Microsoft Glossary

French translation: See explanation below

12:31 Jun 27, 2001
English to French translations [Non-PRO]
English term or phrase: Microsoft Glossary
Does anyone know how to download the Microsoft Glossaries of terms in various languages? Are they free or do you have to buy them?
Mmorris
French translation:See explanation below
Explanation:
I'm copying the link to download them. They are free and really useful. The comma delimited files can be viewed with MS Excel and you can search for a term using the Find tool (Control + F.

Good luck!

"Microsoft glossaries are currently available in the following languages:

Arabic
Catalan
Chinese (simplified and traditional)
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hebrew
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Russian
Slovak
Slovene
Swedish
Turkish
Glossaries are contained in separate .ZIP files identified by language/country name. The compressed files cover various Microsoft applications and systems, not just the simple subset found in the Microsoft GUI Guide. The files are comma-delimited ANSI files that should be readable by most software products.

Microsoft glossaries can be downloaded from the Microsoft FTP site as described below.


FTP from the Microsoft ftp site
You can download the Microsoft glossaries from:

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developr/msdn/newup/glossary "

(http://www.rahul.net/lai/microsft.html)
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Explanation:
I'm copying the link to download them. They are free and really useful. The comma delimited files can be viewed with MS Excel and you can search for a term using the Find tool (Control + F.

Good luck!

"Microsoft glossaries are currently available in the following languages:

Arabic
Catalan
Chinese (simplified and traditional)
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hebrew
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Russian
Slovak
Slovene
Swedish
Turkish
Glossaries are contained in separate .ZIP files identified by language/country name. The compressed files cover various Microsoft applications and systems, not just the simple subset found in the Microsoft GUI Guide. The files are comma-delimited ANSI files that should be readable by most software products.

Microsoft glossaries can be downloaded from the Microsoft FTP site as described below.


FTP from the Microsoft ftp site
You can download the Microsoft glossaries from:

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developr/msdn/newup/glossary "

(http://www.rahul.net/lai/microsft.html)



    Reference: http://ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developr/msdn/newup/glossary
David Meléndez Tormen
Chile
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