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Is Microsoft Language Portal having problems? Thread poster: Elisabeth Maurland
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Elisabeth Maurland
United States
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English to Norwegian
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TOPIC STARTER | Is there a worry that it will be shutting down for good? | Jun 1, 2016 |
I would think it's in everyone's best interest, including Microsoft, if it continues.
Glad it's working now
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Maria Simmen
Germany
Local time: 07:40
English to German
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| I've got no idea | Jun 1, 2016 |
if/when it'll shut down. It's an excellent ressource, but seeing as it's free it's definitely not very high on Microsoft's priority list. I've now got a mental image of one poor terminologist in Microsoft, trying to educate the CEO about the value of consistency ...
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| And down again | Jun 2, 2016 |
It seems that they are playing a game of ping pong at Microsoft: it's down again for me
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expressisverbis
Portugal
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Elisabeth Maurland wrote: expressisverbis wrote:
I you want, I can send it you.
However, I was able to download them myself just now. But I have no idea what to do with tbx files. I googled and read that I could turn them into xml files and open them in Excel, and Excel would recognize the format. I did that, but I can't make any sense of the text. Maybe it doesn't work that way with a Mac. I'll have to google some more.
Mariëlle is right, the Language Portal doesn't work again...
TBX files are easily converted with SDL Multiterm Convert.
I have used it to convert the TBX file I've downloaded from Microsoft, and then imported the terms into a Data Base/Termbase created with SDL Termbase.
If you work with Trados, you can try to do this.
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Elisabeth Maurland
United States
Local time: 00:40
Member (2013)
English to Norwegian
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TOPIC STARTER | It seems to be working for me | Jun 3, 2016 |
But I have noticed it might work for a little while, and then it get slower until it stops completely. I haven't used it much lately.
I don't have Trados, so I can't use the SDL converter.
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Micaela Santo 
United Kingdom
Local time: 06:40
English to Italian
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| It isn't working for me at all | Jun 5, 2016 |
and hasn't for a week now. I am also unable to download the terminology - I keep on getting the "We are sorry, the page you requested cannot be found" error message.
It is extremely frustrating and is actually affecting my work. I can only hope the issue gets sorted soon.
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Is there anyone who knows who to contact about this? As Microsoft is such a large company I wouldn't know where to begin ...
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Cris_Pinheiro
Local time: 06:40
Member (2020)
English to Portuguese
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| Microsoft Language Portal - query in support forum | Jun 6, 2016 |
There is an ongoing "query" here, but they, as the portal, seem to be slow to react...
See more
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| Fingers crossed | Jun 6, 2016 |
Thank you for the link Cris. I hope making more 'noise' will wake Microsoft up
I know it is a free service, but it is a very helpful service for us translators!
I managed to download the tbx file a few days ago and I have opened it in excel (just change the tbx extension to xml), so that helps a bit ...
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It is up for me again and I hope it will stay that way
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Micaela Santo
United Kingdom
Local time: 06:40
English to Italian
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| It seems to be working...... | Jun 7, 2016 |
..... at least now. Tomorrow, who knows.
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