Microsoft offers a language portal on the Internet. The portal contains terminology in about 100 languages, predominantly about software. The contents of the portal are freely accessible and can be developed further in your own database.
Working on terminology means standardizing language. Paradoxically, many focus on their own company alone when working on terminology. However there are existing databases that can be used as a base for creating and adding to company terminology. One of these is the language portal of Microsoft:
This portal has become quite recognized among terminologists. But it’s worth a look even for technical writers, who create online help for instance, or are involved in designing software user interfaces.
Figure. 1: The homepage of the Microsoft Language Portal
With the portal, Microsoft provides all interested parties access to its own terminology, to motivate other companies to use the Microsoft terminology for their software products. This free service from Microsoft serves to establish its own terminology beyond the boundaries of the ...
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