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Windows Spotlight presents me with a spring themed campaign, when it’s autumn here in the southern hemisphere: “Springtime means performance reviews are just around the corner”   Quite a statement Microsoft makes here, because none of this applies to me: not even that it’s springtime, let alone some kind of performance reviews around the corner. Since the entire computer is configured for and…

#LocalisationFail: Edge Browser in German uses English 'Profiles'

  When you have 3 different ways of writing the same word on your page, it spells trouble.

Chances are 1 or 2 of the versions are wrong.

  The browser Edge is swapping between English and German in the supposedly German language version.

  ‘Profiles’ in the url is definitely English Plural and should rather not appear in a German language version.

  From here it gets confusing: Is ‘Profile’…

#Translation #Fail: #Windows uses #Denglish at its #worst. #TranslationFail #GrammarNerd

  Translations don’t work.

I don’t understand why global companies with a global footprint translate and don’t localise.

  But this presentation of bad Denglish by Windows 10 is just cringeworthy:

So many cringing translation fails in this supposedly German copy in – out of all places – the German language settings of Windows.

  Besides ‘Features’ and ‘Explorer’ I like ‘Websites’ the most:

The…

#Translation #Fail: #Windows uses English #tech #term in German settings. #TranslationFail #UsabilityFail

  In order to be impartial I have to review all rivals equally.

  So after getting a hiccup about Google’s translation fail I checked out Windows.

  And yep, of course I’d be greeted with equal unprofessionalism:

My laptop is supposed to display everything in German. Yet English tech terms are popping up in the German copy everywhere, such as ‘badges’.

  ‘Badges’ has 18 possible translationsin…

#Translation #Fail: #Google uses English tech term in German language. #TranslationFail #LocalisationFail #UsabilityFail

  My laptop is in German which means everything on this laptop is by default in German.

  In an attempt to change this, I have to go through every single programme on this laptop and amend the language settings. A lot of hard work!

  The reason why I don’t want all these apps to use German as their default language is because the translations are most often appalling.

It is a disgrace to be…