March 8, 2007

Vista glossaries now available at MSDN

Microsoft posted earlier this week an update to their software glossaries, and that update includes the long awaited Vista glossaries. Many thanks to Nick Rosenthal for letting me know, it was a great news this week. If you are an MSDN Subscriber, you will find the steps to download them in Nick’s blog.

This is very good news for the localization industry, and I hope that eventually Microsoft decides to make them available again to the general public. There are many freelance translator’s out there for whom a subscription to MSDN is not really an option that makes sense financially speaking, and freelance translators definitively can play a role in getting IT content translated consistently with the platform if they have the right tools.