A public discussion stage of the terminological dictionary (glossary) of the operations systems Microsoft Windows Vista and Pack of 2007 Microsoft Office in the Azeri language took place in Baku on 21 November. Organized by the Microsoft Azerbaijan in State Technical University, the meeting brought together representatives of the State, private IT companies, education institutions and NGOs, Trend reports.
Opening the meeting, the Rector of the University, Khaver Mammadov, spoke about the situation with the staff training in higher educational institutions, noting that presently the number of specialties in the University totals 62. Over the recent period, new computer centers have been opened and more than 300 new computers have been purchased and new departments have been created for automation and information technology.
Thereafter, the Chief of the Information Resources & Technology Department of the Azerbaijani Presidential Administration, Elmir Valizade, who is also the moderator of the project, informed the participants on measures taken within this project. According to him, 2,045 words have been presented to the discussion and several words are new to Azerbaijani users.
The glossary had been presented to the public discussions since the beginning of November. The working group adopted 180 words and changed 20 words during the first discussions.
The glossary has been prepared within the contract between Microsoft Azerbaijan and its official partner in Azerbaijan, Sinam Limited.
Those interested may participate in the discussion of the dictionary via the appropriate website of the Microsoft Company. If new variations of the words are received, they will be studied by the working group.
After the translation variants of all terms are defined, the glossary work will be completed. The prepared terminological dictionary of Microsoft Azerbaijan will be issued to Sinam Ltd to translate all aspects of the new products of the corporation into Azeri language and create a special Language Interface Pack.
We await proposals from the IT Institute of the Academy of Sciences, Velizade stated.
Generally the participants of the round table positively assessed the activities of the working group.
The public discussions stage will continue for a month (until December) and thereafter, within two weeks (until 15 December) the process of finalizing the variations of terms will take place. It is expected that the Azerbaijani users will be able to use the localized products by the summer of 2007.