53 new international Microsoft Style Guides available for download!

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We’ve added another 53 new and updated international localization/translation style guides to the Microsoft Language Portal.

International style guides provide general Microsoft guidelines for style, tone, orthography and other language topics. They will help you localize, translate and author content when developing applications that run under Microsoft platforms such as Windows or Exchange or integrate with products like Office, Dynamics, Visual Studio, SQL Server etc. International style guides tell you how to “speak to” the user when addressing them in your application, web content or Help topic. The style guides are in the PDF format.

We now provide these guides for 97 languages in total!

The list includes a few new languages that we are offering for the first time:

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If you find inconsistencies, errors or just think we are choosing the wrong style or tone for your language, send us your feedback via our feedback page on the Microsoft Language Portal - or just add a comment to this post.

The list

Here’s the full list of the new/updated languages – also available from the Microsoft Language Portal Style Guide download page.