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Microsoft’s Bookmarklet enables single-click translation on any browser

Source: GTS Blog

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Microsoft has released a translation bookmarklet which allows single-click translation of any website in your own browser. How does it work? Just go to the Microsoft Language Labs website, select the language you want to translate to and drag it to your browser’s bookmark toolbar. After you install it, you can translate any website into the selected language with one click of the bookmark. If you want to have single-click access to website translation in a few languages, no problem. You can use this tool to create more than one translation bookmark on your browser. Read more.

Microsoft Translation Bookmarklet

What’s the big deal? There is none. All of the browsers already have plugins that allow single-click website translation. And website translation has always been one or two clicks away (by going to Google or Microsoft and pasting in the websites URL). Additionally, there are plugins that can detect the language of a website and translate it to your own language automatically. (The auto-detect and translation feature was made available in the GTS Translation plugin version 1.2.0).

But I find this move to be encouraging nonetheless, as it shows that Microsoft is trying to make inroads to the consumer by providing free translation tools that are useful. And by providing these tools, Microsoft will build a strong following for its translation system and make it a worthy competitor to Google. We the people can only benefit from this trend.