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About Global Development and Computing Portal
Welcome to the Global Development and Computing Portal at Microsoft!
The purpose of this web site is to help visitors understand the issues associated with developing and deploying international solutions and the world-ready support available via the international features built into various Microsoft products - from Windows, to Office, to Visual Studio and server products such as SQL. We hope to help users of Microsoft products, be they Developers, Project Managers, Testers, IT Professionals, or Knowledge Workers, use the rich set of tools that are at their disposal to tap into emerging markets for increased revenues, to deal with issues that surround the programming and deployment of multi-language, multi-cultural, and multi-site scenarios that are occurring more and more in our increasingly interconnected world, and to be more effective and productive.
The site is arranged into different sections:
| • | Get World-Ready: Provides programming tips, guidelines, and tools for developers, project managers, and testers on ways to make their projects "World-Ready" from the start. Contains the fully updated Globalization Step-by-Step guidelines that incorporate techniques for using Microsoft .NET Frameworks. |
| • | Dr. International: Here you will find the famous Dr. International columns that address issues from programming to how to write email in foreign languages; Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about international-specific facts in Windows; issues such as Complex Scripts and Input Method Editors. You can also submit your questions to Dr. International here. |
| • | Hands-On: Find papers about a broad range of issues and technologies that make multi-lingual computing possible. |
| • | References: Find code page tables, keyboard layouts for languages supported by Windows XP, how to enable international features in Windows using the unattended setup method, how to deploy Windows MUI, locale tables, links to other international resources on the Internet, presentations by Microsoft representatives about international software development, and special release notes. |
If you have a question for which you did not find an answer at this site, please submit it to Ask Dr. International.
If you have any suggestions and feedback about the site, email it to gdwebmst@microsoft.com
