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Microsoft Corporation
Industrie: Computer
Number of terms: 318110
Number of blossaries: 26
Company Profile:
An American multinational software corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing.
The collection of features of the user’s environment that is dependent on language, country/region, and cultural conventions. The locale determines conventions such as sort order; keyboard layout; and date, time, number, and currency formats. In Windows, locales usually provide more information about cultural conventions than about languages.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
The collection of scripts and orthography required to represent a given human language in visual media.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
The design of the software code base and resources such that a program can be localized into different language editions without any changes to the source code.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
The different shapes of an Arabic character that correspond to its position in a word.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
The explicit replacement of any reference or call to a given font face name with another face name. For example, MS Shell Dlg is only a face name and has no associated physical font. It is substituted by Microsoft Sans Serif in the English version of Windows XP, and varies per localized version.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
The extent to which computers are easy to use and available to a wide range of users, including people with disabilities.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
The first byte of a 2-byte code point in a DBCS code page. See Double-byte character set (DBCS).
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
The idea (originating with MS-DOS) of a program operating in the background while a user is doing something else in the foreground has evolved on Windows systems to a Windows Service. Examples include plug-and-play device detection, running message queues, file indexing, and task scheduling. In addition to the services the operating system installs itself, programs such as SQL Server install their own Windows Services to implement functionality that must be available to all users.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
The International Organization for Standardization’s 8-bit encoding that served as the basis for the Windows (ANSI) code page. Variants of this standard (for example, 8859-2, 8859-5, 8859-13) target different scripts, and each variant corresponds to different Windows code pages.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
The International Organization for Standardization’s encoding that is code-for-code equivalent to Unicode.
Industry:Software; Translation & localization
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