Chapter 14. Multilingual Support

   

A truly global enterprise is one that is able to do business seamlessly in multiple languages, providing support for language and cultural differences across regional borders. To achieve this goal, you need powerful and flexible multilingual technologies that are easy to use and deploy. Your users, partners , and customers need access to resources in the language of their choice regardless of where or on what platform they are working. Most of all, you need to be able to provide these services while keeping support and deployment costs under control. Microsoft has a number of technologies that can help make this goal a reality.

Microsoft has devoted years of effort and commitment to supporting multilingual computing. With the Microsoft Windows 2000 platform, Microsoft took a major step forward by converting all operating system elements to the international Unicode standard. Microsoft also introduced the Multilingual User Interface (MUI) pack for Windows 2000. The MUI allowed users to switch the languages of their user interfaces and applications. Microsoft improved this technology with Windows XP by supporting more languages and locales and by making the technology both easier to use and more flexible. With the release of the Windows Server 2003 family, Microsoft has taken this technology to the next level by creating a server platform that can support the multilingual enterprise.

One of the key goals of MUI technology is to enable IT professionals to deliver MUI-based technology in as simple and cost-effective a manner as possible. Microsoft has a number of deployment technologies, including Windows Installer, which makes the Multilingual User Interface one of the most cost-effective ways to provide global computing. The MUI is also fully supported by Microsoft Office and other localizable Unicode applications. Plus developers can utilize the functionality of the MUI through published APIs, allowing line-of-business and third-party applications to use it as well.


   
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Introducing Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Introducing Microsoft Windows Server(TM) 2003
ISBN: 0735615705
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 153

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