Because Microsoft sells its products and services worldwide, content from Microsoft must be suitable for a worldwide audience. Microsoft makes content usable worldwide in these ways:

Writers and editors globalize content by creating content that is easy to read and translate. Content is localized by translating the content into other languages and ensuring that any country or region specific information in the content is made appropriate for the target audience. Machine translation is used for content that is not translated by localizers in order to make as much content as possible available to worldwide users in their native languages.

Making content usable worldwide begins with globalization. The topics in this section show you how to globalize your content.