How long has Microsoft been working on the machine translation engine?
Microsoft has been developing statistical machine translation technology in its Research division for over 3 years, and other natural language and machine translation technologies for over 12 years. While the original focus of this work was on Microsoft’s own localization needs, where this technology has been very successful enabling customers from many countries to access help files, knowledge base articles and MSDN articles, we are now pleased to bring it to you for general use. Research and development are ongoing.
