on 1/19/02 5:49 PM, Dan Crevier at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A couple other issues you are forgetting: > > * Installation size. To internationalize Office, it would need to include > the versions of the UI for each language, the help for each language, and > customized content like clipart and so on for each language. An > internationalized installation would be *huge*. > > * Scheduling. The Japanese version of Office X hasn't hit the streets yet. > Would you still want to be waiting for the single internationalized Office > release?
Dan, I would regard both of these issues to be red herrings. Installation size can rather easily be handled by an option in the installation asking which languages to install. As for scheduling, unless there is something fairly unusual going on in development which you cannot address, the translation of the software should be able to proceed in parallel with the alpha and beta testing (and probably should, given that this will usually reveal a number of additional bugs in UI components). In principle, adding a language should not delay a schedule at all. -- Eric Hildum -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
