Microsoft received a lot of bugs from customers all over the world as Windows 7 Beta is positioned into five languages and globally enabled for hundreds more. These bug reports will help Microsoft improve Windows 7 more and Microsoft is devoting much time to reading customer bug reports to determine product issues. Microsoft look for ways not only to understand their feedback, but also to address it as quickly as possible because bugs come from worldwide customers in many languages. This has sometimes posed quite a challenge as the received bug reports are in different languages that customers speak worldwide.
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Microsoft has handled many multilingual bug reports in the past manually, where they manually translated all the bugs one-by-one and bugs were examined individually by the team that owned the affected component. This is a error-prone and time-consuming exercise that diverse as the Windows 7 beta.
We have been able to automatically detect the language of customer bugs by using the language detection API in the new Extended Linguistic Services (ELS) in Windows 7. ELS functionality is completely new for Windows 7 and it is available to any developer who wants to heave advanced Windows 7 language functionality in the operating system.
Beginning in Windows 7, developers may use ELS to provide language and script detection of any Unicode text, as well as transliteration to map text between writing systems. To use these Windows 7 services and all further services that we will add in subsequent releases, developers need only to learn one simple and unified interface. The ability to detect over one hundred (100) languages is available for all Windows 7 application developers, and we are happy to be able to apply this functionality to triage and handle beta feedback you send us from around the world. We use our own international developer functionality to improve our ability to respond to customer issues globally.
Once all the bug reports are detected, Microsoft took the resulting text and use the machine translation support which is available online from Live Translator. The engineers can then search the feedback database for specific features or areas of functionality. This also helps to ensure international application compatibility, as by these feedbacks you can learn about all the application compatibility problems. Machine translation allow us to determine which issues might require further investigation but it does not provide a perfect translation.
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