bot, or you can invite a friend and chat in different languages with the bot translating for you. As usual, remember that machine translation
isnt perfect slang especially will give the engine trouble.
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03.09.2008Microsoft rolls out translation bot for Live Messenger
Microsoft announced today a new translation bot for Windows Live Messenger, allowing users to translate strings of text to one of 12 different
languages by simply sending a message to the bot. Users can take take advantage of this feature by adding "mtbot@hotmail.com" to their contact
lists.
If you've got a friend in your contacts that a speaks a different language, you can invite them to a chat, include the mtbot,
and translation will be performed for you on the fly. However, the team behind the project warns "because machine translation isn’t perfect,
slang especially will give the engine trouble."
Currently available are English to/from: Arabic, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional,
Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian (to English only), Spanish. Also available are Chinese Simplified to/from
Chinese Traditional. They plan to add additional languages over the next few months.
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09.09.2008Google Switches to Its Own Translation System
Google switched the translation system from Systran to its own
machine translation system for all
the 25 language pairs
available on the site. Until now, Google used its own
system only for Arabic, Chinese, and Russian.
"Most state-of-the-art commercial machine translation systems in use today have
been developed using a rules-based approach and require a lot of work by linguists to define vocabularies and grammars. Several research systems,
including ours, take a different approach: we feed the computer with billions of words of text, both monolingual text in the target language, and
aligned text consisting of examples of human translations between the languages. We then apply statistical learning techniques to build a translation
model,"
explains Franz Och.
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23.10.2007Microsoft Launches Translation Service
Microsoft launched a service for
automatic translation called
Windows Live Translator. The site lets you translate a text
limited to 500 words or a web page from English to German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Russian.
Microsoft uses
Systran to produce most of the translations, but also offers an
option to translate computer-related texts using
a machine
translation system developed in-house. Microsoft's translation technology has been used to translate technical materials, including
MSDN Library.
"Recent research in
Machine Translation (MT) has focused on data-driven systems. Such systems are self-customizing in the sense that they can learn the translations of
terminology and even stylistic phrasing from already translated materials. Microsoft Research MT (MSR-MT) system is such a data-driven system, and it
has been customized to translate Microsoft technical materials through the automatic processing of hundreds of thousands of sentences from Microsoft
product documentation and support articles, together with their corresponding translations."
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09.09.2007Windows Live Translator now with Office integration
Windows Live Translator is coming to Office 2003 or 2007 as a Research pane option. According to the
MSR-MT Team Blog, the new feature
will be coming out soon as an automatic update to Office:
We have officially handed over our code to the Microsoft Office team
for the integration of the translation tool directly in the Research Task Pane. Once they have finished their own testing and "flipped the
switch" on their side, the feature will auto-update in existing versions of Office. I'll blog about that here again when that happens -
at that point, no additional setup steps will be necessary.
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08.08.2008Sun's Scott McNealy: Lost in translation
Sun Microsystems Chairman Scott McNealy said he was misquoted in a South Korean newspaper earlier this week as saying
Sun and cell phone maker Samsung Electronics are working on an
iPhone-killer.
McNealy, who stopped in New York Thursday on his way back from South Korea to deliver a speech at the World
Business Forum, said that the newspaper must have misunderstood a translation of what he had said.
"I never said that," he
said. "I'm not really sure where they got that. I think it was a translation problem."
When pressed further during an
interview with CNET News.com, McNealy remained tight-lipped on any news.
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12.10.2007Microsoft's new translation tool keeps Web users on same page
A new translation widget from Microsoft Research lets Web developers offer their sites in alternative languages on their own pages, without shifting
users to a different site. A technology preview of the free widget
was released today at the
company's Mix conference in Las Vegas...
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19.03.2009Google Brings Cross-Language Translation to Search Appliance
An experimental feature lets Google Search Appliance translate documents in 34 languages. Search engine giant Google is looking to stimulate more
international interest in its GSA search device, a rare piece of IT infrastructure hardware Google offers to businesses. The idea is to help Google's
enterprise search gain favor over offerings from Microsoft Fast, Endeca, Autonomy, Vivisimo and other vendors.
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18.12.2008Microsoft Launches Own 'Babel Fish'
While Altavista has largely disappeared from the minds of most Internet users since the emergence of Google, the Web property does still have a very
popular service: its Babel Fish translator. Now, Microsoft is testing its own translation offering under the Windows Live umbrella...
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11.09.2007Microsoft: No Plans for Zune Outside US
Correcting a translation error
that sparked a number of
reports stating Microsoft
planned to release its Zune
portable music player in
Europe, but not until 2008,
the company now says it has no
set timeframe. The confusion
came in a response Steve
Ballmer made to a German
magazine.
In the
proper translation, Ballmer
said that "we decided not to
enter new markets so far" and
will not do so until "after
we have reached some of the
goals outlined. When this will
be the case, I cannot tell you
today." Zune product manager
Cesar Menendez further
clarified the situation,
stating, "We will not expand
the device family or our
geographical footprint until
we are positive that we can
provide the best experience
from the start."
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05.06.2007Facebook users translate the site again, this time to German
The translation project that was only announced at the beginning of the year for Facebook has already made massive progress with only the help of
volunteers...
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04.03.2008No Plans for Zune Outside US
Correcting a translation error
that sparked a number of
reports stating Microsoft
planned to release its Zune
portable music player in
Europe, but not until 2008,
the company now says it has no
set timeframe. The confusion
came in a response Steve
Ballmer made to a German
magazine.
In the proper translation,
Ballmer said that "we decided
not to enter new markets so
far" and will not do so until
"after we have reached some
of the goals outlined. When
this will be the case, I
cannot tell you today." Zune
product manager Cesar Menendez
further clarified the
situation, stating, "We will
not expand the device family
or our geographical footprint
until we are positive that we
can provide the best
experience from the start."
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05.06.2007EU Offers Translation Resource to Developers
The European Commission is offering translation software developers free access to around one million sentences translated between 22 of the European
Union's 23 official languages. It hopes the data will help improve the quality of a variety of language tools, including grammar and spelling
checkers, online dictionaries and machine translators-- particularly in less well-served languages such as Latvian or Romanian.
The sentences are mostly drawn from the "Acquis Communautaire," the body of law that must be implemented by all new E.U. member states, and
include the treaties, directives and regulations adopted by the E.U., and rulings from the European Court of Justice.
Translated
by professional translators, they cover topics such as IT, telecommunications, labor law, agriculture and fishing.
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22.01.2008Windows 7 RTM sign off set for July 13th
We have some big news regarding the Windows 7 RTM. According to Wzor, the final sign off is set for July 13th. According to a translation, this is the
final roadmap for Windows 7: FINAL ROADMAP FOR WINDOWS 7
: 6/1 - 6/19 BUILDING RTM ESCROW - already assembled RTM ESCROW. 6/22 - 7/10
RTM RECALL - assembly and search for candidates to the final RTM release. 7/10 WINDOWS 7 RTM FINAL BUILD TARGET - build day "gold code". 7/13
WINDOWS 7 RTM SIGN-OFF - the date of signing the final RTM release! We previously reported that Windows 7 could RTM at the end of this month, but it
looks like we now have a final RTM date.
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neowin.net - 22.06.2009
Yahoo Rolls Out Translation
Services
Yahoo on Thursday introduced
Babel Fish, using the same
technologies that have been
used by the version hosted on
Alta Vista for almost a
decade. The page, which looks
much like Alta Vista's
version, has been updated with
some additional features to
tie it in with other Yahoo
services...
betanews.com - 28.04.2006
Microsoft and DAISY Help Enhance Reading Experience for People with Print Disabilities
A tool for Microsoft Word, to be released as a downloadable plug-in at no charge early next year, will enable the translation of millions of Open XML
documents into DAISY XML, the lingua franca of the globally accepted standard for digital talking books...
microsoft.com/presspass - 13.11.2007
Rumor: Windows 7 to make appearance at D6
A very tired little birdie who flew all the way from Seattle to Australia has chirped to me Windows 7 will be publically disclosed for the first time
at the D6: All Things Digital Conference hosted by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher next week on May 27. The same conference where last year Bill Gates
and Steve Jobs made a historical appearance together on-stage interviewed by Walt and Kara.
Whilst my chirp-to-English translation is a
little flaky, it makes sense because the D Conference has been used in the past for Microsoft to make rather grand announcements such as the
introduction of the Surface computer. This time round, both Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer will appear together at the keynote so its a perfect
opportunity to discuss about the future of the company.
jcxp.net - 25.05.2008
Google: Looking towards IPv6
Lorenzo Colitti: We care a lot about the health of the Internet. Recently, we've become increasingly concerned that IPv4 addresses the numbers that computers use to connect to the Internet are running out.
Current
projections place IPv4 address space exhaustion somewhere in late 2011, and while technologies such as Network Address Translation (NAT) can offer temporary respite, they
complicate the Internet's architecture, pose barriers to the development of new applications, and run contrary to network openness principles.
That's why we're pleased to let you know that Google search is also available over IPv6 at ipv6.google.com (you'll need an IPv6 connection to view it). While IPv4 provides about four billion IP addresses not enough to
assign one to every one of Earth's more than six billion inhabitants IPv6 provides enough address space to assign almost three million networks to
every person on the planet.
winbeta.org - 14.05.2008
Microsoft applications from China mine the Web
Microsoft researchers in Beijing are developing applications that mine online data to track human relationships and help with translation, lab
managers said Monday.
Another program in development analyzes satellite positioning data to direct users to interesting locations
by mobile phone.
winbeta.org - 20.04.2009
Evil Player
Evil Player is a fast,
powerful and flexible media
player for windows. Some of
Evil Player's key features
include Shoutcast, Icecast and
Icecast2 support, low memory
footprint and native support
for several popular formats
(MP3, MP2, MP1, OGG, AIFF and
MOD). - Added Thai
translation
- Updated
Chinese (Simplified), Euskara,
French, German, Greek, Italian
& Japanese
translation
- Updated
installer to modern user
interface
- Fixed
Copying playing song title to
clipboard din't work with
internet streams
- Fixed
Stopping after playing the
first WMA file (using
Basswma.dll)
- Added
Show/Hide player with single
tray click
- Renamed
"Spanish.lng" to
"Spanish (Spain).lng"
and "Latin America.lng"
to "Spanish (Latin
America).lng"
- Hungarian.lng and
Magyar.lng replaced with
Hungarian
(Magyar).lng
neowin.net - 01.10.2006
