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CORANTE John Yunker is founder of Byte Level Research and author of the widely acclaimed book, Beyond Borders: Web Globalization Strategies and editor of Global By Design.

He has covered the emerging field of Web globalization for half a decade and has published a wide range of reports dedicated to best practices in Web localization and internationalization.
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July 9, 2004

New Microsoft Globalization Resources

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Microsoft has greatly expanded its globalization resources Web site over the past few years. Although much of it is geared toward software developers, Web developers will also find useful nuggets of information. If you haven't been, it's definitely worth a look: http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev.

According to last week's newsletter, here are a few of the latest additions to the site:

    A new section called Perspectives (http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/perspectives/default.mspx) features articles highlighting different topics and issues that are of interest to users from different parts of the world.

    Language Collection and Fonts in Windows XP: Article on the fonts that ship with Windows XP (http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/handson/dev/font_install_xp.aspx).

    International Support in Outlook Express: How to set up Outlook Express to support other languages in your e-mails or newsgroup communications (http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/handson/user/OE_setting1.mspx).

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