Microsoft translating jargon to Vietnamese

Vietnam Investment Review, September, 2003

MICROSOFT Vietnam has begun to translate the technical words in Microsoft products into Vietnamese, the first phase of its project to translate all Microsoft products into Vietnamese by the second quarter of next year.

The first phase, called Microsoft Community Glossary for Vietnamese or MCGV, is the launch of a website (http://members.microsoft.com/wincg/home.aspx?langid=1066) to collect the most correct translation for each English word in Microsoft products.

According to Microsoft, MCGV will assist translation of the first 2,100 words that will be translated into Vietnamese.

Microsoft official Nguyen Duc Hoang said: "The small project aims to...